The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

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Player2 said:

Talal said:
Jérémy Mathieu is the most expensive defender over the age of 30 of all-time after costing Barcelona £15.8m (€20m).

It baffles my mind how terrible Barcelona are when it comes to buying defenders.

They're bad at buying players and excel at signing awful centre backs (Chigrinskiy, Martín Cáceres, Christanval), we should not forget Ibrahimovic, Alex Song, Hleb, Afellay or Neymar's deal fiasco.

Time will tell if he has what it takes to be in a top 10 Barcelona's disastrous signings list in a few years, among legends like Prosinecki or Amunike.

Well it's difficult to get a CB for Barcelona.. the defence play like on the middle line.. not many teams play like that and the distant they have to cover is pretty scary for any new defender..