Quote Originally Posted by Heisenberg View Post
The one criteria for any signing that they need to meet is:
i) improves our squad

He doesn't. He isn't even first choice at Charlton in League One.

Like I said, Graham Kavanagh meets 3 of your 5 criteria. Having read them again, he actually meets 4 as he would be a great influence on younger players.

Unfortunately his legs have gone so wouldn't be a good signing for us now.

This is the problem with your criteria... Thousands of players would meet a lot of the criteria but they would still not be good signings as they are not good enough to play for us.
The different between a good signing and a quality signing would be found here.

We had a thread about Arter the other day who would maybe fit just one of the criteria points. More negative than positive about that one.

Is Arter a better player than Ledley? Yes, but both not on the list of players I'd be willing to look at.