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Jose Fonte in new Portugal coach's thoughts - Gets first Call Up!


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Incredible to think there were posters (a small but vocal minority) on this board who thought he wasn't good enough for PL football.

Perhaps one of Unbelievable school playground posters could dig the names out and shame them on here.

 

Well done Jose, our best CB last season (and for previous seasons as well). Made Lovren look good at times, and helped us get silly money for headless one so that we could bring in better (Toby and maybe Florin). If I ever said anything negative about you then I was probably under the influence or something.

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He stands at over 6 foot 3, Jose Jose

He took us to the Premier League, Jose Jose

He gets the ball without a foul

He wears the shirt of Ken Monkou

Jose Fonte Southampton's centre back.

He's officially listed as 6' 2''. If his eyes are blue we could use the Jim Steele song.

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Portugal's central defenders...

 

Pepe - (Real Madrid)

Ricardo Carvalho - (AS Monaco)

Bruno Alves - (Fenerbaçhe)

José Fonte - (Southampton)

 

Thats an impressive CB line up. Its not surprising Fonte has found it hard to break into the team. Carvalho is 36 now though so he has a good chance going forward.

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Incredible to think there were posters (a small but vocal minority) on this board who thought he wasn't good enough for PL football.
Not really incredible. He's improved massively in the last couple of years, even this season from last it could be argued he has improved. Remember he was behind Yoshida and Hooiveld in the pecking order at times!!!

 

But that just goes to his credit even more - there probably aren't too many better examples of someone continuing to work hard, focus and improve themself - an even better example than Lambert it could be argued.

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Not really incredible. He's improved massively in the last couple of years, even this season from last it could be argued he has improved. Remember he was behind Yoshida and Hooiveld in the pecking order at times!!!

 

But that just goes to his credit even more - there probably aren't too many better examples of someone continuing to work hard, focus and improve themself - an even better example than Lambert it could be argued.

 

Very true. He's a much better player than when he joined us.

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Very true. He's a much better player than when he joined us.

 

Agree with this. He's fitter and stronger than he ever was and reads the game much better. Been a key player through our rise and seems to be loving the responsibility of carrying on the progress after this summer's turnaround.

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Amazing strides he's made. When Saints got to the Prem, quite a few people thought Fonte was unlikely to be capable of the step up from L1 and the Champ but he's outdone that by reaching an international squad. I would never have imagined that by our third season in The Prem we would have 4 international CBs. What a good headache for Koeman.

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Amazing strides he's made. When Saints got to the Prem, quite a few people thought Fonte was unlikely to be capable of the step up from L1 and the Champ but he's outdone that by reaching an international squad. I would never have imagined that by our third season in The Prem we would have 4 international CBs. What a good headache for Koeman.

 

Fact is that even in MP's first season, he was behind Jos and Maya in the pecking order - his progress last season was phenomenal.

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The most deserved call up, ever.

 

Fantastic person, leader and player.

 

After rickie, £1,2m on him was a bargain in the grand scheme of things. It didn't seem it then...he took a drop down etc, but fully rewarded on both sides of the fence.

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