Glad for him. He got too much undeserved bashing in past years.
Well, people mostly bashed his inability to stay healthy and for me that's still a big concern and why I'm not comfortable with him being our 4th CB. Probably the best for us would be him staying healthy all season and also playing a good WC so there would be clubs interested in him and we could sell him in summer for more than what we expected a month ago.
When he played in those few games in previous seasons he was usually good as well but he never really had a run of games like he has now for us. Maybe he's just lucky or maybe he changed his life style or something. Could also be Valverde's training methods are different and that fits him better. EV had 35 years old Aduriz playing on a very high level, and now some of our older players like Iniesta and Alba are also playing their best seasons in a while. So maybe some credit for Vermalen staying fit and playing good also has to be given to Valverde and his staff.
I hope I didn't jinx him now.
