He was our genuine match winner, along with Cabaye. That's exactly what we need now, a match winner, not just functional, tidy bog standard footballers. We need that flair and off the cuff brilliance, players like Hatem drag their teammates to a better standard with them imo, the team becomes better as a whole.
Having limited managers is a killer too. One stops the other being as effective as it could and should be. Pardew was all about keeping it tight, didn't work like obviously. and i'd really like farmer face to be different, somewhat proving not to be but the Arsenal game was a genuine surprise with our play, still lost mind. Would loved to have had Hatem in that game.