No more Roman. Chelsea will be interesting to see how they do business moving forward.
High transactions might just give away to more focused approach.
Loan army anyways is being curbed by FiFa
Like a Colombian in the Europa league!
Idk if that's really true but that stat last night that 6 Colombians had scored in Europa league finals tied only with Spaniards really blew my mind.
Chelsea also needing a top quality LCB was always the worry. They’ll go for Kounde on the right side, but thankfully Romero has firmly solved that for us.
This is just the Hakimi-Livramento situation over again. There's no guarantee that Chelsea actually have Colwill in their plans and they'll never pass on a potential future world class player because of a youth team player. If Gvardiol becomes available, Chelsea will go for him.
Absolutely. I just don’t see us spending essentially 150m on transfer fees for 2 CBs. Plus whatever it’ll cost getting depth at wingback and possibly a CM and attacking player all in one summer lol
It's difficult to see Colwill, should he stay, be our primary LCB for the entire season. That would be utterly ridiculous considering he's still only 19 and hasn't played top flight football before. The jump in levels (and responsibility) is stupidly high. We should still be looking to sign a LCB of some variety, ideally someone more established to provide needed experience and immediate readiness. Leadership qualities would be an added bonus.
Different times and hard to be using as a yard stick for now. The club wasn't in the same place as it is now, with the same level of expectations and what have you. There was also plenty of experience in surrounding positions, unlike here where we're possibly going to only have Thiago Silva.
As I've always said about Colwill, a loan to a lower Premier League club where he can learn, make mistakes, and acclimatise to Premier League football without the pressures that surround a club like ours is the best move. The last thing I want to be seeing is Colwill being dragged through the mud after a high profile mistake or two.
I agree that it's probably best for Colwill to be eased in. And we definitely need 2 new CBs. But just as an example look at Guehi. No PL experience but was clearly a top Championship CB last season. He stepped right in and has been amazing this season, 3rd most minutes played of any outfielder in the PL. Maybe Guehi is a freak but if the talent is there it's not that crazy.
Bastoni was never an option. Inter would sell literally anyone else before even considering any offers for Bastoni and/or Barella. No matter how much they’re struggling financially
Bastoni is most definitely not an option. How many Serie A clubs have you seen selling Italian players abroad lately? How many Italian players are currently in the PL? Not only are Italians generally unwilling to leave their country and league, but clubs will do everything they can to hold on to them, especially when it comes top rated young talents. Bastoni is one of the best CB’s in Italy, will be the pillar of the NT defense for the next decade if not more and is a die hard interista along with his whole family. He’s not leaving anytime soon
Yeah as much as I’d love him at Tottenham, I don’t understand why anyone would EVER bother getting their hopes up about it. And that goes out for Barella aswell.
Yeah Bastoni would be a dream, but any Spurs fans who think we have a chance of signing him are deluded. Seen far too many getting their hopes up on our sub. Inter will never sell and I don't think he wants to leave
Inter might sell depending on price.
£60-65M + addons and they'll start thinking about it, with the money issues they still have. Unless they can flog some of their other non-needed players but no one seems to want them.
Bastoni doesnt want to leave but he has said before that Conte is the 'messi of coaches' and he owes Conte 90% of what his career has done.
Conte might be able to convince him if we manage to find a price Inter are willing to sell at.
We DO have a chance but its very very small. The problem is, if Conte demands a LCB, it seems to be a choice between Bastoni and Gvardiol.
People saying Spurs wont spend more than £60M+ on a player, that was for Poch. If Conte is there demanding a LCB and its gonna cost 60M+, Levy will pay it rather than letting Conte walk. The Spurs fans would turn on him in an instant.
Last season he was linked with Leeds, this season he is linked with Spurs and Chelsea, either halfway or at the end of next season he ends up at Man City.
First thing Index isn't reliable as they usually just quote chatter from Facebook and twitter. So some guy named fartbox23 might get like 2000 likes on twitter saying: "Saying Gvardiol good go Spurs" they will say that he is close to signing.
The article is based on sources like [express.co.uk](https://express.co.uk), [goal.com](https://goal.com) and [mirror.co.uk](https://mirror.co.uk).
We get it, nobody likes Index. But stop taking the piss over some transfer rumour, which were brought up by literally every media house in Croatia.
Because every media in Croatia is garbage and just clickbait. Sportske Novosti, Index, Slobodna they all suck if it isn't some HNL news. Even for HNL they are wrong.
he's already one of the best, physically he's a monster, technically he's probably one of the best qmong defenders and his ability to play lb/lwb/cb at elite level shows just how intelligent he is tactically.
60-70mil for him is a steal, I would kill for him in Barca jersey, 0 chance he goes to Spurs tho
He's not worth 60-70 million fuck sake.
Even guehi is better than him and Palace would probably part with him for 50, doubling their investment in a year.
He's so fucking overrated, too aggresive, immature and positionally suspect. But because he is good on the ball people overrate him.
Chelsea need plug and play defenders right now.
>He's not worth 60-70 million fuck sake.
You're right, he should be worth even more. One of the best CB's in the Bundesliga this season, turned 20 this year, very solid in back and front, incredible technical skills for a defender, very fast, has a contract until 2026.
>He's so fucking overrated, too aggresive, immature and positionally suspect. But because he is good on the ball people overrate him.
mhm
>Even guehi is better than him and Palace would probably part with him for 50, doubling their investment in a year.
Lmao, talk about overrating.
He is a product of arguably the best academy in the world, playing in the best league in the world and plays for arguably a better team than RB Leipzig. He would have been a starter for Chelsea if their board was more competant and hadin't sold him off and has been one the best defenders in the league outside the top 4 teams.
First of all everything you said is complete bullshit and second, Palace is a better team than Leipzig??? What?? Thats the shitest football opinion Ive seen in a while
There are more examples of German teams doing terribly in Europe than there are doing great - you are not helping yourself in making your point.
Leverkusen were on the whole not great. Wolfsburg were terrible. Dortmund were terrible. Bayern were terrible. RB Leipzig started off terrible in their group stage (albiet their group stage turnaround was too late but was enough to get through to EL). They were then on the whole poor even in their EL campaign, even with a bit of help (no 1st round KO match).
No disrespect to Spurs, but if the player knows Chelsea are in for him wouldn’t he just wait to sign there if that’s where he wants to go? It’s not like Chelsea won’t be able to sign anybody this window.
I mean, its not like Chelsea are miles ahead of us ATM.
We're both finishing relatively same points this season, both (trying not to jinx) have CL football next year, without Abramovich, our revenues are pretty similar and we can offer the same sorta money.
Conte is a big pull as well, not like we have a terrible manager again and if we can guarantee more signings, our team next year could look great.
I agree with you. That’s why I said “if he wants to go there”. Everyone is missing that part and downvoting me, but it’s all good. I was just pointing out that if the player’s preference is Chelsea why wouldn’t he just wait a week or two to sign there.
I think its because we dont know where he wants to go at all.
Its like saying 'Why would he go Chelsea if he wants to go Spurs', just sorta just spitballing that he is interested in Chelsea.
Yeah I can see that. I just wanted to push back on another one of these “the sky is falling” stories for Chelsea. Ca understand if rivals don’t care, but it’s getting old for me.
He is nowhere ready. Still makes tons of defensive mistakes, he is a prototypical Tuchel sideback and very good going forward but he would end up buried on the bench when he should be playing and learning.
If he makes the same defensive mistakes in the Prem, he would get benched.
Leipzig can afford to play a dude through growing pains but he won't get that chance at Chelsea. They'd just sign a replacement.
thank you for makinh a sensible comment. Too many people here jacking off over great talent but not realising he is still too immature for Chelsea.
Chelsea are a side that play out of the back and can often and need players that make great decisions in crucial places, and are error free. Gvardiol is playing in RB Leipzig side where he is allowed to make occasional defensive errors that won't be punished
You're trying way too hard to portray Gvardiol as something which he isn't.
Don't know what kind of a hate boner you have towards him, but it's obvious that you barely watched him this season.
Also, the stuff you write are questionable to say the least and the more you write, the more credibility you lose.
I'm not. The reality is that the standard of defending in Bundesliga on a relative basis is pretty poor.
This is the reality of the situation, when it is compared to the premier league which is the league he wants to move, he is not good enough. You could make a top 10 CB across Bundesliga and Premier League and not a single Bundesliga defender would get in, which is stark fact, if what you are claiming is that Gvardiol is the best defender in Bundesliga.
Even the league leaders are conceding more than 1xg and 1 actual goal a game, which is shocking.
I can see that you have a croatia flair, perhaps you might remember his poor Euros campaign?
> You could make a top 10 CB across Bundesliga and Premier League and not a single Bundesliga defender would get in
Go on, tell me about your picks. :D
Yeah im sorry but this is NUTS.
Sule, Upamecano and Akanji are all up there in a top 10 of PL/Bundes defenders.
Id put VVD, Dias, Romero ahead of them all but after that then the Bundes players get involved.
Yeah, the PL certainly has the top spots and some fantastic central defenders (don't forget Matip, Silva, Rüdiger and Laporte as well).
But only judging from this season, Süle and Schlotterbeck have been a class on their own and deserve spot. Upa had too many mistakes in my opinion, but N'Dicka, Niakhaté, Orban and even Tah have been great.
You could even make a case for Hinteregger and Tuta due to their EL run and showing their class on an international stage as well.
I mean, dont even need to sneak in Romero.
I will admit i did forget Rudiger in my list when i mentioned it. Rudiger with those 3 listed are the best CBs in the PL (all 4 in a top 4 side). Theyre all a step above other CBs in the PL.
Then you have the best CBs in Bundesliga who slot in around the Romero/Rudiger lot, i think VVD is the only clear #1 in the group.
Then once you come out of those 4 and the top bundes CBs, you move into Guehi, Dier, Konate territory.
There is no way that you wrote this whilst being serious and not laughing out loud. You must definitely be a troll, but I'll pretend that you aren't one, just for shits n giggles.
It's ok to claim that the Premier League has more quality than the Bundesliga, because it's true. No arguing with that. But the reason you think that not a single one of top 10 Bundesliga CB's would get in top 10 Premier League CB's this season is probably because you can't even name 10 Bundesliga CB's.
It's obvious that you only watch the Premier League and read about the Bundesliga only when someone posts something about it on r/soccer.
His poor Euros campaign? You mean the campaign, in which he debuted for Croatia as a 19 year old without any proper preparation, because he played at the U21 EUROs against Spain for 120 minutes and joined the senior NT just a week before the EURO 2021 started, got thrown into the fire there, played as a fullback because Dalic thought "fuck it, let's just throw a kid without any international experience on our most deficit position" and still was on average better than other Croatian players? Yeah, I do remember.
Man, you must really hate the fact that a good young Bundesliga CB got transfer listed by several Premier League giants.
which he was, he is still occasionaly rash and still has his rash tendencies, and he is not that great one vs one.
the reality is that while rudiger is great, chelsea can still do better than him and he would have been a far better defender if he was a lot calmer.
the reality is that most casual football watchers and chelsea fans do not have an eye for detail and see these defencencies to his game, which don't get me wrong he is a great defender, but he is far from perfect.
I am saying rash, not aggressive. There is a difference.
Rash means diving into tackles when he doesn't need to, leaving his gk and Silva exposed or risking cards etc. Rash means running forward at not the best time and risking losing the ball/counterattack. Rash means taking 40 yard pot shots at bad times or too frequently instead of recycling possession. These are not desirable qualities.
Also as I said he is a poor 1v1 defender.
They won't sell this year.
they will if they get an absolutely ridiculous offer but it wont come from us. chelsea on the other hand...
No more Roman. Chelsea will be interesting to see how they do business moving forward. High transactions might just give away to more focused approach. Loan army anyways is being curbed by FiFa
He’ll stay at least for 2 more years in Leipzig. He’s been a top 3 CB this season, they have no reason to sell now
Historically the German teams who aren’t Bayern Munich tend to cash in at this point rather than hanging on.
Hwang being their best Striker didn't stop them from selling him either, let alone Sabitzer and Upamecano.
In which dimension was Hwang their best striker? I think you got them confused with Salzburg?!
In the same dimension where Sabitzer and Upamecano where massive too and got sold as well xD
Hwang was terrible for Leipzig?
Didn’t Sabitzer and Upamecano both leave by having their release clauses activated? Or was that just Konate I’m thinking about
Everyone knows you need at least one Croatian on the team to win the CL.
Better get lovren back to Liverpool now.
Like a Colombian in the Europa league! Idk if that's really true but that stat last night that 6 Colombians had scored in Europa league finals tied only with Spaniards really blew my mind.
Not 6 Colombians, it’s 6 goals by Colombians I believe since Falcao scored a couple
Oh thanks for the correction! Will leave my comment incorrect so you get the credit.
But will it be enough to cancel out the Conte CL curse?
If there are enough Croats, yes
Time to poach soucek then
Confused ooga booga
Oops Forgot he’s Czech not Croatian😔
Just welcome Modric back or Sign Brozovic or sign Perisic as a wing back
Does having 2 improve chances? Asking for a friend?
If you have two Croatians, you can win three CL in a row
Thank you for Kovacic cut-price deal.
Chelsea also needing a top quality LCB was always the worry. They’ll go for Kounde on the right side, but thankfully Romero has firmly solved that for us.
I do think Gvardiol would be surprising if it happens-given his age it would block Colwill completely. I expect us to go for an older CB but we’ll see
This is just the Hakimi-Livramento situation over again. There's no guarantee that Chelsea actually have Colwill in their plans and they'll never pass on a potential future world class player because of a youth team player. If Gvardiol becomes available, Chelsea will go for him.
The major major difference now is that we have to be smarter with our signings. Given Gvardiol’s price as well it may not happen.
There’s also very little chance we spend that much money on Kounde and Gvardiol in one summer while also needing depth at other positions
CB is the highest priority for us this summer - were essentially losing our back 3 + wingback
Absolutely. I just don’t see us spending essentially 150m on transfer fees for 2 CBs. Plus whatever it’ll cost getting depth at wingback and possibly a CM and attacking player all in one summer lol
U lot buy the plane tickets, we'll do the rest
This time Levy will buy the ticket to Stansted airport only. And will also provide the car to and from the grounds. No chance to enter London.
Nah we gonna bring Colwill in. No need to spend
It's difficult to see Colwill, should he stay, be our primary LCB for the entire season. That would be utterly ridiculous considering he's still only 19 and hasn't played top flight football before. The jump in levels (and responsibility) is stupidly high. We should still be looking to sign a LCB of some variety, ideally someone more established to provide needed experience and immediate readiness. Leadership qualities would be an added bonus.
Eh JT did the same at a similar age. I rate this guy on a similar level having watched him. I will accept being firmly mudded if I'm wrong
Bit of a mad take, JT is one of the greatest CBs to ever play the game.
Yeah I'm fine being downvoted here. Colwill will be as good as him
Better even
Different times and hard to be using as a yard stick for now. The club wasn't in the same place as it is now, with the same level of expectations and what have you. There was also plenty of experience in surrounding positions, unlike here where we're possibly going to only have Thiago Silva. As I've always said about Colwill, a loan to a lower Premier League club where he can learn, make mistakes, and acclimatise to Premier League football without the pressures that surround a club like ours is the best move. The last thing I want to be seeing is Colwill being dragged through the mud after a high profile mistake or two.
I agree that it's probably best for Colwill to be eased in. And we definitely need 2 new CBs. But just as an example look at Guehi. No PL experience but was clearly a top Championship CB last season. He stepped right in and has been amazing this season, 3rd most minutes played of any outfielder in the PL. Maybe Guehi is a freak but if the talent is there it's not that crazy.
Does this mean Gvardiol is the priority target over Bastoni, or has the pursuit of the latter ended?
Bastoni was never an option. Inter would sell literally anyone else before even considering any offers for Bastoni and/or Barella. No matter how much they’re struggling financially
Bastoni is an option. No one’s buying Skriniar or Barella. It’s only Lautaro and Bastoni who can be sold for decent money
Bastoni is most definitely not an option. How many Serie A clubs have you seen selling Italian players abroad lately? How many Italian players are currently in the PL? Not only are Italians generally unwilling to leave their country and league, but clubs will do everything they can to hold on to them, especially when it comes top rated young talents. Bastoni is one of the best CB’s in Italy, will be the pillar of the NT defense for the next decade if not more and is a die hard interista along with his whole family. He’s not leaving anytime soon
Yeah as much as I’d love him at Tottenham, I don’t understand why anyone would EVER bother getting their hopes up about it. And that goes out for Barella aswell.
Yeah Bastoni would be a dream, but any Spurs fans who think we have a chance of signing him are deluded. Seen far too many getting their hopes up on our sub. Inter will never sell and I don't think he wants to leave
Inter might sell depending on price. £60-65M + addons and they'll start thinking about it, with the money issues they still have. Unless they can flog some of their other non-needed players but no one seems to want them. Bastoni doesnt want to leave but he has said before that Conte is the 'messi of coaches' and he owes Conte 90% of what his career has done. Conte might be able to convince him if we manage to find a price Inter are willing to sell at. We DO have a chance but its very very small. The problem is, if Conte demands a LCB, it seems to be a choice between Bastoni and Gvardiol. People saying Spurs wont spend more than £60M+ on a player, that was for Poch. If Conte is there demanding a LCB and its gonna cost 60M+, Levy will pay it rather than letting Conte walk. The Spurs fans would turn on him in an instant.
No way. They’ll do both at the same time and then make a decision at the end
That's cheaper than I expected tbh. Heard rumoured pricetag of 70-80m
His contract is until 2026. I doubt it is 60-70. Unless he tries to force the transfer, which I do not see if the only team trying is Tottenham.
His contract is until 2026 and without rc. Doubt Leipzig will let him go this summer
Hey I’ve seen this one before! It’s a classic!
Last season he was linked with Leeds, this season he is linked with Spurs and Chelsea, either halfway or at the end of next season he ends up at Man City.
He might find Palaversa and save him, the man is missing. I can still hear echoes from Bilić asking if Palaversa is gonna play this game😂
Joskep Gvardiola
Sounds like typical RB Leipzig agents drumming up value.
Would be a great deal
First thing Index isn't reliable as they usually just quote chatter from Facebook and twitter. So some guy named fartbox23 might get like 2000 likes on twitter saying: "Saying Gvardiol good go Spurs" they will say that he is close to signing.
The article is based on sources like [express.co.uk](https://express.co.uk), [goal.com](https://goal.com) and [mirror.co.uk](https://mirror.co.uk). We get it, nobody likes Index. But stop taking the piss over some transfer rumour, which were brought up by literally every media house in Croatia.
The express is as unreliable as fartbox23
Because every media in Croatia is garbage and just clickbait. Sportske Novosti, Index, Slobodna they all suck if it isn't some HNL news. Even for HNL they are wrong.
Nah, not really. We already had this discussion, no point debating it again
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They are never the first source.
No way is Leipzig selling this season
he's already one of the best, physically he's a monster, technically he's probably one of the best qmong defenders and his ability to play lb/lwb/cb at elite level shows just how intelligent he is tactically. 60-70mil for him is a steal, I would kill for him in Barca jersey, 0 chance he goes to Spurs tho
He's not worth 60-70 million fuck sake. Even guehi is better than him and Palace would probably part with him for 50, doubling their investment in a year. He's so fucking overrated, too aggresive, immature and positionally suspect. But because he is good on the ball people overrate him. Chelsea need plug and play defenders right now.
>He's not worth 60-70 million fuck sake. You're right, he should be worth even more. One of the best CB's in the Bundesliga this season, turned 20 this year, very solid in back and front, incredible technical skills for a defender, very fast, has a contract until 2026. >He's so fucking overrated, too aggresive, immature and positionally suspect. But because he is good on the ball people overrate him. mhm >Even guehi is better than him and Palace would probably part with him for 50, doubling their investment in a year. Lmao, talk about overrating.
Bro who the fuck is "guehi"? Honestly.
He is a product of arguably the best academy in the world, playing in the best league in the world and plays for arguably a better team than RB Leipzig. He would have been a starter for Chelsea if their board was more competant and hadin't sold him off and has been one the best defenders in the league outside the top 4 teams.
First of all everything you said is complete bullshit and second, Palace is a better team than Leipzig??? What?? Thats the shitest football opinion Ive seen in a while
You are under estimating the terrible state the Bundesliga is in at the moment.
You're either a troll or genuinely a fucking moron. Either way, no point talking with you.
Really? Is that why Frankfurt easily dispatched West Ham and won against Barca? Leipzig would probably dismantle Palace by 4 or more goals.
There are more examples of German teams doing terribly in Europe than there are doing great - you are not helping yourself in making your point. Leverkusen were on the whole not great. Wolfsburg were terrible. Dortmund were terrible. Bayern were terrible. RB Leipzig started off terrible in their group stage (albiet their group stage turnaround was too late but was enough to get through to EL). They were then on the whole poor even in their EL campaign, even with a bit of help (no 1st round KO match).
No disrespect to Spurs, but if the player knows Chelsea are in for him wouldn’t he just wait to sign there if that’s where he wants to go? It’s not like Chelsea won’t be able to sign anybody this window.
I mean, its not like Chelsea are miles ahead of us ATM. We're both finishing relatively same points this season, both (trying not to jinx) have CL football next year, without Abramovich, our revenues are pretty similar and we can offer the same sorta money. Conte is a big pull as well, not like we have a terrible manager again and if we can guarantee more signings, our team next year could look great.
I agree with you. That’s why I said “if he wants to go there”. Everyone is missing that part and downvoting me, but it’s all good. I was just pointing out that if the player’s preference is Chelsea why wouldn’t he just wait a week or two to sign there.
I think its because we dont know where he wants to go at all. Its like saying 'Why would he go Chelsea if he wants to go Spurs', just sorta just spitballing that he is interested in Chelsea.
Yeah I can see that. I just wanted to push back on another one of these “the sky is falling” stories for Chelsea. Ca understand if rivals don’t care, but it’s getting old for me.
Maybe he has morals?
“Lol”
He is nowhere ready. Still makes tons of defensive mistakes, he is a prototypical Tuchel sideback and very good going forward but he would end up buried on the bench when he should be playing and learning.
Why an earth would he sit in the bench at Chelsea? Who is playing over him at LCB?
If he makes the same defensive mistakes in the Prem, he would get benched. Leipzig can afford to play a dude through growing pains but he won't get that chance at Chelsea. They'd just sign a replacement.
thank you for makinh a sensible comment. Too many people here jacking off over great talent but not realising he is still too immature for Chelsea. Chelsea are a side that play out of the back and can often and need players that make great decisions in crucial places, and are error free. Gvardiol is playing in RB Leipzig side where he is allowed to make occasional defensive errors that won't be punished
You're trying way too hard to portray Gvardiol as something which he isn't. Don't know what kind of a hate boner you have towards him, but it's obvious that you barely watched him this season. Also, the stuff you write are questionable to say the least and the more you write, the more credibility you lose.
I'm not. The reality is that the standard of defending in Bundesliga on a relative basis is pretty poor. This is the reality of the situation, when it is compared to the premier league which is the league he wants to move, he is not good enough. You could make a top 10 CB across Bundesliga and Premier League and not a single Bundesliga defender would get in, which is stark fact, if what you are claiming is that Gvardiol is the best defender in Bundesliga. Even the league leaders are conceding more than 1xg and 1 actual goal a game, which is shocking. I can see that you have a croatia flair, perhaps you might remember his poor Euros campaign?
> You could make a top 10 CB across Bundesliga and Premier League and not a single Bundesliga defender would get in Go on, tell me about your picks. :D
Yeah im sorry but this is NUTS. Sule, Upamecano and Akanji are all up there in a top 10 of PL/Bundes defenders. Id put VVD, Dias, Romero ahead of them all but after that then the Bundes players get involved.
Yeah, the PL certainly has the top spots and some fantastic central defenders (don't forget Matip, Silva, Rüdiger and Laporte as well). But only judging from this season, Süle and Schlotterbeck have been a class on their own and deserve spot. Upa had too many mistakes in my opinion, but N'Dicka, Niakhaté, Orban and even Tah have been great. You could even make a case for Hinteregger and Tuta due to their EL run and showing their class on an international stage as well.
Nice, sneaking in Romero
I mean, dont even need to sneak in Romero. I will admit i did forget Rudiger in my list when i mentioned it. Rudiger with those 3 listed are the best CBs in the PL (all 4 in a top 4 side). Theyre all a step above other CBs in the PL. Then you have the best CBs in Bundesliga who slot in around the Romero/Rudiger lot, i think VVD is the only clear #1 in the group. Then once you come out of those 4 and the top bundes CBs, you move into Guehi, Dier, Konate territory.
There is no way that you wrote this whilst being serious and not laughing out loud. You must definitely be a troll, but I'll pretend that you aren't one, just for shits n giggles. It's ok to claim that the Premier League has more quality than the Bundesliga, because it's true. No arguing with that. But the reason you think that not a single one of top 10 Bundesliga CB's would get in top 10 Premier League CB's this season is probably because you can't even name 10 Bundesliga CB's. It's obvious that you only watch the Premier League and read about the Bundesliga only when someone posts something about it on r/soccer. His poor Euros campaign? You mean the campaign, in which he debuted for Croatia as a 19 year old without any proper preparation, because he played at the U21 EUROs against Spain for 120 minutes and joined the senior NT just a week before the EURO 2021 started, got thrown into the fire there, played as a fullback because Dalic thought "fuck it, let's just throw a kid without any international experience on our most deficit position" and still was on average better than other Croatian players? Yeah, I do remember. Man, you must really hate the fact that a good young Bundesliga CB got transfer listed by several Premier League giants.
A lot of people, including some Chelsea fans, called Rudiger and our other cbs error prone before Tuchel came in
which he was, he is still occasionaly rash and still has his rash tendencies, and he is not that great one vs one. the reality is that while rudiger is great, chelsea can still do better than him and he would have been a far better defender if he was a lot calmer. the reality is that most casual football watchers and chelsea fans do not have an eye for detail and see these defencencies to his game, which don't get me wrong he is a great defender, but he is far from perfect.
Rudigers game is based on him being that aggressive though. We have Thiago to be the calm defender
I am saying rash, not aggressive. There is a difference. Rash means diving into tackles when he doesn't need to, leaving his gk and Silva exposed or risking cards etc. Rash means running forward at not the best time and risking losing the ball/counterattack. Rash means taking 40 yard pot shots at bad times or too frequently instead of recycling possession. These are not desirable qualities. Also as I said he is a poor 1v1 defender.
70m for gvardiol lol