Is left back really a problem?

[Zenmanc]

Id be selling(donating) Mendy and putting Cancelo there with an academy understudy on the bench.Ake is also reassurance.

Zinchenko on the sale list too,although i've never really counted him as a left back for the reason he isn't.

Then we need a "who will cover RB" thread.

 

[Bobby Heaton Moor]

David Alaba seems to be uncertain as to his future. We should be all over this. Test their resolve and pay him well, he'd be a sensational buy. A leader and solves a host of problems in the squad at once.

 

[Zenmanc]

Worse signing in our history the way mendy carry’s himself away from the team playing around media singing and dancing around like he is the team joker really boils my piss . He isn’t even worth a £1 million tbh .

The sad thing is I follow him on twitter for laughs and the tone of many of his tweets in the last few weeks has been "where are all the negative comments now" and "don't jump on the bandwagon to support me now if you didn't before"... Not verbatim but basically like I'm killing it now so back off.

He's clearly not. I know his injuries developed that obvious and glaring hitch in his step which had set him back but his attitude on the field is not one that shows he's doing all he can. He's a clear defensive liability and would only be successful at this level in a squad that played him as wing back exclusively with a LCB there to absorb the defensive responsibility.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Then we need a "who will cover RB" thread.

Not arguing with that.

 

[Keeper!]

David Alaba seems to be uncertain as to his future. We should be all over this. Test their resolve and pay him well, he'd be a sensational buy. A leader and solves a host of problems in the squad at once.

He wants 350k a week at Bayern, simply not value at those figures.

 

[RayCTID]

Alaba doesn't want to play in England. if he did he should be top of the list

 

[leo_city]

Wijndal would be my pick for a great long term solution at left back, in a year or two we will hear a lot about that name once he gets a big move from AZ.

 

[dhruvblue]

Don't trust our scouts to pull out a gem or future star. Signing cheap and quality is not our USP.

Btw which left back is much talked about nowadays? Telles? Tagliafico? It would be someone who would be expensive €35m/€40m and above

 

[dhruvblue]

Wijndal would be my pick for a great long term solution at left back, in a year or two we will hear a lot about that name once he gets a big move from AZ.

Rule him out then. We will wait for him to make a big move and then sign him for €60m

 

[leo_city]

Rule him out then. We will wait for him to make a big move and then sign him for €60m

For starters he has already been tapped up by Raiola, has already made the Netherlands national squad, and for those who haven't seen him play, they can verify his stats of being very good offensively and defensively from scouting reports. I've followed AZ casually because they were very good last season and play expansive football, him along with 2-3 others in that team have a big future. Shame our scouts don't hunt these out quicker as you said.

 

[CWMCFC]

David Alaba seems to be uncertain as to his future. We should be all over this. Test their resolve and pay him well, he'd be a sensational buy. A leader and solves a host of problems in the squad at once.

He wants £400k a week and as far as I'm aware, LB is no longer his favoured position.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

If Mendy is there it is. I have nothing against him but we should have sold him in the summer. He is too slow for our style of play

 

[dhruvblue]

For starters he has already been tapped up by Raiola, has already made the Netherlands national squad, and for those who haven't seen him play, they can verify his stats of being very good offensively and defensively from scouting reports. I've followed AZ casually because they were very good last season and play expansive football, him along with 2-3 others in that team have a big future. Shame our scouts don't hunt these out quicker as you said.

We don't eve know what our scouts do. Simply failures tonslit talent early and cheap

 

[CWMCFC]

If Mendy is there it is. I have nothing against him but we should have sold him in the summer. He is too slow for our style of play

Who's going to buy Mendy off the back of 2 knee injuries, poor form and earning a massive wage at City?

It's not easy to sell our unwanted players.

 

[Rammyblues]

Sorry but Mendy isn't the player we originally signed for whatever reason that injury has seen him decline. Maybe when Dias and Laporte arrive and up and running Ake at LB may resolve a lot of our issues but for me Mendy should not be starting as LB.

 

[bluealf]

He wants £400k a week and as far as I'm aware, LB is no longer his favoured position.

Can you imagine the guttersnipes if we paid a lb/holding mid 400k a week...

boom, heads exploding everywhere.

 

[himalayan_blues]

it seems we have to pay what ever he wants for alaba. He fits out LB, DMF and CB positions all by himself. He wants to play in Midfield.

 

[super_city_si]

its a combination of Mendy being wank and his lack of athleticism brought to fore by him being instructed to play so high up the pitch

 

[Delphinho]

Wijndal would be my pick for a great long term solution at left back, in a year or two we will hear a lot about that name once he gets a big move from AZ.

Wijndal, Nuno Tavares or Mykolenko

 

[walker_is_faster]

What about Robin Gosens from Atalanta