No, all players and teams go through patches like this. Now is not the time to relieve him of his duties as it will bang his confidence rather than help. He is a classy player, he'll start showing it shortly.

Whaaat? Guys an excellent captain, absolutely no need to change it up!

More than one bad game. He was dreadful against Watford and patchy against Liverpool.

Leadership definitely an issue, after that first goal he just stood there as everyone looked a bit shell-shocked. McArthur was the only one who looked like he was geeing up teammates.

He also spent a lot of the second half flying into ridiculous challenges that could (if he'd connected) easily have seen him sent off.

Employee of the month is a good example of how someone can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

Jedinak is...elsewhere and our problems too.
It's very difficult to change the skipper without a huge understanding of dressing room.

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We said this about Scott Dann once but the difference there was that he oughtn't to have been captain in the first place.

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Luka needs a playmaker beside him, and that is what I thought Meyer was brought in for. Roy needs to stop the dithering and put him in the starting 11. Oh, and drop Benteke, just to see if he has any hunger left in him.