There is a rather linear debate about Trent Alexander-Arnold's game at Liverpool: is he a full-back or a central midfielder? Yet, why the rush to find an answer to this question? Jurgen Klopp doesn't feel the need to, and we should sit back and enjoy watching the English international rewrite the script at Anfield.
Alexander-Arnold is a rare player, he has the talent to be pretty much effective anywhere on the pitch, which is rare for an English player.
Throughout history football has marvelled at players who can do the things Alexander-Arnold is able to, just look at how highly Joshua Kimmich is regarded at Bayern Munich and in Germany, Philipp Lahm before him, however in England there is almost a suspicion of these talents.
English football can be too regimented
One of the problems with football in England is the rush to label a player, put them in a bracket and keep them there. We see it at the most basic levels of youth football, telling a 10-year-old they're a defender or a forward.
In reality, fluid talents such as Alexander-Arnold need to be nurtured and embraced, for the betterment of the national game if anything.
It's telling that Klopp is so mystified
To a German coach, having a player with these attributes isn't surprising, he just expects it of the Liverpool academy graduate.
"I don't know anybody who's like Trent who is a right-back and is that decisive and influential and all these kind of things," Klopp detailed to SI.
"The package of Trent is insane.
"Honestly, I thought he played outstandingly well defensively last night. So it is really good what Trent did there against him and how he kept him busy defensively and where he showed up."