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Raphael Varane


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Nope. Don't need any more players who may or may not be good in the future, we have enough high potential CB's as it is. If we must get a centre back then we should be looking at ones who are already the complete package and at their peak so they can come in and ease the imminent departure of JT and take pressure of Cahill afterwards.  

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He's played well when called upon but he has to play more regularly before I would start calling him top class or "established". He's not looked as good this season, even worse after his injury. 

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Not sure we have any need for someone at CB.

 

Cahill 28, Ivan 30, Terry 33, Luiz 26,

 

Kalas 20, Zouma 19, Chalobah 19.

 

For a fee of god knows how much, without selling Luiz I really cant see this happening, a non story as far as Im concerned. We have far more pressing problems in the squad to throw 30-40 Million at first.

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Well obviously he's brilliant, the idea that he would be signed as 'backup to Terry' is ridiculous. The article seems pretty speculative anyway, nothing in terms of quotes or actual evidence, plus judging by the quality of some of the centre backs Carlo has managed (Maldini, Nesta, Terry, Silva...) he wouldn't have such poor judgement to swap out Varane for Koscielny.

In addition to that we already have Zouma, Kalas, Omeruo, Chalobah (etc.) itching for first-team opportunities. That said, Varane is absolutely fantastic so if this is a realistic prospect, (and there's not really anything to suggest that it is) I would be all for it.

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Anybody turning their nose up at this is nuts.

 

If you have the chance to sign a 21 year old talent like this then you grab it and work from there. All this not needed is rubbish.

 

I dont doubt that Varane is a very accomplished player who Jose knows... What is in doubt is that spending the astronomical amount of money he would cost improving the best defence in the league (by not a small margin) as opposed to spending a similar amount of cash on improving an area of a team that have scored 30 goals less than the top 2 teams in the league.

 

If we get a decent bid for Luiz or Terry leaves then maybe this is an avenue to assess but weve only just signed Zouma who Jose waxed lyrical about in January and Kalas and Chalobah are very promising players who we still havent given the chance to play yet.

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Am expecting Luiz to leave and Zouma to possibly be loaned out.

 

Varane is already an equal to Cahill who has 7 years on him and Terry is 33.

 

Players of Varane's quality don't become available every day. Madrid would be stupid to sell him and we'd be more stupid if that happened and we weren't the buyer.

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  • 3 weeks later...


So are we going to be linked with endless defenders now Luiz is off?

Shaw, Varane and Mangala already....

 

This is why the media can't be taken seriously. The announcement that Luiz was leaving only happened a few hours ago and now we are getting linked with everyone.

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Rumours persisting with this one, would be an interesting signing, with JT only on a year deal we could have Kalas, Zouma and Varane on our books... That's three centre backs who could be at the club for the next 10 years or more. 

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