Aly Cissokho - sold

[Doorbell]

We have had two Colin Gibson's. The earlier one would be about 80 so he could still give Richardson a run for his money. Certainly a better tackler.

I'm having a good chuckle to this.

[maigrait]

Does lewis kinsella play left back? Cant we look to him instead??

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Wouldn't surprise me if we have a bit of a shuffle about and bring in Crespo and/or Okore and move Clark to left back...or one of them anyway.
If Garde has the belief in youngsters that we've been told about then perhaps Kinsella will get a chance.

[old man villa fan]

Who was the last U21 fullback to come through into the 1st team.  Was it JLS?  If so, 10 years is a bit depressing for club that is supposed to be good at developing young players.

[ozzjim]

Looks like he is not playing much for Porto. If Amavi is out for the season I reckon considering he has managed him and had him playing well at Lyon, Garde will try and recall Cissokho.

Until then Lescott is surely the obvious choice. Played a lot there for Albion too last season apparently.

[Steve67]

If we are not going to play Lescott at centre half, personally, I absolutely wouldn't be playing him at left back. As much as I don't rate Richardson, I would take him over Lescott for full back.

[mr underhill]

Richardson v Lescott at LB is like arguing over who's the tallest dwarf

[Percy McCarthy]

Out of those two I'd just about go for Richardson. Lescott looks completely gone.

[brian green]

I think Lescott at left back would be an open invitation to every team we play to overload the right flank.  He is gone at Premiership level.

[peter w]

With decent cover in front of him Lescott would be okay. However we're have poor midfield cover out wide so easily get overloaded. I wouldn't rule it out but we'd have to change our shape and the use of a big striker. If Sinclair can give more Tottenham like performances then that's something to work on but he prefers being on the left and that exposes the left back who rarely then overlaps.

[godzvilla]

Looks like he is not playing much for Porto. If Amavi is out for the season I reckon considering he has managed him and had him playing well at Lyon, Garde will try and recall Cissokho.

Until then Lescott is surely the obvious choice. Played a lot there for Albion too last season apparently.

Yesterday I wrote that ( according to the Meaning Evil )  Aly Cissokho  ( and Joe Bennet ) cannot feature for at least another two months, as they are not in the 25-man squad , can anyone verify this ?.............. ........Godzvilla!

[ozzjim]

They can't. And if a few had been paid it would take negotiation to bring them back too

[Villa in Denmark]

Please god no to Lescott at left back. He's got the acceleration of a Mærsk triple E container ship leaving port and a turning circle to match.

He could get away with at the M5 coach park as Pulis has his back 4 camped out on the edge of their penalty area so no one could get in behind him.

We seemed to play a bit further forward than the later days of Sherwood, but with the midfield dropped back a bit, primarily through Sanchez and really compressed the space between the halfway line and penalty area so City had got nothing to work with, but with enough pace in Amavi, Richards and to an extent Hutton to not be too worried about the ball in behind.

Lescott at left back would give anybody an easy ball in behind unless we started defending the 18 yard line which would either open us up with too much space between back 4 and midfield or drop us completely into out own half without a decent target man to hold the ball up and allow midfielders to join an attack.

Mærsk Triple E if anyone's interested

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

In all of my shuffling around of our defenders to accommodate a temporary left back I have deliberately ignored Lescott.
You know it makes sense.

[Karl Bridges]

When we signed Crespo it was said he could play anywhere in the back four. Surely he'd be the best option.