Machiavelli
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Beyond their dreadful goalscoring record, our CMs are now really shaping up. With a bit of luck we're evolving such that we play with one sitting, and then two who play a bit further forward/have license to roam/box-to-box style. Gross, Propper and Bissouma are best suited to the latter role and, if this is indeed how are CM is evolving, need to start chipping in with more goals and assists. As much as I liked Propper on the ball against Bournemouth, he's not up to what Stephens does as a sitting midfielder defensively. Again, if we are evolving to play with two more advanced/box-to-box in CM, this means that we no longer need to get another ACM but we need to get a DCM to challenge Stephens. If Delaney is still on our radar, affordable and available, he'd fit the bill but otherwise someone similar in style and perhaps younger/with potential (a la Torreira).
