Arteta’s doing another Raya here isn’t he ? He’s going to drop Gabriel, like he attempted to last season. It doesn’t make sense to drop Timber, unless he now has serious reservations about him post injury.
He better not. While Willy could, like TA6, play with anyone there's something very special about the WS-Gabby partnership.
I think he's more for left-back in a back 3 with Ben inverting. An upgrade Kiwior. Timber and Tomi just to fight for their places. Play well enough and they'll play like Leo.
I was speaking to a wop mate who's a Juve fan last night. He really likes Calafiore but says they can't afford to spend €50m on a defender. He hopes that if we buy him, then they could get Kiwior off us at a price they can afford.
Jakob's proven he can play CH really well in Serie A, a bit like we want proven EPL players, and he showed he can plat LB as the left side of a sort of back 3 when BW at RB inverts in the EPL. {He had one bad game for us and looked decent during the run in.} So it's just a question of money.