He's a CM though, if you need someone to play wide then surely you'd buy a winger not a CM who can fill in? But either way, based on his career to date not too sure what he can add, he's not what you'd call and outstanding talent.
At least now we don't have to buy him which is something, but in reality we should have been looking at defenders and genuine wingers, we seem to be well stocked in CM at the moment.