ono
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Will have to disagree on Nico. The upturn in his form when alongside Kompany was far greater than any other upturn in his form throughout the season. By a mile.
The price isn't important to me personally but the price usually has a correlation to the salary earned by the player which usually correlates to their expectation of playing regularly. Stones and Lucas both need to be playing week in week out to develop. They're at the age where they need to play. They're not 18. So how will that happen at City when Otamendi is here (who you already believe to be really good) and Kompany is here (who is undoubtedly better). What if Kompany does stay fit?
I'm not asking us to rest our success on him. I'm asking us to rest it on Stones and Otamendi. You know, the centre backs we have spent 80m on. Fair enough if you want to hedge your bets on Kompany, but adding a 40-50m player to the mix causes more problems than it solves. Especially when he's a) so young and b) built his reputation from playing in a system where less reputationally impressive players are also excelling (Savic for example).
Clearly you feel the best path to success is to have a squad of similarly equal ability players who all expect to play week in week out where's I feel you need to have continuity within the team to allow for full development.
Show me a world class defensive system where the personnel changes on a game by game basis...