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Seeing West Ham sign Kevin Phillips is another reminder of how weak we are in centre midfield. They now have him, JWP, Soucek and Alvarez. Four really solid experience midfielders. We have Gross and Gilmour . Baleba isn’t ready and Dahoud is completely out of the picture. It’s no wonder...

He’s a ball playing midfielder. Caicedo was a defensive midfielder. He doesn’t have the pace, power or tackling ability to be a defensive midfielder. The reason we spent £21m on an unproven youngster in Baleba is we really needed a defensive midfielder. If Gilmour had those qualities we...

Billy Gilmour isn’t a defensive midfielder.

For me the sqaud is unbalanced. Having ‘numbers’ isn’t enough. For example we have almost unlimited number tens (Gross, Lallana, Pedro, Buonanotte, Fati, Ensico) but no PL ready defensive midfielder. We have four/five centre halves all at a high level but no fit right winger. All this...

RDZ said in the summer we needed another winger, we didn’t sign one. Yes we got Fati but he’s not a winger. Then March gets ruled out for the season and the need became even more pronounced. As always when there’s even the slightest hint of criticism of Bloom or the club people get very...