I don't think Henry will ever play in England again so I doubt it is an issue.
But I love quotes like not the right direction.
So if our direction is not to sign players from teams like Barcelona, ranked in the top 10 in the world perhaps. What is the problem too good? scores too many? Too much of a star?
We lost to United because their two players both about 5 years older than Henry had the experience to deal with the real big games, something we lack. In the whole team only Tevez and Viera have really played in big finals and actually won major things consistently, I suppose to be fair you could add Kolo too. So against United we had one player in our side who had really done something in the game - they had 9 or 10.
We badly need a few more players who have been there and done that and as nice as it would be to sign 25 year olds like this, they are the 50m players who at the moment won;t come so as not many 20 year olds have these skills and experiences we have to look at players about 30. Once they have helped us get to the group stages of the champions league and get to the top of the prem then maybe players like Villa become options which now they aren;t.