Some players need time to adjust and they deserve time and chances to find their footing, but it is also reasonable to criticise them if their performance is poor or if there is no progression in their game. Expectations are high and fans are frustrated, but most of the criticism has been quite fair so far. Shearer had a point, he wasn’t just bashing him.
Pretty light sentence after all the posturing and threats of games without fans or even point reductions. Ajax also had recently received a probationary sentence for throwing flairs, a more substantial sentence was not out of the question.