Thomas Vermaelen

And again, this is just really sad.

It kind of reminds me of Vermaelen's kind of injury setbacks where you see that he is working really hard to get back and it's just muscle injury after muscle injury.

I don't know if this is maybe one of the last, you know, the last season we'll see of Christensen really becoming at force on the team because again, being healthy is a trait, you know, that we need to have as a center back.

I'm perfectly comfortable with seeing Gerard Martin come into the fold, and he did in the second half and didn't miss a step.

but why is the manager once again putting the player in a position to make the error by one keeping him in a starting position two dropping the lines once again because he asks you he's been fine on the ball he's been fine when he's touched tight to defenders and getting in those like individual jewels where the attacker has back to go he's actually been fine in those But you're putting him in the exact sort of situation where Sporting have not been good at defending, where Sporting lack the presence of someone like Diomande, his aerial presence.

So are we going to carry on blaming players saying that, oh, we need to have patience? Or are we going to start blaming the manager because, at the end of the day, they're being put into unfavourable positions? Because, as we're going to get onto, Vermaelen did go down to 10 in this game.

And Sporting were defending as if they always did, as if they were under the cosh against the best team of all time.

When they have more than enough conditions to actually be pressing man-to-man, they've got an advantage in that sense.

You s- I thought the kids that come out of the Ajax academy know how to fucking defend.

We've had people like Vertonghen, Vermaelen.

We've had amazing Premier League center backs that have come out of that academy.

You let that shit bounce right in front of you, and it falls to Bashir Adedoyi, who ab- just fucking buries it off the volley.

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it's not going to work Vermaelen had a like his obviously he left we went good they went shit That's a bad back store for Marlon.

For Marlon, yeah.

Ran away from a drinking contest that he asked for for two years.