We had "tepid interest" in this guy in the offseason and passed the first time around. We then signed Armando, Eckersley, Convey in the offseason to cover for the defense. He's a defender at a mid-table Ligue 2 squad. Not shitting on the player so much as I'm shitting on our decision making as a club. This reeks of a band-aid move to try fix the shitty moves they made in the offseason.
According to the article, he just happened to be in NY and visited RBNY because he knew Houllier. It wasn't like he was specifically flown in on trial, and Roxburgh implied that he wasn't really available at that point, either. He did play with Istres after that trial.
Is it a band-aid move? To an extent, probably. I don't see why that really matters, though. The winter moves sucked. We know that. Petke knows that. Roxburgh knows that. At this point, they're doing what they can to rectify the situation. Maybe this guy will be good. Maybe he'll suck as much as the rest. I don't think it's fair to him to hold previous bad moves against him.