This article is part of Football FanCast's The Chalkboard series, which provides a tactical insight into teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…  When Lucas Torreira made his arrival from Serie A side Sampdoria in the summer of 2018 for a fee in the region of £26m, it was perhaps envisaged that he would finally be Arsenal's long-term answer for a genuine holding midfielder. After all, in his time in Italy, the Uruguay international had forged an N'Golo Kante-like impression with his diminutive nature but tough tackling and aggression. From the start of the 2016/2017 campaign, to the end of the season in which he had left, no player had won more tackles (198), made...
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