Ruben Dias - Benfica confirm sale to City

[lmhblue1]

Starts in an hour against Moreirense

 

[jay laruja]

really ?- i see nothing there that reminds me of Kompany at all - looks ok but nothing at that level

Agreed. He's closer to Laporte IMO.

 

[simon23]

Similar height, build, leader, aggresive, defender first, confronts attackers immediately like Vinnie, decent ball playing, aerially both very good, similar pace. He's very Kompany esque.

Kompany was 6.4 wasnt he? Dias is 6.2.
Build - kompnay was a machine - this guy looks a bit more gangly
I see what you mean about front foot defending which is definitely a postive as well as the passing
Pace - he looks slower than Vinnie to me

 

[Homar]

He doesn’t look a bad defender, but I don’t think he is what we need right now. We already lacked pace at the back and Dias only makes that worse. For all Stones’ mistakes, he is at least reasonably quick.

Dias doesn’t look any quicker than Laporte. If we play with Mendy/Zinchenko on the left and Rodri/Fernandinho in front then we will be easy pickings for a quick front three. Comparisons to VVD are ridiculous.

A Laporte-Dias partnership will probably do well against the likes of Burnley. I fear for our chances against a Liverpool, United, Spurs or even Arsenal. We lack the legs in midfield to close space and will be extremely vulnerable to counter attacks when playing a high line.

 

[itisrising]

Kompany was 6.4 wasnt he? Dias is 6.2.
Build - kompnay was a machine - this guy looks a bit more gangly
I see what you mean about front foot defending which is definitely a postive as well as the passing
Pace - he looks slower than Vinnie to me

Vinnie was an inch or so taller than Dias, and Dias is only 23, can certainly build similar muscle to Kompany who wasn't a machine in 2009.

 

[whalley ranger]

Happy to trust Pep on this tbh. He knows what we need.

 

[itisrising]

He doesn’t look a bad defender, but I don’t think he is what we need right now. We already lacked pace at the back and Dias only makes that worse. For all Stones’ mistakes, he is at least reasonably quick.

Dias doesn’t look any quicker than Laporte. If we play with Mendy/Zinchenko on the left and Rodri/Fernandinho in front then we will be easy pickings for a quick front three. Comparisons to VVD are ridiculous.

A Laporte-Dias partnership will probably do well against the likes of Burnley. I fear for our chances against a Liverpool, United, Spurs or even Arsenal. We lack the legs in midfield to close space and will be extremely vulnerable to counter attacks when playing a high line.

Our issue stems from LB imo. Mendy isn't quick and it means we only have one genuinely pacey defender in our side. Teams couldn't just sit back and try to hit us on the break if we had some legitimate pace on both flanks.

 

[MeatHunterrr]

He doesn’t look a bad defender, but I don’t think he is what we need right now. We already lacked pace at the back and Dias only makes that worse. For all Stones’ mistakes, he is at least reasonably quick.

Dias doesn’t look any quicker than Laporte. If we play with Mendy/Zinchenko on the left and Rodri/Fernandinho in front then we will be easy pickings for a quick front three. Comparisons to VVD are ridiculous.

A Laporte-Dias partnership will probably do well against the likes of Burnley. I fear for our chances against a Liverpool, United, Spurs or even Arsenal. We lack the legs in midfield to close space and will be extremely vulnerable to counter attacks when playing a high line.

Difficult to understand why we have built fairly one paced squad when our style of play requires pace ideally?

Stones, Laporte, Otamendi, Mendy, Zinchenko, Rodri, Gundogan, Mahrez all for example have no pace. Thats third of the squad.

 

[silvalining03]

Doesn’t inspire me with confidence. Bought for all the wrong reasons.Our record of players bought from Portugal is shocking, Javi Garcia, Mangala, Fernando. Will we ever learn. No wonder Pep looks pissed off at the moment

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Dias is starting for Benfica ko 18.30 uk time.