PAUL M wrote:This must be based on what you have seen of him in Serie A as he has not shown that over here on an anywhere near consistent basis. Something can't be right with him, Rafa did not play him and now Roy.
It's about all you can base it off, he was barely given a sniff over here, when he did play, he was very good when you take everything into account, exceptional, actually.
No club with 'targets' loans out a player of that quality: would United loan Anderson out? Would Arsenal loan Ramsey out? Would Chelsea loan Mikel out? Unlikely, yet we have done so ruthlessly.
We'll regret it, in our first few games under Roy, we've failed to get our passing game going, largely 'cause it hasn't been there. Signing Poulsen and letting Aquilani go makes things even worse.
