MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
Truthfully I’m not sure the loan willl have helped him much in that regard. I don’t know if you saw him much at WBA but I did, and he was playing very much as an attacking full back for them. Much more in the baines/Digne style of full back play than the sort of hibbert type role that could be adapted to centre half.
That’s not to say he can’t improve or be good though, just that I don’t think any improvement in his centre half play will be attributable to his loan spell.
I guess the only positive with Mason now is that he can 100% focus on CB. He knows he won’t be playing full back this season, so every minute of his coaching will be as a CB.
By the season end, or even January we will know if he’s good enough or not.