tasha7 wrote:I'm not quite sure why people are having a go at Wenger for not buying another centreback. If you look at most top sides they only really have three top quality players there - rio, vidic evans for man utd, terry, carvalho, alex for the chavs and carragher, agger, skrtel for liverpool.
I'm a huge fan of djourou and I think he's a great 3rd choice for us. It's unfortunate he's suffered another injury and we have to hope billy and vermaelen stay fit until he's recovered. But if not, then Senderos can do a job for us. How many other sides in Europe have as good 4th choice CB as he is? He's proved that he's a talented player if a little inconsistent and maybe he doesn't have the temperament for the really big occasions. But hopefully by the time squeaky bum time comes round again our other three centrebacks will be fit again.
Instead of having a go at Wenger for not signing another defender, maybe we should be looking at our medical department and asking why we sign so many injury prone players and/or turn them into such crocks. Is it anything to do with the plyometrics Wenger uses in his training methods?
I don't call Sylv Senderos and Djourou depth....Depth is about having guys in back up that have proved they can come in and do a good job, guys you can feel relatively comfortable won't let you down or weaken the team noticeably when called upon, it's not just a numbers game.
I like Djourou and i think he has a good future with us at centre half and personally i wouldn't be too preturbed, although more than a few would, if he was called upon to play next to Gallas or TV for a number of games or even if he came in for a big game.
Saying that he's proved nothing as yet so imo can't be classified as anything other than a good prospect, regardless of how good we think he can be.
I think the fact that he is recognised as our strongest back up even though he hasn't even had a good run in the team at centre half is all the evidence you need to see how weak our depth at CB is and unfortunately we have a similar problem at DCM.
As for Senderos and Sylv, i wouldn't feel comfortable if we had to call on them for anything more than the odd lesser game and the idea of either of them playing in any important games fills me with dread.
Both of them or at least one of them should have been shipped out in the summer neither of them are good enough to play for us whether they are third choice or fifth choice.
We needed another quality CB last year.. TV was a good replacement for Kolo but thats all he was a replacement we still need that 'another' quality centre back to give us quality depth not just numbers.
