they were not playing in those in age of 28.
that's a better argument but still tells nothing about the player's qualities. luca toni was like 30 when he got his first big contract, vardy played in a very low division in his mid 20s and was bad for years before he started to score regularly for leicester, ilicic was meh to all right before he turned 30, milan signed bierhoff when he was 30, giroud played for random french teams until his late 20s when arsenal signed him (and he wasn't instantly great at all), that prick emiliano martinez had no career at all before he moved to villa at 28, and the list is long with klose, drogba, grosso, di natale, barzagli, etc. plenty of examples of late bloomers playing for mid-table teams before their prime years
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