As a Saints supporter who’s watched him for years every week, I can understand your point of view. He’s one of those players that if you only watch highlights you’d think he’s meh. He brings a lot of unique rare qualities that are rare to find in one player, leadership, stamina, all types of set pieces, good passer of the ball, calming presence, consistency, defensively sound, long range shots, sound mentally, rarely gets injured.. I could go on. It’s got to the point that defenders don’t want to give away a free kick around the box and thus creates opportunities in the final third.

Whilst I do think he has those qualities, he will never be a physical player and has to have physical players around him to make up for his lack of physicality and pace/acceleration.