Kota Takai

[Bedfordspurs]

How tall is he? I saw some highlights of him versus CR7 and he seemed to handle the crosses rather well. I think height is a little overrated for defenders to be honest. Leap is more important. Loon at VDV hes 6,4 but pretty rubbish in the air.

6’4
Not sure how people think he is short
Edited @Bishop to reflect what the club have put on the press release
And your right about VDv… jumps like a brick
Luckily he moves like cat

 

[Gazza Dazzla]

Is this a Bergvall / Gray type signing straight in to the first team squad, or more of a Veliz / Yang level who’ll need a couple of loans?

 

[Mosquito_Coasting]

How tall is he? I saw some highlights of him versus CR7 and he seemed to handle the crosses rather well. I think height is a little overrated for defenders to be honest. Leap is more important. Loon at VDV hes 6,4 but pretty rubbish in the air.

Feel like that's a lack of aggression like Crouch.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Is this a Bergvall / Gray type signing straight in to the first team squad, or more of a Veliz / Yang level who’ll need a couple of loans?

Probably depends on a few things.
How he looks in pre -season.
Squad numbers, squad places.
CH numbers.
How he matches up against our other CHs.
TFs gut feeling.

 

[Bishop]

Feel like that's a lack of aggression like Crouch.

Yeah I hear that, that's why I think height is less important than the actual leap and aggression like you point out. Also reading of the flight of ball is just as key.

 

[Lemonade Money]

Probably depends on a few things.
How he looks in pre -season.
Squad numbers, squad places.
CH numbers.
How he matches up against our other CHs.
TFs gut feeling.

ITK?

 

[Raziel]

Is this a Bergvall / Gray type signing straight in to the first team squad, or more of a Veliz / Yang level who’ll need a couple of loans?

He's got 81 appearances for club and 4 for country before joining us (a lot of appearances for a 20 year old CB), I suspect he's closer to Bergvall/Gray than Veliz/Yang

 

[Bullet]

How tall is he? I saw some highlights of him versus CR7 and he seemed to handle the crosses rather well. I think height is a little overrated for defenders to be honest. Leap is more important. Loon at VDV hes 6,4 but pretty rubbish in the air.

When @tw12yid said "bit short at centre back" he was implying ironically that we have a lot of centre backs, not that Takai is short