Not valuable in terms of goals and assists or starting appearances though. Very much a squad filler brought in due to Emi2's injury when at the time I think it was generally thought it was possibly an upgrade.
Hopefully as you say Zaniolo fires up more but I really don't think the thinking was let's get a loan in August but we'll wait until at least February until we see anything. He was supposed to be hitting the ground running , surely ?
The clock is ticking and with Emi2 looking good for a full pre season, based on what we've seen from both no way are we buying Zaniolo unless it's dirt dirt cheap.