"In this moment I see him playing up front because he is dynamic, the sense of goal, he helps us with the first pressure and then afterwards backwards," said Pep Guardiola of Phil Foden in December 2020.
For a player who broke through the ranks as a central, or attacking, midfielder, Guardiola quickly decided that Foden's best position for his immediate development in the first team was in the attacking three positions.
And in the following year or so, it's a strategy that has emphatically worked. Foden played a starring role in City's Premier League title win last season as a winger, and showed his quality in the Champions League run to the final as he scored vital goals against Borussia Dortmund and started in the final.
