Like Jagielka wasn't our resident accident waiting to happen in that partnership.
Mori suffers from an all too familiar flaw in his game that other players have suffered from recently. Frustrating thing is, It's not a flaw he can work on in training. It's not something that will eradicate with age and experience.
The flaw is that he was signed by Martinez, and that's enough for some to label him as not good enough regardless of how he plays.
The way I see it, he is big, aggressive, enthusiastic, plays with a bit of passion, all things Jagielka and Williams have never been.
He can play a bit too (maybe sometimes a bit too much), and his passing is decent, nowhere near as bad as people make out. I mean, people criticise him yet praise Moyes era Jagielka? Because of passing? Seriously?.
It genuinely baffles me how people criticise Mori and go on about how good a Centre Half Jagielka has been, when the reality is, he's been an average nice guy who played alongside 2 excellent partners (Lescott and Distin) in teams that were set out to defend and be hard to beat.
I have genuinely lost count over the years of how many of our goals conceded were deflected in off Jagielkas despairing last minute lunge because he wasn't positioned well in the 1st place
They then criticise Mori for attempting to bring the ball out of defence, something Jagielka has never, ever been able to do.
"Just Give it to Baines" they say, but criticise Williams (who is more of a crab than Jagielka) for constantly giving the ball to Baines and getting it straight back because Backwards Baines hasn't been interested or up to scratch for years..
