I've always thought he was an decent, hard working if unspectacular player, a bit in the Kilbane mould, but obviously a bit quicker and about half the size. If we still had Moyes, nailed on he would be all over this signing.
That said, I've seen the links with the RS, and I can see him going there on a free and turning into an absolute world beater. They will probably sell Mane/Salah for insane money to Barca/Madrid, get Coutinho back on loan, and probably make 1 massive signing (Mbappe?) and will inevitably come up smelling of roses with all 3 of them being revelations and it looking like another master stroke.
We seem to have a lot of wide players at the moment, and none of them (assuming Richarlisin is now a forward) are reliable enough to give us even 2 or 3 good games on the bounce, so he wouldn't be the worst signing if we could shift 2 or 3 of what we have for actual money and bring him in on a free. The 100k he is asking for sounds like a lot, but seems to be fairly standard now, and would still be less than what most of our current options are on. I do think we need a real game changer for 1 of those positions, so having 1 hard worker for the other role isn't the worst idea, and we could use the transfer money elsewhere.
Probably wont happen, but I wouldn't be against it if it did.