Jerome Boateng
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Have you been in a coma for about 7 years in between his time at City and now?
He has been on the decline, hence Munich putting him up for sale.... like I said, you don't do that if they are preforming. Plus he's hasn't played more than 20 league games in the last 3 years.
Well yes, that's not what I'm disagreeing with. Seems like all the injuries over the last few years have resulted in a sharp decline now.
This is complete bollocks though. Considering he was 21/22, they were playing him at right back and he's been Bayern and Germany's best CB while they won a Champions League and World Cup in between now and him leaving City.
On to the next target.
I'm not saying he wasn't a good CB once apon a time, but he is nowhere near the class of Hummels for example, it's not really bollocks he was shit at City, it's simply the truth. Today was one of the worst performances I have seen from a CB at a top team for quite some time.
Swedish flat-packs vs German motors
Only one winner...
Only one winner...
Bayern must be angry that he couldn't make it through just a few games before being exposed. No wonder they're trying to sell him.
He is a charlatan, have no idea how he's played at such a high level for so long with such a shocking attitude
Strange performance in a positional sense, seemed like he really didn't care about defending 
His attitude is fine, his body has been killed by injuries and he runs like an old man.
Maybe he'd do well to stop those dumbass attacking runs then
That's obviously something he was told to do by the coach. He walks around for most of the game, makes a run with the ball every 10 minutes, then takes another 5 minutes to get back into position.
It's a crazy tactic, I mean I can understand defenders carrying the ball to break lines but he reaches the pen box and takes ages to get back. It's ridiculous
That's Low for you.
Bayern are trying to find an idiot so that they can get rid of him. Good thing this World Cup is coming now to spoil their plans.
He can't support a high line system sadly, injuries have taken their toll.
He still is a class defender, he's always shown that for Bayern, especially in the matches against Madrid lately. Both him and Hummels have lost their legs because of the injuries and so Germany need to find younger players to take over (Sule and Tah).
I have no doubt though that both would be much better suited playing against bigger teams where they don't have to leave so much space in behind. But for that Germany need to find a way out of this group by beating Korea.
He still is a class defender, he's always shown that for Bayern, especially in the matches against Madrid lately. Both him and Hummels have lost their legs because of the injuries and so Germany need to find younger players to take over (Sule and Tah).
I have no doubt though that both would be much better suited playing against bigger teams where they don't have to leave so much space in behind. But for that Germany need to find a way out of this group by beating Korea.
This is not the performance thread guys
'650 pairs of shoes, he can't be right upstairs' Classic Keano.
I bet you were a grass at school
Technically he's very good though. Very good passer of the ball. We've got centre backs who can defend, what we lack is a CB who can actually play a bit. The injury record is a concern though and I'd take the point about having been burned by Bayern before with crocked players. He'd need a watertight medical.
Anyone who wants us to sign him needs to give their head a wobble.
Hasn’t made over 20 appearances in the league for three seasons. There is a reason why Bayern want rid of him.
Hasn’t made over 20 appearances in the league for three seasons. There is a reason why Bayern want rid of him.
but he was awful again against Sweden. looked clueless positionally, as if he didn't know where he was supposed to go and sweden didn't even have much pace
what? are you talking about the first game when he was just poor or his totaly inept performance against sweden? no way is he good enough for United
Regardless of how Boateng is playing right now, he turned into a world class centre back after leaving City for Bayern and even won the World Cup with his country four years ago. I would argue he was one of the best centre backs in the world until about 2015/2016 when he started to struggle with injuries.
We do not need to go anywhere near him. Absolutely no chance. That performance from him last night was a disgrace. Probably the worst individual one we’ll see all tournament.
He was appalling last night. I hope we don't pursue him.
He is the german Smalling
He's the exact opposite of Smalling. Slow, good on the ball, and constantly pushing up far too much and then barely bothering to come back.
He's the exact opposite of Smalling. Slow, good on the ball, and constantly pushing up far too much and then barely bothering to come back.
Yep exactly. He's another Toby. Pretty good on the ball but not a great defender
No he is not Smalling is not this bad .
He should move to Italy, he'd be torn apart in pretty much every other league.
I see people talking about speed but it's not the problem, he hasn't been particularly slow. His positioning has been terrible, he is consistently in areas where he should never be, particularly in relation to his partners. He is too high, too wide and doesn't care about marking or controlling his direct opponents.
He played RB at City and wasn't that bad (not good either) but he was mostly injured (iirc).
If you're talking about the Sweden game, I'm dead certain that this positioning was some Löw special sauce thought up to crack the swedish defense. Seeing how they besieged the opponent attacking players for example in that decisive match against Italy, he was obviously meant to surprise them with offensive actions because he wasn't man-marked in the same way as the others.
I can actually see us making a bid for him
I agree that Löw tried to be clever about having him as a shadow playmaker. Next to Hummels he is one of the very few top class CBs who are up to that particular assignment in the first place.
Problem was, you gotta be fit and confident to do so, and he isn't at the top of his game right now, understandably so, so shortly after a long injury time. Imo that's why he was so out of position at times and which ultimately lead to him doing those stupid fouls.
Don't understand that debate about his speed, for a man his size he's a f*ing Porsche 911.
Would prefer Koulibaly over him for a number of reasons.
Hope we buy him just for how badly the pundits will be upset because he likes to buy shoes. Pogba and Boateng in the same side might finish Souness off.
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