Same for me. I think the same applies - maybe slightly less so - to LB. It depends on the size of the fund available, and the priorities as seen by CH and the recruiting team.
There are better players out there for every position, but we can't buy them all!
Because he's hardly played since October (apparently, according to some posters on here) so won't be fully match fit until about the end of February - so he's not as valuable?