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You can't really have somebody coming in who was sort of earmarked as the

understudy who's going to come in and learn on the job. You do almost need that

plug and play for being your replacement now and that feels to me like the

the alteration in the strategy anyway and as you also said again like we're going to be well versed on

some of the midfielders that are knocking around in Europe and indeed

world football because God only knows we've needed one for a while. So I wanted to touch on first. The four names that have been

sort of most bandied about over the recent days when

James Pierce and Melissa ready both mentioned the same four.

It was Romeo Lavey obviously we know a lot about Ryan Grab and Virtue you mentioned

there Calvin Phillips was an interesting addition to this and

Sothrion Amrabat who obviously had the wonderful World Cup was the talk of the town

essentially in January but didn't move anywhere and seems to remain on the radar anyway.

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