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If you don’t include the ones with huge loan fees like Morata, then the last ones I can think of were Howedes and Romulo.

But we can play all of these central midfielders on the wing so we’ll be fine. Next we can try McKennie at full back if we need to cover there when De sciglio and Sandro get injured.

Then why not accept this as another transition year where our 2 key players are likely to be out for half the season, so we aren’t challenging for anything other than top 4 and maybe the coppa, instead of bringing in more injury prone players on high-ish wages, and loan obligations fucking up...

Quite common with sportsmen. No injuries for a long period/ majority of their career. One big muscle injury, then causes imbalances elsewhere. Then a combination of first injury keeps recurring, knock on effects elsewhere, mental impact with the feeling of infallibility gone.

Whilst I also believe Locatelli is a more natural box to box mid, last season I thought he performed better as a deep lying/holding midfielder than the few times he did play in a more advanced role. That could be down to the fact when he pushed forward it was Arthur playing the holding mid role...

I agree, but it appears the club have decided to look at that void next season when Alex Sandro and his wages are finally off the books. The next gaping hole is the LW position if we’re going 4-3-3 imo. What’s the plan, wait for Chiesa to be fit, play Kean there, buy Morata? Play Rabbit or Pogba...