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Originally Posted by Ekeke
In all the honesty the way I see it is, if Pique leaves the club he'll find another club where he could be first choice CB in spain or italy. In a year's time he'll be one of the most highly rated players in his position in that league and he'll end up back at Barcelona or one of the other top clubs in Spain.
With Evans, if we let him go this summer, he'd end up at Spurs or Everton in a few years time at best.
Both are good players. And while I'm not sure they'll be our next CB pairing, its probably in the best interests of the club (not the players) to keep them here for another 2 years until one of them gets the chance to pair up with Vidic and fight for Ferdinand's place.
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i agree with you about Pique. the boy needs games to sharpen his defensive instincts. he has always looked several orders of magnitude better than his own peers when i've seen him play at youth tournaments. we've seen how well his time in Spain served him. i would've loved for him to go out on loan to a Prem side, but we needed the cover.
i can't agree about Evans, though. there's something about him that i just like, and i feel he will do very well with us. perhaps he is not a footballer in the Rio or Pique mould, but he is a damn fine defender (looks as well
- god, that was gay! - ahem!!). i hope i'm not proven wrong.
the tricky thing is both these players need experience. at the moment, only Evans is getting top-flight action.