I don't see anything wrong with benching the bloke - GHod knows, his fitness levels were absolutely, mind-bendingly atrocious, and maybe they still are.
Poch worked for years to get every lazy c*nut out the door at this club. We may still have been bottlers, who knows - but we were going to give it our all, fight for each other and fight for the team. The meteorology shifted, in a positive way. No more Adebayors, or Huddlestones with the ketchup - no more Paulinhos, or Kabouls or Capoues. No more Berbatovs - even if mercurial, the trade-off wasn't worth it.
If (if) this guy is as uselessly lazy as he's looking like being, he's a threat to that meteorology. Certainly the Burnley game did him no favors - it was the laziest, most useless performance I've seen from a midfielder of ours in a long while. If that's what he's like, bin him - sell him on to whichever team can stand someone like him because the meteorology cannot spread to the rest of them.
And if he *isn't* actually lazy, slow and weak, let him prove it in training instead of letting the French press make up brick about him.