Otamendi

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Nacho only played 800 mins for Real across all comps last year and he's 4th choice.

Martinez and Badstuber are versatile. If you class those as CBs, you can class Sagna as a CB for us meaning we have 6. Also, Martinez has huge injury problems

Mattheiu also plays LB for Barca
 
You leave David White alone. I love him.

Ha ha trust me where my season ticket was in the North stand at the time when he was playing i was surrounded by his fan club,if i breathed a word of criticism against him i was attacked from all sides!
 
See my response to twosips. I simply don't buy into the premise of playing youngsters out of position as being anything other than a mistake. Sure, there's the potential for it to be a positive move, but there's a great deal of risk involved, and the positive that could be gained isn't sufficient enough for it to be worth the risk.

Fair enough, I see your point, but can't agree. I think it'd be a risk well worth taking.
 
Otamendi is 27 years old!!! If he's learning on the job (any more than ANY player develops on the job) then he's nowhere near the level we need! Mangala was a closer comparison, albeit one with more experience, and look how he struggled last season.

I can't believe people watch football & talk bollocks like this. If he takes to the Premier League instantly I will be delighted but he will be one of the only defenders ever to do so.
 
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Load of bollocks that it will harm Denayer to play another position. It will just get him used to the pace of the league, same as with Kompany. He may be too good to be a cb long term anyway.

Ok, different tack, if you believe Denayer can play in defensive midfield then what's the big deal with us signing Otamend? Just play him there instead. Problem solved.
 
I can't believe people watch football & talk bollocks like this. If he takes to the Premier League instantly I will be delighted but he will be one of the only defenders ever to do so.

Ok, I've tried to discuss this issue politely and logically with you, but the point where you dismiss my views as ill informed and say I'm talking bollocks is where I bow out. Congratulations, you win, Denayer will be the defensive version of Messi.

Some people on here are grade A fucking bellends.
 
Ok, different tack, if you believe Denayer can play in defensive midfield then what's the big deal with us signing Otamend? Just play him there instead. Problem solved.
Because I don't believe Pellegrini will do it. Or try him at fullback apart from maybe in the League Cup. I think he'll get Boyata's job. That's what I'm afraid of.
 
Nacho only played 800 mins for Real across all comps last year and he's 4th choice.

Martinez and Badstuber are versatile. If you class those as CBs, you can class Sagna as a CB for us meaning we have 6. Also, Martinez has huge injury problems

Mattheiu also plays LB for Barca

Badstuber is a CB. Definitely, but he and Martinez are injured 80% of the time. When they bought Benatia, Badstuber had been out for 2 years - so maybe they are a little over subscribed at CB, but they had to be.

Also they play 3 at the back regularly so they need more than 4.

Any comparison with us and Bayern is flawed.
 
Harrassing? Come off it.

As ric just said in the KDB thread, it's an amazing time to be a blue.

Signed the best English player and best under 20 in Europe.

Signing the best player in Germany.

Signing the best defender in Spain.

And yet some people are unhappy because a 20 year old lad may need to have another season on loan.

I know it is mate, and my disappointment at the knock back effect this move has had on Denayer doesn't undermine my delight at our start to the season, or the wider picture of being a blue at present. Can't believe I have to say as much, maybe it's just the impression I'm giving off, wrongly.

I'm just a bit tired of having my posts flagged up for any hint of criticism. Feel like I have to be on the defensive anytime I give an opinion which is slightly critical, or just slightly deviates from a glass half full perspective that many advocate on here.

I'm as blue as anyone on here, shouldn't feel the need to say as much when giving an opinion because there's a trend on here to try and tar everyone with a 'positive' or 'negative' brush.
 
Ok, I've tried to discuss this issue politely and logically with you, but the point where you dismiss my views as ill informed and say I'm talking bollocks is where I bow out. Congratulations, you win, Denayer will be the defensive version of Messi.

Some people on here are grade A fucking bellends.

That would propably be you then seeing as you are the one dishing out the insults. But your suggestion that because Otamendi is 27 he will automatically adapt to the Prem, with a load of exclaimation marks, is a right load of bollocks. He might do, he might not. Most don't & need time, including Demichelis who was older than 27 & took half a season of comedy to get used to it.

Occasionally a player takes to it straight away, like Staam. Usually it takes a season or two. Hopefully Otamendi will be an exception.
 
That would propably be you then seeing as you are the one dishing out the insults. But your suggestion that because Otamendi is 27 he will automatically adapt to the Prem with a liad of exclaimation marks is a right load of bollocks. He might do, he might not. Most don't & need time, including Demichelis who was older than 27 & took half a season of comedy to get used to it.

Occasionally a player takes to it straight away, like Staam. Usually it takes a season or two. Hopefully Otamendi will be an exception.

Everything you say is right. You are a footballing knowledge leader. No-one else's opinion can shine a light on yours. Oh teach us the ways of football exalted soothsayer.

One of us argued their position, with examples and with clarity of thought. One of us decided the other was talking bollocks because they didn't agree with their opinion and decided to tell them that. Now, which is the action of a grade A bellend?
 
So it will be Otamendi and Komapny as the main pair, with Mangala and Denayer as back ups?

With Demi injury cover/CDM cover?
 
Harrassing? Come off it.

As ric just said in the KDB thread, it's an amazing time to be a blue.

Signed the best English player and best under 20 in Europe.

Signing the best player in Germany.

Signing the best defender in Spain.

And yet some people are unhappy because a 20 year old lad may need to have another season on loan.

Absolutely spot on.
 
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