Left back options

As we all (including the club) seem to be focussing on the spine of the side in terms of the summer’s transfer business - who will replace Varane at CB, replace Casemiro at CM, and fill Martial’s squad berth - there hasn’t been as much discussion about the LB situation on here.

For me, it’s the fourth priority after the three positions listed above, but still a must in terms of summer strengthening. Shaw plainly can’t be relied on to be available and Malacia remains somewhere between an unknown quantity at best, and eminently unconvincing at worst (even if he can get over his own injury issue). So we need an LB brought in who is ready to play 40+ games across competitions covering for worst-case Shaw, who is able to build relationships with Rashford, Garnacho and Bruno, and who is able offer an offensive threat of his own.

There are two roles the transfer team might consider when examining targets depending on how Ten Hag wants to develop our play: a player best suited to playing inside in an inverted role during the buildup, working as we’ve seen Shaw (and latterly Dalot on the other side) do, working triangles with the wide forward and Bruno to try to play a runner in behind; or a more old-fashioned overlapping fullback, who might help provide space for Rashford or Garnacho inside and deliver cutbacks from the byline to runners crashing the box. Obviously, there might be select players about who might be capable of playing both ways.

Again, for me, if Dalot is going to be the default choice at RB, to offer a bit of balance we might look at a player who is on the ball more of a ball-carrier and overlapping/crossing threat, and off the ball has a decent awareness of counterattacking threats and the pace and technical ability to deal with the same (as well as exploiting space when we switch play during the offensive transition). Or, in other words, a bit more of an Evra than a Shaw. (With both Shaw and the new signing fit, this would also give us the ability to use a horses-for-courses approach or mix things up from the bench.)

As to potential targets, where to start? Given that you’d think the bulk of the relatively limited amount of cash available is going to be spent on CB, CF, and (hopefully) CM, we clearly aren’t going to be talking about prising Theo Hernandez away from Milan or Alex Grimaldo from Leverkusen.

I’m interested to hear others’ ideas/ideal picks, because it’s quite a tricky one this, but I’d offer one slightly left-field choice: Antonee Robinson at Fulham.
Always available (a quick look at his history shows he hasn’t missed more than a few games through injury the last five seasons, which has to be key for us given the other two options), bags of pace and stamina, offers a real attacking threat, tidy with the ball at his feet, should be approaching his prime, and looks like he should be relatively affordable.

Anyone else a fan? Who is on everyone else’s list?