Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
They can both pull out brilliant performances and I think their ceiling is about the same. They're just both prone to some serious brain farts because of their action man styles, it's a flip of a coin as to who is the better CB on the day.

Merts on the other hand has shown both of them up, one of the best in the business at reading the game, the sort of CB that ends a game without any mud on his shorts.
Yep, totally agree.

I was very skeptical of the signing of Mertesacker due to his lack of pace, but he sure makes up for it with his reading of the game. He's our best defender by quite some distance IMHO.