Routledge.
He was brought at a reasonable price 1.5 mill at 23 years old, where as petrov cost 6.5 mil a few years earlier.We got a loan fee and 0.6 mil in sales. He was not a bad player but a squad player with better players in front of him and a future. It didtn work out spent a few years in the championship before got a small number of Premier League games with Newcastle before returning to the championship. It wasnt till 2011 just before the usual peak age for a footballer that he became a regular in the Premier League.
I would say a punt that didnt quite come off. Compared to Jean Macoun, Pierres, Steve Ireland, Pires, Brett Holman, Scott Hogan he wasnt that bad.