I’d love Alderweireld to sign for us but we’ve spent so much on signing quantity over quality that we’re fully stocked at centre back and would need to sell at least two centre backs.
We’ve got Bailly, Jones, Smalling, Rojo, Lindelof, Tuanzebe and Blind already so even though Alderweireld is an upgrade on every single one of centre back choices it’s going to take some serious upheaval to bring him in.
I’d happily see Rojo, Lindelof and Blind all go as we’d probably bring in £50+ million from that which would pay for Alex Sandro and when you throw in Darmian and most likely Shaw going too that would pay for most of Alderweireld but I just don’t see Jose doing that despite loving the idea of him doing so.
Smalling looks great alongside a ball playing centre back which is why he looked immense alongside Blind so I can imagine alongside a genuine centre back and upgrade on Blind we’d see Smalling look like that player again and Jones always looks best being led through by a leader.