Full Metal Jacquet
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When Jurgen Klopp joined Liverpool he identified height as being a key factor for a Premiership centre half.
Matip, Virgil, Ibbu and Q were all in the six foot four, or taller, range. With corners and long throws being the current must-have tactic, height is becoming more important than it was ten years ago.
At only six foot two inches, Jacquet would be useful at fullback but little better than Tyrion Lannister in central defence.
Hopefully six foot five inch Leoni will be fully fit for next season.
He'll be fine with Virgil or Lenoi next to him, and 6 foot 2 is plenty of height if a defender is intelligent.
As for combatting the emphasis on set pieces today, well that's a team thing and not something a couple of centre backs can cover all the time. It would be far better having multiple outfield players that are over 6 foot than having a couple of defenders that are 6 foot 4 with midgets around them.
(i have never watched him).
The last CB we had who was born and bred in Paris was ... uuuuum ...
Tarkowski at 6’ 1” has some pretty good heading statistics. But I do agree since moving to two aerially strong centre backs we’ve had a good aerial defence.
I said when Guehi signed for City that we would probably end up paying more money for a lesser player.
We've at least fulfilled half of that prediction here. I'm not going to write the lad off before I've even seen him play, maybe he is the shit, I don't know.
But I do know that promising young centre halves can always become Campbell or Bramble. This signing is a big risk, basically because City stole a march on us and did the Guehi deal when we still needed to secure CL progress before we could risk spending. It continues to do my nut that 115/130 isn't done yet, because they continue to exploit those loopholes to gain advantage over other clubs, even a well-run and wealthy club like us.
And don't get me started on Semenyo, he's going to haunt us for years.
We've at least fulfilled half of that prediction here. I'm not going to write the lad off before I've even seen him play, maybe he is the shit, I don't know.
But I do know that promising young centre halves can always become Campbell or Bramble. This signing is a big risk, basically because City stole a march on us and did the Guehi deal when we still needed to secure CL progress before we could risk spending. It continues to do my nut that 115/130 isn't done yet, because they continue to exploit those loopholes to gain advantage over other clubs, even a well-run and wealthy club like us.
And don't get me started on Semenyo, he's going to haunt us for years.
Were we ever really in for Semenyo though? He wasn't in anyone's radar in the off season; not City, not Arsenal, not United, not us. We definitely had the money, as with the other big 3. It's just one of those things and when it's City's turn to go on their spending spree, we can't compete, ditto Guehi.
Joe Allen really failed the height test.
Great finds, Binny
There were lots of rumours, but even if we weren't, we should have been.
And for me it wasn't about not being able to compete with City, it was competing at that precise moment in time. They took advantage of our hesitancy, whether we were waiting for end of the season for Guehi or waiting on CL progression for both of them.
We are going to need to buy a Joel matip type. And by that I mean an astonishing signing of an experience older fantastic cb for nothing.
Ezpz.
