He's not their first choice afaik, he played most of his games in the build up to the world cup, and the confed cup, but didn't play in the world cup. I think he was seen as marginally better than, whoever the heck was there before, Kleber and someone, but Gilberto has played there a couple times(not Silva, the other one) and another guy. He's backup, and their first team left back isn't very good to start with.
I'm not convinced, the guy is 28, made most of his international appearances in the confed cup and around it, he plays for Fenerbahce which..... lets face it isn't where most quality players end up unless they are 33+ and looking for a pay day.
First choice left back for Brazil is Bastos really, and he plays for Lille so we had little chance of getting him
Really Gervinho hasn't impressed and we should have bought a real out and out winger, bought Hazard and Bastos, or frankly Everton in so much financial strife, Baines for 10-12mil.
he "could" be great, he might not be very good at all. He should be available a lot more than Gibbs and Traore/Gibbs can't defend at all, so he's still likely an improvement. Only worry is with Fenerbahce being high wage type club, he might end up not very good and on a very high wage(for us).
