Gallas

[Blue In Bolton]

Hasn't Rodwell played centre-half for Everton before with some success?

[Chinners]

A no from me. I think we are hanging on to Boyata to keep the 'home grown' quota up

[london blue 2]

The main problem we have is that Kompany and Richards are made of glass, and that always creates missing players during the season because their injury records are so piss poor. Sadly this seems to have escaped our hierarchy's attention.

Demechelis was a stop-gap that's panned out about as well Posh Spice's solo career, so we are left in the lurch. Lescott and Nastasic are both soooo left footed it means one of them is playing on the wrong side, though Im still sure Joleon and Matija are our best options given their experience in the position.

Gallas? Nope. There's a reason he doesn't have a club at the moment. Garcia? Nope, he's versatile as he can look slow and uncomfortable on the ball both in midfield and at the back; Boyata just isn't the required class to be a Premier League centre half so the alternatives are Micah (if fit) or even Rodwell or Ya Ya.

Given the utter shambles we witnessed at Cardiff, and the subpar showing against Hull, I fear we will sleepwalk into another defeat at the weekend unless we fookin man up, show up, and the management recognise that away games in the Prem Lge are in fact difficult, especially when you defend set pieces worse than my sons under 8's team.

you must be out of your mind

[Slim]

The main problem we have is that Kompany and Richards are made of glass, and that always creates missing players during the season because their injury records are so piss poor. Sadly this seems to have escaped our hierarchy's attention.

Demechelis was a stop-gap that's panned out about as well Posh Spice's solo career, so we are left in the lurch. Lescott and Nastasic are both soooo left footed it means one of them is playing on the wrong side, though Im still sure Joleon and Matija are our best options given their experience in the position.

Gallas? Nope. There's a reason he doesn't have a club at the moment. Garcia? Nope, he's versatile as he can look slow and uncomfortable on the ball both in midfield and at the back; Boyata just isn't the required class to be a Premier League centre half so the alternatives are Micah (if fit) or even Rodwell or Ya Ya.

Given the utter shambles we witnessed at Cardiff, and the subpar showing against Hull, I fear we will sleepwalk into another defeat at the weekend unless we fookin man up, show up, and the management recognise that away games in the Prem Lge are in fact difficult, especially when you defend set pieces worse than my sons under 8's team.

you must be out of your mind

At least it's A Mind of it's Own.

[Tim777]

The main problem we have is that Kompany and Richards are made of glass, and that always creates missing players during the season because their injury records are so piss poor. Sadly this seems to have escaped our hierarchy's attention.

Demechelis was a stop-gap that's panned out about as well Posh Spice's solo career, so we are left in the lurch. Lescott and Nastasic are both soooo left footed it means one of them is playing on the wrong side, though Im still sure Joleon and Matija are our best options given their experience in the position.

Gallas? Nope. There's a reason he doesn't have a club at the moment. Garcia? Nope, he's versatile as he can look slow and uncomfortable on the ball both in midfield and at the back; Boyata just isn't the required class to be a Premier League centre half so the alternatives are Micah (if fit) or even Rodwell or Ya Ya.

Given the utter shambles we witnessed at Cardiff, and the subpar showing against Hull, I fear we will sleepwalk into another defeat at the weekend unless we fookin man up, show up, and the management recognise that away games in the Prem Lge are in fact difficult, especially when you defend set pieces worse than my sons under 8's team.

Great post and well written, it just about sums up the state of our first team at present. It will be interesting to see what Pellegrini has in store to get us through the next few weeks in one piece. I'd go for Gallas though because no option could possibly be worse than Garcia.