Darren I would say that Evra is still in fairly good nick. Ashley on the other hand does look past his best now and this probably should be his last season at Chelsea.
Just a shame that Bertrand hasn't pushed on or been given a proper chance.
As Biggish says in footballing terms we often seem to fancy the other bloke's bird when what we already have is good enough.
For me the obvious solution is play Bertrand at left back and move Azpi to his favoured right back position.
That way we would have two young and energetic players get up and down the flanks.
Fair points, Superb. Both look like decent full backs but don't seem to have been given much chance to cement their place.
Evra, in fairness, has been good going forward this season, he's been better than he has the last few years, but at the back he can still be dodgy as he's pretty lazy to get back after a marauding run.
He's out of contract in the summer as well so I think he might be off. Maybe to Monaco for a big pay day before he retires, plus he's a former player of theirs.
I wish we'd have just spent £27.5m on Baines instead of facking Fellaini.
@ Darren The King Fletcher (U10026)
Ivanovic is much more capable as a RB than as a CB. I would say he has only been poor there recently. We won the Double and Champions League with him playing as a RB, and he was brilliant when we won the former.
He still looks uncomfortable at right back because he's not very comfortable on the ball.
As I said, I've never really rated him that highly as a right back. He's done well there at times but I've never felt he was a really top class full back for the reasons I've stated - he's just not a very good footballer.
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posted on 18/12/13
Darren I would say that Evra is still in fairly good nick. Ashley on the other hand does look past his best now and this probably should be his last season at Chelsea.
Just a shame that Bertrand hasn't pushed on or been given a proper chance.
As Biggish says in footballing terms we often seem to fancy the other bloke's bird when what we already have is good enough.
For me the obvious solution is play Bertrand at left back and move Azpi to his favoured right back position.
That way we would have two young and energetic players get up and down the flanks.
posted on 18/12/13
Fair points, Superb. Both look like decent full backs but don't seem to have been given much chance to cement their place.
Evra, in fairness, has been good going forward this season, he's been better than he has the last few years, but at the back he can still be dodgy as he's pretty lazy to get back after a marauding run.
He's out of contract in the summer as well so I think he might be off. Maybe to Monaco for a big pay day before he retires, plus he's a former player of theirs.
I wish we'd have just spent £27.5m on Baines instead of facking Fellaini.
posted on 18/12/13
@ Darren The King Fletcher (U10026)
Ivanovic is much more capable as a RB than as a CB. I would say he has only been poor there recently. We won the Double and Champions League with him playing as a RB, and he was brilliant when we won the former.
posted on 18/12/13
He still looks uncomfortable at right back because he's not very comfortable on the ball.
As I said, I've never really rated him that highly as a right back. He's done well there at times but I've never felt he was a really top class full back for the reasons I've stated - he's just not a very good footballer.
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