CRIMHEAD
Player Valuation: £40m
I would rather have Barkley in this team but on the flip side of that if we'd had Sigurdsson in Martinez 1st season I think we would definitely have finished 4th. He would have combined with Lukaku better and set up and scored more goals. If he's going to be the main man we need a striker who has the right skillset.
Barkely just doesn't have a position. He wants to hold the ball, he doesn't run with it like he did when he first came up, so he wants to play like a holding mid, but wno't tackle or play defense. He's clueless positionally in any system. Siggy is just a better fit for what Silva wants to do. Siggy probably gives it up a few too many times for his liking, but when he doesn't, he pulls off passes and shots that others cannot.