Agreed with Caput Mundi. Rozenhal was awful... he wasn't bad, he was awful. If some think Diakite is awful then I don't know what Rozenhal was.
You judge players for Lazio based on stereotypical appearence, i.e Tall, strong and black, or small and quick... but I just base them on ability and performance.
Hands down, categorically, Diakite has made more mistakes then Rozenhal has made in his Lazio career. When I saw Rozenhal live he had Cassano in his back pocket all game. And all season long he did a marvellous job defending, might I add with Siviglia and Cribari next to him most of the time... but then for some reason was dropped which then coincided with a ghastly winless streak, remember it?
Put a prime Maldini, Vidic, whoever the fuck you want next to Diakite and bad things will happen. He is completely unreliable, a useless airhead with characteristics befitting a basketball player - which can work in football, if the player has the natural ability to back it up. Diakite doesn't.
I don't give a flying fuck what height, weight or skin colour a player has, I do not have preference, nor am I fanboy over certain players to cloud my judgements, I see things for what they really are. Right now our best defenders are Radu and Stendardo. We have defended better with those two playing next to each other, Lichsteiner and, lately, Dias. The worst defenders we have at our team at the moment are Biava, Siviglia and Diakite. That is the way things are!