Moby
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I get the outball from the back is there but I was referring to controlling the midfield for which you'd need a different kind of CM than the three you have who all overlap a fair bit in what they bring to the pitch.With the ball Popescu performs as a DLP. Not Guardiola/Pirlo levels, but he can ping balls around at ease at Carrick level (or Scirea, if I may, his delta relative to Popescu being defensive but not in this function). You don't need a lot more than that with Zanetti and Krol flying down the flanks and Nedved/Futre taking on the creative onus further up the pitch.