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Antonio Rudiger

Deino said:
Personally, I think he's everything you'd want from a German CB. Tall, Not afraid of challenges, decent in the air, has a decent long pass, good pace, versatile enough as RB/LB/CB, can dribble, decent enough 1st touch.

My problem is that he's 24 so would need lots of playing time to improve and grow which given how stacked we are and where he'll play becomes a problem because our other CBs are at the last phase of their peak/peaking so we stand a chance to lose the time needed for him to acclimatise and familiarise with the Prem. 
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Possible rotation option for Moses at RWB? Or do you think he'll play mainly at CB?

 
Amputechture said:
Possible rotation option for Moses at RWB? Or do you think he'll play mainly at CB?
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If he and Azpi plays in the same team, I can see that they'll rotate from time to time giving variation to attacks while conserving energy. Rudiger can play longer passes but I'm not convinced on his crossing and vice versa for Azpi

 
Brilliant signing for me. Clear upgrade on Cahill and a better player then VVD who for some reason has gotten way way overhyped

 
Xfaxtor said:
Brilliant signing for me. Clear upgrade on Cahill and a better player then VVD who for some reason has gotten way way overhyped
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Don't you know that players who don't play more than half a season gets better the more time they spent not playing? Just look at Danny Rose, Wilshire, VVD

 
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Deino said:
If this is real, it disproves the facts about waiting for the Nike sponsorship or whatever
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i think with the nike nonsense people thought we ourselves wouldn't announce them,   as oppose to make bids etc

 
May aswell have kept Ake? What if Ake wanted to go?  What if his sale was his doing, not us wanting to sell him as such.

We wanted Rudiger last summer or one before, this signing is not a surprise

 
Young, versatile defender. Gives better cover in the back three than JT or Zouma and could probably do a job at RWB too.

Seems like quite a sensible signing to me. 

 
Pretty happy tbh.

Had heard of Rudiger for a few years now so he must be decent, and he's probably better than Ake.

Dont get me wrong I am gutted he left, but Ake now plays for Bournemouth. How would you feel if Bournemouth signed Rudiger?

 
He's not going to add value at the top end but adds depth. VVD is a pipe dream as is Bonucci. Happy with what he and Andreas will add.

 
It's clear conte wanted him from italy last summer and we would've had him but for his injury.

A decent, good value signing imo. Also he has 20 ish caps for Germany, I think he's ahead of ake at the moment.

If our back 5 has the following options come August I'd be delighted:

Moses, Dave, Rudiger, Cahill, Luiz, Andreas, Alonso, Sandro (Aina for HG?)

 
He is 24 career been on hold with a blown ACL if we keep him fully fit he honestly has potential to be a top player, it's a decent signing don't think it improves us much straight away but gives good cover can play in all 3 positions in a back 3 and a potential very good CB in the next year or two once the injury is long behind him. We need Sandro now that we went a bit bellow the standard we wanted for a CB, still as I said good player good signing, however Roma paid 7.5 million for him last year so they have yanked us a bit. If you're a half glass full this is our cover now we go for a VVD or koulibaly and we don't look as desperate might not get squeezed so much 

 
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Floyd25 said:
True, this is an odd signing, I don't see why we can't get Conte's first choice players, sounds like the board are being stingy, which is odd considering the money we've made. I hope Rudiger does well for us, just not sure he's much of an upgrade on Ake, hope we sign another defender.
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The stingy part is absolutely correct.

As I mentioned before, don't expect the club to spend more than 40 million pounds on any single player.  

This is a meh signing and doesn't improve the first team in the least.

 
lchk said:
The stingy part is absolutely correct.

As I mentioned before, don't expect the club to spend more than 40 million pounds on any single player.  

This is a meh signing and doesn't improve the first team in the least.
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... not at all? I think you're mistaken

 
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