bassong whinging about not getting played

Would rather have Babayaro back

 

I see, well still don't want him lol

 

TBH, that does sound like it to me.

 

This (and Willo)

 

Yeah, we do need cover for that position though. Someone like Onuoha or even Ridgewell on the cheap

 

No I think Sebastian Bassong is certainly more dependable than Mike Williamson, Willo seems the sort we should have battling a youngster for 4th place centre back, not immediate centre back choice on the other hand Bassong is good enough to compete to be in our team.

 

If we had Bassong here then I would play him if Colo got injured and would play Willo if Tayls got injured

 

He went to a more successful team, so it's no surprise he is not such a regular CB. Though from what I've seen your two best CBs are as good as him, but you'll know better than me.

Bassong played a crucial role in getting us to 4th and CL football, so I'm well happy with him. That input alone validated the transfer. He's now playing his part in getting us to the top of our Europa lge group, and has helped in our recent good run in the lge. He'll play on Sunday, so overall he's proved to be a very good buy for us

We'd probably get our money back, or close to it, as well if we sold him, on top of all the good work he's done for us.

 

Looks like he'll go to QPR. Wouldnt say him leaving was "inexplicable", we'd been relegated and he wanted regular football for his international aspirations. Not to mention we got a nice fee for him, given what we paid.

 

Anyone else think it's ironic how good our defence was when we went down? Beye was class at the time, as was Bassong. If only Enrique, Colo and Taylor were playing to the standard they are now.

 

Both a lot better imo

 

If only Enrique played lol. Mostly our defence was Taylor - Colo - Bassong - N'Zogbia. All in their wrong positions except Bassong. Colo is a left sided centre back, Taylor is a class centre back and N'Zogbia is a classy right or left winger who can't defend

 

Exactly, and we had to rely on Edgar (who I would still have now for cover) and Raylor in crazy 5 man defences as well sometimes. Shearer was really experimental in those last few weeks.

 

Yeah like against Stoke haha. Yeah, Edgar was a trier but class him as a Championship quality centre back now. He still at Burnley?

 

Yeah, he inexplicably chose playing in the Premier League with a 1000% pay rise over playing in the Championship.

No he didn't.

 

Think he is, yeah. Could do with the cover though, did a decent job all over the back 4 as I recall.

 

Yeah but then again so did Paul Huntington for a spell and he now plays for Yeovil Town haha. Remember when Glenn Roeder said he was going to build his defence around Huntington

 

Fair comment, I wouldn't argue. All I know is Bassong has been a good buy for us and I'm glad we've got him.

 

Yeah he is decent like. Was a good deal for both teams imo. We made a massive profit. Paid £100k and sold for £8m I think it was and you got yourself a decent player

 

Didn't he fake injury and refuse to play for us? Iirc