Like Antony, he's another player that Erik knew inside-out and back-to-front from his Ajax days.
If he turns out to be another flop, I'm just astonished at how poor a judge of player Erik seems to be.
F**king hell, I coach under 14s/15s. I'm no Guardiola, but after 1 or 2 seasons coaching a player even I'm able to identify their strengths and weakness: "this lad is very poor at saving shots", "this lad is too predictable, he has no right foot and always cuts inside to his left".
Leaving aside the debate of whether the manager should have that much power on transfers (he shouldn't!), how in the f**k did Erik think these two were worth spunking 130 million quid for?!