I have three comments here:
1.) Melo is on the list because he fights his ass off and wins a lot of balls in midfield.
2.) It is pointless to spend so much money on Hamsik now. It is too late. Basically its the Melo and Diego deal all over again. As andy said its fun to point out idiocy.
3.) Based off of point 2 we need to start looking for our own talent that other teams drool over. I don't know about you but I would rather spend 5m dollars on a future 30m dollar player than spend the 30m dollars to get the player after he has been "discovered". This thread, I am assuming, is Andy's way (which I agree with 100%) of telling/showing us how we really missed the boat on this one.