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Full Backs?
- Thread starter balotelli's back pocket
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Gabriel
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As much as any full back has to defend, we need players who can offer a genuine attacking threat and finish. In that respect, it might be easier converting other players into full backs than buying recognised players for those positions.
jayblue
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Bravo ?As much as any full back has to defend, we need players who can offer a genuine attacking threat and finish. In that respect, it might be easier converting other players into full backs than buying recognised players for those positions.
Gabriel
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Of the current squad, I was actually thinking Navas, Delph, or Fernandinho, but now you mention it...
Joao Cancelo from Valencia for me.
Nelson Semedo is better.
Cancelo playing like headless chicken, while Semedo got intelligence in his gameplay.
pavelsrnicek
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We desperately need a left back, the amount of goals conceded on Clichy/ Kolarov's side is ridiculous.
blueparrot
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Left back would be my priority, but if the right one isnt available I don't think we should buy a stopgap which would block a place in the summer. If fit I'd like to see Delph tried I wonder if thats why talk of him leaving on loan has gone quiet.We desperately need a left back, the amount of goals conceded on Clichy/ Kolarov's side is ridiculous.
Edwin Edwin
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Gaya is as bad as Clichy if not worse.
Cancelo is a shite version of Kolarov.
Rather wait for Grimaldo and Benjamin Henrichs in the summer.But would take sb like Amavi currently as our left side is a shambles.
Cancelo is a shite version of Kolarov.
Rather wait for Grimaldo and Benjamin Henrichs in the summer.But would take sb like Amavi currently as our left side is a shambles.
Let's be very frank. We've an immense scouting network. We're recruiting the best kids in world football.
Now we can't get em all, some to rivals and some don't make the grade, only to develop later. But the odds for those are tiny.
They end up at Hull or even worse, at Celtic. Maybe 2% of these have a chance at a top club, depending on age, needs of clubs etc.
But jumping from Celtic or Hull to a top team and being good enough is nigh on impossible. Even Van Dijk would have flopped. He needed a few years at Southampton to get up to speed.
So let these players go to West Ham. Sunderland. Southampton.
If they prove it there, we'll go in for them then. Because we wouldn't be saving much by letting them prove themselves first.
Tierney came through Celtics youth system, at least know the stuff you're talking about before shitting on a player. The Alli comparison is correct in regards to Tierney.
Thaksinssoldier
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Tierney came through Celtics youth system, at least know the stuff you're talking about before shitting on a player. The Alli comparison is correct in regards to Tierney.
Great, and he's still there. In a shite league.
And if he's good, Hull can buy him. Then West Ham.
Then, if he's still showing promise, we can move for him. Our business model can take a hit of a few million for a player ready to slot into our squad rather than buy him on the cheap and loan him out and hope he develops.
He could be very, very good. But we shouldn't be buying him yet.