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Lo Celso can absolutely do that easily. Ndombele if fit easily as well.I think it's very useful to have a player like him in the squad as he can slow the play down, pass under pressure and retain the ball. We don't have any other midfielders who have that same metronomic ability as Winks and he's great if you want to play keep-ball or hold onto a lead.
The problem is, when you put him in a 2 alongside another risk averse player like Sissoko, we don't have anyone to link the midfield and attack, and if you play him deeper he lacks the steel and defensive nous to properly cover the back 4.
Like you said, in the right system or squad he'd make more sense, but given our deficiencies and more reactive style of play his skillset just doesn't really suit us a lot of the time.
I think he should be a rotational squad player atm, and that seems to be how Jose is starting to use him.
Its really not that special of a skill.