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Player Kevin Danso
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Hmm ... we drew with Leicester and maybe the guys up front who missed a hatful of chances take some of the blame. We should have been out of sight before they scored.
I do wonder what the plan is here. Was he actually on our radar at all? We have waited 31 days to get this player in. What happens to philipps, dorrington and the young Croat?
Hope this doesn’t block their path. I guess we can say good but to davies but we will still 7 CBs. Unless cuti ficks off bcos he is so behind supporting g Ange.
You are missing the point totally.
No criticism of Danso. I hope he is an outstanding player.
The consideration is, was it not wiser to retain Tangana ( for various reasons ) than spend £25m on a player who, it would seem, is going to be 3 or 4th choice CB.
And if they had retained Tangana then the crisis that saw an 18 year old Midfielder at CB for months might have been abated at nil cost.
Ok fair enough - it felt like a defeat.
Of course it’s not all on one person but Romero’s mistake was basic defending. Our problem this season hasn’t been scoring goals, it’s been defending. And Romero - rather than the idea of Romero - has been poor or injured all season.
It depends on the price you put on quality. Given how many injuries we have in defence, 3/4th choice centrebacks are getting a lot of minutes. Danso is definitely worth that difference for me.
I’d rather have Gray than Tanganga at centreback.
Tanganga!! He’s torture. That’s just like saying we should have kept dier or Sanchez!!
I like Japhet Tanganga, but I think Conte let us all down (after Mourhino gave him his debut and gave him a reasonable number of games playing at RB/LB/CB - both sides) by not playing youth or letting them out on loan to gain experience, so he wasted 2 years at Spurs at a vital time in his career when he should have been getting first team experience somewhere.
Japhet's issues might include concentration (usually sorted out by having loans playing mens football) and unlucky with injuries, so sadly I think he was right to move on when he did.
I think a better argument could be had over Ashley Phillips who has now been playing Championship level for almost 2 years now and will become Club Trained, and we could have recalled - big mobile CB with a lot of similar qualities to Danso.
I think the 25m mainly reflects the fact that Danso has played at a higher level for a few years now and is a fully developed player - Phillips might turn out to be a better player, but lacks the experience right now. So its a price for a player who is definitely ready now, whereas Phillips will probably benefit from finishing his loan this season - and then up to Ange to assess in preseason.
I think he’s meant to be fine, even good, with carrying the ball out of defence, but passing is a bit average. He may just have to pass it short to Biss or BentaIn his YouTube reel he looked pretty comfortable on the ball to me!
Sanchez oh no, he needed to go. Dier. I’ve a different POV. But accept he was here too long and represented the failures of Poch’s era in the end.
I suspect Dragusin's recent injury forced us to go for a more ready made 'here and now' CB rather than recall Phillips who is good but relatively inexperienced - until Romero is back Danso is probably going to be our no. 2 CB rather than before Draguson's injury we were probably looking to fill a no 4 CB position, which we could get away with a less experienced CB.
Tbh I wasn’t a big hater of Dier either. Sanchez used to drive me insane.
What do you mean let him play... I've seen him play... he does not improve us. You might not like it but that is the reality. We were battling Wolves for him... that should tell you all you need to know but clearly you walk around with your head stuck up your ass...Can you let him fuckin play first before you slag him off you bore.....
You couldn't see Dragusin's dogy hair cut inept passing and blundering about bringing us down. Maybe it's the dancing huh?
Was hoping our saviour would have a much sexier name than Kevin.
Kindly fuck off!....
.....like wolves have never bought good players....Cunha anyone??...
Dragusin injury is the most likely need to buy now. You would hope he was on our radar and the fact Wolves had arranged the fee made it easy.
Another year of loans for the younger CBs when Davies will be gone and in all likelihood Romero