Centre Back

[Saul Goodman]

At this point we will likely end up with Diego Carlos who doesnt look that good and will probably be another Stones.

[sheblue]

[nottsblue]

This lad from Atletico Madrid wd are supposed to be in for is surely a no go. Only once in 6 years started more than 25 games.

[Saul Goodman]

[sheblue]

If this wasn't so serious it would be laughable.

[harveytravis]

And Tosin apparently wants to leave...

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Now we've allegedly moved on to Diego Carlos centre back partner at Sevilla, Kounde.

Fucking silly season.

[aaron bond]

It's disappointing that we have not brought in another centre back or left back yet, but if we were start this weekend with a back 4 of Walker, Ake, Laporte and Cancelo then that would be a solid back 4. That should be good enough to begin the season with and we still have a couple of weeks to bring new players in (and ship out some deadwood).

But this season Pep needs to play the same back 4 as often as possible. We know Stones, Otamendi, Fernandinho, Mendy, Zinchenko etc. all struggled last season but I don't think any of them were helped by us playing a different back 4 every game. Even if you don't have the best defenders, you can still have a strong defence if they are well organised and play regularly together.

[Dubciteh]

[PeterParker]

Just fucking ask Dunnie to come back for a season.
Even fucking Howie looks delicious now.

Yeah, I know how that phrase sounds.

[Mase]

[carl_feedthegoat]

[PeterParker]

[sheblue]

[Harry Dowd scored]

Until we have a consistent back 4 playing together it doesn’t matter who we sign, defenders need to play together regular to develop into a unit
So chopping and changing defenders every week has the opposite effect and, leads to the unforced errors we saw occur last season.
A typical example of this is Sheffield United, ask yourself this -: name their back 4 without google - see what I mean, yet they had a good defence, in fact without it would have been relegated.

[Saul Goodman]

Isnt Ake still injured? I bet Fernandinho starts at CB vs Wolves

[Foreverinbluedreams]

[PeterParker]

[nottsblue]

[carolina-blue]