HelloCity
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See mccity’s post above yours for an excellent take on why he signed and what has happened since.He probably wont even be here next season
It made zero sense to sign him, especially for £40m.
See mccity’s post above yours for an excellent take on why he signed and what has happened since.He probably wont even be here next season
It made zero sense to sign him, especially for £40m.
Yeah and put Laporte, Stones or Dias on the bench?How do you know that? He’s a quality player and he had every chance of starting the season as our first choice centre back. He hasn’t had a chance to prove himself, so claiming he was always going to be third or fourth choice is wrong IMO.
The issue wasn't 3 CBs, the problem was the quality of them. Otamendi was dire and so was Stones. If both of them were good last season 3 CBs would not have been issue.I'm really surprised how many are seemingly so willing to go back to 3 centre backs after making the same catastrophic error 2 seasons ago. All sides have at least 4 CB's.
If we go into the season with 3 CB's, let's say Dias picks up an injury, and one of laporte or stones' form drops off at the same time, all of a sudden were screwed.
We've been really fortunate this season in that area with minimal injuries, it would be completely idiotic to gamble on being lucky again.
Yeah and put Laporte, Stones or Dias on the bench?
If he is as good as you think he is, then its not sustainable top have 4 top class CBs. One of them will leave, especially as CBs the manager should not really rotate as any defence needs stability so that means cup games + dead rubber CL games for couple of quality CBs.
Yep - Doyle looks very good too.
We’ll lose these lads if they see no path to the first team - and with Dias at 24 next season, Ake at 26, and both Stones and Laporte at 27, you’d have to say their chances don’t look good.
As long as Laporte decides he’s up for the rotation game at City, I’d see Ake’s role in the squad as more or less redundant - and I’d hate to see us lose our talented kids for the sake of a 4th choice on high wages who never plays!
£40M is a lot less than £60M. Laporte was injured for much of last season and was for a bit earlier in this season. A third choice centre back is potentially going to play a lot of football for this team and you need high quality. Liverpool may well miss out on the Champions league because of the lack of a good third choice centre back.Had the resurgence of a fit John Stones been known £40M is maybe money that could better be used elsewhere but it was not, we were hanging onto Garcia for back up and look what happened in the first game against Leicester.but he was never going to be more than 3rd choice at best. Madness to spend £40m on 3rd or 4th choice.
Its just poor usage of money. Sign cheap back up in the 10-20m mark, not every player has to cost 40-60m. City need to wise up at times.