Much as I love Vidic, he's on the way out for me. Like Rio, he's slower and the opposition see weakness in him, they know they can get around him, particularly on the break. Our best defensive partnership this season? Smalling & Evans. Five games, and we won all five with two being clean sheets. Admittedly one of those wins was the draw against Sunderland last game, but yeah. Mix that in with Jones being often touted as our best central defender this season and you look at Vidic/Rio and think "...what are they supposed to be offering us now?"Originally Posted by Rocket Edge
Linked with Kroos now it seems. Not gonna happen though.
Really couldn't be any happier with Mata coming in!
I think our priority now should be the defense. A LB and possibly a CB is needed (would like us to go for Cointreao). Ideally Alaba but I'd honestly say he'd cost more than Bale. I have great time for Evra but he doesn't track back like he used to and we always get caught on the break - seen it so often this season. I'm going to do our possible starting line-up just because I like too
...................De Gea.....................
Rafael..Vidic..Evans/Jones..Cointreao
.............Fellani.....Carrick/Fletcher..
......Mata........Rooney.....Januzaj....
......................RVP......................
Smalling has the best record in central defence for us this season overall, as his partnerhips with other CB's have also performed better than those without him. Very underrated chap.
