People love to mix thing up:
Did we overpay Pipa? Of course we did. Another fact: in his first season we almost won the treble.
Did he really change his usual performance in UCL? Not really
Is he the most important player we have? He's not even the most important argies in the team
Is he currently in a awesome form? Of course he is
Pipa form is insane right now and hopefully for us it would last till the end in that way. Not just goal and assisstance, he's holding the ball, overrunning defenses, handling counterattack in a RM level, he's so many new things right now that I'm actually waiting for him to win aerial duels anytime ... He's a new Pipa and IMO it has a lot to do with Max, Allegri's babysitting Pipa all year long and at the end he was right about that