Thing with Joe is although he was absolutely great for us and Birmingham in that loan spell and got plenty of unfair criticisms, all due to being England no.1 but he only has himself to blame for his career trajectory... He is comfortably a better goalkeeper at his very best than any current English keeper but he clearly sulked after Pep dropped him, he went the Paul Robinson route a fantastically talented goalkeeper who should be breaking Peter Shilton's England record... He got mentally exhausted though and never came back fighting, Joe either lacks the eye of the tiger hunger or is mentally weak sorry to say, his attitudes seems to be woe is me instead of grabbing whatever he wants in football by the bollocks.
David James by Hart's age had only just started to show the best of his career after being absolutely assassinated by the English press, yet he carved out a fantastic later stages of his football career... Joe was 2 times the keeper Kasper Schmeichel could ever be at one point, so what happened? He was too busy thinking he's the man and then when he fell down after beating in the press, he didn't get back up and dust himself off knuckle down and get on with it like Kasper.
I'm extremely disappointed in Joe cos I know how good he can be and when I saw mongy rags slag him off it used to make me laugh, however Joe is giving them genuine ammunition with how his career spiralled... The Joe Hart against Spurs or Dortmund or Barcelona or many other games is was a world class goalkeeper but he let himself go and die mentally, I'd love if there was still something burning inside him but he needs to move to a club with an organised defence, a club who'd give him a chance to be number one regardless of the level and start enjoying football... He should've seeked a move to Rangers when they first promoted now that ship sailed and nobody genuinely wants to take a chance, he needs to retire and become a pundit or try to come back with a vengeance in a lower division or lesser league but I don't think he has the guts/desire to prove owt and that the eye of the tiger is gone.