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We need a new CB. That first goal was the last straw for me.
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Yup. Teams are actually lobbing the ball into our box these days, knowing that there's every chance we won't deal with it. Situations like today's should be bread and butter for defenders.
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Yeah. It's the same thing every game now and infuriatingly, we seem powerless to do anything about it.
We really shouldn't be regretting letting go of a 35yold CB at the end of his career like this. For fucking fucks sake.
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I don't agree with that, Keni. I just think we're recognizing who it was that we let go.
In a "I told you so mood", I said 2 years ago it would take us some time to recover from losing Sami because players like him are few and far between. Last year we were coping, while he was still here on the bench, playing quite a few times and there in training; this year he's gone and we look all at sea when the ball comes in over the top.
You lose a top class player and you are always going to take some time to replace them; Sami is the best CB we've had in nearly 20 years - you don't replace them overnight.