Now there's a player I'd absolutely love us to sign.
I think it would be fair to say he's the best reader of the game in the world after our very own Blanc.
He is an amazing story really. He was only discovered in Denmark at the age of 28 and then he played for AB where he was fantastic for 3 seasons and almost brought them championship glory. He then moved to Panathinaikos where he's been superb in the last 3 years. He even won the Danish player of the year award in 2000 I think. He quite amazingly had his first international cap at the age of 28 but immediately after that he installed himself as the first name in defence for the Danish national team.
He is quite big (not huge, but certainly not small, 1.84ish) and is one of the coolest defenders under pressure that I've seen. He's a great tackler and his reading of the game is just sublime. His positional sense if just fantastic and he really calms the defence with his influence and laid-back attitude. He has Champions League experience, seems a nice enough bloke and I'd imagine he would settle in easily.
One catch. He's 32 now. Still I'd say he would be a real bargain. We signed Larry at 35 and we wanted to buy Di Canio at the same age so obviously Alex thinks that if he's good enough, he's young enough
He would only cost 3-4 million quid as he's 32 and doesn't have much of a reputation.
Pair him up with someone like Thuram and watch us fly.
I think it would be fair to say he's the best reader of the game in the world after our very own Blanc.
He is an amazing story really. He was only discovered in Denmark at the age of 28 and then he played for AB where he was fantastic for 3 seasons and almost brought them championship glory. He then moved to Panathinaikos where he's been superb in the last 3 years. He even won the Danish player of the year award in 2000 I think. He quite amazingly had his first international cap at the age of 28 but immediately after that he installed himself as the first name in defence for the Danish national team.
He is quite big (not huge, but certainly not small, 1.84ish) and is one of the coolest defenders under pressure that I've seen. He's a great tackler and his reading of the game is just sublime. His positional sense if just fantastic and he really calms the defence with his influence and laid-back attitude. He has Champions League experience, seems a nice enough bloke and I'd imagine he would settle in easily.
One catch. He's 32 now. Still I'd say he would be a real bargain. We signed Larry at 35 and we wanted to buy Di Canio at the same age so obviously Alex thinks that if he's good enough, he's young enough
He would only cost 3-4 million quid as he's 32 and doesn't have much of a reputation.
Pair him up with someone like Thuram and watch us fly.