How is the Liga Sagres a 'minor' or 'nondescript' league? The Europa League's top 4 last year were made up of 3 Portuguese teams? Not to mention Porto giving Barcelona a good challenge for the Super Cup. If logic says that players from 'minor' leagues from Portugual, Holland, Belgium, etc. are terrible and won't make it in the 'major' leagues of Spain and England then we should just ship Ronaldo back to Lisbon, Felliani back Belgium, Pienaar back to Cape Town, and Van der Vaart back to Ajax 'cause apparently they were useless in the EPL and La Liga.
:huh:
The fact is that Straq, Silva, Felliani, Bily, are all risks. How were we suppose to know Felliani was going to be awesome and Bily was going to totally fail? We take chances with players based on their performances not on whether they're playing in a La Liga or EPL. Right now Silva is performing, he deserves a chance.