Next season we'll have 3 quality left backs.
Patrick van Aanholt, Pape Souaré, Jeffrey Schlupp

Who should be first choice?

I think Souare would be first choice and if Zaha goes(hopefully not) Van Aanholt or Schlupp can play on the left wing.

Speroni would've saved it!

I would say :-

1. Van Aanholt
2. Schlupp
3. Souare

However, I think Souare maybe finished at the top level. I was in a car accident last year, and broke my leg and ankle. They have never been as strong as they were before.

I see that he broke his thigh bone and having to be airlifted to hospital means it was bad. With lesser injuries (i.e. hamstring), some players never come back as before.

I'd agree. He turns the ball over too often. If (a big if) Souare is looking good pre-season I would definitely think they should look to ship Schlupp -if we could get back his transfer price - and use the money elsewhere

Haven't read through the posts, however my very brief summary.
IMO neither schlupp or pva are complete players, it's like we've spent 25M on two winger-come-full-backs, niether of whom have proved they are defensively sound and niether of whom are likely to ever keep wilf or andros out the wide spots. The signings of both were ways to a means of us staying up, a slight overkill imo with the added bonus of versitilty. I'm not saying neither cannot be decent, or that we were wrong to get them both in(we are after all looking like staying up) however in terms of a left back, pape is superior to both by some margin and a snip at the 3M(?) we paid Lille for him, especially given the fee for the other two! Pape all day in my book, without question. What's the latest on his recovery btw?

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IMO I think pretty much every Full back in the world is like that. It's very rare to find one that is very good at doing both the attacking and defensive roles as (like Jamie Carragher once said), a full back is either a failed winger or failed centre half.. I think it's always weighing up what and how much you are willing to sacrifice each ability..

We're the Arthur over ere!