To be fair, it's not like Nuri put up a lot of fight for his place. Enrique, Henderson and Downing all proved themselves out of position, and look at the good it's done them.
That being said, he's not really much of a Number 10, and I think we could have played him in his more natural position a bit more whilst Lucas was out, as long as we had Henderson or Allen doing the legwork.
It's a shame we're probably going to be focusing on Defenders (and the odd forward) this transfer window, as we could really do with a more physical midfielder with good energy and work-rate, like Diame or Toure for example, to fill the shirt Sahin vacated. That would improve our squad massively.