Hahaha Why depression? Just accept your lot and move on... Joe Cole is at least his equal, so why the need for more of the same?
I agree. I would not have liked us to try and sign VDV anyway. He is as slow as Christmas and we need to be getting a few more dynamic players as we lack a bit of pace in the team. Why buy for the sake of it.
Anyway there are many other areas where we need to strengthen like upfront and the wings before we start wasting money, that we obviously dont have much of, on the likes of Van Der Vart.