Distin's future replacement?

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..our transfer approach will always be about priorities and I suspect centre back will not be that this summer. The indication is that we also have a rising star yet to make his debut, so any monies spent will be elsewhere.
 

Dozbik said:
Please no. He's terrible. I wouldn't mind Lescott returning though barring he accepts a significant wage reduction to 50k.
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He's not really, how much you actually watched him? Be honest. He's quick strong like a bull, and surprisingly cheap, would be great cover. And let him boss EL
 
Matthew mcdonnell said:
He's not really, how much you actually watched him? Be honest. He's quick strong like a bull, and surprisingly cheap, would be great cover. And let him boss EL
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I watch quite a lot of Bundesliga and read transfermarkt.de forums. The Schalke fans are less than satisfied with Santana. He started the season badly, he only plays a bit part role now, late substitution and sorts. He couldn't overcome the backup role in Dortmund for years, he was never a significant first team player and neither is he at Schalke, a team not particularly famous of its defenders. Whenever he had the chance to play in the first team for a lengthy period, he was unconvincing. I simply don't rate him highly and I don't think lots of you guys would be happy with him either. Believe me, Distin is so much better than him. He would even beat him in a running contest despite his age. Santana's 28 already, so I don't see him improving much anymore, he's way too inconsistent and often makes the mistakes. If I have a look at his ratings, his average is 3.8 (on a German scale: 1 is the best, 6 is the worst). That's pretty much what he would be in my eye, a subpar solution. I'd choose Lescott all day ahead of him.
 
Dozbik said:
I watch quite a lot of Bundesliga and read transfermarkt.de forums. The Schalke fans are less than satisfied with Santana. He started the season badly, he only plays a bit part role now, late substitution and sorts. He couldn't overcome the backup role in Dortmund for years, he was never a significant first team player and neither is he at Schalke, a team not particularly famous of its defenders. Whenever he had the chance to play in the first team for a lengthy period, he was unconvincing. I simply don't rate him highly and I don't think lots of you guys would be happy with him either. Believe me, Distin is so much better than him. He would even beat him in a running contest despite his age. Santana's 28 already, so I don't see him improving much anymore, he's way too inconsistent and often makes the mistakes. If I have a look at his ratings, his average is 3.8 (on a German scale: 1 is the best, 6 is the worst). That's pretty much what he would be in my eye, a subpar solution. I'd choose Lescott all day ahead of him.
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Yeah but lescott's wages will be ridiculous and he will be much more expensive
 
Matthew mcdonnell said:
Yeah but lescott's wages will be ridiculous and he will be much more expensive
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Then we need to look for someone else. If there's anyone better out there then it's fine by me. We might not buy a defender this summer, or maybe Roberto brings Rodwell back as a potential makeshift defender and CM, I'm not sure. I don't see into Roberto's mind, but if he will take Europe seriously - and from what he's been saying, he will - we need some extra legs, another 5-6 players and in terms of CBs currently we have a virtually always injured Alcaraz, a 36-year-old Distin (our best), Jags and the 19-year-old Stones. Sounds a bit thin to me, I hope that Roberto gets us someone decent and preferably young.
 

saying that distin will go on for another 100000 years so we dont need to worry about it, stones , browning and even duffy when distins injured.
 

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