And
RESPECT THE COCK
and
Spursidol
I was possibly the first to mention Atal on here, and he is a nippy fucker for sure, but all he’s played is about 1400 minutes of Ligue1 football, entirely as a wb in a back 3, and hasn’t got a single assist, and averages a fifth of Trippier’s key passes.
Sidibe (26)is not a terrible shout, he was looking good two years ago, but I really don’t think he’s a quantum upgrade, he’s been criticised in France for some of his defending at times. No goals or assists this season either and Monaco haven’t always played him. They’ve also got a German kid called Heinrich’s (21) who’s coming through at RB (also plays LB and RM) who might be worth keeping an eye on.
This is the thing, it’s not that I think Trippier is hard to upgrade because he’s so brilliant, there’s just so few truly outstanding rb’s around. There’s some good youngsters emerging but that’s not an instant or guaranteed upgrade, that’s a maybe.
There’s a reason why ManU are playing with Ashley Young at RB right now and ManC resorted to paying 50m for an athletic fuckwit like Walker.
Versaljko is good, like him, but he’s 27 and is on loan at Inter with an option to buy, and has also just done his ACL and is fucked for a few months.
Doherty also 27, Wolves won’t sell cheap, has looked good playing for a team that plays deep and counters, not sure he’d look quite as good playing for a pro-active team like us who push him up and play a high line behind him?
If I had my my way we’d have made KWP the rotation right back two years ago, and we might have solved the problem by now?