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Carroll, Bentaleb, Luongo etc.
A Cm group of those three plus Sandro, Dembele, Paulinho would be perfectly adequate.
Same thinking as you although I think may be a bit too early for Bentaleb.
If we assume 433. Midfield 3 options of Sandro, Dembele, Carroll, Holtby, Sigurdsson, Paulinho with Luongo backup has plenty of depth. Carroll has the potential to be a very good lock pick and with those players around him next season is a great opportunity to give him his chances. I won't profess to knowing too much Paulinho bar the videos and reports, but it seems all of them will have high workrate and they can all pick a pass. Even Luongo.
We won't give Carroll the chance to be our creative player. AVB doesn't seem to trust youngsters
Unfair on AVB. He's had 4 seasons with 4 different clubs, and so it's not much of a timescale to develop players. Won't touch on Academia as know nothing about it. But at Porto when he played his stars and experience he went unbeaten and won a treble.
Chelsea he played youngsters instead of experience and got sacked.
Here he is under massive pressure straight away for various reason, and had a bad experience at Chelsea, think there's enough reasons for him not to experiment with youngsters. Only disappointment was Carroll not getting more game time instead of Thud. Next season will be a better time to judge whether he trusts youngsters.