His compilations were like a mix of Cisse and Torres, which is the kind of thing that always makes you fear the worst a bit (why, in his supposed best bits, have they put stuff that makes him look a bit rubbish?)
It was pretty obvious in advance that to accommodate would mean drastically altering how we play. We haven't done that, at least not in the way required, and why would we? There are other, better players to build things around.