Really none of that is true.
Certainly he isn't the finished article , has made mistakes and at 22 is bound to make more.
In the last few weeks he has been arguably our best midfielder and even against Burnley in my opinion played well.
He set up one goal and a sublime pass nearly set up a second for DCL. If JR had made that pass to DCL we would have been talking about it for weeks.
The pass from Michael Keane was at fault for the first Burnley goal and Allan got beaten too easily for the second.
And this is the thing. The first post is slightly overboard. And you passing blame for the first goal onto somebody else. Is exactly the same.
It’s embarrassing, you can criticise the lad. IMO he was totally at fault for the first goal. Whether it was a poor ball from Keane. His touch was poor and has to make a better decision.
Get rid of it straight away. I’ve seen a lot of sitting midfielders recently who take risks as the last man, some of the better ones can handle being but under pressure physically or turn away from trouble.
I’ve seen Tom turn away from trouble, but a lot of the time. He seems to gets bullied, where he ends up falling to the ground and usually fouling the player in the process.
He’s done much better recently and has had 6/7 good games. But he needs another 30/40 before we can’t start taking him seriously.
The only problem for him, is I see ancelotti buying another midfielder in the summer. And if we don’t get an injury crisis next season, he won’t play many games.
