I’ve never seen so much support for a player who has done or shown so little. A few decent games over a 3 year period. Whichever you dress it up that is nowhere near good enough and it’s not been a good investment regardless of the sums involved.
I said ages ago he’d never be a regular for us, it’s not like that was me showing any great insight, just logic because players who are never fit and decent to good at best when they play, are never going to cut it at a club like this.
The biggest shock is that some people were still living in a fantasy world where he was a part of our plans. Nothing against the player by the way, he seems like a really decent young guy, but the way he was spoken about like he just needed to stay fit and suddenly we’d have Beckenbauer Mk II ready to go, always left me perplexed. A case of the desire to see an England U21 player smash it at our club exceeding the desire or power to look at the whole situation realistically and logically.
Good luck to the guy going forward, I wish him every success.