Nothing would please me more than to see him come good and I’ll have it that we perhaps don’t have the base behind him to allow him to excel BUT he still doesn’t perform to high enough standard for me.
He loses the ball in tight spaces, unbelievably, a hell of a lot when he has ignored a very simple pass to retain possession.
He tries Hollywood passes that, again mainly when they’re uncalled for and missed a simple pass to retain possession.
Ultimately, from my POV, he is unfortunately a saleable asset and the money we get for him would allow strengthening of more important areas.
Time will tell, he’ll probably have a world class game tonight and I’ll have to eat my words
Ye I agree, he can be a liability in central midfield, especially in our own half or the first third of the opponents half.
As Scholes has said;
"When he's in that deep role, he's OK at it, he probably does the best things in every game of football he plays in, but he outweighs it with the bad things he does. By giving the ball away, taking too many touches, trying to do stupid things in the middle of the pitch, which is not his game". "He needs to be the one at the end of it".
So the only position for him to be further up the pitch would be the right of a 3 at the moment, getting into the pockets of space and attacking.
Where Darren Fletcher has said they intended him to be played, from his time working with the reserves.
"We played him a lot more higher up the pitch and in advanced areas and attacking areas, whether that be central, right or left or wide, and we felt he was the one who would go and win us games really".
I do think we should try to sell him based on his career at united so far.
But while he is here; I am saying we should consider him on the right or left more, as the number 10 position is Bruno's; although, as he gets in the pockets of space he can take up central attacking positions too.
Do you think that is a viable option for now?