Our CBs are bad. Mexes is not just rash, he also zones out. Unfortunately our team isn't so good to carry weakness in that crucial position.

I personally think Mexes and Bonera would be a good combo, since Bonera is always a little more positionally aware but his tackling and pace are off.

Zapata compensates the other two, but yes too many brain farts.

I guess we'll just have to make due with Bonera, Zapata, Rami and Silvestre till the end of the season. Hopefully Rami turns out good for us, and we can sign another quality CB (preferably left-footed) in the summer.

BALANTA!!! (though we may have already missed our chance, Barca is after him if rumors are to be believed...

Yeah, that seems to be the plan. Our defense will be tricky, also with Mexes, the pro Mexes people have to agree with? The focus is to sign a real quality CB in Summer, and Mexes leaving helps by making place.

lol, since when have we sold at this club and bought up?

Nearly every time we sold a quality player we've either not replaced them or replaced them with a couple of fodder players we scrounged on the cheap.

Selling Mexes only means that we're taking 2 steps back after making 1 step forward with Rami. Thus, we're in a worse off position than we started the season with and I'm 100% confident that we're not going to break the bank to sign the top quality CB people here are imagining

Seedorf knows we need a quality CB, so we'll get one. Allegri didn't push for one, but I'm hopeful Seedorf will. Rami has little to do with it, while he's on loan with option to buy, but mostly it happened before either Seedorf was hired or Mexes is going to be sold. If Rami impress, it's nice, while we can sign a quality CB; if not, then we may not sign him, and sign someone else instead (or two). With Mexes, Silvestre, and maybe Rami leaving, surely new defenders will come? Seedorf puts priority on a new quality CB, unlike Allegri, so for a change, we may spend money on one. Be pessimistic all you want, but you're not going to take away my faith.

^ Agreed.

The club's roster is bloated at almost every position right now. If we manage to sell Muntari, Nocerino, Zaccardo, and Mexes that should yield enough cash along with wages saved that we could only use half of it on a new CB and come out alright. Selling Matri in the summer could get us a little extra cash too.

We currently have 30 players in our roster. 25 would be optimal.

Gabriel -> loan
Vergara -> loan
Zaccardo -> sell
Nocerino -> sell
Muntari -> sell

...honestly wouldn't mind if a couple of the ones listed as 'loan' were turned into a 'sell'.

Well considering there are only two others listed as loan, you want to sell them all. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Sneaky Trini!

Yeah, that's what I thought. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Well considering the selling spree we seem to be on, he just may get his wish. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

The sarcasm is strong in this one!

Muntari, Zaccardo and Nocerino won't be bringing us any good money, we'd be seriously lucky if we managed to get a combined 10m for all 3, and even that's reaching a bit too far

Mexes, I'd only sell for 12 to 15m, especially if Monaco really want him and we really go after someone of true quality, if not, I'd rather he stays.

Matri, if he does well at Fiorentina we could recoup 10m of the 12 we paid. Fiorentina even hinted about possibly making the deal permanent.

So all in all if we are ridiculously lucky, we could make a combined amount of around 25m to 30m from all those sales. If that's the case and we go after a real quality CB that could elevate our defence to the next level, then I can agree that selling Mexes was good, but when has this ever happened?

@ chu, you have zero idea of what plans Seedorf has, there are no indicators that we want to go after any huge names right now