Ryan Bertrand

[br88]

Hardly think he's a huge upgrade on Clichy to be honest.

I've not really fully understood the logic behind our transfer dealings for a while now so this is par for course.

Sane, Jesus and Bernardo are brilliant and very young players but you don't understand the transfer logic behind these recent deals. I'll have to stop looking at Bluemoon...it's doing my head in.

 

[dachoosen1]

I rate him, he is solid and a definite improvement over clichy and kolarov.

 

[ono]

Sane, Jesus and Bernardo are brilliant and very young players but you don't understand the transfer logic behind these recent deals. I'll have to stop looking at Bluemoon...it's doing my head in.

No I thoroughly understand those as players.

But I didn't understand signing Jesus and Sane whilst ignoring ridiculously obvious areas such as the full back positions. In Isolation both are great. I'd feel exactly the same about Bernardo this summer if we signed him but then ignored the goalkeeping position or the full back positions.

And in general I didn't understand Navas, Delph, Bony, Javi Garcia, Fernando, Mangala or Otamendi. I also didn't understand Bravo as a signing when we didn't bring in the required technically sound defensive players to operate alongside the type of footballing goalkeeper Bravo is.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

A solid Premier League player, but it's also not a huge surprise that he's got to the age of 27 without a top club coming in for him.

 

[lasereyes]

No I thoroughly understand those as players.

But I didn't understand signing Jesus and Sane whilst ignoring ridiculously obvious areas such as the full back positions. In Isolation both are great. I'd feel exactly the same about Bernardo this summer if we signed him but then ignored the goalkeeping position or the full back positions.

And in general I didn't understand Navas, Delph, Bony, Javi Garcia, Fernando, Mangala or Otamendi. I also didn't understand Bravo as a signing when we didn't bring in the required technically sound defensive players to operate alongside the type of footballing goalkeeper Bravo is.

And how many of those are 20-20 hindsight? I don't remember anyone criticizing Navas, Mangala or Otamendi before their trades (most were gleeful we had beaten out the scum on Otamendi). And Fernando, Garcia and Delph cost a total of 36m combined, so were never luxury buys,

 

[cadds92]

A solid Premier League player, but it's also not a huge surprise that he's got to the age of 27 without a top club coming in for him.

Whilst I agree, there won't be many better back up left backs in the division than him if we got him.

Mendy will still be our first choice I reckon.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

A solid Premier League player, but it's also not a huge surprise that he's got to the age of 27 without a top club coming in for him.

As opposed to Virgil Van Dijk, who will be 26 in a month?

 

[MCFC ISRAEL]

I'll be so disappointed if we will not sign Mendy as well. Bertrand is good back up but not a starter

 

[I'm With Stupid]

As opposed to Virgil Van Dijk, who will be 26 in a month?

Van Dijk has been in the league for 2 seasons. Before that, he played in Scotland and the Netherlands, so it's a lot more understandable that he could go under the radar. Bertrand has been playing in English football for his entire career, including 8 years failing to break into the Chelsea team. And Bertrand will be 28 by the start of next season too. Like I said, decent Premier League player, but if he was going to become world class, he would have done it by now.

 

[TonyM]

No I thoroughly understand those as players.

But I didn't understand signing Jesus and Sane whilst ignoring ridiculously obvious areas such as the full back positions. In Isolation both are great. I'd feel exactly the same about Bernardo this summer if we signed him but then ignored the goalkeeping position or the full back positions.

And in general I didn't understand Navas, Delph, Bony, Javi Garcia, Fernando, Mangala or Otamendi. I also didn't understand Bravo as a signing when we didn't bring in the required technically sound defensive players to operate alongside the type of footballing goalkeeper Bravo is.

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