Sentence examples for costly player from inspiring English sources

Carlo Ancelotti, the new Italian coach of Real, solved the supposed jealousy between Bale and the previous most costly player in history, Cristiano Ronaldo, by playing them on both wings.

And in a swipe at the team's costly player acquisitions this winter, as well as the stadium's expensive amenities, including a $10 million video board, he added: "Maybe C. C. Sabathia can buy the big-screen TVs".

Last fall, the World Series featured the New York Yankees, the team with baseball's highest payroll, and the Arizona Diamondbacks, a relatively new franchise sometimes referred to as the Arizona Greenbacks because of how much money it expends looting costly players from other teams.

This is coach-speak for "look at me, what a clever fellow I am to take some of the most costly players in Christendom and drill into them the importance of preventing the best team in Europe from scoring in our own stadium".

The visiting team shut down Fernando Torres, who at £50 million is the costliest player in England.

For over five years he was, at £116,000, the British game's costliest player".

Ronaldo is the costliest player in soccer history, going by the £80 million that Madrid paid Manchester United for him some years back.

Mourinho observed before leaving the Mestalla for a second time victorious that Kaká, the second-costliest player in soccer's history, is suddenly showing fantastic form.

And no problem, or so it seemed, for a Villarreal side that has just been promoted from the second division with its costliest player, the Mexican Giovani dos Santos, having been acquired for just €6 million.

And though Gareth Bale - 48 caps - is jockeying among the front-runners to answer his manager's call - the world's costliest player is by no means favourite to win this race.

Still, especially in a league that morphs into a knockout format at the end of the season and where some of the costliest players were signed because of who they were five years ago, the correlation between means and points is not as pronounced as in Europe.