ive never said anything is fact
Nothing anyone on here says is fact
Rico is not good enough to play the classic right back role either so while I agree with you broadly that its not his fault he is neither good enough for the role he is being asked to play or as a more standard right back.
And while he is not at "fault" it is him losing the ball in the attacking third causing counters, it is him who cant make recovery runs and it is him who goes for crosses with the wrong foot and misses the ball. It is also him that gets bullied off the ball regularly.
Our issues are not completely on Rico Lewis (and no one has said that this is the case) but he the issue is that he is not good enough is part of the problem.
Of course people on here quote facts. It's a fact that today is Wednesday in the UK. It's a fact that our No 1 keeper over the last decade has been Ederson. It's a fact that Guardiola is our manager.
When Lewis is selected, what role is he usually selected to play?
When you say
"him losing the ball in the attacking third causing counters", surely the solution is to not play Lewis & we'll never lose the ball in the attacking third right?
The fact you're overlooking is Lewis is the only player tasked with covering 4 positions when he plays. When/if an attack breaks down, it's not his job to magically appear in the RB position he's vacated in order to carry out his unique role.
That task falls to the right CB. The No 6 will drop into central defence alongside the left CB, with the left back covering his base. When Lewis has retreated, the No 6 will edge forward to form a shield in front of the defence, the right CB will move back into position & Lewis will move to RB. That is the tactical positional movements of having an inverted RB.
In terms of comparisons, Pep has publicly stated that Nunes doesn't possess the intelligence to play centrally. When selected to play RB, Nunes plays as a traditional over/underlapping RB, but Lewis is usually always tasked with the far more complex inverted RB, which is a totally different defensive discipline.
I get it. You don't rate Lewis, but you don't seem to be able to fundamentally explain exactly why apart from believing
"he is not good enough".
You're judging Lewis in the unique role he, & he alone is tasked to play, but I think you're judging him harshly as I guess you don't fully understand what his inverted FB role entails.
OK, if Pep is to persist with the inverted FB role & you don't think Lewis is
"good enough", can you give me a list of players who are good enough to play that unique inverted RB role, & also cite examples of them doing it successfully, where Lewis has failed?
We've got until 5pm Monday to identify these better inverted RB's than Lewis & buy them, as they certainly don't exist amongst our current squad.
