I think the days of players acting for anyone but themselves has gone ,Wayne Rooney dare I say. Players dont even seem to bond as a team and have factions based on nationality and language.
I dont know this player that well but can we please remember Ryan Babel would have fitted the new owners profile perfectly and look at him. I think that we need proven premiership talent or at least young premiership talent otherwise its a shot in the dark unless you are buying someone like Messi or Ronaldo.
Ryan lost the plot himself, he is totally distracted from football and sin't 100% commited, he has got an amazing talent but he can't utilize it and unfortuantly still didn't meet the manager who can utilize his talents yet, not with us, not with Ajax and certainly not with the Dutch NT.
On the other hand Wenger have been buying some unproven talents over tha past five years, most of his squad consists of player lacking PL experience, granted some were misses, but many were hits, this year he signed free agent Chamach, as well as Koscielny and Squillici, the former two are relatively young, didn't cost that much and are doing good in the league with having little to no PL experience, Squillaci is also another one who didn't have any PL but his international experience with France certainly helped him, then you can see Vermaelen who was the best buy last year in the Prem IMO and before it Nasri and you can clearly see that not having PL experience isn't really a problem if you have good talents and a good manager.
Rafa bought Xabi, Torres, Reina, Garcia all didn't have any PL experience and look what they did with us, for me buying guys like Eden Hazard, Steven Defour, Coentrao/Cissoko, Arda Turan is better for the long term than signing for example Robben, Sneijder, Ashley Cole, etc. And I firmly believe that this is what we'll do.
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