1. Johan Djourou
  2. Shkrodan Mustafu
  3. Sebastien Squillaci
  4. Pascal Cygan
  5. Phillipe Senderos
  6. Igors Stepanov
    • IlamaIickerIlIIl@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      He was the player with the most consistent headers on the squad for a bit. Also lunged into too many mistakes.

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        1 year ago

        I think Senderos yes, but in my memory Djourous best performances was him not being an absolute liability whereas I remember thinking Senderos actually had some solid matches.

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      1 year ago

      Senderos did too, he started the fa cup final we won against united and also during the CL run to the final when we set a record for most consecutive clean sheets. He just had a few awful games getting bullied by Drogba in particular and his confidence completely went away.

      His career arc was honestly closer to someone like Rob Holding than some of these other players who were terrible from match 1.

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      1 year ago

      Genuinely like Mustafi was nowhere near great by any means, but I put him alongside the likes of Holdinho as ‘alright’. I think a lot of people just take the few big errors and automatically think he was abysmal, when he was just mediocre

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        1 year ago

        I think a Holding comparison is a bit of a disservice. Mustafi was one of the weird contradictions that was generally a very good defender that was confoundingly prone to errors in the premier league. Holding has been generally a consistent performer not prone to massive mental lapses but his ceiling is just not high enough and he gets bullied by better front lines.

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      1 year ago

      Especially when David Luiz I feel was so much worse, he was a red waiting to happen most games