Ok so after a day of sulking about what's bound to be nobody's first choice I may (or may not) have seen some sense in this, Hernanes is not actually a bad transfer.
He's solid player with some nice technical qualities, it will allow us to play the 4-3-1-2 again with him in the hole and more importantly without us being lightweight, it's basically giving us the safety net to try and play last years awesome formation, with him as Vidal.
Clearly it's not good that we've down graded in every player we've lost this summer but hopefully this will ease the pressure on Paul and the boys and we can try to get steadily back to ourselves.