My thoughts exactly. This forum is predictably the same everytime. 99% of it was slagging him off for the longest, saying he was old, past it and was part of the 'deadwood' that needed to go. Now all of a sudden he comes in and does decently well for a couple of games (hard to do worse than what we have to be fair) and all of a sudden it's good news he gets an extension and he can do a job etc. It's this attitude and constant flip flopping that means players like Matic, Jones etc that should have been gotten rid of at the earliest opportunity continue to remain here and get new contracts. We deserve everything we get I swear, and that's to drown in mediocrity.
You lot are so dim, honestly. We've been trimming the squad and arguably too much too quickly. You all constantly call for x player to be moved on but we need a whole squad and you need some experience and character in that squad. Ideally Matic would be around the 4th or 5th choice and he can certainly do a job in that role.
It isn't fantasy football where you need 11 starters and your subs, you have no clue. You're not always going to have players willing to play limited games but you need those sorts of players. Players like Mata and Matic are useful to have around the club, on the training ground and as back up. We love them on and we've aomost zero experience of winning anything within the squad. We have an even more threadbare squad that is full of young, naive players.
I bet you're the sort of person who makes posts during transfer windows and includes 7 out, 8 in and makes multiple potential team line ups with all of your proposed changes.
Lets say we move Matic on which we may well still end up doing, who comes in and replaces him? Who takes his place in the squad? We need to bring players in desperately and start utilising the likes of Mata and Matic as players who can come in and give players a rest. They are having to start too often because we simply don't have the quality available in the first team.