It may not be laziness on his part, it may be self doubt. The step up from the French league to the Premiership is a big one and Cisse has never looked comfortable. He was also bought by a manager who wasn't actually there when he arrived so he might have felt that Benitez had less faith in him. Whatever the truth, it would do him and the club good for him to return to France. I am sure he's as disappointed as we all are with the way things turned out, but sometimes no-one is to blame. The only question to be sorted now is do the club wait for him to ask for a move thus saving paying up his contract?