Youth cateer started as a left back, was used as both a left bacck and centre back.
most of his liepzig time he was used as a left back, wide left CB in a back 3, Left wing back or a left sided CB.
He isn't a centre back out of position he is a 22 yer old lad in a new club who can play left back comfortably as he has done all his short career but still has to weed out his tendancy to switch off at times, something he will learn to do.
And too early imho to say he is top class just yet, not anywhere near as good as Stones or Ake, who both have the same atributes as him with possession and passing.
He cannot be judged on this season though like some are, on the whole has played well, just needs to up his concentration to the full 90 mins
lol dude this is a work of fiction, so many inaccuracies…
academy - played all positions except gk, and was good. moving through youth categories there was one coach that didn’t like him and g thought about quitting football, then another coach recognized he’s absolutely best at cb and he actually said at the time that if g doesn’t become an excellent cb he’ll quit coaching and everyone who coached him should end up in jail for failing at their jobs.
senior career - joined first team as a cb. sold to leipzig as a cb. loan to dinamo agreed until upamecano leaves, played second season as lb cause of dinamo’s plans.
total: 10 games more at lb than cb for dinamo zagreb.
2 seasons in germany - played 7 games out of 86 or 87 as lb, everything else as cb. lb games when he arrived from zagreb.
second season zero games as lb.
he was asked many times about the cb/lb thing, every single time the reply was “i am a natural cb, that is my position. i will play any position that my coach asks me to play and do my best”
an interview was filmed after return from abu dhabi and aired yesterday before the game in croatia. he still refers to himself as cb. his fave city game was when he played cb. if he had to ask one city player to be his mentor it would be ruben because “we play in the same position”.
if pep asks him to be a gk he will get those gloves and work hard, he will still be a cb though.
hope this helps