Sabre wrote:Mick, be patient, it's not strange, Rome wasn't constructed in one day, and the change of football discussion won't be achieved in one day.
But the very existence of this thread is a good sign :-) you see, the bottle half full always.
Myself I've read it and I have a post pending to make.
I'll touch two points, one, to agree RBG to defend Agger's quality.
Two, to comment on the notion that we should look for a specific CB strong in the air. Perhaps it's one of the alien factors of the continental coaches in England. Many continental coaches might see aerial power as a desirable bonus, but it wouldn't be the first characteristic to sign a player. They'd combat aerial threat from the very source, with a good pressing, and not allowing the players that can put this good balls actually putting them.
Plus, even if we wanted to find Hyypia-esque CB. Please, anyone, where can we find one. That kind of quality, proffessionality, and experience, added to a mastering of a aerial game is very rare. I don't know of any, in fact.
Another quick question, what has happend to Agger?
Asked the same thing the other day. I don't know.Given Masherano and Alonso sit in, teams will look to launch it a bit more against us I guess, so given that isn't it evem more crucial that we have somebody aerially dominant?
I disagree. I'd agree you if Liverpool weren't aggressive in the recovery of the ball, which is not clearly the case. One of the reasons that made Real Madrid look inactive is the good job we do recovering the ball and doing a good pressing where it has to be done.
I have to disagree 1 CB has to have main skill in AIR in prem its a must as only in this league you deal with 50% air 50% on floor others leagues might be closer to 70% floor 30% air and the air part in most other leagues is from crosses and free kicks prem you see target men used alot more with long high balls up to them.
Now i am not saying agger nore skrtel can't become good in air I just don't see it atm and I really feel we can't offord another season being weak in this area because some might argue its been a weakness that might have cost us the league this season.
I do think there is many clubs out there that prob have a good heading CB that need a agger type player so maybe a swap deal isn't out of the question.
But I also feel we do need a RW and striker as well so getting the ballance to our team who ever is managing next season will be the key to sucess.
Of course on other hand we might get bought out soon and then I feel we gonna have our best chance for long time to win prem we can only hope.
As for replacing big sami you ca't simple as but you can find someone like him and what better time sami is in his peak of exp and can pass that onto any new sami type player.