As you say it's precisely what's required (7)
I believe the answer is:
exactly
'as you say' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I don't understand the rest of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for exactly that I've seen before include "Precisely thus" , "on the spot" , "In precise terms" , "in nice way" , "Indeed; verbatim" .)