I get your point but I think the fact that you frame a positive upshot of Eriksen leaving as Dier and Wanyama getting more game time says all we need to know. Those players are in no way, shape or form, able to replicate what Eriksen does for us. We need to be less ploddy not more. Of course Skipp is capable of playing more, I hope he does. But not in Eriksen's role.
Lo Celso looks exciting, but the point is if Eriksen goes now, he becomes his straight up replacement and that is risky. Especially as he seems a somewhat different type of player. We've even seen Lamela in a 10 role (where many thought he might work better) and the dropoff from Eriksen is pretty large.
I am not arguing that Eriksen isn't important. At his best due to the position he is playing he might even have been our most important player (Son can replace Kane for spells and we have coped defensively with Alderweireld or Vertonghen out). As argued earlier hopefully he will be less important with N'Dombele and Lo Celso.
But to me some people are underestimating how much money 40-50m is. That is close to a Pepe from a team not playing CL.
If we end up with Dier playing 5 more games because Eriksen is gone - then that is not worth 40-50m to me.
I wanted 2 things from this window. N'Dombele and Eriksen staying. That is how highly I rate Eriksen. But I still don't want to basically pay a loan fee of 40-50m for 1 year of Eriksen - which is basically what we might end up doing (even if ITK suggests Levy will not allow that to happen - I am unsure how he can force it if Eriksen doesn't want to leave now, but we'll see).
I still pray he'll sign. Even if it is with a low release clause.