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Will be a mainstay of the Dutch backline for tournaments to come if they have any sense at all, miles better than most of their defenders and better than VVD this season.

 

My only concern is the Toon though and this lad is the best i've seen. Defends like he's been in the league 10 years, just a machine. Best signing we could have made back there, him and Schar as a partnership are fucking briliant.

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32 minutes ago, Barnes23 said:

Magnificent, his reading of the game during a few nervy moments in the first half was absolutely first class. 

 

Yep, I said in the match thread I'd missed the first twenty minutes and we were under pressure when I started watching. Botman was absolutely immense in that period of time and was largely the reason why we were relatively untroubled.

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There was a moment yesterday when he snuffed out a dangerous moment, then pinged a goal into Brunos feet. Me and my mate where like "wow". 

 

Our recruitment team are fucking class. Wouldn't sell him or Bruno but both must be worth 100m+ already.

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He’s not slow, but if he had real pace, you’d be thinking he could be the best CB in the world right now in terms of overall attributes. Whatever we paid for him is looking like pennies right now, he’s going to be our Kompany type signing in that area of the pitch and Bruno our Silva type signing, not that I want to compare because we are a totally different takeover/development situation to City when they were taken over. More players like this please NUFC not your Robinhos et al. Back to Wor Sven, I love his switch passes, he turns back to goal, flick his head and plays a straight as dye ball to midfield on the deck or just calmly clips a lofted ball to Burn or Trippier. 

 

 

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10 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Already up there with Woodgate for me. As composed a centre half as I’ve ever seen.

give woodgate his due though - he rarely had to make a last ditch tackle. he was that good.

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14 minutes ago, huss9 said:

give woodgate his due though - he rarely had to make a last ditch tackle. he was that good.

Completely agree - tackling is usually the result of poor positioning, and Woodgate was the absolute master of positioning.  I once read about crocodiles being able to calculate optimum intercept routes between a target and its direction of travel, and Woodgate had that - he seemed to stroll to the ball, so good was his reading of the game 

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