Doesn't work like that lid. He's paid handsomely to perform and everyone tries to make concessions but in two years he has not done anything of note to suggest he warrants a place in the team or sadly how much we spent on him.
I do agree, indeed. But considering the litany of depressing disappointments we've been through, arguably ever since he arrived at the club, few of them have been his responsibility. In terms of shouldering blame he isn't one who take the most of it.
I think the core of our disappointment is that he has been unable to carry the team out of disappointment - i don't think it's a question of ability, it's a question of responsibility. Though those two might be linked, of course - responsibility is always carried by the best players, and most responsibility is given to them as well.
Moyes has not given Billy that, and he has seemed unwilling to carry it, too. That's what we need really. Someone needs to point at that kid and tell him to go do something useful on the pitch. Where's Neville's finger?
In an additional note, i doubt he doesn't have the ability to carry it. The problem might just as well be social - he's slightly shy and no leader type, like, that's clear for all to see. The problem might just as well lie in language and confidence, as in russia, he was captain of Lokomotiv Moscow at an age of 22 years. Says something, yeah? That's Fabregas-like, that. Note the EvertonTV interview up on the OS a few weeks ago, where he just keeps being stringed along by the interviewer's questions, interpreting them wrongly and just getting along with it. A person with confidence in his own expression would add something to that, make demands of what he says himself and what is asked of him. Saha and Distin are foreigners in our team who do that, but then again they've been in england for ages.
