He had one good season at Leverkusen. His second season was middling. If he had been 'more than decent' in his last season he wouldn't have ended up at West Ham.What faltering career? He was more than decent for Leverkusen and even did a good job for Madrid in limited appearances.
Saw a funny comment on The Mirror's article:
Think he's thinking of a vulture.I couldn't believ it when we, Manchester United sold Javier Hernandez or "chicarito" as he is also known as. For me he was our new Ole Gunner Solskajar and was on the scoresheet regularly in his short time at Old Trafford. He is a natural goal poacher and I'll bet we could get him for a song.
If the rumours are correct about Zlatan's departure chicarito would be a snip and I can't believe he can't get in that West Ham Utd team but who is the manager......moaning Moyes who reminds me on one of those miserable crows who sit on the branch of a tree waiting for an animal to die. This is a gamble worth taking and not as big a gamble as Lucas Moura.
I agree with all of that.I think the key part of that statement was "at the time". Also, he was also saying that in part to get one over on LvG who I think around the time of the comment was making comments about United's style of play under Mourinho.
Mourinho may well have kept some of the players shipped out (Rafael, Evra, Nani, Evans, Welbeck, Hernandez, etc.) for a bit longer, but it doesn't mean they'd still be here now.