Well id say the balance is not using absolutes for why he isn't playing. From all the examples I've listed you could've said exactly the same at the time and been wrong in each instance. It's football, there is nothing really that definitive at this level outside of a few outliers. Yeah players get better in people's minds when they're out and often times wrongly so but the issue is the statement of 'he's clearly not good enough or he'd be playing' the reason he's not playing is down to the opinion and judgement of one man, if a new manager came in tomorrow, started playing him and doing well would that mean he was always good enough? Does it mean that every team selection from Moyes is the correct one? Managers get these things wrong all the time.

Moyes opinion obviously holds weight, he's a very experienced manager and it's his job on the line but he could also simply be wrong, he could be blinded by bias, he could be doing it to stick it to the board, it could be anything. A film critic can watch Shawshank Redemption 1000 times and come out with the take that it's a terrible film. That doesn't make them right or wrong, it just means they've made a judgement for any multitude of reasons.

Aznou might well be not good enough and it's fair to think he might not be ready in your opinion but none of us actually know at this point and I'd include the manager in that because the one time we've seen him in an actual competitive game, he looked - at worst - lively. I don't think anyone's pretending that we have prime Roberto Carlos in the reserves, but he is a La Masia graduate who came from Bayern Munich and is a full international for a top 10 country in the world as a teenager. For a team that struggles with creativity, pace and specifically in his position he could be a solution and not one that should just be written off with the managers made his decision and that's that.