I agree that he had some really poor games for us. I didn't say that he was fantastic and undeserving of any criticism but that he looked promising, got injured, started one more home game (played well), got injured again. Who knows whether he would've ever hit better heights with us had he had...
I highly doubt we had a similar arrangement regarding Izzy. If you take the Atletico Madrid game and the Man City starting line-ups, paired with his comments on Brown after the Palarse game, it is pretty clear without the injuries CH saw him as a first XI player.
I honestly don't know why...