Our strategy at that time - I assume we're talking Moyes - did involve buying PL proven players a large proportion of the time though. We supplemented it with others but i'd imagine the bulk of the players he signed already had PL experience. Even some of the main ones that people use as examples of him signing from 'lower leagues' are Baines and Jagielka who were both most recently playing PL football when we signed them. I can only think of Cahill and Lescott who came from the football league with no PL experience (discounting kids). The difference hasn't really been where we've signed the players from or their ages or anything, it's just that we often found value in the market then and we haven't often done that very often recently, no matter where we're signing people from.
