Sentences with phrase «strong young defender»

Other than a top quality striker, it seems that the Portuguese manager is looking for a strong young defender.

Not exact matches

A highly promising young defender, Aymeric Laporte of Athletic Bilbao is attracting strong interest from Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United this January.
Miquel aside our 2nd x1 is damn strong no matter what people think, and if we added some of our quality young defenders like moore, pleguezuelo, ajayi or ormonde - ottewill to that rest of the squad we could put a third x1 out that would still put up a better fight than uniteds 2nd string.
I highly doubt this defender we bring in will be a starter so young, strong, and fast is the main criteria.
It is not anywhere near our strongest team, but I expect our focus to be on protecting the young defenders, and going for our trademark breakaway goals.
He would make us stronger at the back on set pieces and also provide options and would ease our offensive players to do what they have to do!And get us a defender either nastasic / kostas (both young, one with PL exp and the other with a lot of international / CL exp).
Then buy world class Reus, strong DM khedira / Schneiderlin, top class defender hummels and sign young versatile defender some one like fabian schar who can play at all defensive positions because injuries can hurt us at any time and sell arteta, podolski (wants to leave) etc and other liablity players..
Don't know about replacement, Lemar is not one for Sanchez, different player and 1/3 of Sanchez level, still growing... Now i checked that Chile kid and he is a more of a forward player we need to look at, explosive, working hard, a pit in his on way as Sanchez but younger and as or more annoying for defenders; scoring, young but ready; he will adapt qucik, strong mentally.
The two young defenders looked quite strong together, but Lucas seems able to shift from left back to center back without much discomfort, which will be useful towards the end of the season.
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