Of course PSG can make a Bernardo condition by proposing to do a deal with us involving Neymar and Bernardo. It makes perfect sense. The article doesn't claim that we've approached them, the idea of a Neymar-Bernardo deal was PSG's.
Sorry, but I disagree. We've done brilliantly well in spite of having gaping holes at LB, not because LB doesn't matter as much as a position. Just imagine how much better we could have done had we a world class LB & a good PL standard backup? I can think of loads of talented LB's, but for the life of me I cannot understand why it's never seemed a priority position for us.
It's these little things & a bit of luck which make all the difference at the highest end of football. Hopefully if we get a proper LB (& I pray a backup in Raum or Sosa), it'll be one department totally stocked without the square pegs in round holes approach of Aké & Laporte can play there if needed. That's not a solution imo, it's a temporary elastoplast.
Conversely, Cancelo seems more effective at LB than RB, so if only Cucu is signed, I take it that means Cancelo switching between L/RB? I still think we can do better by bringing in two to fill a problem position. It's what I'd do given the choice & it would essentially complete our squad.
Cancelo is a player covering two positions. Remind me how that worked out in the final 6 weeks of the season? :-/Angelino says hi. Cancelo waves from.a distance too.
We're looking to spend £50m on one soon hopefully... \0/Which world class left-backs?
Real Madrid held on to Marcelo for a decade for a reason.
Give me four our five that were either available or not at an elite club already.
I'm not disputing left back is an issue for us, just that the world class solutions haven't been there.
Cancelo is a player covering two positions. Remind me how that worked out in the final 6 weeks of the season? :-/
Also remind me where Angelino is now & if he was ever replaced? He was here alongside a perma-injured Mendy & his converted backup Zinchenko.
If Angelino wasn't good enough, we should've replaced him or kept him until better came along. )(
Not sure I really get what you mean or are referring to. I was just pointing out the question was based on the claims in france. Where and how they started or if they are linked, no idea.
We're looking to spend £50m on one soon hopefully... \0/
Apparently we've the most comprehensive scouting operation in world football, but are you seriously suggesting we can't find two suitable LB's from the hundreds of thousands of footballers currently available?
They're out there, but evidently LB is seen as a position we can mend & make do... Until we're in the latter stages of the season & injuries pile up & seriously affect our defensive capabilities.
I think it’s fans’ expectations not being satisfied, rather than not prioritising the position. Maybe Kolarov didn’t satisfy fans despite costing a lot of money at the time (£17m?). Clichy was a top player at a successful club but parts of his game, like crossing, were poor. Mendy, £50m+ sick note.I just don't get why Left Back is always seemingly left wanting as a position to be properly filled?
Why do we always persist with the mend & make do approach to that position?
I'm well aware we've bought LB's, but the only specialist one I can recall is Mendy. Angelino was brought back to the club, but dispensed with within a season IIRC. This meant in the intervening period up until now, we've applied a mend & make do approach to LB which I don't agree with. It's that simple.Of course. But the club Did go out to buy players at LB, under Pep, which you are saying they didn't.
Angelino was hailed as the future when we brought him back. Cancelo (despite me actually wrongly arguing otherwise at the time) was brought in with his LB abilities in mind, that is pretty obvious now.
Never mind also signing Danilo, Laporte, Ake, etc who were all known to be avble to 'cover' at LB.
Sure, we haven't found a shoe-in regular specialist functioning conventional orthodox uninverted non-wing-back starter LB, or whatever adjcetives uiu fancy, but has has hardly been a neglected position either.
Angelino? Haha and yes Cancelo does wave from a distance the oppositions 18 yard line:-)Angelino says hi. Cancelo waves from a distance too.