In my opinion, left backs I currently rate as good or better than Mendy include:I know you are an avid viewer of other leagues. Which other players would you rather we went for? At least I know one from reading your posts -- Bernat. Personally I would have loved to have Theo Hernandez or Alex Sandro but we seem to have moved on from those targets. So who do you have in mind?
Grimaldo, Jonas Hector, Juan Bernat, Theo*, Rose, Sessegnon*,
The guys in asterix I'll take on potential.
But in all honesty, I don't think Mendy stands out above 15 to 20 other less popular LBs who didn't play on a darling team. But the above I'll definitely rate as good or better.
I thought we agreed to not use the "but Guardiola thinks so" argument against each other :-)Obviously the people who matter disagree, or they'd be pursuing Bernat, a player who'll move for 1/4 the price.
If Guardiola is so keen to get himk rather than a player he already knows very well, he obviously doesn't share your opinion. Either he thinks Mendy has the potential to be very special, or Bernat is bang average.