It's easy to mention Toure, or whoever else, but how often does he play to the level of players like that? Not very from what I've seen. So the comparisons (and the allowances being made) don't make a lot of sense to me. Even if you allow for injuries, he's been here a long, long time and hasn't been able to make the shirt his own. It's just a constant cycle. He plays poorly, gets a few games and plays well enough to give people real hope, has a few iffy games which are excused because he's not played many games, plays well again and then gets injured. Repeat ad nauseum.
We don't really know whether he's doing enough to avoid, or at least limit, those, but looking at his physical appearance at times here (not at the moment) and his almost inability to play at full pelt for more than an hour, you're entitled to wonder. Given that he runs himself out before the end of every game he might need to think about changing something.
He has a lot of good qualities, but without any real, sustained consistency - whether in terms of performances or appearances - even those can seem a bit underwhelming at times. Though I have to admit that a lot of this is premised on me finding it annoying how many midfielders we have that seem to either not be capable of playing a run of games in a row (Giggs, Scholes, Fletch) and to a lesser extent, Ando.
