I don’t rate either highly at all, but playing in midfield in Bruce’s system is an impossible task, basically. Especially for those two. We’d be better off with a couple of highly athletic shuttler-types in there who can run around a lot.
I don't think he was as bad on Saturday as he has been at times this season.
Playing him in a 2 with Shelvey is basically surrendering midfield though. No mobility or press at all and Fulham's average midfield just took the piss out of them.
He's not a #10 and he's not a deep-lying midfielder... I see him as a very, very poor man's Frank Lampard.