Good point! let's not trash him already... i mean we paid 11mio€ for him (or 13 at max, if he plays often). That's not THAT much, considering boumsong is worth 3 mio

... i mean that's the price if you want some player in january at any cost... consider that he is 23 and WAS considered a big talent. Now ranieri had the chance to be his coach, so he MUST know what he's worth and what not. i saw him play in africa cup. he surely was NOT brilliant, but hey... even the speaker said he was atm in a bad form, because he didn't get any play-practice.
I'll just hope he proves you (and me) all wrong, and shows some decent improvement from time to time and i will be happy... at least he is a hard worker, who runs as hell (unlike tiago).
At the end; if you look at what secco is doing now, i think he's on a good way. selling tiago, almiron, boumsong, and getting stendardo and sissoko is a good deal imho.