Best thing about Jack Rodwell

[Anonymous]

You're all *****. How you can slate our players. City fans?

Agree, fucking shit houses.

His mis pass vs southampton was on the edge of their fucking box, piss poor defending let them score from there.

He was never ready for dortmund and i believe mancini shouldnt have introduced him into the game.

Over the last few years ive learnt to back the management and players all the way, every time ive said ive had enough of an individual, could be mancini, dzeko, even yaya toure ive slated, they have always proved me wrong.

People make mistakes but the quality is there and in the end city will succeed with rodwell playing his part.

 

[nehe11]

You're all *****. How you can slate our players. City fans?

Agree, fucking shit houses.

His mis pass vs southampton was on the edge of their fucking box, piss poor defending let them score from there.

He was never ready for dortmund and i believe mancini shouldnt have introduced him into the game.

Over the last few years ive learnt to back the management and players all the way, every time ive said ive had enough of an individual, could be mancini, dzeko, even yaya toure ive slated, they have always proved me wrong.

People make mistakes but the quality is there and in the end city will succeed with rodwell playing his part.

Indeed and people forget that´s only 21

 

[xzbit04]

Jack of all trades
Rich Jolly- ESPNSoccernet

The omission of a Manchester City midfielder was one of the newsworthy elements of Roy Hodgson's choice for the England squad to face San Marino and Poland. Jack Rodwell wasn't that man. The belated addition of an up-and-coming midfielder, chosen because suspension ruled Steven Gerrard out and rendered others doubts, made further headlines. Once again, it wasn't Rodwell.

If Hodgson's decision to overlook Gareth Barry - a veteran of 53 caps and a player who, but for injury, would have figured at Euro 2012 - was clearly more of a surprise than Rodwell's exclusion, the more damning detail came when he was ignored a second time.

Shelvey's sudden promotion occurred with barely a mention of Rodwell. Even if it is partly explained by the Liverpool man's unavailability for the first leg of the Under-21 team's play-off against Serbia - he is serving a ban - it is a sign of his swift progress that he has leapfrogged Rodwell, long tipped for eminence, as well as an indication of Hodgson's willingness to involve the next generation. Some have been spectators, but Raheem Sterling, Adam Lallana, Steven Caulker, Jake Livermore, Jack Butland, Phil Jones, Martin Kelly, Kieran Gibbs, Ryan Bertrand, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Danny Welbeck and Jordan Henderson have all been called up in a brief reign.

But not Rodwell. An England career that only encompasses the final two games of Fabio Capello's tenure has stalled; he is in Stuart Pearce's Under-21 party. At club level, he received an upgrade, from Everton to Manchester City, in a £15 million move. But the international scene may paint a truer picture.

Rodwell's brief time at the Etihad Stadium has rather reinforced two theories: firstly, that he rarely features in his club's strongest side and, secondly, that the confusion about what he actually is continues. Because of the injuries that occur all too frequently, he was absent for Everton's end-of-season rally last year without being missed, partly because David Moyes found a cut-price replacement before he had gone. Darron Gibson, the £500,000 buy from Manchester United, cemented a place in the team in a way Rodwell never did. His sale then funded the summer purchases of Steven Pienaar, Kevin Mirallas and Bryan Oviedo, a profitable return for one who never developed beyond being a squad player.

While Moyes once compared Rodwell to Rio Ferdinand, he never selected him as a central defender. Nor was he overly keen on giving the Englishman the responsibility of being the most defensive of his midfielders - a duty he preferred to give to Phil Neville, Marouane Fellaini or Mikel Arteta - meaning Rodwell was sometimes shunted out to the right and sometimes left on the bench.

The notion of him as an attacking midfielder was given credence when he burst through the Manchester United defence to score in Everton's 3-1 win in February 2010, yet the move to City has cast that into doubt - partly because Yaya Toure is the country's premier box-to-box runner and partly because positions in the attacking half of an elite side are the most coveted in football.


The early part of Jack Rodwell's Manchester City career has been characterised by errors
Hence, perhaps, Roberto Mancini's deployment of Rodwell as the defensive midfielder. Except that, rather than stopping goals, he has twice gifted them. Stray passes led to first Southampton and then Borussia Dortmund scoring. It is a role, too, where there is an onus to be destructive, and not just the distributor. He is yet to impose himself upon a game, to exert the control that can come from authority or sheer energy. Even a deep-lying playmaker of the gifts of Xabi Alonso has shown he can play the pressing game.

It links to a larger question: is Rodwell essentially a physical or a technical player? A blend of both would justify the predictions of greatness. So far, however, there is the risk he will he prove neither. After signing Rodwell, Mancini, as is his wont, proclaimed that the 21-year-old is young and improving - it is his normal spiel about any player in their early 20s. The other aspect of his quote was instructive. "He can play in different positions," he said.

That was the intention in the Capital One Cup game against Aston Villa. Rodwell seemed slated to operate as one of three central defenders, which would have provided a rare opportunity to see how accurate the Ferdinand comparisons are. Instead, he sustained a thigh injury in the warm-up.

But if youth, versatility and potential comprise a holy trinity of attributes for scouts, consistency of both position and performance are the ultimate objectives. The signs are that Mancini sees Rodwell as his odd-job man. In comparison, Shelvey has been handed the task of being an attacking central midfielder by Brendan Rodgers and has responded with goals.

If his future seems more sure, the opposite is true of Rodwell. Precocity meant some things were put on hold, but almost five years since his first-team debut, his status still remains uncertain. The questions persist. What sort of a midfielder is he? Or is he a defender? Until his identity crisis is resolved, the chances are that others will overtake him in the international pecking order.

 

[yatesy94]

You're all *****. How you can slate our players. City fans?

Agree, fucking shit houses.

His mis pass vs southampton was on the edge of their fucking box, piss poor defending let them score from there.

He was never ready for dortmund and i believe mancini shouldnt have introduced him into the game.

Over the last few years ive learnt to back the management and players all the way, every time ive said ive had enough of an individual, could be mancini, dzeko, even yaya toure ive slated, they have always proved me wrong.

People make mistakes but the quality is there and in the end city will succeed with rodwell playing his part.

Plus the free-kick conceded at L'pool which inevitably led to the Suarez goal simply wasn't a handball. Give the lad some leeway he's got the potential to go far here.

 

[Chi-town blues]

You're all *****. How you can slate our players. City fans?

This ^^

 

[goatboy]

someone one here said jermaine jenas. thats exactly what the everton fans at work said. words that cut through me like a knife, hope they prove to be wrong.

he needs a few games to be brought on when the game is won. going from evertons bench to playing german champions is thrown in at the deep end with lead boots

 

[CityCTID]

JACK RODWELL has hit back at Adam Johnson’s claim that Manchester City waste English talent.

Johnson quit City for Sunderland in an £11million deal in August and told other England stars not to go there. The winger claimed they would not play regularly but Under-21 hero Rodwell says the club is perfect for him.

Rodwell, who this summer went to City from Everton for £15m, said: “I’m young and English. I’ve not got a bad word to say about City. If they want you and sign you, then they have got intent for you.

“I was not guaranteed a starting place at Everton. I had a lot of injuries, Darron Gibson and Marouane Fellaini were in form, so it was a push for me to get in that side.

“But when the champions come knocking, it’s hard to refuse.”
Rodwell has made five Prem appearances for City this season.
He said: “It has been hard to adjust. I was at Everton from the age seven.

“Being there 14 years meant any move was going to be big. The methods and styles are very different. The respective managers are very different.

“The standard of training is amazing.”
Rodwell will line up for the Under-21s in a Euro 2013 play-off first leg against Serbia at Carrow Road tonight.

He is now injury free after a mission in Germany last spring to cure hamstring trouble.
Rodwell said: “The injury happened about five or six times in a row. After the third time, I started to ask some serious questions.

“It wasn’t as if they were major tears, they were just tiny grade ones. But they just kept recurring.

“I went to see Hans Muller-Wolfhart. He has got such a great camp there, loads of different people.

“I must have had 40 injections. I saw him twice, he was confident he would fix me.
“I now do extra work after training but I am fully fit and can just get on with things. I haven’t felt a thing at all since.”

The Young Lions are looking to qualify for a fourth successive Euro finals.
Rodwell added: “The focus is on Serbia. It will be really tough but we've got to win, especially with it being at home.”

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I've no doubts Rodwell will come good.
give the lad a chance and support him ffs

 

[Bill]

His dodgy start is not entirely his fault, he's been sloppy yes but he should have been nowhere near a game as big as Dortmund. Mancini got everything wrong that night.
It's now done with so we move on, jack, bob and the fans.

 

[Akira]

How much does this kid per week, anyone knows?

 

[Tony101]

How much does this kid per week, anyone knows?

my guess would be around 60k