Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
I don't get this at all. Are you saying Kos may have to account for Mertesacker's deficiencies? Kos can barely keep his own shit together, he's a skin of the teeth defender with even the simple stuff stretching him to his mediocre limit. If Mertesacker doesn't give us twice as much, pace or none, then we've just thrown £10mill down the drain again, as we did with Kos last year. Some of our defenders are so awful it can make players like Kos look good, but he isn't good by the standards of any other PL team and he wouldn't get in any other PL team. Remember, it was his unique reading of the game and his general inability to kick a ball that started our ongoing collapse.
That's precisely what I'm saying, Kos has zero leadership but is a damn good defender (I know I seem to be pretty much alone in this so feel free to ignore everything else), Mertesacker knows how to organise and has the leadership to pull it together, I believe the technical term is 'partnership'.