Did the Premier League need Wesley Sneijder?

This may sound a case of sour grapes at the Dutch International choosing to go to the Turkish League with Galatasaray, but did the Premier League need him?

He could have ended up at one of the Manchester clubs, Liverpool or even White Hart Lane, and you can’t feel that the English clubs have dodged a bullet not buying this one.

Sneijder not all that long ago turned games on their head and had a £20million + transfer fee marked upon his head, so you can see why the press clamoured for clubs to try and purchase the playmaker when he was available for a fraction of the fee he could have once gone for.

Despite this it is one thing paying the extortionate 150k wages to rising stars and those which will light up our football stadiums up and down the country as well as our TV screens, but Wesley Sneijder is one who is on the decline.

The likes of Scholes and Lampard have consistently proven that you can rely upon experience and the old guard to still deliver the goods. Despite being far from on his last legs, at 28, Sneijder has not got any more improving to do.

You can’t help feel that the player not arriving on these shores is testament to some shrewd awareness from the top clubs that he was a red herring, and simply not worth the gamble his wages would have made him.

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