It's not all that irrelevant, he disappointed as a Premier League player, this is a fair assessment. He's decent but I've never been overly impressed, Bayern could certainly upgrade, in my opinion. He'd be much more exposed at any other side.
He joined City as a 21year old talent and stayed for one season. He also was injured for a while if I'm not mistaken and mostly played as a fullback. Are you seriously suggesting that a centerback who didn't become a regular starter at that age in one season at a new club in a new country should be judged on that for the rest of his career, no matter what he does later on?
It's still fair to assess his performance in the Premier League, which was mostly lackluster. I don't overly rate Boateng, even as a Bayern player.
Personally I think, it makes not the slightest bit of sense to judge a 25 year old player on the one bad season in his career, especially if he moved to a bigger club and became a regular starter with great performances in a team that made it to two CL finals, winning one, and another semi final in his 3 years there. And the icing on the cake is a stand-out performance in a World Cup final. And it definitely wasn't the only great performance by him in the past 3 years.
Is he really that fast? He struggled to maintain pace in our game last season, and we're hardly rapid in attack!
Yeah, he is. He never struggled with pace as a fullback, not even when he played against Robben or Ronaldo. Centerbacks in a crazy high line who try to play an offside trap will always struggle to recover in case the highline fails, don't think you can do anything about that. He still saved our ass several times with brilliant recovery runs in the past few years and some quality last-ditch tackles.
I disagree with that really. Like I said, the number of centerbacks who offer the same qualities on a very good level is limited at the moment. Of course you could buy for example Mangala and hope that he can play on an even better level, but that's still a big if and he seems to be even more expensive. It's much easier to find a quality replacement or an upgrade for Dante than for Boateng in my opinion.
Sakho is not rubbish
Nope. Definitely not. We already have a bit of a problem with our transfers this summer. We sold players for 52m in total and only bought Bernat for 10m. If we don't buy someone, we will lose so much money on taxes and if we sell another player it gets even worse. We wouldn't earn 30m after taxes anyway, if we sell Boateng. We actually should spend more money this summer, even though our squad arguably has already too many top players. It's a ridiculous situation but with no owner taking anything out of the club, we just make way too much money to put a price on our players. I'm also pretty sure that the board would have kept Kroos for the last season of his contract and only Guardiola saying that he doesn't want an unhappy player in the team changed it. We'll invest some money in our new youth academy, but it's nowhere near enough to affect what we do in the transfermarket.
He was three years younger then than he is now, a 22 old lad on his first abroad job and had an injury pre-season. After his recovery the team had been chosen and he was mostly played out of position.
Badstuber looked very good in pre-season, but it's really difficult to tell how that translates to competitive games. 18 months of injury is such a long time and I'd be very surprised if he becomes a regular starter for us this season. So far it looks like Alaba and Martinez will be centerbacks in a back 3, which means, it's very likely that both Dante and Badstuber will be back-ups and Alaba, Martinez and Boateng the regulars in the first team.
I took a wild guess a few days ago, that we might see something like:
True.
I'd have Boateng here in a flash.
Sakho is not rubbish
PSG massively overpaid for Luiz. Yes he's super talented but he freestyles(:lol) way too much.
As far as Boateng, He put a MOTM performance against Argentina. But you are right though, there aren't a lot of talented CBs that fit the mold to how football is being played right now: (somewhat)pacey, good on the ball, good vision, being able to play the long pass and solid defensively. Thats why Boateng might worth 30m to Barca but then i dont see Bayern selling him, they can pay him just as much as Barca and he's German.
