Players who graft too much are gimps. Usually just shows a player who doesn't know how to conserve energy or who has zero on pitch intelligence. Messi never runs out of possession. He's the laziest cunt in the world and also the best cunt in the world.
Even your world class grafters like Suarez do it intelligently and have plenty of time where they stand hands on hips waiting for the ball.
Ben Arfa's workrate was absolutely fine for a creative player when he played for NUFC. His professionalism away from the pitch slipped, but that was long after Pardew had repeatedly and almost routinely thrown him under the bus to save his own reputation, the horrible fucking cunt that he is.