I’m surprised given our lack of RBs that Valery hasn’t been seeing a bit more game time, even just to see if he’s ready to be back up RB this season. Thought he was highly rated. I don’t see the point in JWP playing there as he has done in pre season, because I’d hope that he never has to play there in an actual game.
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He has definitely played RWB before in the PL though it was quite a while back and i think due to injury.
I could see JWP as a back up to Cedric at RWB might not be as good defensively, but going forward and crossing he would be an asset.
Ok, as a last resort. But he’s no more than a temporary stop gap in that position, I’d far rather see Valery given a go at RB in pre season.
RWB is a slightly different role to RB because you have cover behind from the RCB and have licence to bomb forward more to provide the width. I think a decent RM should be able to adapt to RWB easily enough personally.