If you'd have asked 100 Manchester United supporters what the club's biggest need was ahead of the most recent transfer window, you could have guaranteed that 99 of them would have given you the same answer.
United's need to recruit a defensive-midfielder this summer just gone was blindingly obvious as soon as the shutters came down on the summer window last year, such was the need to improve that area of the team.
It was a weakness that plagued the club throughout last season, so much so that it became an obvious issue to even those who don't support or watch United religiously.
The Reds were regularly beaten up and spat back out in midfield, being overrun and destroyed in most games they played, not least against the likes of Liverpool and Manchester City.