Kounde finds happiness in new role as Barcelona defender

He expressed, "I believe there may have been a misunderstanding among those outside of the situation regarding the expectations the coach had for me and the type of player I was."

“I’m not a right-back by training. Sometimes we can put up barriers. It’s no secret, it’s a position that took me a while to get used to, but I was always confident that with work I would do it.

"It was not a natural position for me and, although I worked a lot, it was something that was going to take time.”