We do not know whether the defence will be good enough.
Of course we don’t know but they numbers don’t lie. Stones and Otamendi partnership is not the most stable and communicative centre back pairing. They are both in need of someone commanding like Laporte in order to play well.
I watched Aston Villa tonight and their back pairing Engels and Mings (for probably around 40m) make our players look like schoolboys. Passing is one thing, but they have to know by now how to fukcing defend. It’s their job so enough of excuses. We should expect them to defend as we expect Aguero as a striker to score goals. It’s. Their. Job. Or do we settle with saying ”nah Aguero is a nice guy! And his passing is great, so leave him alone!”.
I know one of our most expensive investments in the defensive department Mendy has been injured since joining, but what teh fck are we doing with our money? With our spending we should have the most stable defenders in the league. What we saw against Norwich wasn’t good enough. School boy errors, and I don’t care if the truth hurts. Someone has to say it.