Centre-back

[Sleeping_Easy]

Thought this thread would have gone into over drive after Vinny went off last night.

Demichelis seems like a good option to me. Experienced at the top level after his time at Bayern. Played under Pellegrini before, so Manuel will know his strengths and weaknesses. He's 32 years old so a 2 year contract would be ok for him and wouldn't hinder the chances of Rekik and to a lesser extent Nastasic. Doesn't seem to be a slouch and is good on the ball. Only negative is possibly being done over on the fee for a player that moved on a free earlier in the summer.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

nasty is back, and can play alongside Garcia or Lescott

It's a seriously difficult choice but I'm going to say alongside Lescott.

 

[George Hannah]

nasty is back, and can play alongside Garcia or Lescott

It's a seriously difficult choice but I'm going to say alongside Lescott.

won't work either way - we need another top right sided centre back

 

[Lancet Fluke]

nasty is back, and can play alongside Garcia or Lescott

It's a seriously difficult choice but I'm going to say alongside Lescott.

won't work either way - we need another top right sided centre back

I'm pretty sure a left footed centre half can play a few games on the right side of central defence. Certainly that would be a better option than a player who is shit in his proper position playing in a completely different position.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Would Arsene be daft enough to swap Garcia for Vermaelan?

They need a defensive presence and we need a centre half,works for me!

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Would Arsene be daft enough to swap Garcia for Vermaelan?

They need a defensive presence and we need a centre half,works for me!

I suspect we would have to drug him to get him to agree to that.

 

[NoahCity]

any updates here? You;d think we'd get a CB in quick with Kompany injury (even if it is month max), still got 11 days though.

 

[Rammyblues]

Collocini looked good, with Zab having a chat and Pelli having worked with him before if the barcodes are in turmoil why not make a derisory and insulting bid, seems to be the in thing these days.

 

[cibaman]

It's a seriously difficult choice but I'm going to say alongside Lescott.

won't work either way - we need another top right sided centre back

I'm pretty sure a left footed centre half can play a few games on the right side of central defence. Certainly that would be a better option than a player who is shit in his proper position playing in a completely different position.

When Mancini refused to play Lescott alongside Nastasic, Lescott said he would be happy to play on the right. He then rather undermined his case by admitting that he's never played on the right side of defense. He's a 31 year old international centre back and he's never played on the right hand side of a defense! So for him it would be a completely different position.

Its a numbers thing. Only 10% of the population are left footed but 3 out 10 outfield positions favour a left footer. That means that when a young left footed player is growing up he always gets picked on the left.

 

[luckyadeel78]

Everyone like to be in the starting lineup, that's the main problem with city now, Players like Sakho, Garay, Otamendi, Managala, Pepe all have the same issues, I don't know how city can resolve this, kompany always had some injury problem, can't rely on lescott so only inexperience nastastic is the only hope for city ???

If I ve the money then start everything from scratch and buy 1 young CB, 1 experience and matured CB, so young can sit on the bench and have non issues, experience can be used in important occasions, so put Garay and kompany to start with nastastic on the bench, with Demichelis

kompany with Garay
Demichelis with Nastastic

That's my choice right now ...... Total cost 25m for both players. Simple !