carl_feedthegoat wrote:PeterParker wrote:Mase wrote:Indianablue wrote:Talk of Laporte being a 'loser' is quite frankly bollocks. Dias or Stones get injured and i'd have him in above Ake . Nothing wrong with a player wanting to be first choice. He'd get into most teams . His problem is that Stones had a great season and stopped dropping bollocks and Dias has been immense
Having the attitude of “I won’t fight for my place I just deserve it” is an absolute losers attitude. You’re correct, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be first choice - I imagine no City player bar Scott Carson is happy sitting on the bench. It’s your attitude to winning your place back and then making sure you’re first choice - see John Stones.
He had his chance to be numero uno after Vinny left. We were hoping he would lead the defense.
Instead, he got injured in the most absurd way, fucked our defense long-term and we had to play Fern or Rodri as CB.
And he made match losing mistakes afterwoods....actually , he nearly always makes one bad mistake a game that nearly costs us.
That's just not true. He did it in a couple of important CL games but he hasn't made 1 error leading to a goal in 75 PL games.
By comparison Stones has made 5 in 184, Dias 0 in 32. Both of them admittedly superb last season but that doesn't decry Laporte's record.
Komps only had 2 in 265 games, Otto 5 in 136. Laporte is bang up there with the best.