Personally, he is a new signing and it is six games, just SIX games into the season. So on one hand it is being blown out of proportion caused partly by the words of his agent which were ridiculous and causing this rift.
If the same situation is happening at Chritmas and into the new year then complain, for now just stfu and buckle down.
On the other hand his main poaistion is AMC....of course Fernandes starts over him. His other postitions are central midfield and the last couple of games we have been playing a defensive duo in there, so that will change. Personally, currently though I would pick him ahead of Pogba who has been poor (and rightly benched) and I would have played him ahead of Fred agains Chelsea to cycle the ball quicker against the CHelsea press.
He has no right to think himself a starter though, at a new club and he has the best player at the club to compete with in one position and several midfielders in the other,
I would go back though to Grealish as the other link who can play Fernandes cover and left wing and even right wing....at this moment would have been better cover as no Dan James or others startign so much, whether that changes when Diallo arrives we shall see, but VDB WAS a squad signing to compete for a starting place and its 6 games in, he wasnt a game changing signing, nobody said that at the time