Why do we REALLY need a right back with attacking qualities in summer?

In my opinion, the answer is only one:
Because it’s much easier to improve your defensive qualities than your attacking qualities.

[A thread, this is only my opinion]

Attacking RBs tend to be technical, skillful, pacey, have a very good crossing, a good workrate due to their speed. But they’re sometimes not good defensively.
Defending RBs do the defensive duties much better than the attacking RBs, but can also organize the team from the back.

If we’re going to buy an attacking RB, we need to improve his defensive qualities, which I believe are much easier to improve than the attacking qualities of a defensive RB. Why? I’ll explain below.

In our case, we have Benjamin Pavard, and our rumored RBs, who are naturally attacking RBs, Hakimi and Dest. Many people argue we need a RB with also defensive qualities because Dest and Hakimi aren’t.

Benjamin Pavard is in the defensive RBs category. And, judging by the game he makes, he is not technical, he is not pacey, doesn’t have much speed or dribbling, he has a good crossing though, has done an immense defensive duty and tracks back a lot.

But the thing is, that Pavard cannot improve his technicality, dribbling or become pacey & skillful, because the reason is simple, Pavard is not naturally gifted.

While Hakimi and Dest are naturally gifted, you can see that from their game. They can easily improve their defensive qualities, because same as Pavard, who has improved his fitness and workrate a lot under Flick, one of these ^ RBs can also improve their training & use their ...

... pace and speed similar to Davies to track back and defend.

With Gnabry, Coman, Davies, and possibly Sane, we have a lot of pace. It’s easy to improve your defensive qualities by training against them, and as soon as you’re determined and trained enough to get the ball first

For example, Thiago has scored a duel-win rate of 61% this season in the league, which is higher than the previous seasons where he had scored in between the 50-55% duel win rate.

Lewandowski, this season he scores a 52% duel win rate compared to 18-19 (48%), 17-18 (39%), or 16-17 (44%). Another example is also Muller, has improved per game tackling rate. 0.8 in 15-16, 0.5 in 16-17, 1.2 in 17-18, 1.3 in 18-19 and 1.4 tackles per game in 2019-20 season.

According to this stats, Pavard has very good stats in accurate long balls. But in general, even without stats, Pavard is a very good passer and crosser. We’ve all seen that. Also, he has a very good eye of scoring screamers from distance. https://twitter.com/Silo_SZN/status/1253730328780341249

Therefore, also, I don’t see the need of another additional CB like Upamecano in the team because I feel that Pavard can easily cover that position well. He has qualities for that. He has also expressed it that he feels more comfortable as a CB because of his defensive qualities.

As stats showed, but even his passing game in general which I believe is absolutely improving and spot on, I believe he can be a very reliable ball playing CB like Boateng. That would suit him much better than playing as a RB (although I think he's done a good job there)

This is why I think we need an attacking RB rather than another defensive RB or even keep Pavard at RB. Davies is also naturally gifted and skillful and very good at defending. Which totally suits our current game in the flanks and it’s also seen how extraordinary well he’s done.

Achraf Hakimi, Sergino Dest, or whoever that attacking RB is, bring him here.

End of thread, your opinions are welcome. Agreements or disagreements are welcome. If you have something to correct me on feel free to do it. As I’ve stated in the beginning this is ONLY my view.