Quote Originally Posted by Jeebus View Post
It's not about the Spanish leagues quality. It's just a different game to the PL in terms of style, tolerance, etc.
A completely different climate to the PL in nearly all aspects.

Vela played plenty of games for us, not starting admittedly, but how many times did he start for west brom?
Maybe he didn't start and wasn't given the chances because he couldn't quite cut it....??? It's not unreasonable to suggest that to be the case.

Wenger clearly still saw something in him, hence the buy back clause. Maybe he needed to see if Vela could find his own way of sorting himself out, who knows.

I'm not dismissing him at all, as at £3.5m it's a bloody stupidly good deal!
However, griezman is clearly going to be an awsome player, but the jury is out on draxler.

I would say that based on the first time round, vela possibly won't be as good here as he is in Spain.

There are some reports that have him saying he wants to stay in Spain, so that may tell you all you need to know before it has even been confirmed one way or another.
It's different in Spain but I think it's unfair to say Vela's flourishing because of the league and not make that same distinction for Griezmann who plays in the same team and league. Why is he bound to be an awesome player?

Vela played 62 games for us. I don't know how many of them he started but I it wasn't a lot from what I recall. When I consider the amount of starts Denilson had and see that it can take a full season in the first team to see a players true potential (Ramsey) I don't think it's enough. As for his loan spell with West Brom, you should probably check out the amount of games Gibbs, Ramsey and Wilshere played when they were loaned out during a January window. Vela played 8 games but got 2 goals and 1 assist. Know idea how many games he started but it's not bad considering Wilshere played 14 games for Bolton. Unless it's a season long loan, I don't recall any of our players racking up huge appearance numbers.

Either way, that was then this is now. He might just be finding his feet at the right time. His international record for Mexico as a youth was always impressive. No idea if he wants to come back considering recent reports but he's an example of what annoys me about our youth development system.