He's looked marginally better in SOME games but many fans are going overboard about his impact. He's not much of a goal threat - but then again neither are any of our midfielders. Keita was no better when he came on yesterday - neither was Milner. When you consider the goals chipped in by Man CIty's midfielders we are terrible in comparison. If Mo doesn't score we struggle.
To be fair City don't have forwards like Mane, Salah, Firmino, Jota. So their "midfield" of De Bruyne, Foden, Gundogan, Mahrez, Fernandinho, Rodri etc will make any other team look poor by comparison in that area. If we were analysing goals by forwards City would be poor. We have the top 2 PL scorers as it stands. Not seen a PL team have that at this stage of the season for a very long time. Perhaps that is what we build on.