Replacement for Enrique

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That's what i was trying to say!!! I mentioned the fact that we were relying on Enrique and Barton for quality deliveries into the box, but instead of worrying about losing a creative part of the team, we could just sign a LB that's good at defending with decent pace, and add creativity in midfield in the summer!!!

Jesus...
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I didn't know Jesus was a LB.

Thought he was a saver ...................... keeper.
 
Chappaz said:
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When speaking about defending, you said 'solid' once, and then rattled on for numerous paragraphs about how we have to pick someone who can cross. Don't you think that you dusted over the core role of a left back slightly?

And no. Balls to your view on this. 'We don't need someone as good, just someone solid' is this defeatist crap which would constantly keep us at mid-table mediocrity. We should be trying to build year on year. Wtf is the point in selling our best players and then buying no ones who aren't as good, almost on purpose?

We don't 'need' to do anything, but what we actually do will influence where we end up on the table. We can get average 'solid' players and just end up in the middle of the table, or bring in quality and push higher.

The left back is a very important role. Shooting for an average 'solid' player because we don't 'need' to do anything else is just a mad, mad viewpoint.

And if you're trying to get across a different point, then your original post is written completely differently to what you're trying to say. Read it again.
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I know exactly what i was trying to say, but you obviously didn't grasp again the point i was trying to get across, but atleast, for once, you're trying to have a conversation on this instead of being your usual ****ish self.

I can't be bothered to again write an essay trying to explain this, so i'll make it brief.

- Enrique is one of two people on this team that we rely on for quality deliveries into the box. Him and Barton are both the only consistant crossers of the ball we have.

- Instead of people worrying about trying to get a replacement for the creativity that we'll miss from Enrique from the LB position, we just need to sign a LB that can defend that left side and one that is a solid left back player.

- We can sign additional creative players in the summer, to make up for the loss of quality if we sell Enrique. We can't rely on a LB to put in a huge share of the crosses, we need to add quality to the midfield.

- We don't need to spend huge amounts trying to get someone near to the quality of Enrique. I'd like to sign someone that can fill his shoes. I'm not saying lets sign any average LB and stick him in the team, but Enrique is a world class LB, and there's only 2 or 3 others in this league that are as good as Enrique. We don't need to sign somoene of Enrique's class, just someone that will provide solid protection at the back, and one with pace. We don't necessarily need one to create goal scoring opportunities like Jose. We can buy the sort of creative players we need to do that in the summer, as after Barton and Enrique, no one seems to provide anywhere near as good as them.

Hopefully this will end it and you will understand what i was saying...
 
£15 mill is acceptable tho, definitely. Id let him go for £15 mill. Provided ashley spends wisely, id laugh my socks off til the end of time if we did actually get Gervinho and Moussa Sow. That would set us up nicely for the 11/12 campaign
 
ModernEpic said:
£15 mill is acceptable tho, definitely. Id let him go for £15 mill. Provided ashley spends wisely, id laugh my socks off til the end of time if we did actually get Gervinho and Moussa Sow. That would set us up nicely for the 11/12 campaign
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£15 mill acceptable <yikes>. Wouldn't of accepted anything less than £20 mill due to LB being one of the most specialised positions there is. I can't think of many left backs thats better or equal quality to Enrique.

Edit: Although I agree that Gervinho and Sow would be awesome.
 
We should accept 15m because he's out of contract soon, I'd accept nothing less than 20m for Tiote as he's on a 6 year contract now
 
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