I've never watched a player (for any team) who has won/retrieved the ball when he has no right to do so. Again and again. As mentioned above, it's only when he doesn't you notice. Then he passes well and drives forward. He's rock hard and yet feints and dummies like a ...well, I don't know...
Yes our best ever player. The high risk passing we play, he gets fouled a lot. My worry is that someone will go too late and too heavy on him and injure him badly.