He’s very good, but we need to give him a few heads before we can make this sort of claim

Best young centre back, yeah, I’d say so

That pic is peak “ima bout to destroy this man’s whole career” vibes

Cygan was only 2m, and was largely a fringe player, barring a few odd games

Mustafi was our starting CB for like 5 years and played pretty much every game he wasn’t injured for

My problem with Mustafi is this. A lot of those others were either

1. Young guys who werent really up to scratch
2. Old guys who were past it

Both were in the team because of budget constraints

Mustafi…he wasnt hugely expensive, but he wasnt cheap. And he had international and big league pedigree, and was in the squad at a period where we SHOULD have done better than we were - he is essentially a part of a very underacheiving squad, and as one of the more senior players made so many unforgivable mistakes (that shit with Augero on the half way line in the FA cup final)