Tbf Subtle, no one was bringing this up over the least 2 years on that thread, until Jose did. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
If there is any way to go back to any specific time in threads beyond manually searching pages, I will happily go and dig it up. I remember having countless conversations when AVB arrived about Mata drifting inside and how it was unbalancing our formation. There was some absurd stat that Alc I believe brought up about us conceding the most crosses in a league game to some really mediocre, bottom half club and it turned into a full blown discussion about it. That carried on until Di Matteo came in, then died down a little.