£31m is a good price for him. Thats the sort of money that we could still do other big business.

You’re more of the same 🙂
But seriously, he’s a really good all rounder. We all demand a passing centre back. This guy has a high degree of comfort and passes at over 80%. He still has traditional tough centre back attributes, winning lots of aerial duels in both directions, and also being great in the tackle. He will be the organizer Sokratis needs when Kos sits.

He's almost 6 ft 3 Dools. I like this. He's one of the best defenders in Serie A every year and offers the most quality per pound sterling of the ones on the top tier in my opinion. Very Koscielnyesque. Hopefully he'll adjust to Premier League without problem. Decent pace on him too. I think his injury record is a concern, but he seems to have gotten over it lately.

Everything about him looks rash and recovery.

Everytime I’ve seen Roma play they’ve looked like us at the back

Dula, the guy is solid. That said, I do think this manager should consider bringing in a quality number 2 coach to focus on defense. His track record doesn’t suggest we can be a 20-25 goals conceded team.

What makes you say he’s solid?

Just go out n get some strong athletic calm defenders.
Not ones who always seem to find themselves in hard fought duels or sliding in

Would be a good signing but houseboat.

Police doubts the credibility of the mail son.

Claudius wrote:

Dula, the guy is solid. That said, I do think this manager should consider bringing in a quality number 2 coach to focus on defense. His track record doesn’t suggest we can be a 20-25 goals conceded team.

I think under 40 would be a good goal for now.

Gunner89 wrote:

Would be a good signing but houseboat.

Police doubts the credibility of the mail son.

Talks about us paying the release clause then talks about how Roma are willing to sell on the cheap if they don’t qualify. Not only bs but also illogical. Wtf is the criteria for becoming a sports journalist? Can’t be much more than being able to string two sentences together.

Blah. He had his time up to a couple of years ago.

Can we just treat defence fucking seriously for once?

Could be our Van Dijk signing, same age too. It’s these kind of obvious signings that Liverpool made with Allison, Van Dijk, Fabinho and Keita that has improved them drastically.

Manolas is much much closer to Mustafi than Van Dijk.

Yeah, 5 years is a long time.

Don’t want.