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Antonio Rudiger

lchk said:
Cahill is the current club captain and although limited in ability did do well with his clearances and reading of the game last season.  Schurrle was also a German international during his time with us and his inconsistencies drove some of us up the wall.  Don't let Rudiger's international appearances be the sole determinant here.  In my opinion, his former club mate Manolas is the better defender.  
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Anyone who can take off the blue tinted shades can see Garry is not quite good enough, I like the guy too great loyal servant, nice geezer, experienced, but he hasn't got the attributes, hasn't been in a while, everyone sees it hence we bought a new CB we have cover in Christensen, rudiger will eventually displace Garry this season unless we play a back 3 and Dave goes to rwb 

 
Looks like he can play CB or RB, so could come in for Cahill, or for Dave with Dave moving to RWB, or even play RWB himself.

 
There definitely needs to be some form of variation on the song:

"A message to you Rudy" 

for Antonio Rudiger 
 

 
Zeta said:
Looks like he can play CB or RB, so could come in for Cahill, or for Dave with Dave moving to RWB, or even play RWB himself.
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I really don't want Dave as a RWB, with Kante and Bakayoko/Matic in central midfield we need more creativity out wide. Hopefully we can secure Danilo and Sandro this summer.

 
lchk said:
I am basing this off what I saw from watching some of Roma's matches when Rudiger played last season and comparing his performances with Cahill.  He isn't first team material for the club so time will tell if he can displace Cahill or someone else in the first XI.  
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Can't agree with that he is good he is recovering from 2 serious injuries romas defence is as good as ours or better he was a German international at 20 I just don't know where that's coming from, ability wise id start him over Garry from the get go 

 
I'm still undecided if he'll be any better than Cahill (the stats according to CIES suggest not yet), but his ability to play across the back 3 and at full back means he's effectively a replacement for Ivanovic, Ake, potentially Zouma, and perhaps even Christensen if he doesn't make the grade next season.

http://www.football-observatory.com/-Ratings-eng-?code=65602

His 'rigour' and 'recovery' numbers are worryingly low for me, 60 + 38 v Cahill's 80 + 38. Hopefully we'll see an improvement next season.

 
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Kante elevates any CB lucky enough to play behind him, look at the Leicester ones in 15/16. He did it will Cahill last year too...pretty sure this guy will benefit too.

 
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I'm more happy that the board can pull a signing off but not to knock on Rudiger, liked what I've seen from him. Hope that he can become a legend here and continue on improving.

I hope the board can pull off more signings in the next weeks

 
the special one said:
I'm still undecided if he'll be any better than Cahill (the stats according to CIES suggest not yet), but his ability to play across the back 3 and at full back means he's effectively a replacement for Ivanovic, Ake, potentially Zouma, and perhaps even Christensen if he doesn't make the grade next season.

http://www.football-observatory.com/-Ratings-eng-?code=65602

His 'rigour' and 'recovery' numbers are worryingly low for me, 60 + 38 v Cahill's 80 + 38. Hopefully we'll see an improvement next season.
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that has cahill valued at 43m, so i wouldnt pay too much attention  :laugh2:

 
Any German football fans that could give us a little more insight into his style?

 
First welcome to our second summer signing.

Second is why are we talking about it being so hard to displace our back 3? First half of the season, just like Diego I guess, our defence were magnificent. But then the second half came and how long did we go without clean sheets? Any of the 3 could be replaced and I am hoping at least 2 are by both our new signing and the returning Andreas. Either with Dave or if Dave can learn to play wingback him replacing Moses and then leaving a spot for Luiz or Cahill. 

 
Still unsure on why this deal was announced before Bakayoko, even though he was a dead on signing 3 months ago. Strange.

 
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Poor Willy, Rudi gets a number assigned on day one but our Courtois backup is still slumming it without one.

 
great price, okay player, okay transfer. hope he prove everyone wrong and go on to become a solid starter

 
Floyd25 said:
He isn't, he was vice captain last season and captained the side through Terry's absence. 
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That's what I mean - he was captain for much of last season and in all probability, will be captain in the forthcoming season.  

 
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