In an ideal world im sure we would, but I think Obrien did much better thann you suggest, he really helped the balance of the team, and stopped us bieng so weak down that side.
If we bring a starting right back in, Obrien becomes a problem, and loses his game time.
Moyes has history of playing centre backs at full back, and I don't see that changing for this season.
He was fine, I'm not saying he didn't do a good job, just that I'm not sure he was absolutely outstanding. He had a few iffy games truth be told, which is fine and understandable, but it seems to be ignored a bit because we decided we liked him. As I said, a very similar thing happened with Godfrey, who was arguably more impressive playing full back in his first season.
I don't necessarily see why it should be a given that
O'Brien would lose his game time either.
Tarkowski is also fine, but he's not exactly Baresi. If there's no conceivable way that
O'Brien could possibly be picked at centre half ahead of a 33 year
Tarkowski coming off the back of a bad injury, he probably isn't actually that good. We're once again straying into the realms of people deciding actually pretty much all the players we have are great so there's no real need to worry about getting new ones.
