Townsend, Defoe, Soldado, and Lennon, yes. Add Paulinho to that list, as well.
Lamela hardly featured for us, and Holtby spent one half of the season on the bench and the other half out on loan, so I don't think you can blame either of them for the issues in our play last season.
Maybe you were watching a different team last season. What I saw, and what I saw everyone else despairing over, was a side packed full of such physical midfielders, with no balance whatsoever. Eriksen aside, we played a significant amount of the season without any creative players.
As you say, what we need is balance, but in no way are the sides that you've been recommending balanced.
Kyle Walker has never played as an AM for Spurs either, but that doesn't mean that it's worthwhile trying it out.
Dembele has said himself that he's not comfortable in the final third, that his role is to play deep, and with Eriksen in the side, there's no way that Dembele should start in the middle of an attacking three. Eriksen is a natural for that role, and if you want to shunt him off to the wing like Sherwood did then you're just creating imbalance in the playing formation, exposing the man at left back.
We just played most of a season with sides like this:
[formation=433, Lloris, Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Rose, Paulinho, Sandro, Dembele, Lennon, Adebayor, Eriksen][/formation]... and you're complaining about too much "frilly fucking wankery" and a lack of physicality. You're either drunk, high, or both.