He has been a warm body with Napoleon syndrome for a very long time.
All the fans and the coaches have done is cheer on his idiotic hard man acts and getting yellow cards constantly, meanwhile he forgot how to play with his feet now, he is a footballer, right? All he seems to do these days is display his insecurity about being small, his performances have nothing to do with football anymore.
This is why that behaviour should have been discouraged from the start because he's forgotten he is a football player seemingly. No manager has guided him towards learning tactically and technically and have let him do his Scrappy Doo act and applauded the 'passion'.
What we have now is a previously very promising young player who has been reduced to being a shit version of Gattuso, because he and the coaches, instead of demanding actual ability from him, happy clapped along with his bullshit.
Hopefully now it stops but I'm not optimistic as long as the fans continue to blindly cheer for the fake hard man act. He had/has potential IF he actually develops and tries to improve his football, but not this, not this.