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@MarcelsGoat never stops reminding me, we need home grown players in the squad.
Kenny seems to play like a 'fan' and has captained youth sides in the past and of course had success with England youth. Hes surely a good person to have in the squad.
Sidibe simply cant defend as well as Kenny so if we stick with the back 4 reverting to a 3 hes actually a very good option to have as the right sided centre back OR the right full/wing back.
For me, even if hes a 6-6.5 / 10 player thats fine for a squad option who can cover 2 positions.
Id probably go:
Sidibe: Right mid / Right wing back
Kenny: Right back / Right wing back / right cb in a 3
Id be tempted to offload Coleman in the summer and bring in a starting right back...
Lot of assumptions being made regarding Kenny.
I doubt most of us have even watched him over there, I included, nobody really knows if hes any good at all.
From what ive seen Sidney is a vastly better player, so is Coleman.
But who knows, hes had regular games over in Germany so he might have improved, he certainly did very well in his first few games, but since then im not sure.
You have him playing CB here Zat, im gonna be honest I would be stunned if he could perform there at all, just cos Coleman has slotted in it doesnt mean its for everybody.
Personally I would be looking at signing Sidney, unless Brands can find something better, offensively hes very good, defensively a bit suspect, but we do have a World Class manager now, im not saying he will turn him into Maldini and his age makes it difficult, but I would hope for some improvement, 13m is nothing money for a player like Sidney.
Dont see any benefit from selling a player like Coleman, but I would probably be looking at another option at Right Back, but for me its pretty low on our list of needs.
Regarding Kenny, my gut feeling is he has very little future here, but what the hell do I know.
We need a whole new midfield, we need a Striking option to compliment DCL and Kean, we need some CBs, we also need a back up LB at the end of the season. A new RB and possibly a new Keeper will have to wait till Summer 2022.