doomuk said:
ok, so Clichy tears his hamstring in Sep and is out for 8 or 9 weeks andf then what?
Or worse still out for the season.
No big club has one first choice player and then a load of backups; were not in the 2nd divison any more.
Its called squad rotation and thats how every club work nowadays. Its nothing new.
To only have 1 left back is pure insanity.
Who do Chelsea have? Bertrand, average.
United? Buttner, average.
Arsenal? Gibbs? slightly better than average.
Spurs? Vertonghen move across, Naughton across from RB?
Barca? Adriano, decent.
Real Madrid? Coentrao, the only star so far.
Bayern? move Lahm across? Diego Contento?
Dortmund? no idea.
Juventus? De Ceglie or Peluso, not world beaters.
So nobody apart from Madrid has a top class backup LB, it just doesn't happen, most have young up and comers understudying and then they blood them, and in big games they may move their RB over (like we would with Zaba) and cover it that way.