Diego Carlos

Gabriel said:
Cruel.
If that deal doesn’t go through, you’ll have another few years of those pretty short passes to enjoy/suffer. ;-)
Napoli have so many gaps to plug that someone of Zinchenko’s versatility could be highly useful. We’ve evidently used Otamendi as ballast in the Torres deal, so I‘d expect the same if we get Koulibaly.
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He'd be fine over there, I think.
 
Neville Kneville said:
If there are no real quality right sided defenders, I'm not sure why a left sided one, who is talented, can't learn to play there & occasionally lump the ball from right to left, with his left foot. I can understand why Carragher couldn't, of course...

Amazing these guys can get away with having one foot to kick with.
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In theory, you're absolutely right - there is no good reason why a leftie shouldn't be able to adapt like any right sided player who plays on the left (KK and Carlos being two good examples)

In reality, I guess it's about familiarity and opportunity. As right footers are more common, it's more likely they'll have at least played on the other side at some point through their development, and will be familiar with the adaptations they need to make when playing the role on the other side.

As left footer are a rarer breed, they generally play on the left and nowhere else - and may not have ever had to adapt their game to their other foot. They may not be able to make that transition and be as effective on the other side of the pitch.

And it's that unknown element which makes a big money transfer a risk most wouldn't want to take when the intention is to play them out of position from the off.
 
Nicholas van Whatsisface said:
In theory, you're absolutely right - there is no good reason why a leftie shouldn't be able to adapt like any right sided player who plays on the left (KK and Carlos being two good examples)

In reality, I guess it's about familiarity and opportunity. As right footers are more common, it's more likely they'll have at least played on the other side at some point through their development, and will be familiar with the adaptations they need to make when playing the role on the other side.

As left footer are a rarer breed, they generally play on the left and nowhere else - and may not have ever had to adapt their game to their other foot. They may not be able to make that transition and be as effective on the other side of the pitch.

And it's that unknown element which makes a big money transfer a risk most wouldn't want to take when the intention is to play them out of position from the off.
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Bang on the money in my opinion.
 
At least if we want this lad we just turn up and pay the money, no pissing about. He had a good year, watched a bit of Sevilla to just see how Navas etc was getting on. We are buying him off recent reputation rather than a sustained period as a top defender but that isn't the end of the world. Id be interested to see what Pep could do with him
 
decmancity said:
At least if we want this lad we just turn up and pay the money, no pissing about. He had a good year, watched a bit of Sevilla to just see how Navas etc was getting on. We are buying him off recent reputation rather than a sustained period as a top defender but that isn't the end of the world. Id be interested to see what Pep could do with him
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Looks a lot like Garcia in that he is not the biggest and is not a beast but can play it about like a midfielder.

I can see why the interest. Maybe this is the guy we wait on and hope Stones / Otamendi can move on.
 
simon23 said:
Signed a new contract last week so he is definitely not going anywhere
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He only extended to show his respect for the club, he reportedly insisted that he still got a release clause close around 50 million in his new contract. Werner did the same before signing for Chelsea!
 
Gaudion M said:
Looks a lot like Garcia in that he is not the biggest and is not a beast but can play it about like a midfielder.

I can see why the interest. Maybe this is the guy we wait on and hope Stones / Otamendi can move on.
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He's much faster than Garcia, much much stronger than Garcia, and also aerially dominant unlike Garcia. + he also plays with agressiveness and his distribution is excellent. In that way he's very similar to Koulibaly given that they're both complete defenders. Great backup target to have if we can't agree a fee on Koulibaly
 
Gaudion M said:
Looks a lot like Garcia in that he is not the biggest and is not a beast but can play it about like a midfielder.

I can see why the interest. Maybe this is the guy we wait on and hope Stones / Otamendi can move on.
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I must be watching the wrong guy looks the opposite of Garcia to me.Big,strong no nonsense type with decent pace. Only similarity I can see is that they both look comfortable on the ball.
 
Friends who support Sevilla say he is off. Sevilla buy South Americans cheaply and sell them dear. This is how they operate apparently.
 
Ederson's smiley tattoo said:
He's much faster than Garcia, much much stronger than Garcia, and also aerially dominant unlike Garcia. + he also plays with agressiveness and his distribution is excellent. In that way he's very similar to Koulibaly given that they're both complete defenders. Great backup target to have if we can't agree a fee on Koulibaly
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If it were my choice, I’d have Carlos over Koulibaly - He’s younger, he looks more direct / aggressive, as far as I’m aware he’s generally injury free (??corrections welcome), he’s on the up and he’d be coming her invigorated off the back of storming season (whereas KK would coming here under a dark cloud off the back of a meh season, by his standards). And he’s available at a much better price.
What’s not to love?

I’m guessing for fun though and I won’t get out of shape if we don’t get him.
I know that the club are better at assessing player worth than I’ll ever be.
 
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Carlos- the- jackal said:
Never been capped by Brazil which i find strange saying he’s 27 years old, maybe he’s a very late developer, watched him the other night against Roma, he’ll have to temper his going to ground and looked a bit rash at times but looked quick and is a big solid ****, there is definitely a dearth of talent at centre half in world football though.
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I remember the same being said about Fernandinho and Laporte for their countries
 
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