Not signing a LB is nothing short of scandalous in my honest opinion. It's been a weakness for three seasons now. We have no natural LW and we have a midfield that is often overrun under Pellegrini because of the two man midfield. Our fullbacks push up and we are countered typically on that side. Silva normally drifts in and we see a threat of goal every time.
Its pretty ridiculous that it's been left for so long. We were in for Shaw last season until his price went silky so it's clearly an agenda we have jotted down. Angelino is a gem but he's two years away minimum. Imo we need a LB now and I'd phase Kolarov out as we don't really need his attacking rowess anymore, more so a defensive focused Clichy. If we replace Kolarov then Angelino could replace Clichy.
Again, I repeat a point that's falling on deaf ears but I really do believe Pogba to be way overpriced and nonessential. Give me a top LB and atop CDM any day. We could shore up the midfield and LB, we could centralize Merlin and Nasri and actually get the best out of them and better balanace the side. Sterling on the left, De Bruyne on the right. Pogba at 70m is ludicrously overpriced, absolute daylight robbery and Juventus must be wearing masks when they deal with us and have shotguns in their hands. It pains me to see us leveraging everything in midfield when LB is so blatantly weak. We have two good LBs, one defensively and one attacking, but neither are great LBs. Zabaleta is a great, he's a fucking savage and we need as similar as possible on the other side.
