Everyone is esentially a stepping stone, but I think we still have more pulling power than teams in our 'group'. (Everton, Sunderland, Villa, Fulham, Blackburn etc). Ben Arfa an example of this, we had just been promoted but he was obviously sold on the club, hence his determination to come here. Obviously there have been knock backs this summer in the shape of Gameiro and Gervinho, but I'm confident we can keep attracting quality players, it's just keeping them that is the hard thing in today's football sadly.