a hard worker, decent player, good at set pieces, a fine set of skills, but I remain unconvinced on him being an elite player worthy of that sort of price, top class midfielders run games
I'd say the definition on top class would be to make a significant difference to a team, at Swansea he was the difference almost certainly in keeping them up for the last two seasons, can guarantee you one thing, none of our midifelders over the past ten years could have done that for a team like Swansea, including Arteta, Cahill or Barkley.
Dismissing him as not top class because he doesn't run every game for Swansea is a little bit mental really mate, you could stick a peak Cantona in that side and he wouldn't run the game all the time either, a huge amount of games they where getting absolutely battered by the opponents and how is one player supposed to control a game in those circumstances?
What he did do is make the difference in pretty much every game they got a result in, and in the other games at least didn't go missing and put the effort in that a lot wouldn't have
