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Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983
There's someone who has caught my eye over the last year or two who I think would be interesting for a long term prospect, Jeremy Mathieu.
He's a young (23) French Left Back who I would suspect to be the one to replace Eric Abidal in the national side. Previously he played for Sochaux, and now Toulouse, and has been one of the players driving the side towards European football next season.
Physically, he's very impressive. A strong athletic build, very tall (6ft2), but also surprisingly fast, and technically impressive. He is also pretty versatile, as he can play in midfield as well as LB.
The bad new...Roma are very close to signing him if the press are to be believed.
I could only find this one goal scored by him on youtube, but a good goal...
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he is indeed a good player, Dev, one of the rising stars of French football ... along with all the new Zidane-wanna-bes
As you said Roma have been after him for a while now but I think the latest I read was that the deal was hitting some snags, not completely sure though.
Also Lyon are after him given that Abidal is all but Barca-bound.
An interesting Alternative to someone like Zambrotta .. or Srna, who would be great as a back-up player