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Learo
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At the risk of sounding like I am just disagreeing with you again...
Vertonghen for me had a good season but was hugely over rated on here because the club missed out on him. He looked slow and had trouble defending smaller technical players movement/dribbling at times. One game I watched him in particular - home to Basle I think - he was horrendous at the back.
He would not have been bad in the ball playing/stepping out of defence to win the ball CB, but Barca have Masch and Pique for that. What really is needed now is a pure defender/leader type like Puyol/Silva.
Not another CB/DM.
Vertonghen for me was not as good last season as some people on here were making out and is not the type of player needed anyway.
Verthongen had a good season overall, at a great price and his value is far higher today. Will we make a move for him in 2-3 years for 50m when he is close to 30?
Why on earth dont we show any imagination in our transfer targets? I just dont get it. We were interested in ball playing CBs last season, able to play DM (Verthongen can play 3 positions), but no, we just ignore most good options completely. 10m is nothing for us. And Verthongen is just one of dozens of players.
Other clubs actually look in smaller clubs and leagues for their signings. Just look at the squads of the top clubs and see where their stars come from. Sometimes I wonder if Barca has some inferiority complex, like we see among the sugar daddy clubs who try to buy superstars to "make a statement". We dont need to buy big names at high profile clubs to show we are a big club. We need to act smarter. Our scouts are supposedly making alot of money, but no one knows what they are doing.