Sentence examples for hold a player from inspiring English sources

With a year to run on Nasri's contract, and with City bidding about $37 million for him, Arsenal cannot hold a player against his will.

"You can't hold a player like Joe Allen at Swansea when the likes of Liverpool come knocking on the door".

Scotland will be wary of the 'choke' tackle - the ability to hold a player up in a tackle, create a maul and then turn over ball - from the Irish.

But if injury or ineffectiveness takes hold, a player can be cut before his contract is up, as long as he's paid out his guaranteed portion.

Stoudemire said he was pain free after sustaining a back injury during the Knicks' first-round loss to the Boston Celtics and hoped to hold a player-led training camp with his teammates, who he has remained in contact with, before the official team training camp begins.

The Mets lost 9 of 11 games to start the month, prompting Wright, the team captain, to hold a players' meeting June 15.

That chair usually holds a player's towel.

He will make $3.18 million next season and holds a player option for 2014-15.

James holds a player option to come back, and it seems implausible that he would bypass collecting another $6.6 million.

Buck: "I don't know how you quantify it, but he looks at the field and thinks strategically about how a team holds a player at first, or a pitching sequence, and the pitches he would have called.

And that is college-football-speak for holding a player out of competition for a year while he spends time in the center of his academic life — no, silly, not the library, the weight room.