Perhaps. The strange thing is that we’ve been linked with him at different stages of his development for nearly 5 years. I’m still not convinced he’d be an effective fullback in the traditional sense, but if Guardiola is planning to invert more, then someone who could come in off either flank and be equally proficient would be understandable. If that is the idea, however, I’m not sure why we didn’t go for him last summer when we could have got him much more cheaply. Instead, we spent a summer in pursuit of the hirsute, which probably distracted us.