I offer this as evidence.
https://x.com/postanythingLFC/status/2109318693184303289?s=20
This is an example of the dilemma we seem to have. He has some flaws in his game right now, primarily losing the ball too often too meekly. But the biggest issue is he isn’t directly creating enough goals that people reasonably expect from him. He is doing a LOT of this though, and so a lot of our best football is still flowing through him. This just isn’t what you spend over 100m on. Even if you drop him deeper into being an orthdox CM so he can be doing this all game, like a modern day Modric, that still isnt what you spend that sort of money on and leaves us a creative void that still needs to be filled.