Lot of hysteria in here. He's the same player he was after Sociedad when everyone was wetting themselves with joy. Yes, he's technically limited. He'll probably improve, but it'll never be a strength. That's how we got him for £25m in January.
That wasn't really the problem yesterday. The difference between yesterday and vs Sociedad was that he wasn't playing the position properly, because once again Garnacho was trying to play as a conventional winger and they were in the same spaces. Dorgu couldn't attack the wide areas because Garnacho was already pulling defenders into them. He improved in the last half hour because one or other of those substitutions changed our shape enough that Garna finally came more central where he should have been the whole time. Then we saw that vs-Sociedad Dorgu again, who doesn't need to be technically all that because the brief is just explode past the defender in a wide position then cross nicely, which he did a few times in the latter stages of the game, including for the header Maguire put wide.
He did give the ball away a lot but to my eye so did everyone else. We only managed to dominate possession (at least until the last half hour when we were plainly just much better than them) because Forest were giving it back as cheaply as we we giving it away.
Of course he's not the long term solution we want if we plan to be winning titles in three years or whatever. But there's no reason to overreact to this game and decide he's a problem for us right now. For me, he's still what he was before: a cheap square peg for an important square hole.
