It seems that everybody recognises his ability but have a similar opinion regarding his commitment to using that ability to the full. That is a fair comment. For £90 million and £300K a week over the last four seasons or so, you would expect average performances to be a 7 out of 10 a week, with a few 8s & 9s and the odd 5. In some of his games he has been downright putrid - effort or lack of, positional sense, decision making and simply missing in action. That is the biggest controversy, not his hairstyles or off-field antics. For the money he was expected to have a similar impact to Cantona or Keane - and that was not an unrelistic expectation as they have had a bunch of very good players there during that time. God knows why they want to throw good money after bad. He must sell a lot of shirts somewhere.