Someone like Matic would have been perfect. I'm not sure who else would be available in the DM position now though that would be good enough?
Schneiderlein for one
You do realise that if we went for him you'd get the usual 'why do we only buy Southampton and Swansea players' comments.
Well, we bought 3 players from Southampton and my point is, Schnederlain should have been the first one we approached as we needed a DM more than an AM and a 3rd striker (I don't think Lambert was bought to replace Suarez that is)
I agree (again). I do think Lallana was worth a buy especially as Coutinho only turns up once a month. I can see why we bought Lovren but maybe not at the expense of Agger and Lambert is good back up.
Lucas is ok but like vish said why did we not pay top dollar to sign a pure Dm that is athletic enough to cover the whole field. Lucas was easily passed on some occassions because his speed is gone. There is a fantastic Dm in the portugese league I think his name is Carvelho. Similar to The Dms city has and probably even better. Paying 24, 30 or is it 41m? I don't know but paying that sum to buy an average english player was stupid.
