With the bombshell(ish) news that Bentaleb is leaving, it leaves us extremely light on quality (not numbers) across the four central defensive positions - CB and CM.
Four positions
Bold = Potential 1st XI quality
Normal = Squad Player
Italic = Unproven Youngster
Vertonghen
Alderweireld
Wimmer
CCV
Dier
Wanyama
Dembele
Mason
Carroll
Onomah
Although there are ten players, in my opinion there are only six players I would trust for the really big games for these key positions.
Compounding this, two of them are unavailable at the start - the injured Vertonghen and the suspended Dembele, and we will be playing with the ultra defensive, dare I say Pulis-negative, Dier-Wanyama axis.
We are currently one injury from one of CCV, Carroll, Mason or Onomah starting games in one of these positions.
Personal opinion:
Buy a Right CB, and a ball-carrying CM
Loan the two kids, sell Carroll, and keep Mason as #9
This may not appear to be much of a problem now, as games are light in August, but by September we will be in the thick of the PL/CL/CoC period.
Bare minimum we need one of the two players above in I think
Looking light across the central positions
posted on 26/7/16
comment by Christopher - Sorry but I'm still not RR... (U20930)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 4 minutes ago
why do we need another RB? am I missing something?
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Corluka's a CB
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He played RB for Spurs more often than not if I recall correctly but he's a CB by trade, especially now he's a bit older.
posted on 26/7/16
Corluka
posted on 26/7/16
Corluka would 100% be a centre back for us, even his younger self.
Can you imagine him up and down all game at RB?
posted on 26/7/16
Ok cool. I was a big corluka fan and in my opinion he was and still is far better than walker (at rb)
Redknapp shipped him off though
posted on 26/7/16
Even in his prime he would not have made a RB for us now.
He was next to useless without Lennon in front of him. Can remember how sheite we looked whenever he and Rafa/Niko/Luka ever played down the right together
Cracking with a winger in front though
posted on 26/7/16
Yes HRH I agree he needs to be surrounded by pace
posted on 26/7/16
Lovely little partnership he and Lennon had
posted on 26/7/16
I used to love the perfectly weighted passes corluka used to play between fullback and centre back for Lennon to run on to
Very dangerous when executed well
posted on 26/7/16
comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 7 hours, 24 minutes ago
I used to love the perfectly weighted passes corluka used to play between fullback and centre back for Lennon to run on to
Very dangerous when executed well
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Ok, consensus is Corluka.
We definitely need another CB....
see lessons from the Juve game: http://www.espnfc.com/club/tottenham-hotspur/367/blog/post/2918080/five-things-learned-from-tottenhams-defeat-to-juventus
BTW, how old is he now??
posted on 26/7/16
comment by DerekJohn (U21071)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 7 hours, 24 minutes ago
I used to love the perfectly weighted passes corluka used to play between fullback and centre back for Lennon to run on to
Very dangerous when executed well
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Ok, consensus is Corluka.
We definitely need another CB....
see lessons from the Juve game: http://www.espnfc.com/club/tottenham-hotspur/367/blog/post/2918080/five-things-learned-from-tottenhams-defeat-to-juventus
BTW, how old is he now??
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30 so would make an excellent signing to come in for 2-3 years until CCV is ready