@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

I wanna be linked to someone who isn’t shit

Get your own post.

I do believe you just used one of my posts

Diaby KungFu wrote:

jones wrote:

Who do you consider not shit DKF? I swear I'm not asking just to say he's shit

Skriniar, De Ligt, Pavard, Mukiele, Upamecano are some of the more obvious names. There's no particular shortage of impressive young footballers in the world.

Skriniar and Upamecano are outside our price range already, de Ligt probably too and most likely headed to Barcelona anyway. Generally speaking I wouldn't mind the rest either (or the ones mentioned before obviously) but this signing is supposed to be more a ready made centre half which none of the others bar Skriniar would be.

Anyways spending big on defenders is a fool's errand anyway if we don't have a manager in place who can coach a defence.

I remember when Squillaci was a "ready-made" centerhalf.

Squillaci was a journeyman who was okay for a while and turned to shit long before we signed him, stupid signing by any measure. Sokratis is coming from a mixed season because all of Dortmund was shit but until last year he was consistently one of the best defenders in Germany for years.

We need one cheap and one expensive defender this summer. As far as cheap defenders go, Evans and Sokratis are both way above the standard you'd usually find.

The real question is who's going to be our new defensive linchpin.

Evans you say?

Maybe Cissé is the one spitting up!

Klaus wrote:

We need one cheap and one expensive defender this summer. As far as cheap defenders go, Evans and Sokratis are both way above the standard you'd usually find.

The real question is who's going to be our new defensive linchpin.

lets assume that we are going to play 4 ATB next season, not 5. in that case, we essentially need 4 centerbacks we can play regularly. right now, we have

mustafi
kos (probably out for most of next season, but still on the wage bill, obviously)
chambers
holding
mavgreekguy

so, we basically have 4 healthy centerbacks. if we bring in 2, then you can posit that 2 will leave. mustafi and chambers now have a decent amount of games under their belt. holding could have gone on loan last year. mav seems like he might be a loan option. if we sign sokratis, you can basically slot him into the kos spot in our squad depth. that still leaves 5 healthy guys for 4 spots.

unless we sell mustafi, i cant see us buying more than 1 CB this summer

I do expect us to sell Mustafi. Two years down the road and he's still worse than when we signed him. I mean bloody hell.

Klaus wrote:

I do expect us to sell Mustafi. Two years down the road and he's still worse than when we signed him. I mean bloody hell.

hey, im 100% supportive of that, but im skeptical it will actually happen

whatever happened to Bielik?

Who in their right mind would sign Mustafi?

We might be able to get some money out of his parents if we play it like a hostage situation.

id bet we can get £20m for him. maybe one of the german CBs will pick up an injury before the world cup, he'll go and have a blinder and then we can get £30m for him

If one of Hummels, Boateng, Rudiger or Sule is injured, Jonathan Tah is on standby to replace them.

Mustafi is not needed.

Jed wrote:

If one of Hummels, Boateng, Rudiger or Sule is injured, Jonathan Tah is on standby to replace them.

Mustafi is not needed.

please dont ruin my dream

Saw Bild is quoting a price of around 20 million euros for Sokratis. Is he worth that much?

Thought Jonny Evans was worth like 3m pounds or something after West Brom got relegated.

Agree with that evaluation Bryant, I too estimate Evans worth to be 3m pounds of dogshit