This really could end up being a masterclass signing for us. Just wanna see how he adapts to La Liga matches but with him, Umtiti and Mathieu subbing for Pique and Mascherano, our defense looks a lot stronger. Absolutely no point in keeping Verm if this kid shows he can consistently play at this level. You don't see panic from him when he's on the ball and against Leicester, our right side looked much more vulnerable in the 2nd half after he came off.
The one area we struggled for awhile now was buying/developing a good young CB who has the potential to be world class in down the road.
We went through guys like Bartra,Muniesa,Fontas,Gomez etc in hopes one of them would turn out to develop into something but as you can see it never happened. I thought for Sure Bartra could be the one who could breakthrough and be a starter down the line but he couldn't break into the team and struggled to impress the managers.
These days With us buying Umtiti and Seeing Tarin developing well it gives me hope that perhaps after the last several years we finally have good successors to guys like Masche and Pique. I know the club wanted Thiago Silva and Lucho wanted Marquinhos, but we missed out on both and with PSG not wanting to sell, it gives us this idea.
Why not develop our own Silva/Marquinhos? Marlon could be that guy. I know I'm overhyping the hell out of Marlon, but I feel like he could be our answer to our own Silva/Marquinhos. MD and Sport say he impressed the Hell out of Lucho, so it's a good sign.
He has the Skill set to be a Barca CB and he can only get better from here.
