Guardiola probably wants to play inverted full backs, but there isn’t an Alaba or Lahm out there. He had good success with Dani Alves in Barcelona, using him sometimes almost as a Wide Foward, a guy like Walker, who isn’t as skilled but can actually run the whole field at 100mph will do wonders to fill the vertices of his triangles.

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