thespecialone05

My thoughts exactly. A lot of people wrongly assumed that the cause of our defensive crisis last season was our centre backs when in fact it was Ivanovic and the complete lack of protection from midfield. With Azpi at RB and Kante at CDM, I really don't see why we can't go into the season with Zouma/Terry/Cahill/Ivanovic as our 4 CB's, this too in a season with no European football hence less games and less chance of injuries. 

Really don't understand this desperation to sign a centre back to the point where we are bidding over 50million for a guy who is completely unproven at the highest level with next to no experience of playing against top strikers. Everyone laughed at City for paying 50million for Stones but atleast he was English and at a young age with bags of potential and some experience in the PL. IMO 50 million for Koulibaly is a greater risk and he could easily turn out to be Mangala 2.0 and at the very least will take a while to adjust from Serie A to the PL. We should really be going all out for a top left back (Rodriguez) so that Azpilicueta can revert to his best position with Aina as back up and Ivanovic can be used as a CB/not at all. We would then have a threat from full back on both sides and I could see us scoring quite a few goals from crosses with the likes of Costa and Bats as Ivanovic's crosses don't tend to beat the first defender.
 
If we somehow do not sign a top left back and instead throw all our at money at Koulibaly, prepare for another season of teams walking through the right side of our defence whilst we are overstacked with centre backs.

My thoughts exactly. A lot of people wrongly assumed that the cause of our defensive crisis last season was our centre backs when in fact it was Ivanovic and the complete lack of protection from midfield. With Azpi at RB and Kante at CDM, I really don't see why we can't go into the season with Zouma/Terry/Cahill/Ivanovic as our 4 CB's, this too in a season with no European football hence less games and less chance of injuries. 

My thoughts exactly. A lot of people wrongly assumed that the cause of our defensive crisis last season was our centre backs when in fact it was Ivanovic and the complete lack of protection from midfield. With Azpi at RB and Kante at CDM, I really don't see why we can't go into the season with Zouma/Terry/Cahill/Ivanovic as our 4 CB's, this too in a season with no European football hence less games and less chance of injuries. 

Interesting posts well made mate. I really wish we would make LB a priority too, Dave really needs to be playing on his natural side. I don't think I can take Bran getting torn to shreds on the right for yet another season. Watching him against Montero last season still gives me nightmares.

Really don't understand this desperation to sign a centre back to the point where we are bidding over 50million for a guy who is completely unproven at the highest level with next to no experience of playing against top strikers. Everyone laughed at City for paying 50million for Stones but atleast he was English and at a young age with bags of potential and some experience in the PL. IMO 50 million for Koulibaly is a greater risk and he could easily turn out to be Mangala 2.0 and at the very least will take a while to adjust from Serie A to the PL. We should really be going all out for a top left back (Rodriguez) so that Azpilicueta can revert to his best position with Aina as back up and Ivanovic can be used as a CB/not at all. We would then have a threat from full back on both sides and I could see us scoring quite a few goals from crosses with the likes of Costa and Bats as Ivanovic's crosses don't tend to beat the first defender.
 
If we somehow do not sign a top left back and instead throw all our at money at Koulibaly, prepare for another season of teams walking through the right side of our defence whilst we are overstacked with centre backs.