Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
Read the OP again. We could be back in the championship having spent 50m and only have 1 central midfielder, not a very good one, who come through the ranks.

The money has not been spent well.
Agreed.

What is it about centre midfield that we've never really got right? I reckon that Scimeca and McPhail was arguably our best centre midfield partnership in recent times. We've never had someone as comfortable on the ball and with as keen an eye for a pass as McPhail in over a decade. Saying that, we've never really had a front two like Bothroyd and Chopra either.

We always seem to prefer grafters in the middle instead of footballers. I recall lengthy debates with Sludge back in the day over his idol Willie Boland.