I've no problem with playing a Pienaar/Arteta type player out wide if they are as good as them.
Problem is, of all the central midfielders, strikers and defenders who have played wide midfield for us over the last 10 or so years they are the only 2 who have actually been regularly any good.
So we should either play a proper traditional wide man/winger who can play that role or hope to get lucky and find a central midfielder who can play it as well as Pienaar/Arteta.
Which is highly unlikely to be Tom Cleverly. Or anyone else in our current squad.