In hindsight, imagine if we had gone and paid the fee, only for him to have come and not performed. That would have been very damaging for the player. Maybe it's a good thing that the club waited.
I think his form will pick up, and he is still a quality player who I'd love to see at our club. Players do go through patches where it doesn't always work out and it's very, very difficult to be a consistently high performer across the whole season, and then from year to year. However, for the price that Dortmund were quoting, that's really what we should be getting for that money.