The midfielder is still to find his feet and has only completed 90 minutes once since August as he continues to fall short of the mark required
Whenever Jose Mourinho had one of his regular rants about Premier League rivals throwing a bucket-load of cash at problem positions, the standard response was for his adversaries to wonder why he’d ordered the £52 million purchase of Fred.
And while the Portuguese was put out of his Manchester United misery in December, the midfielder continues to struggle under new boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Even against a bunch of Championship relegation candidates he failed to show nearly enough of the promise United would have been banking on seeing at some point.