Who knows? He’s only 23, still young for a CB. He seems pretty loyal and Leverkusen are a good team, so it could just be him getting consistent game time. A lot of top CBs weren’t at top clubs when they were 23.Something seems to be putting big clubs off him. He burst on to the scene at 19, and since then there's been 8 or 9 massive transfers for young CB's and no one has gone after him - Bayern have even bought 2 CBs without looking at him, a young German CB in the National team picture.
Honestly don’t think we are in the market for one this season. The best prospects will all have stupid money attached to their names, especially in Jan window.
Stones & Laporte
Otamendi & Fernandinho
Hardwood-Bellis & Garcia
Next season, I expect Otamendi to be gone, but with Rodri as another stop gap, Walker in a pinch, and the ability to play a back 3, as we went to late in the game tonight, I just feel like the club don’t want to spend £50M on some young prospect when we are going to need a world class striker and left winger next season!
We will need AT LEAST one striker to take over from Sergio within next few seasons, Sané looks to be gone in all but name on the top of paycheck.
At this point, Pep and the club appear to be on a REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE, as the squad is very well rounded. New faces are required to keep the players hungry, but with the prices of players these days, two world class players means £150M, unless you catch one of them the minute before they make that step, as we did with Jesus.(What a fucking STEAL that boy was!!)
Anyway, anything less than a young (U-25, if not younger) established quality CB, with two quality feet and some size, under £50M and I don’t think we are interested.
Garcia looks the business to me. If they could rack him and put another 2 inches on him, he would be a like for like with Laporte. That’s as high of a compliment as I can make.
Not happening, and your analysis is weak, IMHO. It might help if you could spell Nico’s name, too.Stones just back from injury will be a couple of weeks for top form
Laporte injured hopefully early January
Ottamendi awful
Fernandinho banned and the next one a couple of weeks away
Hardwood-Bellis at least a years loan away
Garcia at least a years loan away
we will most likely go for the lad at Benfica but Konate at Red Bull was playing well Ajar at Celtic is going to be very good probably at Liverpool Milenkovic will be a monster probably at Juve , we need a quality 3rd choice that much stands out like a sore thumb , January is the time to buy as none of our competitors will be in the market but also because we have Fernadinho who will give them time to bed in
There must be money in the pot for a signing?
Oh that hurt, personalty i thought your putting 2 youngsters in the first team ` a necessity with bans and injuries` a bad idea, you remember what happened the last time we put youngsters in at CB. Savic and Nastasic have both fully developed now and are playing very well,Not happening, and your analysis is weak, IMHO. It might help if you could spell Nico’s name, too.