I'll give a different perspective. CMS functioned best by 'picking the ball up and running at defenders'. Poyet played him far too often, in our early days at the Amex, as a lone target. Although we played the ball on the floor most of the time, passes to CMS becam too offen just 'hit and...
As a manager, Poyet was not a winner (and is not). As others have said, if we had kept Murray then he and CMS would have ripped teams another one. Under a manager different from Poyet .....
Anyway, congrats to the lad. Well done.