Possibly more likely Rodri, with Phillips as DM.
But its all fine doing that in the odd game against Bournemouth, but when it's week in week out it costs you points and you get knocked out of cups.
Would understand possibly keeping Taylor-Bellis as 4th CB, but that doesn't seem likely and Mbete is a couple of years younger, so we couldn't be expecting him to fill in for months if needed. No, it's not how we do things. if Ake goes we'll buy someone (and I don't mean Cucurella, no way we sign a proper left back and play him at centre back, especially when he's 5' 8").