He’s a winger and a bloody good one.
He would be much more effective higher up the pitch. Wasted at the silly position which is wing back.
He's wasted in a defensive role. When Sheaf is back, let him run free behind the strikers.
He does, if Robins plays him as an attacking midfielder. A role he's played exactly 50 times in his career.
Robins needs to find him a place on the team. Works hard, great close control, disciplined, attacking threat. Looked much better on the left side and balanced out well with MVE. I like JDS defensively but he’s attacking threat isn’t that good.
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Sakamoto performance today will give Mark Robins something to think about
and he now has 2 weeks to decide, left, right or attacking midfield. 
Just call me Jamie Alkhen... Tenacious, effective but with obvious shortcomings (just ask my wife)
Was on GMK but never lived local enough to Coventry to play 5-side
Just don't think he'd be anywhere near as effective in an AM role. His strength is stopping the ball, using feints then going past players. Can't really do that in the middle, and he's a too lightweight to hold off players behind him
Saka was incredible today, put in an absolute shift, easily man of the match for me.
Played there loads before.
The problem is, we're asking him to defend. He's consuming energy getting back. Imagine having him at full speed going forward playing one-twos with O'Hare/Ayari/Sheaf etc.
His selection is wasted in whatever position when it becomes apparent that the referee's grandfather was forced into labour on the Burmese railway during WW2.
Not saying he can't, just a very different role to what we've (me anyway) seen him doing. In a box mid he could always drift out wide. I'd be disappointed not seeing him doing the classic fake cross with the left and shift it onto his right