If he's going to play in defence, I'll be unimpressed. Further evidence is needed, but his performance yesterday suggests he might be a better midfielder than he is a defender. That's not saying much, since he's an appalling central defender.
Harsh on a lad who has only played a handfull of first team games in his life, who must be seen as a talent at chelsea else quite simply he wouldn't be there. Feck sake they are one of the top teams in EUROPE not just the premier league. A bit of encouragment and support, good direction and coaching from someone like Sven and who knows what the lad could become.
I personally thought he had a decent game yesterday, I told my boy who plays in a similar role (centre / holding Midfield) a lot for his team to watch him, his movement when he plays, when he decides to hold and when he decides to press forward to support. How he gets himself into situations where he has created time on the ball by sometimes not being to eager to take someone else's space.
He needs to learn to release the ball quicker than he sometimes did on saturday, but from what I saw on saturday, with the right coaching and support he will be a decent powerfull player. He reminds me a bit of a very young (and obviously nieve) Patrick Vierra. Whether he will go to have half the career he did who knows, but what chance does a very young Pro stand with such negativity being thrown at him from such a young age. Didn't any of you who are critisising him never make any mistakes when you first started in your line of work, did you not learn and get better at your job through making mistakes and getting experience of certain situations under your belt ??
I'm going to stick my neck out and say, if the lad has the right attitude to developing his game and constantly learning then he looks to have the rudiments to suggest he could have a decent career in the game at a high level. And if that's with us for another season then great, get behind him and everyone else, give them our support and encourage them to give their absolute best for our team to get us promoted.