I just don't see the point in this. There's no reason to spend money on a first team left back when we've got Shaw coming back and there's no reason to spend money on a backup when we've got CBJ here already who has done well every time he's played.
It's easy to say now but for right back we shouldn't have let Rafael go, although chances are he'd be injured now too.
Either way these are short term problems that we shouldn't be panicking over.
How about saving our season would that make any sense to you ?
-Shaw out for rest of season
-Young out for a long time (needs surgery to atleast a couple of months)
-Rojo out until march and will need time to regain fitness and form
-Valencia still out for atleast a month or more and will need time to regain fitness and form
-Jones almost always injurred
-Blind needs to cover LCB especially in absence of Jones and Rojo
-McNair doesn't look ready and should actually be loaned out
Leaves us basically with Darmian, CBJ and Varela
-Darmian has been shit lately but obviously needs to play however no competition or coverage for him
-CBJ is 18 years old and highly inexperienced, he does a decent job so far but you would take a great risk at playing him every game
-Varela doesn't look ready at all and should actually be loaned out
So at least for the coming months what we have available for our fullbacks is pretty poor quality with Darmian out of form and 2 inexperienced kids, one who looks decent for now and the other that looks like he is not ready to play at this level. If anything happens to these players (injurry or suspension) than we are totally fecked as we have no back-up whatsoever.
following fixtures are coming up in the next months (don't think any players will be back before this)
-Souton
-Derby
-Stoke
-Chelsea
-Sunderland
-FC Midtjylland
-Fifth round FA cup
-Arsenal
-Watford (2 march): probably Valencia back
-WBA
-Palace
-FA 6th round
-City (20th March): probably Rojo back
If anything happens to our 3 options or they play piss poor during that period, big chance you can say bye bye to the season.
Not brining anyone in given how we have played so far this season has been a very poor choice of management, not brining in some cover given our situation right now at the fullback position would just be deliberate mismanagement.
So what that shaw is back next season ?
1 Who says Shaw will ever be the same again after his injurry ?
2 How long will it take him to get back to his best form ?
3 How long will it take for him to be injurred again, been going from injurry to injurry since he has been here, the broken leg will only make that even worse ?
4 Why should a top club not have good competition on every position, why shouldn't Shaw be exposed to a good amount of competition the leftback ?
Everybody just assumes he will back in the team, play like he was playing at the begining of the season and continue to do that for the forseable future. I don't think it will be that easy. So just taking a big gamble on the remainder of the season because he we have Shaw so there is no space for another good leftback is just idiotic imo.