Kalidou Koulibaly

[bobmcfc]

I think the club believes Napoli are desperate and we don’t really like or trust them after Jorginho . I’d let this play out, call their bluff and then sign Upamecano just to piss them off.

 

[Gumzy97]

i have a really bad feeling this will fall through just because of who we are dealing with, then we'll sign Diego Carlos...

 

[SWPISHOME]

i have a really bad feeling this will fall through just because of who we are dealing with, then we'll sign Diego Carlos...

Seriously lad your all doom and gloom over the whole Messi scenario. The club are in the best hands possible with the best facilities the best staff. Come October 5th you'll be a happy man. Relax :)

 

[RayCTID]

i have a really bad feeling this will fall through just because of who we are dealing with, then we'll sign Diego Carlos...

If that was the case I would prefer the Benfica defender

 

[leo_city]

DiMarzio and Fabrizio reporting €75m bid next week

 

[Gumzy97]

 

[argyle]

We haggled well.

 

[ctid1894]

Huge advantage with Koulibaly is also his age and experience. Pep won't need to teach him a lot. He will understand well and slot right in without needing to adapt per se.

How on earth do you know that? Mahrez is a more experienced player, a Premier League winner and it took him longer to adapt than most. It depends on the person and their character and how quickly they pick up new ideas and concepts, not age and experience.

 

[WallyA]

Age isn't a big concern to me.

After 5 years, it means some of the youth CBs have a chance to break through, earliest of them all is Tosin.

The academy has 4 great CBs from what I've read: THB, CJ, Luke, and Finley.

 

[leo_city]

How on earth do you know that? Mahrez is a more experienced player, a Premier League winner and it took him longer to adapt than most. It depends on the person and their character and how quickly they pick up new ideas and concepts, not age and experience.

Big difference. Mahrez came from a Leicester side where he was the star player and played in an entirely different, counter attacking system. Hence he struggled adapting to playing majority weeks vs low blocks and having so much to do off and on the ball with linkup play.

Koulibaly's best football came under Sarri's system, which is a budget version of Pep's, if he was good under that system with barely half the quality, I can't imagine him being worse under Pep. Adaptability is something you can factor in but that's where I think it's less important because of his age and experience, in terms of playing our football, the more he plays the quicker he gets used to it anyway.