ColinLee said:Correct, not to mention that being available to actually play is a million per cent improvement on someone who was permanently crocked.grim up north said:MeatHunterrr said:Yeah, so far Sagna has been shite to be honest, which is strange because he was last season solid for Arsenal. Atleast he is available and not on the treatment table.
Yet another player not afforded time to settle into a new environment before our resident experts write him off kept Ribery quiet the other night
Corky said:ColinLee said:Correct, not to mention that being available to actually play is a million per cent improvement on someone who was permanently crocked.grim up north said:Yet another player not afforded time to settle into a new environment before our resident experts write him off kept Ribery quiet the other night
Saying he is no better isn't writing him off - Richards is a good player, and was similar or better than Sagna.
An experienced 31 year old always needs a season to bed into a familiar league.
BlueSkyBlue said:Blue Note said:Top man is Micah. Wish him all the best. Once a blue always a blue.
Hate to point it out
Do you still look out for City's results?
Richards: "Yeah, of course. I followed Arsenal as a kid,
dobobobo said:If young British players were willing to play abroad like everyone else, then they'd get a "chance" in their career.
(I haven't read the whole interview, because I can't be arsed reading it after reading the first line.)
Especially if you don't bother to read what he said.MeatHunterrr said:Also sounds very bitter to me.
cleavers said:Especially if you don't bother to read what he said.MeatHunterrr said:Also sounds very bitter to me.
Glad he's playing again, its what he needed for his career, lets hope he gets back to something like the form that got him into the England side, England could badly do with a decent RB.
Pity he had to leave City, but we needed better reliability.
cleavers said:Especially if you don't bother to read what he said.MeatHunterrr said:Also sounds very bitter to me.
Glad he's playing again, its what he needed for his career, lets hope he gets back to something like the form that got him into the England side, England could badly do with a decent RB.
Pity he had to leave City, but we needed better reliability.
Davs 19 said:cleavers said:Especially if you don't bother to read what he said.MeatHunterrr said:Also sounds very bitter to me.
Glad he's playing again, its what he needed for his career, lets hope he gets back to something like the form that got him into the England side, England could badly do with a decent RB.
Pity he had to leave City, but we needed better reliability.
....and a better RB than he'd been (when fit) for the last 18 months. Loved the lad to bits but he'd gone backwards at an alarming rate and wasn't close to being good enough for a top 4 club.
I'd love him to get himself back on track though and wish him all the best.
M18CTID said:Davs 19 said:cleavers said:Especially if you don't bother to read what he said.
Glad he's playing again, its what he needed for his career, lets hope he gets back to something like the form that got him into the England side, England could badly do with a decent RB.
Pity he had to leave City, but we needed better reliability.
....and a better RB than he'd been (when fit) for the last 18 months. Loved the lad to bits but he'd gone backwards at an alarming rate and wasn't close to being good enough for a top 4 club.
I'd love him to get himself back on track though and wish him all the best.
I'm pretty sure that the only reason he went backwards was because the injuries had a huge impact on his form which isn't really his fault. Cast your mind back to the 11-12 title winning season - it almost seems to have been forgotten that Richards was our first choice RB for most of that campaign and put in some superb performances. He was at his marauding best in the 6-1 in particular but he also made an impact in other games too - I recall a match a few weeks after the derby at home to a previously unbeaten Newcastle and he scored a great goal in a 3-1 win. It was only in the closing games of the season that he lost his place to Zabaleta and after that things started to go wrong with him regularly picking up injuries.