I think Bailly can be a fantastic CB, if we look at his performance before this season. He is erratic and his positioning can be awful at times. He needs a Van Dijk type next to him which is constantly shouting to him about positioning.
Last season? Smalling and Jones were the ones who mostly played last season, and even Lindelof played significantly more than Bailly.
I disagree here. I know what you mean, but a top quality CB that's great at defending and on the ball (and is fast!) is useful to any manager.
I agree - I haven't given up on Bailly I hope he can regain his form
People on here often do change their opinion with the wind/the last game, but I don't think having a player settle and perform a bit better then changing opinion is daft. That's surely how it should be? Better than those that are too stubborn to change their opinion.
Wonder how much the racism during the game recently, would have effected his decision on wanting to leave Italy?!
They seem to have done alright without him, tbf.
How much did Bailly actually play last season?
Why the feck would you hire a guy who doesn't rate your core players?
Well we hired Jose...Why the feck would you hire a guy who doesn't rate your core players?
Because its the (recent) Manchester United way.Why the feck would you hire a guy who doesn't rate your core players?
We should get rid of Jones and Rojo before we think of cutting Bailly. He's still quite young for a CB, so there's plenty of time for him to cut the rashness from his game. If he does, he'll be a very useful asset to us.
I think Bailly is caught in between styles. He's a modern type defender in that he's good at a lot of things but master of none. He's too poor in the air to play as your physical man marker central defender in the PL. The rashness is also an issue, that maybe could be tweaked but aerially he's not ever going to be dominant.Not so much an issue in CL but for sure in PL. He's decent with the ball without ever being your main ball playing centre half. There's also the issue since his initial arrival he's hasn't shown any levels of progression, in fact if anything regression.
Hardly, they've got plenty of choice at the back, and they've just won the world cup!
I like his aggressive style of defending. Of course there is a fine line between aggression and rash stupidity. The other thing is if we plan on playing this current attacking style you need defenders who can defend one on one and are pacy which I think are his strengths. Agreed about him not being great aerially.
I expect their on field partnership to blend as easily as their names.
OH come in he was pretty decent in first season, second season was injury ridden but he did well in moments specially like Liverpool game. And in his third after few initial mistakes Jose treated him like he treated Shaw. There is still a lot of potential in bailly and hopefully he can turn down his over aggression and be a stable defender soon enough.
So would you be if you had to train with Jones.
Never really thought about it that way. The players must be over the moon that Rojones are always in the treatment room. When they're fit everyone else is in trouble.
Spot on, Koulibaly is at his peak (most valuable) if, and I do mean IF we offered the €100m they would snatch our hands off.
Does this mean we'd have to leave him out of the squad to play Chelsea?
I'd get a Koulibailly #34 shirt if they form a great partnership. Beats Pogkaku 69.
That sounds painful.
Yeah, I can see this happening too. It's the perfect way for Mourinho to stick it to Woodward for sacking him.
Better make that £200 million. Inter will demand whatever the going rate is for Koulibaly with the theory that he's much younger, will play longer and become better.
I agree.... that may be the case but since Vidic and Ferdinand... we've had
Yeah, it's a game from Napoli right now, unfortunately it's one that probably wont play out until the summer, which is a shame as Koulibaly could be the defensive piece that helps us get top 4.
We can still get top 4 regardless if we just focus on playing the way we should and have some trust in what we have to see it through. We had second best defense in epl since last two years, it just doesn't go so bad in half a season other than managers poor defensive tactics and his methods shooting down the confidence of our players.
