What a stupid thing to say. Do you really need it breaking down to you as to why he's obviously a worse signing than Dong, Kleberson, Bebe, Djemba and Obertan? Do you not see an obvious common factor there? They were relatively cheap, and we made money off loaning Bebe out. What a moronic thing to compare them without factoring in the fee we paid, he's our fourth most expensive player of all time FFS.
Oh Veron and Anderson have put in performances for us that Fellaini couldn't dream of producing. Watching him against bayern was like watching a donkey, heck a donkey would have displayed better ball control. That image of him running the ball out summed up his signing for me, embarrassing.
Nice, level headed and objective post there, well done
Is it not worth taking into consideration that the players I mentioned all played under a far superior manager, worked with a far superior coaching staff, and especially in the case of Anderson had a far longer length of time to produce these stellar performances that had you swooning?
Yes, the fee was higher than we paid for some of the other 'flops' I mentioned, but fees are generally higher nowadays (especially in the last couple of years!)and if we're honest we could have had him for less had we not been at the mercy of Dithering Dave.
We also bought him as a means to shore up our awful midfield, when he is in fact a number 10, and would certainly have performed better there as we have seen he is capable of with Everton/Belgium.
As for his 'performance' against Bayern, and especially the infamous run out of bounds, all we've heard this pre season is how last year they hardly trained with the ball, and were effectively ran to death every session. How surprising is it that as a result both individually and as a team these kind of mistakes happen.
Was the run any worse than a winger who literally could not cross a ball to save his life? A CM player who couldn't tackle or pass? Strikers who had about as muchg chance of scoring as Mr Magoo without his glasses? It's doubtful.
Yes, he was a shit signing, but he was an injured player played out of position, I'm not sure what anyone expected. Maybe with a season with a decent coach and decent training under his belt he could have succeeded, we'll possibly never know. It's not exactly ridiculous to rate him over some of these other less than illustrious names though IMO.
