Many people forget that you have to pay extra millions for english players nowadays anyway so he's worth buying for his nationality in itself anyway to keep in line with the new rules that have come into play. Then you've got to pay for the standard of play you'll be buying and then because we're wadded we've then got to pay extra on top of that so in essance £17,000,000 plus an out-of-form Ireland isn't too bad when you look at it that way.