[Danny]

He certainly was last season and the season before - became, thanks to some high-energy, action packed displays one of our biggest assets, valued by myself (and others) in the £50M bracket going by today's insane price tags.

But this season Prince has been without doubt the biggest disappointment in the squad. His limitations have been exposed, laid bare for all to see; with Ibra and quality players in midfield he was able to play to his strengths and they got the best out of him. Remove that level of player and suddenly Prince looks like a Pauper.

Allegri seems bewildered as to what to do with him: he lacks pace so he's not a winger. He lacks dribbling skill or creative vision so isn't a trequartista. Neither is he an AM or deep-lying playmaker, and he isn't reliable up front enough to be a striker.

Yet our beleaguered manager yesterday put him behind Pazzini and SES and seemed to instruct him to basically do what he wanted. Left wing, right wing, CM, even DM at times. Hell he was even spotted in our own box now and then.

The problem with Prince is he is a less dynamic and versatile version of a young Frank Lampard. A circle to box attacker who keeps the passes simple then bursts into the box to score a goal now and then. He is capable of remarkable moments of quality - that goal V Barca was stupendous and some of his goals in the distant past were top drawer. Problem is in this team, bereft of supporting quality, Prince is next to useless.

He can't create, he doesn't have the pace to support, and he can't swing in crosses.

At his best Prince lives up to his name. Right now he's a waste of a jersey (not totally his fault) and serves no purpose in this team.

[Jack Sparrow]

For me this team has a HUGE gap in technical quality. We do not have players in our mid-field who are 'masters' of anything. What we have is (and I blame it a little on Allegri's gameplay mentality) in-betweens. Players like Nocerino (not a DM, not a creative/defensive box-to-box), Prince, Flamini(what happened to him (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) ), Traore- if our best mid-field player is Montolivo...then something is wrong.

It's like our mid-field is a a bunch of construction workers and a foreman (Montolivo), but no architect - and they're trying to build something.

Is Prince responsible? Well third of it is his form, another third of it is his ego which forces him to try the spectacular instead of making the percentage plays, then there is a third of it which is Allegri putting him in a position which no longer suits him, since he cannot play off Ibra anymore.

Ibra's departure is now affecting us more than Silva's (as I worried, but kept in denial). Silva's leaving hurt us 'emotionally', but we could still have progressed with Ibra dragging us onwards. Ibra leaving meant essentially Noce, Prince and to some extent Robinho have become useless. Not to mention the added stress on our fullbacks to create which means we're funked defensively.