You may or may not be right, but don’t we need to keep the WBA/Derby/Millwall matches out of this? We only want to look at how our CM is doing in PL matches ... not very well.
The question is then, how to do we become a team that isn’t pedestrian?
How many of our squad have the pace to consistently trouble their opposite numbers in PL matches? Andone and Izquierdo?
If you’re saying we need to buy first teamers with true pace, I agree. But also with the ability to...
Playing both Propper and Stephens gives our CM no pace, little mobility, no ball retention and next to no instinctive creativity (making big chances for others). Stains cottoned on to that and swamped them with simply better players.
To end this pattern, the club will hopefully sign new CM’ers...