Amir
Full Member
Lack of options is not an excuse to spend so much money on a player if he's not good enough. You just find a way to get by with what you have - or look for a far cheaper short-term solution - while working on finding a long term one.Who were the alternative players at that point in time and what were the alternative options to us?.
For the cb options at the club we had Mike Smalling who was getting hounded every week? Phil Injured Jones? Rojo and Bailiy injured all the time?.. Blind was underplayed and hounded out of the club.. No other suitable CB options were available to us mate.. Maguire came in and was solid enough to shore up our cb defence but if he doesn't get shielded then we'd have had DDG to be the last man in yard m street
Otherwise you do exactly what we did, and now we see the results: We have a centerhalf who is lacking, but we're stuck with him due to the cost.