Jonno
Full Member
You make good points about Tony V but it can't be healthy for a team to buy 8 new first teamers in 1 summer to rebuild, surely players like Valencia will stay in this team for 2-3 years and allow Mourinho to purely rebuild the urgent areas this summer, and then next summer go for a third wave of transfers. 4 big players each window is productive, but 8 would remind me of Spurs when they sold Bale, or us when LVG came in.I Iike Valencia. He's a hard working man, obviously. But I have to say he frustrates me a lot. He rarely overlaps when our wingers cut inside, he doesn't provide width and he barely crosses. Those three are very important qualities a modern fullback should have.
Our fullbacks are the reason our attacking play doesn't look fluent imo. People think it's because we don't have classic wingers but pretty much every top team doesn't have them, they play with inverted wingers. It's the fullbacks that do what a wingers used to do.