Not quite all, I took pelters on here for saying I didn't want us to sign him, I see him in the Scott Parker/Mark Noble mould. Decent player, nice chap, capable of having a good career at a mid ranking club. The fans favourite type, who does lots of running, puts himself about, but has nowhere near the amount of quality needed to make it at the top level. Your point is well taken though that he could have rocked up here and turned into prime Pirlo, then I would have looked a bit silly, but everyone would have moved on by then anyway and at the end of the day who cares what I think? Just a forum for giving an opinion and this would be quite a dull forum if everyone towed the party line...