Good post, but It has been the case for the last 2 years. There has been plenty of thread regarding this matter (double pivot,midfield problem). I am pretty sure our team knows this but like what MU found out, it is not easy to find a good midfielder. The problem is availability. We don't need pure holding player because we have mikel. We don't need a high energy box to box player because we have ramires. What we actually need is their partner (lampard "replacement"). Maybe we can hack andres herrera, but I do not watch bilbao game often to know whether he is good enough for us or not.