Best Affordable Central Defender?

tin jedvaj at leverkuesan is a world class centre back

Godin

Vertonghen

Mario Fernandes

Niklas Sule

Inigo Martinez

Laporte

Dede

I often see Kostas Manolas leave AS Roma for £5-12 million. He looks to be an excellent, aggressive central defender.

Joe Gomez - how has he progressed on your save with AI?

I sign him most saves and he develops into a fantastic CB and England International

I have Balanta and stones.

Jagielka, at 32 seems to have lost it and Shawcross has been so-so for me.

I am looking for a third central defender to go along with stones and Balanta that will give me the best group in football, especially since Balanta needs time to develop.

I want a top-flight defender that is not too old under $40 million total.

Want someone with good acceleration for interceptions, so that limits my possibilities, like Eugene K. from Russia (too slow).

Silva and Pique have enormous salaries so they are out.

Laurent K. and Komapny are now 30 years old in 2016, so too old for me.

Zouma, Hummels and Dragovic costs over $50 million

I was able to get Mustafi however he wanted a whopping $28 million salary per season.

I could not believe it, and told him to go to hell.

Otamendi can be had for $30million, but he wants over $8 million salary plus $7 million bonus plus $6 million for the agent. Even with negotiation, it's slightly too high for me and I don't want a guy who will take several seasons to develop. I just sold Munoz for $31million so I could get someone better, but pickings are slim.

Juan Jesus might be a possibility. I have heard people mention Sergio Ramos, Benatia, Boateng and Frederick Sorensen.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

I think with defenders, if you can pick them up for cheap enough then 30 isn't to old. I had a anti-old player agenda but in reality a defender can go stat wise from 30-32/33 no doubt.

I am playing as Herha in Germany and am using the following guys who have been solid;

John Brooks

Nicklas Sule

Joe Gomez

Chris Smalling

Wimmer

Tah, Sule and Laporte were brilliant for me through my last few saves. Had Tah and sule as the backbone of my Udinese defence for 9 seasons. world class

Can't remember the names off the top of my head but I've managed to pick up a few bargains on this year from Shakhtar when it comes to central defenders. All seem to be quite physical and really good markers. Traditional central defenders I suppose.

well currently I have picked up Nastasic and Caulker in addition to Otamendi, Stones, Coleman and Balanta, and Baines at left wing.

I have sold Shawcross for 16.5m and Munoz.

How does that sound? Do I have enough? : )

i always pick up Winston Reid after the 1 season. either as a back up for bigger teams or as the leader in my defense when im managing 'smaller' teams...

very reliable, aggressive and consequent central defender!!