From that you'd get him regardless of what is happening with Taarabt. No reason that they couldn't play together.
Now we're talking. Looks ace. Croatian too. Anyone who can score goals like that and carry on after that high stud stamp to the knee by Malouda, getting a knee in the head at the same time, is well worth ã7m and should be placed in a hooped shirt asap imo. Question for him is prem with us or Champs League with Dortmund?