Sentences with phrase «year as pundits»

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As word spread Wednesday morning of Travis Kalanick's sudden departure from the helm at troubled ride - hailing startup Uber, Silicon Valley pundits, investors and analysts all tried in different ways to make sense of one of the most startling developments to come out of the tech world in recent years.

In this year's letter to shareholders, Buffett writes that, «Charlie [Munger] and I view the marketable common stocks that Berkshire owns as interests in businesses, not as ticker symbols to be bought or sold based on their «chart» patterns, the «target» prices of analysts or the opinions of media pundits.

whether for the right or wrong reasons, our leader chose to stay on when things took a turn of sorts... a new owner arrived on the scene, plans for a new stadium emerged and Wenger became the bearer of bad news... he sold us on a new story, one that required patience on our parts... financial constraints were the order of the day, so that the enormous sums spent on the new venue could be recouped... although some would question the validity of such claims, why wouldn't they believe their faithful leader... according to those within the hierarchy, the future never looked so bright, as this new home would ensure our place among the elites for years to come... as we all know now these claims were a well constructed fabrication and so those who feel they were duped in the process are infuriated and rightly so... the fact that this club and it's manager have continually misled the fans, especially following Gazidis's claims about our financial liquidity, simply rubbed more salt in an already gaping wound... this surely isn't how you treat your «family», especially when they supported you through the supposed «lean» years... it was a dirty trick played by Kroenke but the fact is was orchestrated by Wenger himself hurt the most... as for those in the media, many of whom are former players or longtime pundits, who observed the early years firsthand, saw this as the perfect opportunity to vent the anger they felt towards this pretentious man once and for all... all in all, karma's a bitch

Pundits and fans have been saying this for years and Wenger has chosen not to bring a powerful DM in, this season it seems as though we have tried or are atleast looking.

Football pundits have been talking about our second goal, the thunderbolt scored by Alexis Sanchez, as one of the all time best goals in the final and I am sure that we will be seeing it over and over again in the coming years.

The Dane isn't the first club legend to air his displeasure with watching the team this season, with the likes of Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand notably being highly critical throughout the year in their roles as pundits on BT Sport.

The Sky Sports pundit reports that the pair met by chance at the restaurant in Barcelona and merely greeted one another as they have known each other for 15 years and their children went to the same school as they evidently have a close relationship.

How many years in a row now do pundits and other fans see our team as «lacking backbone»?

Ferdinand, who was working as a pundit for BT Sport, was less than impressed with the antics of the 26 - year - old but also conceded that Gabriel should not have reacted in such a manner:

As the Team of the Year was announced at the Ballon d'Or awards on Monday night, many fans, players and pundits alike were shocked to see PSG star David Luiz included despite achieving little else than making an inflated move to PSG from Chelsea.

I hear every pundit saying we need a spine in or team GK CB CM ST, I disagree i think we have kos as or main centreback who is as good as any in the league, we have coq who has been a revelation this season and has helped the balance of the team hugely although he has not played many games all he can do is improve, I do feel if cech is available buy him the man has years of experience.

The 37 year old has been coy about his next career move since leaving New York Red Bulls earlier this month but finally hung up his boots and announced he will begin working as a pundit for Sky Sports.

We probably should have won the league at least once in the last 10 years, and yes the FA cup double is great, but most fans and pundits see the league as the true test of a top team.

Reading the articles and comments, it is clear the the PSU pundits and faithful have recalibrated their vision based on their success of the last year, seeing the conference as a four team unit (OSU, Michigan, Wisconsin and themselves).

Not the Italian pundit Stefano Tacconi, though, as the 58 - year old former Juventus keeper has come out with a pretty strange comment on the Arsenal and Poland international keeper Wojciech Szczesny who is currently plying his trade in Serie A while he spends a season on loan at Roma.

The Italian pundit and transfer expert has revealed that the 22 - year - old — who impressed as Villarreal made the top four in La Liga and reached the semi-final of the Europa League — will sign for a fee of $ 40m.

When all the football pundits were dismissing Arsenal and our chances of winning the Premier League title a couple of years ago, it really wound me up, as we were top of the table and playing the best football.

Pundit Robbie Savage has stated that the fact that Liverpool's world class superstar Mohamed Salah possibly won't win a trophy this season as the main reason as to why he won't in Premier League Player of the Year.

Pundits from the journalism world, as well as former Referee Howard Webb, have previously stated that Arsenal have lost their aggression under Wenger in recent years, but perhaps now things are slowly changing back to the ways they were in the old days.

Howard is still viewed as a source of cheap power, but oddsmakers have set the over / under for the 35 - year old lefty at only 75.5 RBI — far less than the 89 RBI which ESPN's fantasy pundits are predicting.

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

Plenty of soccer pundits were concerned about the team trying to make it in the Atlanta market, especially while playing in a football stadium... something MLS had been shying away from in recent years as more teams moved to smaller, soccer - specific stadiums.)

We have all seen I an wright getting angry about Arsenal, which is fairly understandable as we have all been there plenty of times and Arsenal have given us plenty of reasons to complain over the years, Even when we do not agree with our former players who are now pundits, I think we tend to be more forgiving when we know that they feel deeply about the club, but one Arsenal fan seems to have taken serious exception to Wright's recent behaviour.

This is with the same squad as last year, plus Milano who is touted by pundits of being the breakout player and golden boot winner next year.

Former Manchester United defender and current Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville recently referred to the former Benfica man and Brazilian international as a defender who appeared to be «controlled by a 10 - year - old in the crowd on a Playstation.»

Each year opposition team, Fans and pundits alike say Arsenal will fold up by December, January and February and it happens just as they predict what now makes us feel it's going to change if we give Wenger another chance?

In all my years watching and supporting Arsenal, I never dreamt of a time like this when fans protest going to new heights, ex-players are angry for a managerial and player change, pundits who used to look forward working our games have now considered us as the appetizer to the main course Leciester, rival managers who used to spark battle between Wenger now feels sorry for him and so on.

It's the fans that keep sacrificing because this team can't get their head out of their own ass... please give me some examples when a top club ever let their best player leave for free at the end of a season... Wenger needs to go to PSG and get some money and talent for Sanchez so that we can end this nonsense once and for all... then he needs to publicly apologize for the way in which they handled the whole situation... if they allow Sanchez to go for free there is no way this club, under the tutelage of Kroenke and Wenger, will ever layout the necessary coin to replace such a talented player, especially considering that Wenger will be a lame - duck manager once again in the final year of his contract and we know how well that went last year... open your eyes people, Wenger has spoken publicly about how he hopes that the next manager can take this club to the next level... WHAT?!?... he then went on to speak about leaving them in the perfect position to be successful, which is one of the reasons why several pundits felt Wenger would leave after last season based on the financials and the fact that so many players had only one year left on their respective contracts... who says this shit??? If you believe you're leaving things in the best possible shape for your potential successor to achieve greatness it raises a couple of serious questions: Why can't you take things to the next level if everything is as great as you say?

Oliver Giroud has come under fire from Arsenal fans and pundits alike in his four years as the Gunners main striker, but especially this campaign just ended as we failed to catch Leicester in the title race.

I remember even in the great Henry years, people from our base as well as pundits focused on the fact Henry was not good in the air, with everything great you could say about him week in week out, some preferred to talk about what he was not good at.

I've had enough of this crap, look I honesty do think giroud is a good striker and he is a fairly consistant goal scorer, and every time he played for arsenal he gave 100 percent and I think we all appreciated the way he was, a true professional, but to say we as fans were too critical of him or that he didn't have enough of a chance at arsenal is just absolute bullshit, first of all he has scored more headed goals than any other player in the prem since he arrived in 2012 so we did play to his strengths and he was our main striker for four long years and every pundit on sky and motd has at one point said Giroud is not enough for arsenal to win the title ect, but, now we have sold him he is apparently the best thing since sliced bread and the best buy of the transfer window blah blah fuc * # * g blah.

Take a step back and look at the facts again, because Arsene Wenger seems to be suggesting that we only see this, and the seven years of crashing out of the Champions League before the quarter - final stage, as failure because we are told as much by the football pundits on TV and the journalists in the press.

Since a lot of people are in the mood of assuring things, I can assure you a few things as well: — The reporter that has been assuring Benzema to Arsenal is done, has already back tracked on a few things he's said... takes away from how assured he was in the first place — I can assure you 10 years ago, 0 people thought carragher could be a pundit, let alone be more tolerable than owen — I can assure you the Arsenal number 9 jersey is vacant, that keeps the dream alive — I can assure you the transfer misery will end in 13 days — I can assure you the next 13 days will feel like 13 years....

He may be a former Arsenal player and you could even say he is a fan favourite because of the way he played and for what he achieved in more than 10 years with the Gunners, but Paul Merson has shown little love for the current Arsenal side in his role as TV pundit, although I feel that is largely due to the fact that he and Arsene Wenger are clearly not on each other's christmas card list.

As revealed in a Daily Star report, the 22 - year old feels that the recent comments by the former captain of Tottenham and current TV pundit were a cheap shot and, considering all the injury problems that Redknapp had in his career, a bit hypocritical and lacking in any real insight or professional respect.

The 35 - year - old held talks with Rangers boss Harry Redknapp earlier this week following his return from Brazil, where he had been working as a television pundit on the World Cup.

Apart from Parish, Fellaini has often been criticized for his style of play by many fans as well as pundits and the 27 - year - old was banned for the final three matches of the Premier League season for brutally elbowing Leicester City's Robert Huth last month.

«In the future I definitely have dreams and aspirations of having a go at management or assisting the manager and being back involved in the dressing room but I've got many, many years to do that,» said Gerrard in an interview on BT Sport, where he is working as a pundit.

But pundit Stewart Robson is convinced that the Gabon international will in the end move to the English Premier League as he believes that the 28 - year - old is a better striker than new Arsenal signing Alexandre Lacazette.

Understandably, Xhaka's aggressive style of play has been widely criticized by the English press, pundits as well as the supporters but the 24 - year - old has defended himself by stating that he is not a brainless idiot.

The 40 - year - old currently spends his time split between working as Belgium's assistant manager and as a Sky Sports pundit.

As for the man ahead of Pogba, Wayne Rooney appears to be reaching the zenith of his long decline and it is noticeable that the press, and even a few pundits, are now expressing what many of us have been saying for years — that he is holding Manchester United back.

Embed from Getty Images Many pundits across the country and even Arsene Wenger himself has labelled the 19 - year - old as a serious talent that will become one of the...

Owen is certain that Rashford has what it takes to become a top player in Manchester United as the 36 year old pundit said: «Hopefully there is loads more to come from him.

Sky are and have been anti arsenal for years as much of media but sky have been the worse with spin down beat interviews and anti arsenal pundits opposite to their support of m u

Koscielny is just superb.This guy would be hailed as the best defender in the league so far if he was playing for the manures.Is positioning is awesome, hes athletic and 100x better in the air than gallas was and will ever be.A few seasons ago we would have been playing silvestre in his position and there is no comparison.I hope he maintains this momentum because i believe for once in 5 years we have a defender who can stick to drogba like a couple dancing to dancehall.I cant believe pundits were expecting us to spend in excess of 17m just for an english player.Another astute business by mr AW

The subject of Terry's game came up when Carragher — now working for Sky Sports as a pundit — asked the following question in his interview with the 34 - year - old: «People have been saying this year that «John Terry's legs have gone» but they haven't gone — you never had them!

The 49 year old, who won six caps for his country, was forced to retire from football in June 1999; and after a spell working as a pundit for French TV, joined the coaching staff at his first club Lyon in 2003.

Only three years ago, pundits and political scientists saw the 2008 American presidential election as the beginning of a new era in Washington: the rise of President Obama and a strong Democratic majority in both houses of Congress meant that after eight years away from Pennsylvania Avenue, liberals could again implement political programmes and reforms free from Republican meddling.

Donald Trump's election as President of the United States confounded the pundits and crowned a year of political surprises.