He might not be amazing, sure, but it's remarkable how bad his time here has gone. He looks unrecognisable from the fairly good and talented young player he was a few years ago.
Sure, he never achieved anything huge in his career, but a player who was rotation attacker for City, starter for Spain with a good record of 20 goals in 46 games, and even scoring hat tricks against good teams like Germany and Newcastle, added to that, as a young player (he's only 24 - he was 21 when we signed him!) surely can't truly be this bad as he appears with us now.
Currently he doesn't even seem like a first division footballer and that seems baffling given his career history, where he was as a 21 or 22 year old footballer, this makes no sense. He should be a lot better even if he is in bad form. He barely looks like he can play anymore.
God knows what happened, but he needs a fresh start.