William Saliba signs for Arsenal

[rio bryan]

Sanchez plays LCB for Colombia, and Toby could play there too (if he stays)

Yes very true, but that doesn't make him left footed, read what i posted, i know him and Toby can play on the left side but that doesn't make it ideal.

 

[rio bryan]

From everything I’ve seen of Sanchez, he’s better on the left. He’s equally as adept defensively on either side, and looks more comfortable playing the ball out when he’s on the left. Just seems to have more options due to his body shape and the way he uses the ball.

There is a reason that generally left footers play on the left side of the centre backs and right footers play on the right side of the centre backs.

 

[Musathfc28]

Hope we get some news today about saliba, gone very quiet around him considering we was meant to be meeting with his club yesterday?

 

[Sweech]

There is a reason that generally left footers play on the left side of the centre backs and right footers play on the right side of the centre backs.

It’s a tired debate. There’s too much history of great right footed CBs in football who have played on the left side for me (or possibly anyone else aside from yourself) to really give a shit.

 

[Sweech]

Rumour is Arsenal are now meeting Celtics valuation for Tierney and are willing to bid 25mil for him. Could be a sign that they’re either confidant of money coming in from a player sale or they think they’re going to lose Saliba to us.

 

[Clark28]

Yes very true, but that doesn't make him left footed, read what i posted, i know him and Toby can play on the left side but that doesn't make it ideal.

Which was this

Slight problem is that he is also right footed, so that would be him, Foyth, Sanchez, Dier, Alderweireld vying for one place and no cover for Verts (perhaps Davies).A bit lopsided if you ask me.

You don't have to be left footed to cover for Jan

 

[spids]

There is a reason that generally left footers play on the left side of the centre backs and right footers play on the right side of the centre backs.

You’d better tell Jurgen Klopp then, the fool has been playing Van Dijk on the wrong side all along! ?

It is not all that common to have a right footed RCB and a left footed LCB. Yes, there are some benefits, but it is not the be all and end all. For example, the Vidic & Ferdinand partnership at Man U saw two right footers form one of the best CB partnerships of all time (as did Terry/Carvalho at Chelsea and Adams/Bould or Adams/Keown at Arsenal).

As others have noted, the right footed Sanchez appears more comfortable at LCB for his country than at RCB for us.

Also, let’s not forget the left footed Ben Davies can play as a LCB in a back 3.

I would be more concerned with the age and experience of the CBs we are stockpiling. Optimally your CBs will be 27-32 in age, as younger ones tend to make more mistakes, have weaker positioning and are more inconsistent. I’m all for bringing a good young ’un through, but to have 3 or 4 is risky IMO.

 

[spursfan77]

Rumour is Arsenal are now meeting Celtics valuation for Tierney and are willing to bid 25mil for him. Could be a sign that they’re either confidant of money coming in from a player sale or they think they’re going to lose Saliba to us.

Or it’s Celtic trying to get arsenal to increase their bid because they want to us the money to buy some players themselves. It’s so clandestine nowadays!

 

[hellava_tough]

Rumour is Arsenal are now meeting Celtics valuation for Tierney and are willing to bid 25mil for him. Could be a sign that they’re either confidant of money coming in from a player sale or they think they’re going to lose Saliba to us.

I'm not sure they've got any players that they'd realistically sell and the 'deadwood' that they would sell, they wouldn't get any money for them

If they had a healthy transfer budget and a competent transfer team to conduct business, they would have signed a first-teamer by now.

I'm starting to think that Arsenal will be scrambling around Europe looking at deals for the next 3/4 weeks, before slapping down £30m on a Tierney type deal on deadline day and that will be that....

...until their disgruntled fans have a meltdown, going into the new season.

 

[For the love of Spurs]

Rumour is Arsenal are now meeting Celtics valuation for Tierney and are willing to bid 25mil for him. Could be a sign that they’re either confidant of money coming in from a player sale or they think they’re going to lose Saliba to us.

Well that leaves what £15 mil for them and I don’t see them making any money on deadwood, they would need to see Aba or Lacazette if they want to spend big this summer.

 

[rio bryan]

You’d better tell Jurgen Klopp then, the fool has been playing Van Dijk on the wrong side all along! ?

It is not all that common to have a right footed RCB and a left footed LCB. Yes, there are some benefits, but it is not the be all and end all. For example, the Vidic & Ferdinand partnership at Man U saw two right footers form one of the best CB partnerships of all time (as did Terry/Carvalho at Chelsea and Adams/Bould or Adams/Keown at Arsenal).

As others have noted, the right footed Sanchez appears more comfortable at LCB for his country than at RCB for us.

Also, let’s not forget the left footed Ben Davies can play as a LCB in a back 3.

I would be more concerned with the age and experience of the CBs we are stockpiling. Optimally your CBs will be 27-32 in age, as younger ones tend to make more mistakes, have weaker positioning and are more inconsistent. I’m all for bringing a good young ’un through, but to have 3 or 4 is risky IMO.

Read my post again, i actually put in the word "GENERALLY" which means not all the time and in approx the last 20 yrs of football you give 3 examples, wow !!!!! and who has forgot about playing Davies LCB in a back 3 ? he can actually play as cover for Jan of which i have already noted.

 

[scat1620]

You have obviously have mis-read one word i put in my comment "GENERALLY" !!!!! and who has forgot about playing Davies LCB in a back 3 ? i notice that is not RCB !!!!

I would have been convinced by your arguments in this totally-not-boring conversational dead-end if only you had used a few more exclamation marks. As it is, you only went with nine, and my minimum threshold for a Damascene-like conversion is fifteen.

 

[rio bryan]

I would have been convinced by your arguments in this totally-not-boring conversational dead-end if only you had used a few more exclamation marks. As it is, you only went with nine, and my minimum threshold for a Damascene-like conversion is fifteen.

Yep, always best to mention someones grammar when you cant give a constructive reply !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[spids]

Read my post again, i actually put in the word "GENERALLY" which means not all the time and in approx the last 20 yrs of football you give 3 examples, wow !!!!! and who has forgot about playing Davies LCB in a back 3 ? he can actually play as cover for Jan of which i have already noted.

Actually, this is what you said that has got so many of us replying ...

Slight problem is that he is also right footed, so that would be him, Foyth, Sanchez, Dier, Alderweireld vying for one place and no cover for Verts (perhaps Davies).A bit lopsided if you ask me.

What we’re all saying is that right footers can play on the left of a CB partnership. It has not been a problem for the greatest CB pairings in EPL history, and lots of right footed CBs excel on the left of a CB partnership including Van Dijk, Vidic, Terry, etc. and Sanchez prefers playing there for Columbia and appears to perform better that side too.

So no, it is not a bit lopsided at all.

 

[DJS]

Yep, always best to mention someones grammar when you cant give a constructive reply !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*can’t

 

[DJS]

I’d love to get this player purely to piss Arsenal off.

Don’t know a thing about him but would just be pure bantz pinching him from under their noses.

If we do get him almost makes me wish I hadn’t defriended some gooner twat on Facebook as he’s head will probably detach from his body and explode!

 

[kursaal]

Rumour is Arsenal are now meeting Celtics valuation for Tierney and are willing to bid 25mil for him. Could be a sign that they’re either confidant of money coming in from a player sale or they think they’re going to lose Saliba to us.

We should go in for Tierney now just to show Woolwich they are our bitches now

 

[hellava_tough]

If we want him, we'll get him; simple as that really.

We're the more attractive prospect for him and we have more money than Arsenal to spend in this transfer window.

The Goons could theoretically offer him a higher salary, but in reality they're trying to reduce their wage will.

Depends if Poch thinks he's a prospect for the future or not.

 

[SpunkyBackpack]

We should go in for Tierney now just to show Woolwich they are our bitches now

Screw that, they're all spitting feathers about us building a new stadium and still having cash to spend, let's buy the Emirates, withdraw all our cash in £5 notes or 50p coins and store it all there on the pitch.

 

[spursgirls]

*can’t

You still missed *someone's ;-)