Granted, but what about the rest of the time? It has to be said there have been more than a few instances where his fitness, attitude and overall lifestyle have been brought into question, which surely must have affected his performances. As it happens his form (even when fit) has still been patchy at best and although he has played the occasional great game, it has imo, been too little, too often for someone of his undoubted talent.
My question is simply why now are we not only persisting with, but actually rewarding consistently under performing players, when in the past the likes of Veron, Kleberson, Forlan and Tosic were given considerably less time despite having obvious talent?
