Casemiro is the choice for me. Should be available for a reasonable fee with two years left and Real looking to raise funds.
Would love some of what you're smoking. Casemiro is untouchable at Real.
There is an interesting debate here about the kind of midfielder we're after; a pure destroyer or more of a deep-lying playmaker. It seems people who want the former think this will be they key to playing Bruno and Pogba regularly in the same team. I personally think we can do that anyway against the small sides, but that there's no DM in the world that will allow us to do it against top sides who press us, as both of them are just not positionally disciplined enough and never will be.
I'm in the latter category that wants a deep-lying playmaker, as I believe the problem we had last season was that we lacked creativity from deep, and the McFred midfield made us too negative, especially in the big games. Getting someone like Neves or Parades as someone else mentioned means our deepest midfielder will actually be highly creative, which will be important both against weaker sides who just sit back and defend, and better sides where we will need to play a double pivot but have players who will allow us to keep the ball and dictate the tempo of the game. We'll still have to play one of Fred or McTominay in big games to give us balance, but having one as a shuttler alongside a deeper player who can play line-breaking passes will make us far more effective I believe.
So for instance:
Our midfield/attack against Newcastle:
--------------Neves--------------
Bruno----------------Pogba
Sancho-----------------Rashford
---------------Cavani----------------
Our midfield/attack against City:
Neves-----------------Fred/Scott
----------------Bruno-----------------
Sancho------------------Pogba/Rashford
---------------Cavani---------------------