alex mahone wrote:

i think as much as we have no problem with marcelo and di maria, we also have no problem with some our other starters: alonso, khedira, ozil
but we did bought sahin anyway to rotate with them, so buying coentrao to rotate with marcelo & di maria is just as makes sense as that imo
although we spent way less with buying sahin

we might loan/sell garay to benfica and havent strengthen our defense yet.
lass and gago might be gone as well and no pure Dm when we really need it.

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:Sahin is quite different, we can set up a 3 man midfield with Sahin, alonso, and khedira. There is a tactical need here to me. There will be games he will be ale to start with Alonso.

Sahin improves our quality down the middle. Coentrao doesnt improve our defense. Buying a proper CB for that kind of money would have been a Much better thing to do.

coentrao is more important for the system mou wants us to play.

ramos,pepe, and carvalho are good enough for now, a new cb maybe coming in next year.

mou proves this right by showing his obvious obsession over having an rb like maicon, or hence like fabio.


benfica presidnt is already in madrid.

Will the deal be completed by the end of the week?

i hope it does so we put this to rest.

if we dont buy coentrao we aint buying any right backs, and mou's ideal defense for madrid wont be completed.

we are better of trying him than not

one injured or suspended CB in an important games i think we are done

unless albiol became a superhero next season

we will have ramos and pepe as starting center backs and then we will have carvalho as back up as well.

we dont know if carvalho will sign for a 3rd year, either way we will have to buy a new cb back up next year.

this year it seems a stretch.

i still dont think mou finds a new cb nesscary. if we get a cb its not gonna be a starting cb.

all he wanted from the begiin ing was his ideal rb so he can put ramos at cb.

now that he will hopefgully have that with fabio. his ideal defense will be established.

shaven wrote:one injured or suspended CB in an important games i think we are done

unless albiol became a superhero next season

With or without Coentrao? If one of Ramos/Pepe gets injured, play Carvalho= problem solved...

so if one of them get injured? remember 09-10 season.

dont depend in just one back up. pls

shaven wrote:so if one of them get injured? remember 09-10 season.

You didn't answer my question

well i don't know, for now the only way i can see how putting coentrao in our starting XI will improve our defense is to put him as LB instead of marcelo who is not so great at defending
that's why i think rotating marcelo and coentrao will make more sense than putting coentrao at RB as arbeola is much proven & solid as RB
it will be interesting to see how we're gonna use him next season if we do buy him, can't wait

post was created with seeing urs, 1 minute diff.

i know you can do better than that. garay rumoured to be out and you still prefer playing 3 solid defender and tons of midfielders?

alex mahone wrote:well i don't know, for now the only way i can see how putting coentrao in our starting XI will improve our defense is to put him as LB instead of marcelo who is not so great at defending
that's why i think rotating marcelo and coentrao will make more sense than putting coentrao at RB as arbeola is much proven & solid as RB
it will be interesting to see how we're gonna use him next season if we do buy him, can't wait

that what im thinking, competition with marcelo since marcelo failed mou couple of times last season.

read my post incase it was ignored.

shaven wrote:post was created with seeing urs, 1 minute diff.

i know you can do better than that. garay rumoured to be out and you still prefer playing 3 solid defender and tons of midfielders?

Ramos, Pepe, Carvalho and Lolbiol are CBs for me, both CB positions double covered. Three solid defenders, what are you talking about?
Coentrao---Ramos-----Pepe----Marcelo

Swap Godbeloa and Coentrao according to requirements ( defensive or offensive). Carvalho and Lolbiol as backups for Ramos/Pepe. Coentrao can also play LB when Marcelo is suspended/injured or for a tired DI Maria

shaven wrote:post was created with seeing urs, 1 minute diff.

i know you can do better than that. garay rumoured to be out and you still prefer playing 3 solid defender and tons of midfielders?

isn't one of our tons of midfielders is sooo versatile? (altintop)
maybe he could step up when we have defender crisis

alex mahone wrote:

shaven wrote:post was created with seeing urs, 1 minute diff.

i know you can do better than that. garay rumoured to be out and you still prefer playing 3 solid defender and tons of midfielders?

isn't one of our tons of midfielders is sooo versatile? (altintop)
maybe he could step up when we have defender crisis

i read somewhere maria will play rb as well

shaven wrote:

alex mahone wrote:

shaven wrote:post was created with seeing urs, 1 minute diff.

i know you can do better than that. garay rumoured to be out and you still prefer playing 3 solid defender and tons of midfielders?

isn't one of our tons of midfielders is sooo versatile? (altintop)
maybe he could step up when we have defender crisis

i read somewhere maria will play rb as well

lol, no way, seeing the way di maria make a pass, i'll hold my breath everytime he passes around iker

alex mahone wrote:

shaven wrote:post was created with seeing urs, 1 minute diff.

i know you can do better than that. garay rumoured to be out and you still prefer playing 3 solid defender and tons of midfielders?

isn't one of our tons of midfielders is sooo versatile? (altintop)
maybe he could step up when we have defender crisis

You're right. Half the reason we signed him is because of his versatility.

Maybe Arbeloa will play CB if most of our CB's are injured.

i hardly think a left footed RB is mous IDEAL defense.

Arbeloa managed to do a fantastic job covering LB when he is infact a RB. Why can't Coentrao do it? Oh wait he can and will.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2011/06/17/2536008/real-madrid-reach-agreement-in-principle-for-benficas-fabio

Not 30 atleast..

Think it'll happen this weekend?

Paprika wrote:http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2011/06/17/2536008/real-madrid-reach-agreement-in-principle-for-benficas-fabio

Not 30 atleast..

will he play left defender right defender or not defender at all?

Probably right back.

mtfootball wrote:Probably right back.

how do you know??