What are they basing this on? Inverted full back from 830 minutes of footage mainly from 2019? Has the bold Arteta seen something that ETH and every other coach and manager this lad has had missed? Pull the other one.
If Gabriel goes it makes sense. But it makes no sense to sign an out and out centre back who has temporarily filled in at full back to be either our first choice left back or backup to an injury prone Tierney. And it makes no sense to spend near 40m on a 2nd choice left sided centre back. It makes sense if he is first choice - but then you get into the house of cards of our over expenditure on defence and our limp attack.
For me nothing about this makes sense.
Based on his passing? Statistically he ranks as one of the best passing CBs in Europe, so using him at LB and then being an extra man in midfield in possession is hardly reinventing the wheel. No more groundbreaking than someone like Kyle Walker going from an up and down fullback to being an inverted fullback for City.