Ad Thiaw: He needs to get better in build up, build up from our CB is quite important for us and that’s the one really negative thing i noticed when he played.
I personally also I never thought that he is that fast, so I looked at some stats (top speed in km/h) and it turned into a small analysis:
Tomori 34.4
Kalulu 33.6
Thiaw 32.2
Gabbia 31.5
Kjaer 27.9 (some sources have him a bit higher, i took the CL stats)
Comparisons: Van Dijk 33.3, de Ligt 32.2, Skrinjar 31.2, Koulibaly 33.5, Bremer 31.8
Now how useful those stats are for football is questionable, if we go with them Thiaw indeed seems be fast for a CB but he isn’t in the out of this world category like Tomori and Kalulu or some international top CBs, Kjaer is clearly the slowest but it also shows how much anticipation and positioning can do, Gabbia is the most underrated as people often put him in the Kjaer tier but he is actually of normal speed for an international quality CB alike to Bremer or Skrinar.