Ben DAVIES: 2021/22 (on loan at Sheffield United)

It’s only bizarre if you think every singing is signed for the same purpose. He was a low risk low percentage punt taken at a time that the effects of it working would have been magnified.

What are the alternative approaches that would have made more sense? We seemingly already knew we wanted Konate in the summer who was nit available (or ready to play) in that window. So do we rush to push through a signing for the first team we hadnt vetted as well, didnt rate as much as we did Konate, and then impeeded our ability to subsequently land Konate?

Let’s be honest* - we signed him so that Preston would be forced to move van den Berg to centre back.

*I’m joking

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It seemed to happen before Matip being injured, effectively they moved for Kabak after that hence why it was all rushed.

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He was a regular for Sheffield, so I guess he got a good future at that/Championship level.

Wasn’t he just a signing for depth during our disaster season. Then it turned out he wasn’t even better than Williams and Phillips.

Way I saw it we signed him as he was cheap and would provide cover, then Matip was injured and we moved for Kabak among others.

There was no grand strategy behind his signing. A cheap punt when we were desperate who turned out not be very good. Fortunately Nat and Rhys stepped up so no great harm done.

Think that’s a very poor reading of the situation. He was injured repeatedly, and by Jürgen’s own admission, this hindered his settling in, especially once we managed to get a relatively settled combination at the back, it didn’t make sense to rock the boat.

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He was cheap 'cos no-one really wanted him as he just wasn’t performing at a good level. I don’t see on what universe he was ever more than a temporary stopgap who would have been playing way above his level. We were never convinced ala kabak but he was simply opportunistically available cheaply.

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Kabak was a no brainier on those loan terms, it’s also forgot without him I don’t think Williams and Phillips become the settled pairing we needed. Kabak bought Klopp some time to settle Phillips in and when Kabak was injured Williams stepped up and did the job, you have to remember it came at the same time as Fabinho returned in CM and there must have been one or two games that convinced Klopp that Fabinho was more suited in the middle than at the back.

I remember when Kabak got injured and I wrote off getting anything and yet Rhys had improved with his positioning by that time. Fact we got anything from that season was a miracle.

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Where is the £4 million, Julian :thinking:

Looking forward to Davies being an absolute machine for us this season then, if the conspiracy theory is to be believed.

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