yeh it was a direct yellow IMO.
And yes the pressure is inmense. Seeing how he behaves, i think is a given that he will struggle to shake off the prictag of his transfeer from his mind. He is driven by hype and his fame. And when things are not going well in the field, his hype will take blows and thats when he will start to crack and realize he is not all that without hardwork and his teammates.
He is no ronaldo nor messi and he is not a carry. He will have soon to start banging goals galore and winning games (will not happen IMO), or man up, suck it up and start sacrificing his hype his flair and fancy and his goals for the best of the team. It will not be pretty for him because a defensive midfielder is someone who sacrifices for the team and doesnt grab the headlines with his goals and dribbles...and is totally the opposite of what he sees himself doing. And the saddest part is that even if he does his job as a DM wonderfully, the press will always attack him for not winning games. So he will have to ignore them and focus on doing his job.
In Juve he could have ahd all the headlines he wanted,,,, now he is in a lose lose situation and will have to mature and realize whats best for the team, instead of filling the hype quota of his pricetag.