BoroMart
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I like Jagielka, he's a great pro, and has had a great career, but at his age, in a back 3? where you have to be able to shift across to cover the fullback position occasionally? It would make them very vulnerable down the sides of their defence. Even central in a 3, I wouldn't really trust his legs to be quick enough to cover the space if one of the other CDs gets dragged out wide.Great signing for Sunderland but a loss for Stoke...
They're 8th in the league and he's been the centre of a back 3 every game (except last weekend) for the past 8 - 10 games...
Replacing him with a 39 year old Jagielka and then sending him out on loan is weird.
It's a really, really strange set of transfers from stoke, maybe Jagielka is cheaper than Batth....but surely if this is FFP based they should be a firesale with their massive spending.