Alvaro Pereira or "El Palito", FC Porto's next great sale?

By Dominic Vieira, writing from Slovakia

Not many kids want to play as a left-back, but they'll settle for the right-back position; we simply all want to attack. This is why the search for a quality left-back is an everlasting all night long headache, there aren't many. The shortage of this position has cultivated wingers into full-backs and the transformations have been successful in the modern game, Patrice Evra and Fabio Coentrao are prime examples.

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