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this all makes him unreliable. Its like david luiz. He may make nice passes and win the ball many times but he has a penalty, poor clearance or tackle away from giving away a goal. the players in front of you need to be confident that NOTHING is getting past you and at the very least the opposition are not going to get easy chances because your CB is lacking.
standards have dropped. doing your job sometimes is enough nowadays. We need CB who are colossal.
And we also need a top quality LB, and probably two top quality CM's, a top class RW and a probably a top class CF as well, along with getting rid of the absolute floaters in this team like Rojo, Jones, Fred and Matic and replace them with reliable, quality squad options. This is also without having to replace Pogba.
Is Lindelof the answer to our problems? No. But he's also not the root cause. You don't ignore the rotting ceiling in your house in favour of upgrading your couch because you don't really like it that much. When we fix everything else that's wrong with the team, then we can focus on the smaller issues. Tuanzebe might be the answer in the long run, and that's great if he is, but he's inexperienced and like Lindelof is not great in the air and his reading of the game isn't at the level required just yet but against the likes of Newcastle had the power to recover. Against top teams that might not be the case.
Lindelof had some fantastic performances last season, and this season we have been defending relatively well, but seem to concede from the few chances teams manage to create against us. Our problem is our complete lack of control in the middle and lack of goal threat up front, which causes us to drift in games and give the impetus to the opposition too often. If we were winning games but not keeping clean sheets I doubt this would be as much of an issue.
I agree that he's probably not good enough, but can become a reliable, above average CB who is a really good squad option in my opinion. Would rather see him in the team at the moment instead of Bailly, Rojo or Jones, which I know isn't much of an endorsement but that's just where we are right now. Fill in the gaping holes first, then focus on the cracks