Former Chelsea goalkeeper Rob Green believes Blues stopper Kepa Arrizabalaga is good enough with the ball at his feet that he could play as a central midfielder.
Green, who has only recently retired from the game after making 241 appearances in the Premier League, spent last season working alongside Arrizabalaga at Stamford Bridge.
And when asked on BBC Five Live about how modern goalkeeping has changed, Green went on to reflect on the changes as well as waxing lyrical about his former team-mate.
"The expectation of playing out from the back and how to do it," the former England international said.
"He (Kepa) puts the ball down, right foot, left foot, and will ping a perfect pass into the path of the full back whose making a run down the wing.
"You go wow, he could play in centre midfield.
"You go back to when someone like Barthez, with United years ago, well he actually plays out in training, Kepa could do that and hold his own no problem.
"Willy Caballero is also excellent at playing out from the back with his feet.
"That's what the expectation is now, and that's what you get brought up on in academy structures and that's the way its gone forward.
"I remember not having the back-pass rule, that's a) how old I am and b) how much it's changed.
"They'll say: I'll get one in a thousand wrong or one a season wrong, but the way we're playing, it's a fundamental (part) of how we're going to play and that one a season, yeah, we'll take that on the chin."
