Burke doesn't pick the team, Burke can sign players but he can't make the manager pick them. It's the nature of football, some signings will come off and others won't but the failures are all he's linked with, and once he's got the player in he's done his job. It's up to the manager to make it...
I saw him in the Southampton friendly and was encouraged, he snapped into tackles and kept the ball ticking over. Realistically, nobody has seen anything like enough of him to really have a strong opinion and we're left guessing at what the problem was/is. Maybe attitude, maybe the question...
All the people jumping down Burke's throat are bang out of order, anyone who saw Toko play could see he was far from being a dud. Something is very strange about this scenario, the guy isn't a bad player as proven by the number of games he's played at, arguably, a higher level. It hasn't worked...