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Hammers1993 5:00 Thu Oct 9
Ravel Morrison

Redknapp's time with him, from his book:

I had Ravel Morrison at QPR last season. Sir Alex Ferguson said he was the most naturally gifted player he had seen at Manchester United since Paul Scholes - and then sold him because he could do nothing with him.

He’d been at West Ham, scored one of the goals of the season against Tottenham but they, too, found it hard to control him. He’d already had one loan spell at Birmingham City, but ended up with me.

The kid can really play. He goes past people and makes them look silly. He’s like the strolling England player Alan Hudson in the 1970s. He doesn’t run, he glides.


By the time we came to the end of the season, though, he couldn’t get in our starting line-up.

There was one game last season when we’d lost confidence and were losing. I asked him to change his position, to play on the left. His face fell into a petulant pout.

‘I pulled him away from the rest, took him outside and explained as patiently as the time allowed. ‘Ravel, we are losing the f****** game,’ I said. ‘I just want you to play there and do a job for the team. We have to win the game. It’s not about you, OK? It’s about the team.

‘People look at your face in there when I’ve asked you to do something, and they will all go away and think you are a big-headed bastard, because your attitude stinks. That’s what people say about you.’

Second half he was absolutely different class. He ran the game, everything good we did came from him and we were all watching it thinking, ‘‘What a talent’’. You looked at that performance and thought he could get us promoted on his own if he put his mind to it. It was like watching a player with Gareth Bale’s class in the Championship.

southlondonhammer 5:46 Fri Oct 10
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Council Scum 5:40 Fri Oct 10


AGADOO!

Alex V 5:46 Fri Oct 10
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>>> Sounds like your suggesting we shouldn't sign the likes of Song and play Morrison instead.

Well I'm not. Hope that helps.

ironsofcanada 5:46 Fri Oct 10
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Alex V 5:24 Fri Oct 10

Again too stupid not to be a wind up.

You can't build a side around a player that may not be there (mentally, physically, legally) the next game. You know he has show too many times that this is a very real possibility.

Build your "tragedy of the youngster" soap box on another player.

Seamouse 5:43 Fri Oct 10
Re: Ravel Morrison

Its not a tragedy that a talented player such as Morrison can't get in our side at 22,

Especially if he simply refuses to work hard and knuckle down and play for the team. As he is incapable of doing so, because he is such a cunt, then the real tragedy is his insulting attitude and waste, put full in the face of many other far less talented, earnest young players, who work immensely hard, and yet are never given the many chances and breaks Morrison has had.

He is simply a disgrace to football and should be left to rue his waste for the rest of his life.

DukeofDevo 5:40 Fri Oct 10
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Is that what you think we have then Alex a team of mercenary pros?

A sad assessment of our team! Sounds like your suggesting we shouldn't sign the likes of song and play Morrison instead. Thank god you don't have anything to do with the running of the club.

Council Scum 5:40 Fri Oct 10
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"I think you intended. For me, it's a tragedy that a player of that talent can't get into our side. Because if he can't, with his talent, what real chance does any young player have?"

One with the right attitude will you fat, fucking inside out faced cunt

Alex V 5:24 Fri Oct 10
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>>> 21 years old (soon to be 22 in the new year) and the fact he still can't get into our side regularly says it all.

I take that a different way to the way I think you intended. For me, it's a tragedy that a player of that talent can't get into our side. Because if he can't, with his talent, what real chance does any young player have?

If a club has the attitude that every young player has to be better than the established (mercenary) pros bought for millions to get in the side, then all we will ever, ever see at the club is established mercenary pros.

crapnotshit 5:22 Fri Oct 10
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The Joker 4:42 Fri Oct 10

21 years old (soon to be 22 in the new year) and the fact BFS wont play him into our side regularly says it all.

Eggbert Nobacon 5:09 Fri Oct 10
Re: Ravel Morrison

I honestly believe the penny will drop sooner rather than later


He's been here nearly 3 years now

it's already later

appyhammer78 5:02 Fri Oct 10
Re: Ravel Morrison

i know he hasn't been consistent

but some of you seem quick to write him off

any player that can do what he did against spurs deserves sticking by

it wasn't a fluke and we don't have another player who could do what he did that day

I honestly believe the penny will drop sooner rather than later and he will go on to be a star player - just hope it's with us

The Joker 4:42 Fri Oct 10
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21 years old (soon to be 22 in the new year) and the fact he still can't get into our side regularly says it all.

If he really was this football god-in-waiting that some think, wouldn't he have had a bit more of an impact in his time with us?

andywestham 2:43 Fri Oct 10
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JGW1 8:09 Thu Oct 9
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I'm wondering if there's ever been as much wasted debate over such an obvious loser

was trying to quote this post......

andywestham 2:42 Fri Oct 10
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is the winning answer to this thread

simon.s 2:32 Fri Oct 10
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I think the club probably have bent over backwards for him. They showed plenty of faith by signing him in the first place. The same could probably be said of every club he's been at. Which could end up a very long list.

Steve P 1:48 Fri Oct 10
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We seem to have given him several chances, but he just can't force himself into the team.

There's a reason for that. He hasn't been good enough. Plenty of potential, but no point having that if it can't be delivered on the pitch.

He'll be off at the end of the season anyway.

Lily Hammer 1:46 Fri Oct 10
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Alex V

He has shown glimpses of skill that can be compared to the very best we've ever seen, but that is a long way off what you just said.

Eerie Descent 1:46 Fri Oct 10
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He just needs to put on 2 stone apparently, Alex.

Must have just got lucky with his weedy frame when he was outstanding beginning of last season.

Ditcher 1:46 Fri Oct 10
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It would be too much of a risk to build a team around him with his current temperament.

Alex V 1:40 Fri Oct 10
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I might as well repeat my views on Morrison. I don't care about any of the off-the-field stuff. On the field I think he is one of the best prospects we've ever had at the club, and I would want us to bend over backwards to get him in the team and build around him. Starting today.

Eddie B 11:23 Fri Oct 10
Re: Ravel Morrison

ironsofcanada, he's in the last year of his contract. There's more change of WHU giving a contract to Stephen Hawking than Ravel.

j.a 11:23 Fri Oct 10
Re: Ravel Morrison

So Bale bulking up added to his game becuase he's quicker, but it will ruin Ravel because he's not as quick?
I don't understand that logic. Adding muscle can make you quicker, and will make you harder to push off the ball.

How can that be a bad thing. ?

And Bale is hardly lacking in the technical department, like Ronaldo. Who also improved a lot with added bulk.

I'm not talking about turning him into a beast, just a bit more powerful.


Oh, and Sterling isn't as skinny as he was. And looks a better player for it.

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