I’m not worried.
We will sign a centre back, or Slot and his team are comfortable with the options available at present.
We have had an immense window to date, proving the FSG naysayers wrong. Quansah leaving has little impact in reality as the manager clearly didn’t rate him highly. So getting a fee for him was a no brainer.
Slot has a bit of a free go for me. He won the league and has improved the squad, with perhaps more additions to come in.
The only bad thing this Summer is the loss of Jota. And that is outside the football sphere.
I cannot contemlate signing Ekitike, Wirtz and another potential if plans are not in place for CB.
It’s quite astonishing to be fair. All other positions for which we absolutely needed reinforcements were quickly done. Then, there was this ridiculous tussle around Isak (still ongoing), Quansah was sold quite quickly (eh? I still don’t understand that move if there wasn’t a clear alternative lined up), so we are definitely one man short at the back.
In an ideal world, VVD and Konaté start most important games and remain fit all season, and Gomez can cover them. Of course, Gravenberch and Endo can do a job, a bit like Fabinho at the time (rings a bell maybe?).
Speaking about that, if nothing is done until the end of this summer, this has definitely the potential of turning into a remake of Klopp’s 20/21 season with us, when we had zero center backs left at times, and Fabinho got injured too. It was depressing, and also a reminder that even the best head coaches can make errors. That was one from Jürgen, no doubt about that.
As others say, the club will have learnt from past errors, and won’t repeat the same. One reliable CB has to come in, no ifs or whens here. It would have been good if the new man would have had the chance to train with the squad before the new season begins, but obviously, the club has made a miscalculation here, and will hopefully address it as efficiently as possible before the new season is upon us.
A new CB >>>>>>>> hugely more important than getting Isak imo.
I think we should be worried, because it is thin (worrying slightly, as long as one don’t exaggerate, is often wise). But I also really think that we should not be in up in arms about it. It’s possible that a reinforcement has been identified for the january window too. But it’s probably also about priorities, since we have spent an obscene sum of cash for 3 players, which appears to have been prioritised. I suppose we shall have to just trust that the priorities are the correct ones
We’ve done a huge amount of business already so a third to fourth choice choice centre back may well not even have made our bench had we bought them a month ago.
We have concentrated on other areas. Not for the first time. I believe we have done well in the transfer market and if we haven’t made a definitive move for a central defender I would bet it’s because we couldn’t get who we wanted.
We’ll get by though it might cause a few scares during the season coming.
Being worried is part of the game. Our defense often worries me, particularly at corners and set pieces, so a little more worry isn’t of much conciequence as long as we score more than the opposition.
We’ll Slot feels that the defence will be solid enough with Endo and Gravenberch stepping in when needed. At least that’s the drift I’ve got. So just a little more worry.
Btw who’s doing the assuming, certainly not me. However one thing is for sure if you don’t score more than the opposition you definitely won’t win the league. You’ll more likely get relegated.
So from the title winning defence we’ve improved at left back, probably at right back and sold a fourth choice CB who got less than 500 minutes and will inevitably be replaced as the manager has already alluded to.
Because if things look good we must be suspicious. Theres always a catch, always something to bite you on the arse.
It’s probably human nature.
If we win the PL next season, we will worry about VVD getting too oldand whether Ekitike can score 25 goals two seasons in a row.
