If Kaboul and Sandro make good recoveries from their injuries then the future in general looks very very good, our first choice team will be something special.
I agree. All decent teams have a solid 'core' of GK, CBs and CMs - it provides the platform for the rest of the team. Look at ManU over the years: Schmiecel in goal and then CBs like Ferdi, Stam, Vidic, Pallister, Bruce etc and, until recently, always had decent CMs like Keane, Ince, Scholes, Butt etc. Chelsea had the platform of Cech, Terry, Carvalho, Essien, Lampard. Going back further, arse has the same with Seaman, Adams, rSol, Vierra, Petit. We will have:
--------------Lloris-----------------
--------Kaboul----Vertonghen-----
--------Sandro-----Paulinho-------
That's really rock solid (even though we're probably more likely to go 4-3-3) - if we can get a decent CF and ideally another attacker in, our first 11 should be pretty tasty and competitive