If Cooper is going out on a season long.....

How'd you work that out? I make it Chester based on avg. goals conceded per game played.

 

By the stats he's given it says Mcshane has conceded 2 goals and Chester about 12345761633424

 

He's obviously not our best defender.

 

By the stats provided it is obvious that Oxley and Bradley have conceded the least goals.

 

For that sir, you deserve the coveted banter biscuit:

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haha brilliant, love the banter biscuits!

 

lovely.
from a mood of disgust I now want to party!

 

Shelvey, he is hopeless. He'll plummet through the leagues in the next few years. Utter gash.

 

Ayala signing is bad news for Chester as, let's face it, he was dogga everywhere other than CB last season. His games in midfield were woeful and if Harper had made as many bad passes he wouldve been crucified.

 

Hang on, hang on... we've never had a clean sheet with Hobbs on the pitch?

The stats back up my thought that Gerrard and Chester were our best partnership last year, Ayala/Chester would be interesting, and if we do sign Ayala, I'll reiterate that I think spending £800k+ on Hobbs was a mistake.

 

You're unbelievably dense, Percy.

 

Well it wasn't was it? Pearsons gone and bought a relatively young centre half who's about as good as our current best one. He's only going to get better and whoever doesn't start is going to be quality cover for this level. It makes no sense to buy players who are noticeably worse than our current bunch and Pearson isn't making this mistake.

 

Dont get me wrong i thought Ayala was a fine centre back and id have loved him playing for city again. But imo,we just dont need him.Ches and hobbs will be a great pairing. Ayala's too good for back up and so is Chester.
Also Ches is our player,Ayala a loan. The loot would be better spent on a wide man.

 

Please let us sign Ayala, he might be the best player we ever had!

 

You can never have enough good players! Ask Manchester City

 

id be slightly miffed if chesters dropped, i think hes a brilliant centre half, allows the game to flow, good reading of the game and brilliant distribution for a centre back, but id also love to see ayala come here, if that happens then id be agreeing with percy, id rather have had chester/ayala than chester/hobbs.

 

I'd go with Chester/Ayala too though I also rate Hobbs very highly, if we get all three of these players then our season next year will be a good one!

 

I wish Percy would hurry up and post his inevitable comment about Anthony Gardner and Ibrahima Sonko being the way forward, on the sole basis that they were signed by Phil Brown.

 

Me too,but weve signed Hobbs now. Thats my point,i should've put it better.We dont need Ayala now.
But hey if we do get him,hows about Ayala in front of the back four ?

 

Whatever happens we're going into the first friendly knowing that none of our CBs have played alongside each other before.

And if Cooper goes out on loan, with McShane going to Reading as well we'll need to bring in 2 more CBs.