To be honest mate, think it is more the case of being dropped by martinez far too much that stagnated him. Best thing he could have ever done was to leave in the summer but suprisingly he stayed. At some point it would have been far too frustrating to only get games here and there when all he wanted to do was play every week which is why now in the team again he is starting to show flashes of his old self.
Personally i would have sold him after his fustrating lashings out last season but seems that was a martinez factor as well as they seem to have gone away by magic now the spaniard isn't here
Well he didn't have any lashings out last year really. It was in 2014-15, after the penalty incident and him supposedly getting denied the chance to speak to Atleti.
It was then surprising that he signed a new deal in summer 2015. He was always gonna stay summer 2016 as Koeman used him a lot in pre-season and he's been the go-to guy.
But his deal runs out in 2018, so I imagine we'll be seriously considering any offers that come in the summer.








