He has more class coached in to him than half our squad. I hate all the stick he gets but hopefully he proves everyone wrong. The dude is a class above.
He's a tidy little player technically who, as yet, has shown no real substance or ability to take hold of the game in midfield. You can point to our ludicrous tactics and the fact he's often had rubbish like Jonas and Tiote next to him in midfield but they don't offer mitigation for his inability to get the ball and keep it around bigger boys and support the attack.
Even on his best day I can't help thinking there's a player in the Championship that could perform exactly the same role technically, offer more physical presence and a bit of goal threat. Silly signing, basically, but hopefully he comes good because we really need to get Tiote out of the team and shipped off to another mug's club.