Ruben Dias is starting to get a reputation like Virgil van Dijk - players are scared to take him on. I wasn’t sure about him at first, coming in from Portugal where the league is nowhere near as strong. I wondered if he was going to be good enough because they didn’t have to fight off five or six teams to sign him, did they? But wow what a signing. He has been absolutely phenomenal and he is starting to remind me of Van Dijk now. Both players have the same fear factor about them. I see players looking up on a dribble and thinking: ‘Oh I can’t beat HIM…’ Even when City played Liverpool. Mo Salah did it. He only had to beat Dias one on one and he was away. But he didn’t fancy...
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