I'm mentioning our midfield as our central midfielders are the players he is being directly compared with.
Would it not be odd to debate whether a player is better than your current players without mentioning or thinking about them?
Your car analogy might work if I thought Arter was the same standard of car. If you swapped your really crap car for a slightly less crap one with no other alternative then that would be closer to my thinking. I think it would be an improvement. Our current midfield does not function. I think Arter would improve it.