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Yes you’ve got the point. A DLP is what we needed alongside a DM, with both playing behind an AM. No box to box non-technical boring ****.Where do I say I want someone who lack those skills? However having those skills without at least decent physicality means a handicapped player.
A team must be balanced in physicality, mentality, technicality with sound tactics to function better than the sum of its parts. And of the current squad taken to USA a glaring lack of physicality is clear to see in its spine of CF, CM and CB. Tonali or Cuisance from what I have read about them is just younger Xhakas, they may grow to be better but they are Deep Lying Playmakers in FM speak.
Look at our succesful years 98-05 CMs, most have good blend of technical, physical, and mental skills. They were skillfull bullies teams hate to play against. Even then back ups like Parlour and Edu will improve our current midfield. We need to have at least 1 CM of their kind.
Agree though we need to replace Xhaka he is too immobile, with less than stellar positioning/awareness thus his mistakes happened.
99% box to box or ball carrier lack those skills. You did mentioned Iwobi and willock. And someone mentioned AMN too. They lack those skills.
A team need to be balanced in physicality. Absolutely. That’s why we need big/strong defensive midfielders and defenders.
We replace Xhaka because he sometimes make careless mistakes. Not because that he is immobile, Xavi, Alonso, Pirlo, Kroos, Scholes, Carrick.....they are all immobile.
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