Quote Originally Posted by PSRB View Post
A highly talented and young one. Look at the issues we've had getting a pair of decent CB's. Must have spent well over £150m sorting that position out.
Yup. It's like when ManU bought Rio for 30mil. Arsène said it was a good signing but 10m too much.

But we then spent 30m on Vermaelen, Kos and Per. Don't get me wrong, the latter two were great players for us. But when you look how much we spent on CHs, Ferdinand for 30m looks a bargain.

We spent 55m on Big Willy and Big Gabby. The best CH pairing since TA6's days.

If we sold Willy, we could end up spending 50m on a replacement who isn't good enough and ends up getting loaned out and sold cheap as we buy a 2nd 50m CH and repeat ad infinitum.

Fergie always said the one player he wished he could have signed was Big Tone.

We have to keep Willy and Gabby. The Ødin injury has really ****ed us. Just have to hope we can stay in the CL until we have everyone fit, the Dec-MnM-Ødin MF works and MnM and Cala learn to work triangles with Gabby M and we start to get on a roll that gives us belief as it did post Dubai at the start of the year.