I think he is a quality player, who for some reason is not getting the playing time this season. Not only is it hurting Kaiserslautern, but also the Iranian National Team. He can add so much, but the problem has been in the defense and he is an offensive midfielder. I know that he got hurt in training in August. Maybe he has not returned to form. For some reason, he did not even suit up for the Wolfsburg game last week. A couple months ago we had this discussion: https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=251029 It may be of interest to you and you can see how we were having this same discusssion then and nothing has changed. Still no answers.