goon wrote:
Quincy Abeyie wrote:
I don't think people would have a problem with letting Montreal go if Tierney was fit and had been fully integrated with the team. The problem isn't that Kolasinac isn't a good enough backup, it's that he's not a good enough first choice and we don't know how long it takes before Tierney can take that role.
Surely part of being a good enough backup is being able to fill in for a month or two? There's only 6 league games in the next 9 weeks or so. Kola should be able to cope in that period. I don't think it's reason enough to keep a player around.
In an ideal world, yeah. I don't think AMN is good enough to fill in for Bellerin while he's away either, same with Nelson, probably Martinez, but I don't personally think it's a priority to buy better backups. The point is that we could let Monreal go in Jan and then have our new first choice fully bedded in before letting our old first choice go. Instead we play our backup in the meantime. He'll do a job, but probably not a very good one. You see it as me expecting the club to have three LBs, but I see it as a special situation, that since we bought Tierney while injured then he's a non-entity before he's ready.
