The Good defenders will, yes. However, the teams that we'll be competing with dont tend to have 2 good central defenders. Is it certain the likes of Jody Craddock, Zat Knight, Robert Huth, Emmerson Boyce, Winston Reid etc etc will "eat him for breakfast"? The chances are these players will be starting against us in crucial games, I'd fancy his pace and movement to cause a few problems against the bottom half teams if I'm honest, more so than Xisco.
This is the Villa thread, mate. Villa have good defenders.
However, if you look at the teams Loven scored against last season, a pattern appears.
Swansea? West Brom? Cardiff? Middlesbrough? QPR? Sheff Utd?
Looks like much of the cream of the division to me.
Boro finished 11th, QPR finished 13th, Sheff United 8th.
Yeah. The cream of the division.