Not sure why this needs repeating every time we get linked to an English player, but we don't need a certain amount of English players in the squad, that is still not how the system works.
Also, for all the talk of how big he is, he's an inch taller than LaPorte, 2 inches taller than Stones. our height issue isn't with our CB's, it's that only our CB's have any height at all (maybe Walker makes it 3). Having a marginally taller CB isn't going to change the fact that when teams send 5 tall players up for a corner, we only have 3 tall players to mark them. Presumably that's one of the reasons why we are after Rodri, to add an extra tall player in midfield