Next season Delph will take the third/last resort leftback spot.
He's done a job this season but he's by no means a starter when Mendy comes back. Coupled with the fact Pep is on record for saying with Delph at LB he had to alter how he wished to play. Folk are seeing something that's not there, perhaps through blue tinted specs admittedly. He's no better than Milner playing there for Liverpool; solid but not the answer.
The Alves transfer messed up the full back plans hence why he's being played there in the first place; same with Zinchenko. Had we been able to get another LB in like the club clearly planned to do, neither would have been put in that position in the first place. That will be rectified this summer with a new LB coming in and Bertrand is a great option to rotate with Mendy. A Danilo to his Walker.
With Zinchenko taking up a foreign spot, and well down the pecking order in any position you choose to look at, he'll be gone. It's only logical to look for a new LB that doesn't compromise how we play: when in crisis, at least we know Delph can stand in but that's it.
I await the "name a better LB...", I've said for years, it's a position filled with mostly tripe up and down the league. Bertrand would be one of the few natural LBs that would justify a spot in this squad.
He's done a job this season but he's by no means a starter when Mendy comes back. Coupled with the fact Pep is on record for saying with Delph at LB he had to alter how he wished to play. Folk are seeing something that's not there, perhaps through blue tinted specs admittedly. He's no better than Milner playing there for Liverpool; solid but not the answer.
The Alves transfer messed up the full back plans hence why he's being played there in the first place; same with Zinchenko. Had we been able to get another LB in like the club clearly planned to do, neither would have been put in that position in the first place. That will be rectified this summer with a new LB coming in and Bertrand is a great option to rotate with Mendy. A Danilo to his Walker.
With Zinchenko taking up a foreign spot, and well down the pecking order in any position you choose to look at, he'll be gone. It's only logical to look for a new LB that doesn't compromise how we play: when in crisis, at least we know Delph can stand in but that's it.
I await the "name a better LB...", I've said for years, it's a position filled with mostly tripe up and down the league. Bertrand would be one of the few natural LBs that would justify a spot in this squad.