Burgess ended up doing a job at times but, like Madine, never really warranted a place. Did we miss Madine when he got injured last season? No, not even slightly, it improved us. He might do a job at times but I doubt that even. He got 3 goals in 16 games for Sheffield United more recently than his Bolton spell and some people on here have credited with getting them promoted!
I think some football fans just fixate about hard cases on the pitch. There are regular threads reminiscing about the hardest players. Let's face it, Yates and Simms was loads more successful than Madine and Yates. We kept struggling to score goals before Simms arrived, it was our defence that improved sooner, with Marv improving rapidly, Ballard, Gretarsson and Dougall arriving. Madine enabled us to go primitive for a while and clear our lines, bit it wasn't a long term measure and it's not likely to be a good approach in the Championship. And it's all assuming he's fit and available for any length of time. Why use a squad place for someone who is so rarely fit? Why hand fine contract when he's been out injured for ages and is still injured and has never done much since he arrived either? He didn't warrant another contract. At all.