I think we can only really say that if he goes on to be really good somewhere else can't we? At the moment he's a player who has failed to really impress at any point in his career under any manager, if we sell him in the summer and he goes on to be a top class performer for years then we've clearly mishandled him but if he doesn't then how can we say it's been wrong not to play him? I don't know which way it will go but I've seen nothing from Patterson to make me believe he's being managed particularly badly.
He looked good here playing under Lampard and only went out the team because of injury. In fact he’s been part of some of our decent performances this season I.e Villa.
I think we can absolutely say he has been mismanaged because Dyche should have been getting him into the position of playing like that in every game.
Even if you thought he wasn’t good enough to play here yet (despite showing he was) then say he should have had a plan for playing and improving him, even if that was a loan like
Branthwaite did going to PSV.
What he has done is sat him on the bench, let it develop into some obvious personal problems between them and freeze him out rather than deal with it like a professional manager properly should, and let his game regress in the process since he couldn’t coach a bloody fly to land on [Poor language removed].
Patterson isn’t the only one, Chermiti, Dobbin etc, have all wasted a year here as well.