He's been pretty poor this season. I wonder why, you would think now he was Captain he would be leading by example. Obviously, no player goes out to play poorly but it has been said that he wants to leave then this isn't the way to go about it.
Bear this in mind next time the Mirror is the source of a story. They only cover the football league because they have to, they'd ignore the bottom half of the Premier League if they could get away with it.