Ozan Kabak

[Resu]

What is the injury?

I don’t know TBF. I just read he was injured, and assumed it to be correct, and probably long term

[Exiled_red]

Injured? One of the lads now, certainly.

Just desperate to fit in

[Slinky Skills]

Just desperate to fit in

[Resu]

Just desperate to fit in

If you want in you got to be with the physios. They run the Club now

[danperkins]

Excellent performance tonight

[SB]

Yeah who’d have thought that he & Phillips would play together in the Prem & be instrumental in us keeping clean sheets? Not me that’s for sure.

[Irishnev]

Excellent performance tonight

[kingfunk]

He got motm

[Scratch]

Not sure if the attacker was slow or if Kabak has got a bit of pace about him, but was impressed with the way he got back when that lad was through.

Few more showings like that between now and the end of the season and we might just take the punt for £18m.

[Rich]

Not sure if the attacker was slow or if Kabak has got a bit of pace about him, but was impressed with the way he got back when that lad was through.

Few more showings like that between now and the end of the season and we might just take the punt for £18m.

£18m looks like a really good deal imo.

He hasn't been great but there's a load of mitigating circumstances and over the past few games he's settling in and showing that he's got great potential. £18m for a potentially international class centre back is good business.

[frank the tank]

its is easy to say that him and Phillips would be competing for 4th choice CB......but in reality if the first 3 CBs are all coming back from major injuries, then it is likely that both will get a lot of game time in the next year or two.

There is no way Matip will ever be available to play every week. And next year, Joe and Virgil will need to be managed with cotton wool too. I'd keep both Kabak and Phillips

[Mark79]

Sign Kabak plus another.

Virgil, Kabak, New CB, Gomez.

Sell Matip and at least one of Phillips or Davies. Whichever one we keep can be 4th/5th with Gomez.

[Irishnev]

Sign Kabak plus another.

Virgil, Kabak, New CB, Gomez.

Sell Matip and at least one of Phillips or Davies. Whichever one we keep can be 4th/5th with Gomez.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Sign Kabak plus another.

Virgil, Kabak, New CB, Gomez.

Sell Matip and at least one of Phillips or Davies. Whichever one we keep can be 4th/5th with Gomez.

Yep Kabak if we sign him is just replacing Lovern's spot within the squad, we still need someone else in because we know that Matip is going to miss games.

Would be very much going for what you said and selling Matip if we can get a buyer.

I would also be looking at someone like Zakaria as a midfield option in the summer. Big mobile physical unit of a player who is good on the ball. Be proper cover for Fabinho and he can also play as a CB. That way if we ended up with a back line crisis again, we would still have a 6'3 CDM in his natural slot and the other one could cover at the back. Would be a way to not lose height from the midfield

[Exiled_red]

We need at least 4 or 5 CBs assuming that we keep Kabak (which isn't a given at this point) we are looking at VVD, Gomez and Kabak plus a couple from Matip, Phillips and Davies. I know Matip is injury prone but I would be amazed if we spent £18m on Kabak and signed someone else while shipping out two of Matip, Phillips and Davies, it just doesn't really make sense. For me it is all or a subset of what we have now, with the caveat that we might not sign Kabak but we might sign someone else in his place.

Kabak as from now until the end of the season to prove himself, I know people on here have given him some stick in his early games but I think he's made a decent start in difficult circumstances.