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Jules Koundé
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I'm With Stupid
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A depressing reminder of what John Stones could be.Another comparison here btw. Chose some City players from some of their better seasons. Laporte from 18/19, Otamendi 17/18, Stones 18/19, Vinnie 18/19. Kounde holds his own fine in aerial and ground duels. Not bad at all.
Ake is 49% aerial success last year and Garcia 35%...
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Good as he is I still repeat, he won't solve our current issues. A presence/leader in the backline like Koulibaly who's easily a much better, established defender should be our priority. He is someone we should have brought in when Kompany was still here so he would've learned the traits and developed before being a starter. It's much easy to start regularly for Sevilla and play week in week out.
Stoned Rose
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Another comparison here btw. Chose some City players from some of their better seasons. Laporte from 18/19, Otamendi 17/18, Stones 18/19, Vinnie 18/19. Kounde holds his own fine in aerial and ground duels. Not bad at all.
Ake is 49% aerial success last year and Garcia 35%...
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Garcia wouldn't win a header against Nicola Sturgeon.
So what you're saying is stonesy is the best centerback we've ever had basically
what i'm saying is he's a massive disappointment who is wasting his clear talent :)
One of the better videos I’ve seen of Jules.
A few things that stand out:
– He has great defensive awareness and seem present pretty much constantly, quite the opposite of Stones and Otamendi. He sees the threat early so has very good positioning to intercept the ball or tackle the opponent.
– He prefers to stay on his feet rather than lunge into a slidetackle and because he’s quite small he moves very well when the opponent is twisting and turning which makes it very hard to dribble past him.
– Very mature and composed in his defending, like he’s been doing it for a long time.
– Great passing ability and can drive the ball forward.
Top signing for us and would probably fit in very well. Bonus is he seem very good in the air which is a big surprise given his height. I think I’d still prefer Koulibaly but it looks dead so this is a really alternative good alternative.
Sign him up, I say!
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN
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Jimmy Krankie buzzes off this post.
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JamesMCFC
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I just had a quick look. Apparently 0 goals due to counters last season in the league. That doesn't sound right to me. I guess it depends on how you define it. 9 due to set pieces, but that presumably includes direct free kicks. I seem to remember (and could be mistaken) that we went through a period a few years ago where were weren't conceding many goals from corners, but only because we weren't conceding many corners. But when you looked into the percentage of corners that resulted in goals for the opposition, it was shockingly high.
0 goals on counter? That has to be bollocks.
2 at home to Wolves spring to mind.
Still have flashbacks of Otamendi getting done.
MeatHunterrr
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and you need the ball to hoof it. We have 70% of the ball against those teams.The only issue of his height is when he comes up against the 6ft4/6ft5 donkeys teams in England like to shove up front occasionally, but in truth those are precisely the kind of teams that rarely cause us problems anyway.
and in any case, you simply can't have perfect team. If you have tall centrebacks, we lack mobility which in our system is disaster.