We have a collection of wide forwards (not wingers, certainly not in a traditional 4-4-2 shape) at the club, most of whom have been (or will be, in Trincao's case) brought in at high cost. Rayan Ait-Nouri is never going to be cut out to play that kind of role and furthermore why would we have him leapfrog a number of first team players who actually play in that position?
Bale is very much the exception to the rule. Time and time again you hear it about attacking full backs, "I'd play him further forward", and the skills required are so different, the runs made from such a different position, the demands in terms of end product that much greater, that it doesn't work at all. We had it with England and Wayne Bridge/Ashley Cole for a while when we couldn't seem to find a proper left sided midfielder. Tried it a couple of times, load of rubbish. As I say people kept banging on about it with Naylor for years and years here, thankfully even our rubbish managers didn't go down that road.
Trent Alexander-Arnold is an absolute assist machine with bags of pace, bet you if Mo Salah gets injured that Jürgen Klopp doesn't decide to leave out actual forwards to replace him and put Trent on the right of the front three instead. Because he probably wouldn't be any good and it'd also be a ridiculous waste of the squad.
