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Not exact matches
Well, Lucas might not be Gonzalo Higuain, but he did score 18
goals in 37 games for lowly Deportivo last season, which is not a
bad return, but that was his best stats for many a year.
Two
goals in 12 games for the Rams since
returning from a serious injury isn't a
bad return.
I expect Arsenal to
return to the emirates at
worst a
goal down but more likely a draw or win.
Giroud: a pretty decent striker who has not a
bad return but again isn't gonna bag you 25/30
goals a season.
so let me begin: - draxler is a talented dude but right now i care muuuuuch more about the efficiency and
return and walcott i statswise (only
goals / assists) about x times more proficient than draxler - barkley is a
worse player than wilshere, do nt know why you would want him over wilshere - okay i give you that isco over ramsey - why are you including dybala, he isnt not even a similar player to the others or a fair comparison (not the same position, price class etc..)
Before Southern coaches and players rushed the field celebrating an end - of - game
goal line stand, the two teams would combine for almost 1,000 yards, three 100 - yard receivers, a 100 - yard rusher, 16 plays of 20 - plus yards, and nearly every possible special teams event: blocked kicks,
return touchdowns, a muffed kick
return, a long punt
return, a punt snap hitting an upback in the face, a surprise onsides kick, and one of the
worst fake field
goal attempts you'll ever see.
As a matter of fact Arsenal scored 4 less
goals than the eventual winners Chelsea, and this should tell you that the
goal return was not as
bad as you want us to believe.
21 games for Auxerre and 11
goals isn't a
bad return, the year before he played for their B team and scored 15 in 31 games, he seems to know where the net is.
The
worse player at Man United and we paid # 16millions for a «want to be» striker... 4
goals in 3 months, what a f*cking
return, great job Wenger!!!
Olivier scored 19 in 29 last year this is not a poor
return, in fact its very good, it also included
goals vs man city, man utd, liverpool and the cup final, not
bad for someone who cant score in the big games.
Giroud's
goal return is not
bad, but there's better round Europe.
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in
goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far
worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the
return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too
bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
The most important stat that cost us is he went 15 games without scoring a single
goal showing he's not good enough to be main striker and NO scoring a hat - trick against an already relegated Aston Villa who were the
worst team in the league does not signal a
return to form!
A
return of 80
goals in a decade is pretty poor, and it looks even
worse when you take into account that 21 were registered during his solitary solid campaign of 2012/13.
Not to mention Liverpool wont let him leave on the Cheap so were looking at about # 50 - 60 million on a person who manages «18
Goals and 14 Assists» Over the course of 4 years and were going on the assumption to tell us he can «potentially be good» You don't need an Economist to tell you what a
bad return on investment that is.
The 27 year - old has a reported price tag of # 50m and is said to have a salary bill of 10 million euros, (which as about the same as Arsene Wenger earns at the current exchange rate), but he has scored a very respectable 101
goals in his last 149 games which is not a
bad rate of
return, and he should be worth every penny.
More than 300 games, 81
goals, 78 assists not a
bad return but placing him as a Legend is absolutely incorrect.....
Three
goals and four assists since his comeback is not a
bad return at all, even though it should and could have been more, but it is not the whole story by any means.
A
return of three
goals does not necessarily indicate a
bad opening six games — and his performances in comfortable home wins over Everton and Watford offers room for encouragement.
Through seven league games, Costa has scored three
goals and assisted two — not a
bad return for a guy who couldn't play for six months.
The Belgian put in one of his
worst performances in a while, the way he backed off Bernado Silva for the first
goal was shameful, but hopefully Vertonghen will put this behind him and
return to top form here should he start.
There was a defeat against Southampton sandwiched in there and the Clarets are struggling
badly to
return goals.
Scoring
goals has been a serious challenge for Rangers all season with their
return of 21
goals being the
worst in the division by quite some distance.
To be fair, his record for England isn't that
bad either: even though he only played 19 times for his country, he scored 10
goals - not a
bad return in my opinion.
Nine
goals from midfield is not a
bad return, but on top of that, the Icelandic genius has twelve assists to his name.
The one, miniscule ray of light that shone down on Arsenal's
worst start to a league campaign since 1982, was that Olivier Giroud
returned with a
goal.
Bolton have
returned just 22
goals in 20 home fixtures this season and they do have five clean sheets in their last eight home games which isn't
bad at all.
With this said, it will come as little surprise to hear that Blackburn have one of the leagues
worst away offensive records, having scored just six
goals in nine away ventures, whilst shipping an horrific 23
goals in
return.
However, to make matters a whole lot
worse they've been shipping a far few in
return; conceding 28 away
goals in just eleven outings.
Tevez came into his debut City season on the back of a disappointing season fro Man Utd, scoring only 5 league
goals (14 in all competitions) after the arrival of Dimitar Berbatov — his
worst return since his debut season for Boca.
Spain international Morata scored seven
goals in his first seven appearances for the club, but his form tailed off
badly from October until mid-January, with a
return of five
goals in 22 matches.
They are still struggling
badly for offensive power and they have
returned just the two
goals in their last four league games in total.
It'll take more than the paltry
return of one
goal and assist each to convince me that he wasn't the
worst transfer of the season.
It is invested primarily in the credit market, not so much in government bonds because government bond yields are so low, but we're looking for absolute
returns even if interest rates go up, so some of the portfolio, a significant piece of it actually, is floating rate, so if interest rates go up, you just get higher cash flows, which will support higher
returns, and the rest of the portfolio is in relatively short maturity bonds, which will have some price volatility and if there's
bad market conditions, will have temporary losses, so the
goal is to offer something that is absolute
returns.
When things would go
bad or look bleak,
returning to my
goals could save me from a mental meltdown.