The main talking point of that debate was the wages and nobody knows for sure what he's on anyway. Most of the noise about it being too much was coming from a certain corner that seemed a bit miffed that you'd got him over them and you were giving as good as you got with the little remarks. So that is hardly a general consensus is really.
Laporte has been around for years, lot of the bigger sides have been looking at him so I found it odd that you'd not of heard of him one way or another. Wasn't it you that said you considered it a bargain compared to what other defenders have recently gone for?.