This criticism is all massively overblown. When he has great games he gets, at best, grudging acknowledgements tempered into oblivion with 'but we need a bigger name in the summer' and 'in the future he could be a good squad player'. Then one quiet performance in a much-changed team - and one where he was average, rather than actually bad, and certainly a lot better than Depay, Rooney or Rojo, to name just three - and the knives are out.
I'm not saying he's a superstar who'll deserve to stay in the first team forever. But he's been an under-appreciated part of the Rashford-Martial attack, makes an important contribution that the many, many caf statisticians don't have a column of numbers for, and just as importantly busts a gut game-in game-out unlike a number of flashier names in our squad. It's pathetic that Manchester United fans have got to a place where you're more likely to get a positive reception if you're a big-money signing with a foreign sounding name than a local lad from the academy. These days the academy products seem to have to offer twice as much as the big transfers to get a look-in on the caf.
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Is the Caf filled with joyless 60-year olds who do nothing but complain about todays youths?
