My problem with Mustafi is this. A lot of those others were either
Young guys who werent really up to scratch
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)
Cygan was 28 and had just won POTY in France the season before he joined us, hardly old and past it. He was just as bad as Mustafi if not worse - at least Mustafi could actually run.
My problem with Mustafi is this. A lot of those others were either
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)
He also was seemingly a good fit for our system, most of his errors were inexplicable lapses in concentration
Cygan was 28 and had just won POTY in France the season before he joined us, hardly old and past it. He was just as bad as Mustafi if not worse - at least Mustafi could actually run.
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
the rest were signed as depth, he was signed as a starter.
Mostly down to bad decision making. Knowing when to stand off and when to go into tackles. I think that’s what made mustafi