This is worse then hating on him, this is the reason you see exaggerated backlash, people expect him to be something he is not. What has he shown to think he has potential to be great? Nothing. So far he has gotten less then a dozen apperances where most of them he was at best solid/decent, but majority of them ok/average, nothing less, nothing more. You dont want player like this starting unless it can be helped, and right now we weakened ourselves in player quality AND with consistent injuries to our more defensive midfielders, so he has to play. Bbad news for us, because he performances like a limited passenger, he cant tackle/impose himself defensively on the midfield, nor does he go forward good enough for the B2B role he has. We put ourselves in a position where we expect more then he can give from this player. His current level is what Milan/Inter midfielders perform like, we have shown our supreme quality in past 4 season in the league by having higher standard then this for our starting midfielders.