Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
That's my one doubt about this signing - "box to box midfielders" tend to spend their time closer to one of the boxes than the other after they hit thirty, you don't get too many of them making those late runs to join in with attacks once they leave their twenties behind. Frank Lampard was an exception, but I'd argue that he was one of those rare examples whose defensive workload decreased as he got older because he was so good at the attacking part of his job.