Hazy2 wrote:aaron bond wrote:Beanieboy wrote:nottsblue wrote:Beginning to wonder whether Laporte is made of glass.
He has a number of niggling injuries
I think I remember we were supposed to be signing him somewhere back around 2015-‘16-ish but didn’t go through because he broke his leg when just coming back from injury?......Possibly when we ended up getting the Mangler instead?
It does seem to be that way with Laporte.
Although early days, the good thing is that we now seem to have good alternative options at centre back with Dias and Ake so if Laporte is injured we can cover him more easily.
For the main man at Bilbao he missed a lot of games. Classy player.
To be honest, I don't think Laporte is fantastic. Never did.
What I liked about him is that he did not need any game time to fit right in our system, from day one he looked he was since ... ever here. A super important thing about that these days.
But he had his share of brainfarts along these 2 years since he came and I can't say 100% we were that shit last year because he got injured. I think it was because Vinnie left, another sicknote, but who knew how to bring the squad near him when needed.
His absence from the french national team is a big question mark alos, even if he had that thing with Deschamps.