Yeah I don't understand the absolute declarations either. Still time to determine how this will play out.
We have like three more years, because we're paying insane money no matter what and the hit of a cut or trade makes it effectively impossible to do either.
So, he's here, for better or worse which means we have plenty of time to watch and wait.
That said, there isn't much evidence to suggest that he isn't getting close to washed up. You are what you put on film, and so far, that is absolutely sub-par to the extent that if we hadn't paid so much for him, it's a near guarantee that he'd be gone/benched already. Money spent, and the dream that he can live up to it (which may be a pipe dream), is all that is keeping him as our number one.