He pretty much has been, in the league he isn't even on the bench half the time I don't think and he only played Madrid because Rodgers rotated the team so don't go down that route mate.
I think he is being underused, he's played well and looked our most dangerous player to create something up top whenever he's been on the pitch. He could have score 3 against Madrid and I'd bet he would still be benched for the Chav game.
No worries mate.
My argument at the tail end of the Summer transfer window was that Fabio did the right thing to back himself to stay.
If we had signed Costa, Eto’o and Remy, for example, that would not have been the case. But looking at his options he either had to choose between stepping down a level to go to Sunderland or seeing if he could get a chance to showcase himself here.
There was always going to be a good chance that Sturridge was going to be out for a significant period during the season. That left an unproven and volatile Balotelli ahead of him and Ricky Lambert vying for either one or two strikers slots. For some reason I got dragged into a stupid argument about why Borini had played at a consistently higher level throughout his career than Lambert – stupid because it’s pretty obvious that Lambert has been a journeyman pro (although ending up at Liverpool is a heartwarming fairytale).
As things have worked out, Sturridge has been injured, Lambert is not of sufficient quality and Balotelli has been hit-and-miss which means that Borini got his chance starting against the best team in the world at the Bernebeu – a match that was screened across the world.
For me, that means his decision to stay was relatively canny.
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