Kyle Walker to Man City: The price of madness 1
Tottenham knows how to sell players.
Guardiola waited while holding flowers, while Alves drank wine with Man City
The news of Walker moving to Tottenham surprised most.
Lineker did not exaggerate when criticizing his junior at Tottenham… for not knowing how to cross the ball.
But we live in a filtered world of agents, and of clubs that are getting richer and richer, and even know who knows what.
Walker is Man City’s third rookie this summer, after Bernando Silva (from Monaco) and Ederson (from Benfica).
In Pep Guardiola’s tactics, the full-back plays a very important role.
Vialli also said no exaggeration.
`Fullback is a position that helps one team be stronger than another. I consider myself lucky to have been born 10 years early` – Gary Neville.
During the first decades of modern football, fullbacks were often assigned to players who were nothing special.
But thanks to the tactical development and self-effort of Brazilian fullbacks, the definition of a fullback has changed.
Former Everton full-back Andy Hinchcliffe shared: `Today, people don’t judge full-backs solely based on their defensive ability. Experts will ask: how many successful crosses does he throw in a match?`
The excellent performance of Carlos and Cafu in the late 1990s and early 2000s changed the football world’s concept of full-back positions.
And so, the physical demands of this position are also increasingly terrible.
In the 2014 Champions League final, when Real was leading 0-1 at Atletico and saw no way out, Carlo Ancelotti decided to strengthen his attack by sending Marcelo on to replace Fabio Coentrao.
Such an important position, placed in today’s transfer world, is of course even more valuable.
Walker is not necessarily the best right-back in the Premier League, but he is the most expensive, because the rules of the transfer market are… there are no rules.
But the market has its reasons.
For comparison, Walker is a piece of land in… Old Town.
But Walker lived in a time when in Forbes’ list of the 30 most profitable clubs in the world, all 20 Premier League clubs were present.
