Pep Guardiola is only in the door five minutes at Manchester City and he's already trying to imprint his very specific philosophy of how to play football - by turning Fabian Delph into a centre-back.
The Spanish coach officially took the reigns at City last week, and has been coaching the Premier League club's array of stars to play football the way he likes it to be played.
And there are suggestions that could involved Delph - and possibly fellow midfielder Fernando - making the move from the middle of the park into the back four.
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During training this week, Guardiola has been separating his squad into their corresponding positions; the defenders all training together, the midfielders training together etc.
Rather than joining in with the midfield group, Delph and Fernando have been put with the defenders:
At Barcelona, Guardiola developed midfielder Javier Mascherano into one of his first-choice centre-backs, and he did the same at Bayern Munich with Xabi Alonso at times.
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