Which is to say, yes, we missed him.
Guess you could say the plan was to bring ลahin in, but we did a good job of flubbing that after giving Song his marching orders.
Even now with the emergence of Ramsey, we're still looking at and needing players who are pretty much Song's calibre and style for a complete rotation, because Diaby's still a permacrock and Coquelin's not good enough.