im sure I read somewhere that part of the recruitment teams policy is to look into the backgrounds of the players we are interested in . they want the right characters for the dressing room . having a former captain in midfield looks good then in my opinion . the only thing I worry slightly...
I think sammi wants to play with 2 deep lying midfielders as we know . one will be the destroyer type (toko / ince ) another will be a deep lying playmaker who can pass the ball around and support the attack when needs be but also get stuck in (stephens / holla) . if he was captain at den haag...