Last season many of our goals were created by him to be fair. Hell, he even managed to set up Kean for a goal! He wasn't quite as good in front of goal as around it but that aspect too was improving.
In a dire last season, with dire performances all round, he was one of the few players we had capable of actually making an impact and that must surely have been due to his skill and technical ability.
I'm sure one could make a compliation video of last seasons footage demonstrating his impact and contribution to many of the games, because I really don't think I imagined it! Almost starting to think I did its so crazy reading all these threads about how he's not good enough all of a sudden!
I think if you even go back and read the old match threads you will see many people there raving about him.
The manager knows best and has the full picture though. Maybe he doesn't fit into the system he wants to play or there are things going on we don't know about but I do beleive he was and is a great player with natural god given ability and talent.
Hopefully like DCL he will prove his doubters wrong!