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Not splitting hairs. Lo celso would be competition for both winks and eriksen. As would probably grealish and barkley. We were after ndombele last summer too.
Why would he be competition for Winks? First of all Winks has been somewhere between a CM and a quasi DM. He hasn't ventured up too much and he hasn't been a defensive stalwart,he has just been steady. Without NDombele,Winks would have been forced to play a more CM role a bit more forward than he has played but now with NDombele Im not sure it will work the same way.
Lo Celso looks much more of an AM to me and probably similar to where Grealish plays.
To pay 60 mil or whatever for NDombele and then a similar figure for Lo Celso if Eriksen signs and be light in other positions is madness. On the other hand if Eriksen goes Lo Celso would be as best a replacement as we could get.
Maybe levy his hedging his bet here but its a hell of a lot of money if Eriksen signs to have him sit on the bench. He could play him as a CM with Ndombele as a DM, maybe thats the plan and maybe that could work