I quite liked him last season, and I thought the talk of his lousy first touch had been blown out of proportion. His hold up play was reasonable for the most part. Not amazing, but I don't think he's a target man anyway, but based on all the chat about him having zero technique before we signed him, I thought he did fine.
He looks noticeably worse this season. Bigger, heavier, clumsier. I don't know if he's piling on muscle or if he's put on weight, but its one of the two. He definitely looks chunkier, and not particularly in a ripped sort of way. He used to be rapid, and he still does have a good top speed, but his movements over short distances are much slower than they used to be. There is very significant regression IMO. He wasn't always this bad!