he is mainly RB and Fonseca wants offensive fullbacks, prefers Emerson which they just signed. That seems to be the main reason.
But why we would need RB? i thought we need LCB?
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Main reason is the emergence of Thiaw (who was already pushing out Kalulu minutes just before big injuries). And now signing Pavlovic, plus Tomori who Kalulu used to start with in 4 man defence.
It's not Pioli anymore, so who knows how a new coach sees of his players main positions. But Kalulu was majority of the time CB in 4 man defence with Tomori, or shortly after Thiaw signing right CB in 3 man defense line with him, Thiaw and Tomori. When Pioli changed back to 4 man defence at times Kalulu was used as RB (or bench) due to his versatility and Thiaw being so good.
Even if he is good on the ball and athletic, bit short for CB, he is mainly a defender and most current managers won't use a purely defensive fullback as starters (except France NT, Arsenal, Man City or us if we using inverted fullbacks like those). He will be moved around, but he makes most sense as CB for most of his minutes. As was case in Milan.
We are lacking a starting CB right now, and if Juve targeting him as budget market opportunity time sitaution, it will he mainly for the CB role. Tho it won't hurt to have tactical versatility to fill in both fullback positions, he is similar to Danilo tactically.
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So you’re telling me if we signed Todobo we wouldn’t have signed a Gonzalez type player? That’s worse.
They just scrambling out of pure desperation for defense.