catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Feels to me like a Moshiri signing ‘just get me a star name Carlo’. If he was 30 then yes, but 35 and completely unproven in the premier league. He’s been strolling round in Serie A and Ligue une his whole career surrounded by the best players in the best team facing relatively poor teams. He’s going to find himself between Pickford, Michael Keane and Seamus Coleman with Siggurdson and Tom Davies ‘protecting’ him and he’ll be up against the likes of Sterling Rashford Kane Aguero etc.
I think that's very fair, there's a lot of Moshiri here. I do feel quite a bit of Ancelotti too though, who will want to work with top players. There's no doubt he will be on the slide, but I have little doubt he will be miles better than what we have. The issue is how much further does he decline?
He will certainly not have the protection he had at PSG, but thats true of anyone we buy. He's always been quite quick and able to defend 1 v 1. Thats almost better practice than say Michael Keane who played in a system where defenders get a lot of protection.