I agree completely with all of this in general terms, but I think Wanyama - a proper half decent, footballing busy 6/dm is actually even more of a miss than Dembele. Dembele was here before we had Wanyama, and after we lost him through long term I jury and we were never as good as that 16/17 with Wanyama anchoring everything, hunting and gathering everything in sight.
If we had that Wanyama now we could have NDombele, Skipp, Winks, LoCelso, Eriksen, Alli as two 8’s either side and it would be a pretty formidable footballing midfield.
But the fact that we don’t have a proper 6/dm renders all the other components compromised