He didn’t win anything last season mate I know. Second in two competitions.
He won two trophies the season before. He is a “proven winner” that is undeniable and far from a lazy cliche.
The lazy part comes when there is an assumption that, because he won trophies in the past - however recent - under massively different circumstances to those he’d inherit here, he’d win them with us.
As I alluded to in my prior message, had he come to us from Porto then I’d be full of hope, but he’s a far more jaded, cynical character now than then and would relish throwing our multitude of underperforming players under the bus. We don’t have the riches to pander to his transfer whims, which is what has started his feuds with the boards of his last two clubs, so it’d be a massive, hugely expensive non-starter IMO.