What about mendieta?? He was a big shot in spain, came to italy and failed big time. I always had doubts about spanish and english players when it comes to playing in italy. Been watching them failing since i've first watched serie A back in 1992.......
Well Mendieta wasn`t as good as he was at Valencia but that is one player who didn`t make it in Italy
there are top players all around the world that fail to make an impact at another team and some of them need time to adapt to the Italian game
I`m pretty sure that players such as Villa, Fabregas, Xavi Alonso and maybe even Vicente would be pretty good here too
one player who fails here doesn`t mean he is not up to the standart...
Vieira and Henry failed at Italy
while Henry never came back to try again Vieira did and was still a star
his language didn`t do it for him his skills did
About English players however that is another subject
Most of them are very overated
but still the top ones (like S.Gerrard, Lampard and Terry) would make it