Ideally, our starting trio in midfield should be Locatelli, Arthur, and Aouar/Pogba, with McNuggets used in rotation. As I said, I'm still not sold on Arthur, but he offers something none of our other mids can. That midfield is still nowhere near Marchisio, Vidal, Pogba and Pirlo level, but I've made peace with the fact that we're never getting anything like that, at least for the next decade. However, the drop off can't be as massive as it has been, and that's on both Magotta before and Tootsie and Bozo now. You can substitute steak or lobster for roasted duck, but the drop off shouldn't be from steak or lobster to instant noodles and rice porridge (which is what our current midfield is).