In several games last season our midfield looked like it wasn't there. A lot of that was down to the 2 man midfield we often played, but it was also down to energy and workrate. The rag teams that have won the title have included players like John O'Shea and Wes Brown. It's about finding the players that allow the team to play its best football. Zuculini, and Delph are players that will hustle the opposition, they have a lot of energy and okay, we've not seen enough to suggest he would have won us the league, but adding energy into the midfield areas would have helped us become a more solid proposition last season.
We were a rarity last season, in that we scored the most goals but didn't win the league. Why? Because we conceded too many. We create plenty of opportunities and we score lots of goals. Balance is key, and that was least seen in the middle of the park. Whilst Pogba is a class act, and so is Yaya, to get the best out of them you have to have those players working themselves into the ground around them. We didn't have that last season. From the little we've seen of Zuculini you know he will put that effort in, and so will Delph.
The Jimmy Milner style players won't win awards but they will help teams win titles.