- Jul 28, 2004
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Agree with all you say in terms of the skill set and position we need, but the issue with Modric is he’s about to be 33. That isn’t to say Modric isn’t still more than good enough, he’s a great player who would improve us. However, whoever comes in to compete with, then bit by bit replace Dembele, needs to have a good few years ahead of him still or we’ll just need to buy two more in a while.he might be in good form atm but it's evident he can't play every game I'm a big fan of Dembele but I think we need to use him sparingly from now on. CM would be the first position I'd be looking to strengthen, and a player with Modric's skillset feeding the runs and movement of our front four would take us to another level imo. It might also stop Dier trying to play like Pirlo which he clearly can't.
If it looked like either Winks or Onomah, or preferably both, were up to task but merely needed more time to be ready, then Modric or similar would be fine. Sadly I don’t think we can bank on either ever realistically being good enough to be first choice. Ergo, any new number 8 needs to be the right side of his prime.