Where are you getting this 20 games stuff from, that has to be pure nonsense? Bullied every second game, he undoubtedly loses some physical duels but every other game, really? Leaking goal after goal despite a reasonably decent defensive record?
Not everything is so black and white as you are making out. This is pure hyperbole, not statements that stand up to any kind of scrutiny. It weakens your point rather than strengthens it.
It is indeed a little hyperbole because he didn't cost us every second game but he definitely made 1 costly mistake every other game. There were games where he was thrashed to pieces, including final against Villa real, the season before against Sevilla so that adds up and indeed can result in such ratio. Just because people don't remember countless lost headers, ground duels and many, many passive plays by him because he didn't want to make a mistake which then resulted in a opposition team chance or us being put under needless pressure, doesn't mean he's okay defender. He's horrible but that's hard to explain here on a footy forum where not even 1/10 of people played competitive football and can't see those mistakes, only those when we concede goals after, which is a shame because there are so many in between.
Also quite clearly many people here don't remember the highest of standards United aspired before, even with a third choice CBs. Lindelof will be our 3rd choice now but looking at how much Leicester got Vesteergard for who is twice a player, we should definitely look to offload him when his value is relatively high and some people (no wonder caf included) rate him. And again, quite obviously it's too late this season but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the rumours that we were after two CBs not jus 1 were true. YOu can also see many experts quite clearly see him as a massive weakness, and what shifting him back in the pecking order to third spot should make us happy? Imagine one of Varane or Maguire gets injured then Lindelof who cant head cant defend and is average on the ball, comes in and we can forget about any title chances and any cup trophies. where indeed he cost us the most. And please don't get me started about his weak mentality..
Also what is a reasonably decent defensive record? How on earth is 44 goals in the prem (5th best) reasonable record? with playing mostly a defensive double pivot, we will see that this year when we don't leak easy goals for fun. But let Varane bed in, I guess he will not need 130+ games like Lindelof to still look dodgy. Imagine you have such defender and he still looks not good enough after given this much of incredible game time to prove, for a team that aspire to be the best in the world. Standards dropped incredibly low.
