chiellini is no way our best cb
our best cb is barzagli
chiellini is 1/5 of barzagli
Chiellini's ceiling of ability is that of a top five CB in Europe. We've seen it before. We can see it again. It's that simple. To say he's 1/5th of Barzagli is insulting and downright untrue. You know this, I'm sure.
I'm a fan of Barzagli, but be serious, his renaissance with us now is easily the best football he's played in his career (he's been on my radar since he joined Palermo and was deemed "one for the future" and all that).
How long can it really last, I wonder. If he's reached his peak and stays this way? Great for us all around.
even bonucci is a better cb than chiellini right now there are at the same level but in the near future you will see for yourself bonucci has been growing from match to match
bonucci has made errors that is true , but chiellini has made the same errors + chiellini's legs are not serie a legs i am not saying that he should be thiago silva but even in lega pro it would be hard playing with those legs he has a great physique and that is his strong point but apart from that he is in no way a good cb and he has been demostrating that for quite some time
i like his spirit it is the right spirit fights for every ball and never surrenders but his legs are embarrasing and he is not that inteligent either
You're just going crazy trying to denigrate Chiellini for the sake of it here. Bonucci better than him? In what universe? Bonucci's never even shown himself to have great potential. This is the same guy that was outshone by Ranocchia at Bari, merely being his partner's solid assistant. Right now? He's so error-prone I thought the name on his shirt read Boumsong. How many goals has he single-handedly cost us? Five or six? More? He's been an unmitigated disaster this season and is only in the starting line due to the absence of a proper LB (as demonstrated before Conte lost patience with De Ceglie) and an unwillingness to gamble on Sorensen due to his age. By "growing from match to match" I assume you're referring to, I don't know, his
one very good match? That it was the most recent one is telling, too, since people only seem to remember the absolute latest form. Short memories and what not.
What does Bonucci have that Chiellini doesn't? Physical ability? No. Intelligence, positioning or reading of the game? Not especially. The unnecessary long pass? Okay. There's that.
Oh, and his most serious defect, that just happens to be one of the most important facets of a defender's game - a total incompetence in winning 1-v-1.
-edit. I forgot. He also cost us "25m"! Overpriced.