Best LB in La Liga basically, good enough for you? And this price skepticism when it comes to defenders, like they arent worth it, is the reasonmanagement has gotten away with us basically NOT investing in our defence for almost 4 years, except the tragically predictable case of Andrade (NOTHING like Filipe getting one injury), and now Bonnucci, we have fully ignored investing in the defence with stopgap BS free transfer and loan signings. Then we wonder wtf goes wrong.
While we piss away money with average/mediocre players in midfield and attack positions. Most of the nearly 100m spent since then and which we will be obligated to keep spending for next season too, are for players that barely elevate the quality of the team.
But nooo, lets keep spending mediocrity for 10-15m all the time in the other parts of the team (I will be kind enough to not include the 22m and 24m spent on our current two brazilians), and keep questionning improvements in defence, because they would "cost too much, and have fun getting stomped by no name Polish teams because we have Legro, De Ceglie and Grygera.