They stopped because of the World Cup period. His performance will affect the contract negotiations. I think this is clever, the better eh performs the more leverage to ask for more money he will have.
With regards to the fans the haters are a minority. It’s just that the minority are the sad ones that sit behind a keyboard and have. Irving else to do with their sad lives so they comment like that, at the end of the day he was voted POTY twice by the fans. So the majority like him. The club likes him, he likes the club.