Capitano Giorgio Chiellini (46 Viewers)

[Ahmed]

I added an L

 

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[frick]

What's Lamborghini got to do with Agbonlahor?

 

[Fake Melo]

Kinda disrespectful towards journalists. You dont seem them writing about how he stumbles over the ball, despite being a football player.

 

[RAVANELLI]

I love the crowd, look at the guy in the second pic at the left, haha, looks like Marchisio had a gun

But yeah, making the crowd closer to the pitch was a great idea.

 

[Dominic]

Anyway, the big question? Do you guys prefer getting a new leftback or a new centreback? I'm starting to warm to the idea of keeping Chiellini as leftback. Certainly in the current set-up, where acts additionally as an extra defensive midfielder with his filtering and the large ground he covers defensively cutting inwards defensively.

 

[RAMI-N]

Anyway, the big question? Do you guys prefer getting a new leftback or a new centreback? I'm starting to warm to the idea of keeping Chiellini as leftback. Certainly in the current set-up, where acts additionally as an extra defensive midfielder with his filtering and the large ground he covers defensively cutting inwards defensively.

Especially when he has been clumsy most of the times he played at CB...

 

[ZoSo]

Chiellini has impressed me as LB but it feels like it's a waste playing him at LB. He's one of the top few CBs in the world and he's being played at LB where his offensive skills aren't great. To me, it would make sense to get a LB (Cissokho, Ansaldi etc) and put Chiellini back to CB. Something like Barza-Hummels-Chiellini would be cool but something about it just doesn't feel right. It feels sort of unnatural. I don't think Chiellini will be better at LB than a very good LB.

 

[Nenz]

Chiellini has impressed me as LB but it feels like it's a waste playing him at LB. He's one of the top few CBs in the world and he's being played at LB where his offensive skills aren't great. To me, it would make sense to get a LB (Cissokho, Ansaldi etc) and put Chiellini back to CB. Something like Barza-Hummels-Chiellini would be cool but something about it just doesn't feel right. It feels sort of unnatural. I don't think Chiellini will be better at LB than a very good LB.

Hit the nail on the head.
Chiellini is sufficient at LB but we should be aiming to reach our full potential. Look at the difference having a real fullback in Lichtsteiner has made to our attacks down our right flank. Chiellini doesn't offer that same service and just because he had a clumsy start at CB this season doesn't mean he wasn't one of the best CBs in the world for the past 2-3 seasons and still probably can be in the future. Its a joke how short sighted people are they must have month long memory spans at most.

 

[Klin]

We should first get a proper CB and keep deploying Chiellini at LB. Then, we should do our maximum to get a proper LB so we can shift Chiellini back to his CB position.

 

[Nenz]

We should first get a proper CB and keep deploying Chiellini at LB. Then, we should do our maximum to get a proper LB so we can shift Chiellini back to his CB position.

But why buy two new players when we could have just bought one and put Chiellini back in CB?

 

[Dominic]

Hit the nail on the head.
Chiellini is sufficient at LB but we should be aiming to reach our full potential. Look at the difference having a real fullback in Lichtsteiner has made to our attacks down our right flank. Chiellini doesn't offer that same service and just because he had a clumsy start at CB this season doesn't mean he wasn't one of the best CBs in the world for the past 2-3 seasons and still probably can be in the future. Its a joke how short sighted people are they must have month long memory spans at most.

That's uncalled for.

 

[Klin]

But why buy two new players when we could have just bought one and put Chiellini back in CB?

Because I still can't get myself to believe that Barzagli is this awesome, and we'll be fucked if one of Chiellini or Barzagli get injured.

 

[Tommy]

Because I still can't get myself to believe that Barzagli is this awesome, and we'll be fucked if one of Chiellini or Barzagli get injured.

But same goes for LB. If Chiellini is injured we're fucked.

 

[RAVANELLI]

Anyway, the big question? Do you guys prefer getting a new leftback or a new centreback? I'm starting to warm to the idea of keeping Chiellini as leftback. Certainly in the current set-up, where acts additionally as an extra defensive midfielder with his filtering and the large ground he covers defensively cutting inwards defensively.

LB is the top priority now.
But we should also buy a great CB (Hummels) who can serve as either a starter or a backup. I would like to see our CBs as Hummels and Chiellini.
It's unfair though to put Barza on the bench. So maybe we need a CB in the winter mercato not now, when we are in CL and we actually need to rotate players.

 

[Ahmed]

ideally CB, on form he is the very best in the world at that position.

 

[deggen10]

I wouldn't mind seeing Bonnuci injured for a few games to see if Esti can play at LB.

 

[Ahmed]

I would mind.

 

[deggen10]

I would mind.

Have you seen him there? Is he that bad.

 

[Ahmed]

have not seen him play there, but he's not an LB.

 

[Red]

Anyway, the big question? Do you guys prefer getting a new leftback or a new centreback? I'm starting to warm to the idea of keeping Chiellini as leftback. Certainly in the current set-up, where acts additionally as an extra defensive midfielder with his filtering and the large ground he covers defensively cutting inwards defensively.

I rather like Chiellini at LB, because I always like one of the fullbacks to be quite inward looking. As you said, Chiellini does a lot of good work helping out in more central areas.

I also suspect there are more good CBs around than there are good LBs.