Having a MF, a proper MF does not equal all out attack. Have you ever played football. It's not attack v defense. Having a MF, a functioning and competent MF means you defend as a team and attack as a team. You have balance and you can control games.
Ive never said we need another striker i said we need an attacking expansive MF to keep possession make teams defend and allow us to play football.
Every fn week when we get the ball you have Kane son perisic Doc and normally one other player on the shoulders of defenders. Meanwhile we have the fn ball in the MF or defence with players who can't do shit with it. Teams know to defend, press high then if we beat the press, defend deep leaving no gaps behind.
As for the Barca team er what? xavi iniesta mascherano - that's a MF that wins the ball, controls the ball, passes the ball defends when not with the ball.
The Iniesta and Xavis press was phenomenal and when you lost the ball to them - invariably you lost a goal.
We are overrun out played and probably exhausted in MF