Nail on head.Good player, with potential to be very good. Really starting to show more consistency now.
Doesn't mean the decision to sell by us was wrong though. £45m was a lot of money for potential and the player wanted to leave. His performances had not been as good as he was capable of in the weeks before he left. In fact his form went downhill from the point he didn't get the move to Chelsea last summer.
He was excellent yesterday but no regrets at all in selling him. He wasn't producing anything near a 45m player should do so we got a good deal and he got a good deal.