I watch every game and I don't fully agree with that. I agree that he isn't the best at the moment. Though as I said, the enviroment is a factor to his performances.
Emerson goes forward a lot when the attack isn't working. Gago is useless in defence. Guti works hard but his marking skills aint fantastic. Diarra sits on the bench, he works hard, got good positioning and markig skills but his passing skills are way to sloppy for such a team and often give the opposition counter-attacks.
All and all, when Real Madrid is attacking, the Midfield has to push way up, which causes a huge gap between the midfield and defence (which for some reason defends to deep,
perhaps It's Cannas fault? Lets blame Capello
) and that aint to easy to defend against, especially not against Spanish teams. The majority of them play brilliant counter football.
Cannavaro was fantastic this Saturday, I think he was m.o.m even though he got the red.
edit: just read throw this, i type like an 80 year old crack smoking grandpa