Rice cost 105, Bernardo will go for 70. Age matters.
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Benjamin Pavard
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Let’s be honest there is no direct replacement for walker. City are at a level now where the players we have are at the absolute top of their game. The likes of Walker and gundo are unique, as were the likes of silva and aguero. Nobody can come in and do exactly what they do because they’re one of one and half the time players can’t even get close.
Sometimes it’s about the bigger picture and while pavard isn’t Walker. He does have his own skill set and it’s one that will hopefully improve us. Is he good enough? will he workout? nobody knows and you can’t say definitively. When you do look at his skill set though and the stats around it you so a defender who is much more comfortable in our current system. For 90% of our games we don’t need walkers pace and physicality anymore because the new system has negated a lot of our old counter attack problems. We would benefit more from better on the ball defenders in these games. Which was shown by Walker being left out and peps comments towards the end of the season. Yes we still have the 10% where you play a vini jr. or mbappe but they’re two of the words best and you can’t buy a player just for those games alone. Its down to pep and the team to figure out how we now adapt without the get out of jail free card Walker offers.
Sometimes it’s about the bigger picture and while pavard isn’t Walker. He does have his own skill set and it’s one that will hopefully improve us. Is he good enough? will he workout? nobody knows and you can’t say definitively. When you do look at his skill set though and the stats around it you so a defender who is much more comfortable in our current system. For 90% of our games we don’t need walkers pace and physicality anymore because the new system has negated a lot of our old counter attack problems. We would benefit more from better on the ball defenders in these games. Which was shown by Walker being left out and peps comments towards the end of the season. Yes we still have the 10% where you play a vini jr. or mbappe but they’re two of the words best and you can’t buy a player just for those games alone. Its down to pep and the team to figure out how we now adapt without the get out of jail free card Walker offers.
Txiki Txiki Bang Bang
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Quality and athleticism shines regardless of age. This obsession to offer quality mature players plus cash for substandard "younger" players is deeply rooted in some childish Playstation football transfer market logic and I don't buy into it.Rice cost 105, Bernardo will go for 70. Age matters.
walker_is_faster
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Tugay One Cup
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Let Pep know...
I remember you posting similar comments on Kalvin's thread last summer.
You don't need to act like a twat just because someone doesn't agree with you.
You don't fancy Pavard?I suspect it's correct :(
Txiki Txiki Bang Bang
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Don't argue with the Fifa kids mate. They love shiny toys. "Oh look some young player throw Bernardo and 60m and sign him quickly!!!"I remember you posting similar comments on Kalvin's thread last summer.
You don't need to act like a twat just because someone doesn't agree with you.
Chi-town blues
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I think tolmie is a married man .You don't fancy Pavard?
Tugay One Cup
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I did too. And I think Pavard would be an adequate replacement
Time will tell, I guess, but I'm not even sure if I'd consider him a direct replacement.
But then I guess that gets us into the whole conversation of whether or not we even need a direct replacement. I'm leaning towards Pavard being too similar in profile to Akanji and Stones for it to be worth it.