Caulker is apparently a Dawson/Kaboul style defender. Vertonghen is a King/Gallas style defender. Unless we sign another CB, we will be seeing Kaboul/Caulker partnering Gallas/Vertonghen, Dawson wouldn't have taken being a back-up to Kaboul, and it would have stifled Caulker's progress in the meanwhile. This way we get a great price for a decent player who had no place in our squad. A lot of people want Caulker to be given his chance, well here it is.
Hopefully we sign a young Gallas replacement over the coming windows too.
I'm going to need a new username.
I'm going to need a new username.
I'm going to need a new username.
Keep it, love a bit of nostalgia
Dawson is 29 in November, he's injury prone and he's 4th choice this season at best. £9 million is too much to turn down IMO.
Talk brick are on the wind up massively this morning over this so all you naysayers get yourself on there and put the boot it!!!
AVB doesn't have a fudging hope it hell with our fans and the full weight of the media against us.
You keep rolling this stat about age/injury out don't you?
He is 28, Prime for a CB. And he has had 3 injuries in his time here. lengthy injuries, granted, but you'd hardly call them a result of being injury "prone".
I still say Gallas is the risk, or caulker back on loan and keep Dawson.
I know how it feels mate
Maybe we need the 9 million to finally be able to push other more vital transfers through. Maybe Levy has really said to Villas-Boas 'you can have Moutinho but you have to find 10 million in the squad to put towards it and get 3-4 million off the wage bill first'.
This money isn't being raised to accrue interest during the cold winter months, i really think its the final funding for bringing in players in other more vital positions.
Supposing that is the case - where else in the squad could we squeeze 10 million from without significantly weakening our first 11?
Would you rather we kept him and didn't play him?
Keep it, love a bit of nostalgia
one more step towards removing British footballers from the first team squad
fantastic