Pau Torres

[Toronto Villa]

Lenglet is better than Carlos for me.

Yeah, significantly so. Monchi must wince that his 'I Saw You Coming' sale is now his mess to clean up. Maybe someone in Saudi Arabia can look us in the eye and offer a huge sum to take him off our hands.

I think that's a bit harsh. Carlos isn't great, but Lenglet looked better yesterday because he had the imperious Torres next to him. Carlos has looked OK next to Torres as well. Both Lenglet and Carlos aren't good enough to play as a pairing next to each other.

Pau Torres is the level of player top clubs in the CL get to enjoy. That’s the gap from us to the top 3. While it’s always possible we might beat them in a one off game, they have quality in depth that they don’t see a massive drop from their starting players to others in the squad when they rotate or get injuries. Over time, with consistent success and improvement in our commercial revenues we should be able buy better and upgrade the likes of Lenglet, Cash, Carlos etc. to players at the level of Torres.

[KevinGage]

With what we paid for Diego Carlos, his profile at the time he joined us (mainstay in one of the best defences in Europe, on the fringes of the Brazil national team) there shouldn't be such a massive drop off in quality.

He was signed to start let's not forget.

But you're right, there is.

[Risso]

Well, he missed an entire season with a bad injury, then Unai arrived and got Mings and Konsa playing at 100% of their capability every game, and then we signed Torres, so he's never had the opportunity to be first choice. Probably never will do now, either.

[Astnor]

I m thinking Diego Carlos might do it as RB for us, a Kyle Walker type - have pace, muscles, aggression and a long pass. Stupid suggestion probably.

[usav]

I’m sorry and I know there is a lot of love for Mings and obviously sympathy after the injury, but Pau is the future and must be the foundation of our defense for the next 5 years.  We are a completely different team with him in it, the stats don’t lie.  Can he improve defensively? Sure and he could get a little stronger, but my goodness we have a Maldini type player here we need to protect.

[Toronto Villa]

Having Mings back up Torres is a luxury few clubs will have. I don’t think Lenglet stays if Mings is healthy. I can see the right side being upgraded to provide real competition for Konsa. Carlos has played his part but the pace of the PL is sometimes too much for him. And that injury has impacted him and wrecked a full season.

[Simon Page]

It might not be an either/or.

[Hookeysmith]

To have Mings available to strategically comeon in game to compound the defence would be a luxury not many teams would  have. At 30+ he would understand being a squad player.

Get champs league next season and a fully fit current squad, even without a couple of senior upgrades, and we will have one hell of team.

[Smithy]

I m thinking Diego Carlos might do it as RB for us, a Kyle Walker type - have pace, muscles, aggression and a long pass. Stupid suggestion probably.

I'm not sure he's that quick, is he? Not sure what he was like pre-achilles injury, but he doesn't strike me as particularly fast. Not slow, but certainly not what you'd call particularly pacy.

[Mister E]

I m thinking Diego Carlos might do it as RB for us, a Kyle Walker type - have pace, muscles, aggression and a long pass. Stupid suggestion probably.

I'm not sure he's that quick, is he? Not sure what he was like pre-achilles injury, but he doesn't strike me as particularly fast. Not slow, but certainly not what you'd call particularly pacy.

I don't think he is particularly quick.

[Russ aka Big Nose]

I m thinking Diego Carlos might do it as RB for us, a Kyle Walker type - have pace, muscles, aggression and a long pass. Stupid suggestion probably.

He's let down by his positional sense when playing in his familiar role of CB, so I would imagine he would be 'lost' even more often at RB.

Plus, as others have said, he's not especially quick and has a tendency to make rash challenges in an attempt to dominate his opponent. I think we need an upgrade. UTV.

[john e]

Pau is in a different class than the others because he has a far greater technical ability on the ball, he also moves the ball forward far more often and sets up attacks from the back which the others struggle to do

When I say others I mean all of them, Mings Konsa Lenglet and Diego none of them have the ability of Torres, they might a greater presence in physically defending but they are all limited in their ball distribution

[PaulWinch again]

Pau is the one who could legitimately walk into any team in the world, and I genuinely believe that. He is absolute top class and passes better than most midfielders.

[dave shelley]

Simply put, Pau Torres is a footballer.

[Monty]

Simply put, Pau Torres is a footballer.

I mean, that is very simply put.