vidic's positioning is superb, though. it has to be, his recovery pace isn't top-class.
he's just a very physical defender who often treats ball and man as one entity to be cleaned out. this makes him brilliant in the PL, and he'd be brilliant in calcio too, but in la liga I reckon it'd be his undoing. I mean, we all saw how easily eto'o gave him the slip in rome. but I dunno, maybe he'd prove me wrong. he is an incredible CB, proven at all levels, it's just whether or not he's suited to la liga. you could at least give him his favoured number 5, though.
what sort of fee are you looking at for vidic?
and piqué is a phenomenal defender. I think when sprinting at top-speed he's a lot quicker than you'd think, because I don't think he runs at top-speed a lot. his recovery pace is absurd (it gives me hope for chygrynskiy because piqué wasn't this fast in recovery when he arrived with us). and the way he handles CR is incredible. the only others who have handled him so well are cashley and assou-ekotto.