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Title: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 11, 2015, 08:37:30 PM
Nothing official yet, but as this seems to have legs, he gets his own thread.

Mirror

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Micah Richards has agreed to join Aston Villa after turning down a lucrative deal from Sunderland.

Sunderland had offered the right back around £90,000-a-week, but he chose Villa - and a deal understood to be around £65,000-a-week - after a personal intervention from Tim Sherwood.

The sought-after 26-year-old, had also been pursued by West Ham following his release from Manchester City.

The Villa boss is understood to have convinced Richards that he would play a key role in his new-look side and that he would be helped in his bid to break back into the England picture.

Richards has been at Italian club Fiorentina on loan but has made just 20 appearances for the Serie A club.

He has been keen to come back to the Premier League for some time, despite interest from Inter Milan, managed by his former City boss Roberto Mancini.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Ron Manager on June 11, 2015, 08:45:27 PM
Well he looked promising at the beginning of his career, fast and powerful, but has lost his way over the past few years. No doubt very wealthy
though from his Man City contract. Could fit in at right back or centre half At 25/26 he has plenty of time left to make his way back to the top.

Could be a good signing for us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PaulWinch again on June 11, 2015, 08:45:38 PM
I'd be happy if he signs. As free transfers go he's potentially high quality. But £65,000 a week, isn't that kind of out of keeping with our wages?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Risso on June 11, 2015, 08:46:38 PM
Last time he played regularly, he was very good, and then lost his place to Zabaleta which is no disgrace.

Not sure I could ever forgive his potty mouth when he got the winner against us though.  How uncouth! ;)
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Risso on June 11, 2015, 08:47:11 PM
I'd be happy if he signs. As free transfers go he's potentially high quality. But £65,000 a week, isn't that kind of out of keeping with our wages?

The huge new TV deal says hello!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PaulWinch again on June 11, 2015, 08:49:55 PM
I'd be happy if he signs. As free transfers go he's potentially high quality. But £65,000 a week, isn't that kind of out of keeping with our wages?

The huge new TV deal says hello!

Still surprised we'd pay in line with it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: BoskoDjembaSalifou on June 11, 2015, 08:50:18 PM
65k a week? :o
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Trinitymiddle on June 11, 2015, 08:50:28 PM
A Brummie, as well!!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Pete3206 on June 11, 2015, 08:51:22 PM
I'm amazed that he's only 26.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Trinitymiddle on June 11, 2015, 08:51:58 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: silhillvilla on June 11, 2015, 08:52:43 PM
Where does this leave Scottish cafu
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: BoskoDjembaSalifou on June 11, 2015, 08:53:17 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Exeter 77 on June 11, 2015, 08:53:28 PM
A Brummie, as well!!!

Think he was born in Birmingham by accident rather than his family living here - he was brought up somewhere lije Doncaster I think.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 11, 2015, 08:53:56 PM
Last time he played regularly, he was very good, and then lost his place to Zabaleta which is no disgrace.

Not sure I could ever forgive his potty mouth when he got the winner against us though.  How uncouth! ;)

Last minute equaliser. Stupid ko time on a Sunday, shit crowd and atmosphere, was a pretty miserable game to be at. And we lost the replay.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Bad English on June 11, 2015, 08:54:15 PM
ABHHTS
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Trinitymiddle on June 11, 2015, 08:55:46 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?


Obviously Dick Advocaat doesn't agree. They offered him @90k a week
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: dave.woodhall on June 11, 2015, 08:56:40 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?

Is there anything you couldn't see the black side of?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 11, 2015, 08:57:02 PM
With the new TV deal, plus being a free, I can understand us paying those wages, although we have no idea if that is what he's been offered. I do wonder though how happy players like Delph and Benteke will be though if he does come straight in on more money than them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: eric woolban woolban on June 11, 2015, 08:57:07 PM
£90k a week from Sunderland? No chance.

Think the Mirror have plucked the figures out of the air.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Clampy on June 11, 2015, 08:57:22 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?


Obviously Dick Advocaat doesn't agree. They offered him @90k a week

And those figures might not even be true either.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: silhillvilla on June 11, 2015, 08:57:59 PM


Think the Mirror have plucked the figures out of the air.
Aswell as facts .
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Risso on June 11, 2015, 09:01:01 PM
Wasn't he seeing Helen Flanagan for a while?  Be nice for him to have something in common with one of the other Villa lads, should help him fit in!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Trinitymiddle on June 11, 2015, 09:02:56 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?


Obviously Dick Advocaat doesn't agree. They offered him @90k a week

And those figures might not even be true either.

Guess we'll never know.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: nigel on June 11, 2015, 09:04:21 PM
Nothing official yet, but as this seems to have legs, he gets his own thread.

Mirror

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Micah Richards has agreed to join Aston Villa after turning down a lucrative deal from Sunderland.

Sunderland had offered the right back around £90,000-a-week, but he chose Villa - and a deal understood to be around £65,000-a-week - after a personal intervention from Tim Sherwood.

The sought-after 26-year-old, had also been pursued by West Ham following his release from Manchester City.

The Villa boss is understood to have convinced Richards that he would play a key role in his new-look side and that he would be helped in his bid to break back into the England picture.

Richards has been at Italian club Fiorentina on loan but has made just 20 appearances for the Serie A club.

He has been keen to come back to the Premier League for some time, despite interest from Inter Milan, managed by his former City boss Roberto Mancini.

Speaks volumes to me. Show a bit of class, too
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: richl on June 11, 2015, 09:06:33 PM
https://instagram.com/p/3zRn12QgZm/
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: 1_Pablo_Angel on June 11, 2015, 09:11:27 PM
Last time he played regularly, he was very good, and then lost his place to Zabaleta which is no disgrace.

Not sure I could ever forgive his potty mouth when he got the winner against us though.  How uncouth! ;)

Last minute equaliser. Stupid ko time on a Sunday, shit crowd and atmosphere, was a pretty miserable game to be at. And we lost the replay.

Good goal from Milan though as I recall...
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: BoskoDjembaSalifou on June 11, 2015, 09:13:13 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?

Is there anything you couldn't see the black side of?

Why do you care? Not everyone has to be positive all the time.

If Richards stays fit, he'll be a good signing, but Man City would've kept him for their homegrown quota, so does that suggest there's something bigger? My main worry is that we'll give him a 3/4/5 year deal on 65k a week and end up getting about 10 appearances in return.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: dave.woodhall on June 11, 2015, 09:16:25 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?

Is there anything you couldn't see the black side of?

Why do you care? Not everyone has to be positive all the time.

If Richards stays fit, he'll be a good signing, but Man City would've kept him for their homegrown quota, so does that suggest there's something bigger? My main worry is that we'll give him a 3/4/5 year deal on 65k a week and end up getting about 10 appearances in return.

Being positive once a decade would be a start. We seem to be about to sign a top quality player, on top wages. Above anything else it's a sign that the days of austerity may be over and we're going to start paying the going rate again. And you're moaning that we're paying it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on June 11, 2015, 09:19:00 PM
If he can get back to the form of his early 20's he's worth a decent deal.

The biggest worry would be that we've taken finding Vlaar's replacement a bit too literally.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: taylorsworkrate on June 11, 2015, 09:19:48 PM
He's a definite upgrade on Bacuna, Hutton and Lowton. At his best he's powerful and quick.

The hope for me, as Dave W puts it, is that it's an indication of the wages we are prepared to pay our summer targets in general.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Clampy on June 11, 2015, 09:24:09 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?

Is there anything you couldn't see the black side of?

Why do you care? Not everyone has to be positive all the time.

If Richards stays fit, he'll be a good signing, but Man City would've kept him for their homegrown quota, so does that suggest there's something bigger?

He's out of contract and he wanted to move on and play on a more regular basis. He probably wouldn't have stayed at Man City anyway.

Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PaulWinch again on June 11, 2015, 09:25:19 PM
He's a potentially excellent player. Let's hope we can unlock that potential.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Yossarian on June 11, 2015, 09:26:27 PM
Forgive me for not keeping up to date with events but when I was on here last night we were about to be bought and therefore nobody was  allowed in or out. But today we are signing Micah Richards. Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

As for Micah Richards I think he is a skillful and nippy defender and I think he is a welcome addition.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: BoskoDjembaSalifou on June 11, 2015, 09:28:31 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?

Is there anything you couldn't see the black side of?

Why do you care? Not everyone has to be positive all the time.

If Richards stays fit, he'll be a good signing, but Man City would've kept him for their homegrown quota, so does that suggest there's something bigger? My main worry is that we'll give him a 3/4/5 year deal on 65k a week and end up getting about 10 appearances in return.

Being positive once a decade would be a start. We seem to be about to sign a top quality player, on top wages. Above anything else it's a sign that the days of austerity may be over and we're going to start paying the going rate again. And you're moaning that we're paying it.

I'm positive about a lot of things, but giving someone like Richards 65k a week feels like a throwback to the MON years, or even the N'Zogbia/Given deals. Of course I'm happy we seem to be prepared to pay big wages again, I'd just prefer it if we offered that sort of money to players who don't spend most of the time on the treatment table.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PaulWinch again on June 11, 2015, 09:29:50 PM
He hasn't spent any time on the treatment table at Villa yet. So how about give him a chance.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 11, 2015, 09:29:59 PM
Forgive me for not keeping up to date with events but when I was on here last night we were about to be bought and therefore nobody was  allowed in or out. But today we are signing Micah Richards. Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

As for Micah Richards I think he is a skillful and nippy defender and I think he is a welcome addition.

Can't believe you missed the news! I reckon it will be Messi next! Although Bosko will complain that it wasn't Ronaldo!  ;D
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 11, 2015, 09:33:11 PM
I'm positive about a lot of things, but giving someone like Richards 65k a week feels like a throwback to the MON years, or even the N'Zogbia/Given deals. Of course I'm happy we seem to be prepared to pay big wages again, I'd just prefer it if we offered that sort of money to players who don't spend most of the time on the treatment table.

It's no different to paying say £4m and giving him 35K a week. Would you view the deal differently if that was the break down of his contract?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Yossarian on June 11, 2015, 09:34:11 PM
Forgive me for not keeping up to date with events but when I was on here last night we were about to be bought and therefore nobody was  allowed in or out. But today we are signing Micah Richards. Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

As for Micah Richards I think he is a skillful and nippy defender and I think he is a welcome addition.

Can't believe you missed the news! I reckon it will be Messi next! Although Bosko will complain that it wasn't Ronalado!  ;D

I am behind the times, I haven't even heard of Ronalado. Is he any good?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Clampy on June 11, 2015, 09:35:37 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?

Is there anything you couldn't see the black side of?

Why do you care? Not everyone has to be positive all the time.

If Richards stays fit, he'll be a good signing, but Man City would've kept him for their homegrown quota, so does that suggest there's something bigger? My main worry is that we'll give him a 3/4/5 year deal on 65k a week and end up getting about 10 appearances in return.

Being positive once a decade would be a start. We seem to be about to sign a top quality player, on top wages. Above anything else it's a sign that the days of austerity may be over and we're going to start paying the going rate again. And you're moaning that we're paying it.

I'm positive about a lot of things,

My internet must have been down that morning.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: adam#1 on June 11, 2015, 09:36:05 PM
If the wages are true, then we couldn't really have wanted Cleverly who's apparently on 50k a week from everton.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 11, 2015, 09:36:44 PM
That's what happens when you type and eat pizza at the same time!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: BoskoDjembaSalifou on June 11, 2015, 09:37:24 PM
He hasn't spent any time on the treatment table at Villa yet. So how about give him a chance.

3 pages for the first call to give him a chance.

You do realise I have to, right? I'm a Villa fan, of course I'll support the players when they put on our colours. Doesn't mean I can't/won't voice my disapproval with the signing!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Smirker on June 11, 2015, 09:39:14 PM
Could be a good signing. Not too bothered on a free.

Will gave Gabby a run for his money in the muscular stakes.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Clampy on June 11, 2015, 09:39:34 PM
He hasn't spent any time on the treatment table at Villa yet. So how about give him a chance.

3 pages for the first call to give him a chance.

You do realise I have to, right? I'm a Villa fan, of course I'll support the players when they put on our colours. Doesn't mean I can't/won't voice my disapproval with the signing!

So you don't like the signing because we're apparently paying him £65k a week?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on June 11, 2015, 09:39:57 PM
I like how it says that sherwood intervened "son you don't want to go to Sunderland it's a shit hole, I'll pay you less and you'll rip my hand off"

I hope it happens he's only 26, he seems to have been around forever
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: BoskoDjembaSalifou on June 11, 2015, 09:40:03 PM
I'm positive about a lot of things, but giving someone like Richards 65k a week feels like a throwback to the MON years, or even the N'Zogbia/Given deals. Of course I'm happy we seem to be prepared to pay big wages again, I'd just prefer it if we offered that sort of money to players who don't spend most of the time on the treatment table.

It's no different to paying say £4m and giving him 35K a week. Would you view the deal differently if that was the break down of his contract?

My issue is with paying that sort of money to someone with the recent history Richards has, so yeah, I'd still be disappointed if it was 4m/35kpw.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Monty on June 11, 2015, 09:40:52 PM
£65k a week would be an awful lot for Micah Richards, have to say. He's worth a shot, as a signing, and gives us a little more speed in defence. However, he didn't exactly cause a storm at Fiorentina, so premium wages would hardly make much business sense to me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villan from luton on June 11, 2015, 09:41:51 PM
I think Richards would be a superb signing. Can play right back, centre back or defensive midfield and would be better than anything we have in all those positions. Heard him on the radio the other week and seems hungry to impress and level headed. Cant believe any Villa fan would not want a player of his calibre. Cant believe he has come without knowing of the plans we have moving forward
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: olaftab on June 11, 2015, 09:48:35 PM
Is there anything you couldn't see the black side of?
Bad side not black side.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: KRS on June 11, 2015, 09:49:16 PM
Fantastic signing...has the potential to be an awesome move and player for us. I've wanted us to sign Richards for a few seasons since he was frozen out at Cit£h so a very big welcome to Villa from me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: olaftab on June 11, 2015, 09:49:56 PM
£65k a week would be an awful lot for Micah Richards, have to say. He's worth a shot, as a signing, and gives us a little more speed in defence. However, he didn't exactly cause a storm at Fiorentina, so premium wages would hardly make much business sense to me.
Yes silly money but there is no reasonable scale in football when it comes to players wages.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: KRS on June 11, 2015, 10:00:06 PM
I'm afraid if we don't start making £50k/week a standard wage then we'll be looking at lower level players and relegation...thats the way the game is going (gone).
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villan from luton on June 11, 2015, 10:03:03 PM
Quite right KRS, it is obscene but it is the way football is now. We cant have it both ways. Do we want to be struggling every year and moaning about buying lower league players or actually showing a bit of intent.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Monty on June 11, 2015, 10:06:48 PM
Obviously we need to pay more, I'm just more concerned about whether or not this player is worth that. Anyway, I'd be surprised if he turned into Martin Laursen for us, but I'd be more surprised if he turned into Habib Beye - in other words, maybe not our greatest ever signing, but he's good enough for us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villan from luton on June 11, 2015, 10:09:03 PM
Monty, he is more than good enough for us, he is a superb player and we will be lucky to get him
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: aj2k77 on June 11, 2015, 10:11:22 PM
If this happens I'll be happy, this surely is a sign that we will be paying premier league wages again. Add to that he's better than what we've got, if we can get him playing week in week out we've made a cracking signing. A few more of these and we can start looking upwards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Monty on June 11, 2015, 10:13:43 PM
I don't know how much of him you've been watching, but it's a good thing he's quick because he doesn't appear to have actually learned anything about positioning during his 8 years as a professional defender, either at right-back or centre-back. But that's fine - if he had as good positioning as Clark he'd be in the top four, because his physical attributes are something else. I wouldn't set myself up for a letdown on him, but at our level we have to compromise and he definitely gives us things we don't have.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 11, 2015, 10:15:16 PM
Monty, he is more than good enough for us, he is a superb player and we will be lucky to get him

Agreed.  He'll be such an improvement on Lowton and Bacuna.

That's all based on the player of 4 or 5 years ago though. I doubt any of us have much clue if he's still that good or not after the last 3 years he's had.

I'd rather sign him than not sign him though I will add.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: aj2k77 on June 11, 2015, 10:16:36 PM
It's one of those that are probably worth the gamble isn't it. He's good in the air, physical and quick. All 3 attributes we've been lacking.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Ads on June 11, 2015, 10:22:21 PM
Pleasing to see that he played 17 games in Italy, so he got something of a run together out there. Says a lot about his attitude that he was willing to real out of his comfort zone when so few English players will.

We all know he is a monster and also quick too. I think he is a lot better than what we have and if the wages we are paying suggest anything, it's that we've realise that we're a Premier League side again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: BC54 VFC on June 11, 2015, 10:24:40 PM
Is there anything you couldn't see the black side of?
Bad side not black side.

No, black side.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: warleyboy on June 11, 2015, 10:25:56 PM
Chuffed to bits, big strong defender who has pace, will cause havoc at set pieces and corners.
Hopefully he can take okore under his wing and get him up to speed, could be a great partnership in the making.
Sends a nice little message out about our intentions to other possible targets.

Sinclair, Richards.

Good start.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Le Lapin on June 11, 2015, 10:26:32 PM
Great signing if it happens.  Himself, Okore, Clarke and Vlaar maybe. We could have the makings of decent back line.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 11, 2015, 10:28:25 PM
Pleasing to see that he played 17 games in Italy, so he got something of a run together out there.

Which is less than Vlaar played for us last season. And he did a full game in less than half of them. I'll be happy if we sign him but he does come with a pretty big question mark.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 11, 2015, 10:28:38 PM
Great signing if it happens.  Himself, Okore, Clarke and Vlaar maybe. We could have the makings of decent back line.

CLARK

It's not that hard.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Richard E on June 11, 2015, 10:29:00 PM
Very happy with this one. A proper man.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Goldie.7 on June 11, 2015, 10:43:10 PM
More expensive injury prone players.

(http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/ignore_jpg_scale_super/9/96109/2670006-7183311308-Danie.gif)

Would I preferred him to go elsewhere see above. I'll give him some credit though I did sub the mcfc youtube channel because him and Lescott were just too funny together.

Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: manic-road on June 11, 2015, 10:46:25 PM
It could be a good signing if it happens, just hope he doesn't become another regular in the physio's room.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Goldie.7 on June 11, 2015, 10:49:42 PM
Pleasing to see that he played 17 games in Italy, so he got something of a run together out there.

Which is less than Vlaar played for us last season. And he did a full game in less than half of them. I'll be happy if we sign him but he does come with a pretty big question mark.

Hardly a run.

Europa: 5 starts 1 sub
Serie A: 7 starts 3 sub
Cup: 2 starts 0 sub
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Ads on June 11, 2015, 10:53:19 PM
Hardly wheel chair bound is he Little Miss Sunshine?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 11, 2015, 10:56:09 PM
Well I think this is a great signing if it comes off.  Moreover if true we are beating other clubs to players and not based on wages seemingly.  This is a much needed boost.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: dave.woodhall on June 11, 2015, 10:59:30 PM
God forbid we should ever pay the going rate for a player.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: aev on June 11, 2015, 11:00:12 PM
I have always liked him as a player - we can get as sniffy as we like but we finished 4th bottom and he (hopefully) wants to join us.

Wages (when the player is out of contract) are a red herring.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: silhillvilla on June 11, 2015, 11:01:26 PM
hasnt he played a fair few games at CB aswell as RB
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: BoskoDjembaSalifou on June 11, 2015, 11:09:13 PM
hasnt he played a fair few games at CB aswell as RB

Started off as a CB if I remember correctly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 11, 2015, 11:09:57 PM
God forbid we should ever pay the going rate for a player.

There's always going to be a debate about a player who in the last 3 years has played less league football than Vlaar did for us last season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: aev on June 11, 2015, 11:13:08 PM
We finished 4th bottom.

We are gambling on a potentially excellent player, and that is exactly what we are left with. We are so far behind the 8 ball that something like this is a real coup - especially if the Sunderland wages are correct.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on June 11, 2015, 11:13:41 PM
Statement of intent and all that.

Cleverley signs for Everton!
Vlaar's contract ends!
Benteke's agent's got a big gob!

Micah Richards signs for The Villa!

A strong positive sign for me.
Especially with the news of new owners in the wings.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Louzie0 on June 11, 2015, 11:17:37 PM
Statement of intent and all that.

Cleverley signs for Everton!
Vlaar's contract ends!
Benteke's agent's got a big gob!

Micah Richards signs for The Villa!

A strong positive sign for me.
Especially with the news of new owners in the wings.
Yay!
Bring on the next one!
Suddenly this summer is exciting  :)
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 11, 2015, 11:37:21 PM
This is interesting if true.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/583930/Ron-Vlaar-Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-transfer-news

I think Richards is better than Vlaar if he stays fit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: cdbearsfan on June 11, 2015, 11:48:40 PM
I like him. I'd like to see him centre-half. Richards/Okore/Baker/Clark seems like a good defensive partnership. I'm not bothered either way about Vlaar.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 11, 2015, 11:52:30 PM
This is interesting if true.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/583930/Ron-Vlaar-Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-transfer-news

I think Richards is better than Vlaar if he stays fit.

He was placed on the released list with a contract offer on the table. I thought at one point he wanted to extend but now I don't expect he'll remain with us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: lovejoy on June 12, 2015, 12:00:33 AM
I just read the thread, has Richads definitely signed?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: tomd2103 on June 12, 2015, 12:05:16 AM
I like him. I'd like to see him centre-half. Richards/Okore/Baker/Clark seems like a good defensive partnership. I'm not bothered either way about Vlaar.

RB for me.  Richards, a new CB, Clark and a new LB would be a better prospect for next season.  His injury record is a worry, but we've said that about certain defenders before.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: KRS on June 12, 2015, 12:08:52 AM
This is interesting if true.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/583930/Ron-Vlaar-Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-transfer-news

I think Richards is better than Vlaar if he stays fit.
Yeah good luck to Vlaar trying to get his step up move to any of the current top 6 clubs...he'll be dropped like a bomb as soon as he starts making his comical errors and injured every month. Richards is an unknown quantity at the moment but he's still a much better prospect.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: pauliewalnuts on June 12, 2015, 12:11:28 AM
He's physically a powerful player.

That's about it, though, I think. Played 20 games for Fiorentina, and half of them were in the Europa League or Coppa Italia.

Still, if he's free ....
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: brontebilly on June 12, 2015, 12:21:01 AM
Awful signing, another injury prone has been at the back who gave up playing the game seriously a few years ago. Fits in nicely with the likes of Cole and Senderos.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ozzjim on June 12, 2015, 12:47:05 AM
Injury prone, but in truth one of the most highly rated defenders of his generation. Potential if he stays fit to be a top 4 player and regular for England. 65k a week without any transfer outlay is probably about the going rate too. If Sherwood can get 2 months solid football out of Vlaar by managing his body, I am sure he can Richards, I like that he went to Italy for a season too, and that he wants to come enough to turn down others to come here. Good age, potentially top class player. Happier than when we signed Joe Cole this time last year.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: pauliewalnuts on June 12, 2015, 01:02:27 AM
Injury prone, but in truth one of the most highly rated defenders of his generation.

A bit over the top to say the least!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Havencheese on June 12, 2015, 01:04:11 AM
Read an interesting little piece in WSC a while back, on how things didn't seem to be working out for him at Fiorentina due to how the game tends to be played in Italy. So anyone using the argument about him being a dubious signature for us for that reason. I think he'll slot back into regular English football with a point to prove. A very experienced proven signing aged 26 is a good signing. Let's hope his body is up to it for the next few years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ozzjim on June 12, 2015, 01:08:39 AM
Injury prone, but in truth one of the most highly rated defenders of his generation.

In English football he was, from 18-23 the next big thing.

A bit over the top to say the least!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on June 12, 2015, 01:16:43 AM
Awful signing, another injury prone has been at the back who gave up playing the game seriously a few years ago. Fits in nicely with the likes of Cole and Senderos.

You could be right or he could turn out to be a very astute bit of business. I'd imagine he still has to pass a medical.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on June 12, 2015, 03:13:36 AM
We finished 4th bottom.

We are gambling on a potentially excellent player, and that is exactly what we are left with. We are so far behind the 8 ball that something like this is a real coup - especially if the Sunderland wages are correct.

Spot on. If it happens this would be a great signing for where we are.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villadelph on June 12, 2015, 04:24:10 AM
There is just no way Sunderland offered him 90k. I refuse to believe that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on June 12, 2015, 04:34:17 AM
There is just no way Sunderland offered him 90k. I refuse to believe that.

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/24/article-0-14ACF8ED000005DC-174_306x423.jpg)

12 Million PLUS add ons they paid.

This is Sunderland, the normal laws of space & time do not apply.

Just sayin :)
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Goldie.7 on June 12, 2015, 04:55:05 AM
Sunderland offering £90,000 a week for Richards.

(https://mtncatholic.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/laugh-michael-scott.gif)

Pretty much the entire Readytogo thread doesn't believe it either.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Goldie.7 on June 12, 2015, 05:03:01 AM
There is just no way Sunderland offered him 90k. I refuse to believe that.

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/24/article-0-14ACF8ED000005DC-174_306x423.jpg)

12 Million PLUS add ons they paid.

This is Sunderland, the normal laws of space & time do not apply.

Just sayin :)

He's on a widely reported £35/40k though big difference. I reckon Defoe earns the most there, similar to his huge Toronto wages.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on June 12, 2015, 05:24:41 AM
There is just no way Sunderland offered him 90k. I refuse to believe that.

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/08/24/article-0-14ACF8ED000005DC-174_306x423.jpg)

12 Million PLUS add ons they paid.

This is Sunderland, the normal laws of space & time do not apply.

Just sayin :)

He's on a widely reported £35/40k though big difference. I reckon Defoe earns the most there, similar to his huge Toronto wages.

Probably right, I just enjoy bringing up other clubs over priced signings :)
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: passitsideways on June 12, 2015, 05:35:18 AM
If we're really offering him 65k a week, it makes you wonder what happened with the Cleverley negotiations.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on June 12, 2015, 05:59:07 AM
If we're really offering him 65k a week, it makes you wonder what happened with the Cleverley negotiations.

Maybe Everton is to Cleverly what Villa is to Richards? Better than the alternative. Players can make moves based on location or personal preference over money I guess.

Or alternately (and most hopefully) maybe our situation has changed since the Cleverly negotiations?


Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: oldtimernow on June 12, 2015, 06:05:33 AM
Great signing if it happens.  Himself, Okore, Clarke and Vlaar maybe. We could have the makings of decent back line.

CLARK

It's not that hard.

a marque signing too........not a feckin tent
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Clampy on June 12, 2015, 07:09:38 AM
An interesting enough interview.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3106356/Micah-Richards-talks-rollercoaster-year-loan-Fiorentina-Italy-better-player-ll-moving-on.html#ixzz3btUH2PZQ

Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: SamTheMouse on June 12, 2015, 07:14:19 AM
I'm impressed that he had the balls to go abroad for a spell. That in itself is a good sign.

I remember seeing him play for England and thinking he looked really, really promising. Hopefully Sherwood can get the best out of him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: LeeB on June 12, 2015, 07:53:02 AM
Awful signing, another injury prone has been at the back who gave up playing the game seriously a few years ago. Fits in nicely with the likes of Cole and Senderos.

Like that fella we signed a few years back, Paul somebody or other.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: rob_bridge on June 12, 2015, 08:00:48 AM
The next Paul McGrath
The next Joe Cole

Probably somewhere in between. He is better than Hutton Bacuna Lowton For Starters.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: cdbearsfan on June 12, 2015, 08:02:14 AM
I like playing Bacuna at right back. It's exciting. Stick Richards centre-half.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: RussellC on June 12, 2015, 08:06:11 AM
I'm honestly not sure what I think about this one. If/when it happens, I'll be very interested to hear whether TS sees him as a full-back or a centre-back. Hoepfully it's the former, as I'm still nto convinced that either Hutton or Bacuna are the long-term answer in that position. If it's as a centre-back I'll be moer sceptical, as we already have 3 injury-prone options there (4 if Ron stays).
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: nigel on June 12, 2015, 08:22:49 AM
I like playing Bacuna at right back. It's exciting. Stick Richards centre-half.

Someone mentioned earlier in the thread that Sherwood has mentioned, so might use, the 3-5-2 formation, so Richards might very well be the right side of that three.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: RussellC on June 12, 2015, 08:25:02 AM
Bacuna's an exciting player going forward. Defensively, it's not so much excitement as terror.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: john e on June 12, 2015, 08:31:54 AM
if this is a virtual done deal, how come there is n o mention of it on SSN,
they are normaly all over this sort of transfer news
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PaulWinch again on June 12, 2015, 08:35:35 AM
if this is a virtual done deal, how come there is n o mention of it on SSN,
they are normaly all over this sort of transfer news

It's on their website.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: john e on June 12, 2015, 08:37:42 AM
if this is a virtual done deal, how come there is n o mention of it on SSN,
they are normaly all over this sort of transfer news

It's on their website.

is it, ok fair enough, i don't look there
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on June 12, 2015, 08:48:21 AM
Is he THAT injury prone?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: passport1 on June 12, 2015, 08:49:16 AM
Probably a good signing. I imagine he will be a big personality in the dressing room. Ideal in the tub thumping Tim era.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Diablo on June 12, 2015, 09:03:18 AM
An interesting enough interview.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3106356/Micah-Richards-talks-rollercoaster-year-loan-Fiorentina-Italy-better-player-ll-moving-on.html#ixzz3btUH2PZQ



Not sure if this has been posted up (couldn't see it) but this is another decent interview with him from Football Focus. Obviously ignore the goal he got against us at the end.



I think he'd certainly be an improvement on what we have and I like how he comes across. He obviously wants to play regular football and has matured as a person/footballer judging from these interviews. He must be pretty determined/focused/desperate to play regularly to be willing to give up the beauty and weather of Florence. That speaks volumes to me. Big wages aside I hope he signs. I think he'd do well for us and be a good fit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ozzjim on June 12, 2015, 09:05:20 AM
Re Cleverley I read yesterday his deal at Everton is actually 70k a week which is what has caused the cafuffle with Mccarthy
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: tomd2103 on June 12, 2015, 09:19:09 AM
An interesting enough interview.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3106356/Micah-Richards-talks-rollercoaster-year-loan-Fiorentina-Italy-better-player-ll-moving-on.html#ixzz3btUH2PZQ



Not sure if this has been posted up (couldn't see it) but this is another decent interview with him from Football Focus. Obviously ignore the goal he got against us at the end.



I think he'd certainly be an improvement on what we have and I like how he comes across. He obviously wants to play regular football and has matured as a person/footballer judging from these interviews. He must be pretty determined/focused/desperate to play regularly to be willing to give up the beauty and weather of Florence. That speaks volumes to me. Big wages aside I hope he signs. I think he'd do well for us and be a good fit.

I was trying to remember when that was.  If I recall correctly it was a Sunday night FA Cup game and his late equaliser took it to a replay.  Houllier era?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Deano's Mullet on June 12, 2015, 09:20:36 AM
An interesting enough interview.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3106356/Micah-Richards-talks-rollercoaster-year-loan-Fiorentina-Italy-better-player-ll-moving-on.html#ixzz3btUH2PZQ



Not sure if this has been posted up (couldn't see it) but this is another decent interview with him from Football Focus. Obviously ignore the goal he got against us at the end.



I think he'd certainly be an improvement on what we have and I like how he comes across. He obviously wants to play regular football and has matured as a person/footballer judging from these interviews. He must be pretty determined/focused/desperate to play regularly to be willing to give up the beauty and weather of Florence. That speaks volumes to me. Big wages aside I hope he signs. I think he'd do well for us and be a good fit.

I was trying to remember when that was.  If I recall correctly it was a Sunday night FA Cup game and his late equaliser took it to a replay.  Houllier era?

O'Leary. They battered us entire match but we took lead against run of play with about ten mins to go. Naturally we threw it away at the end and got tanked in the replay. Baros got our goal.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: in exile on June 12, 2015, 09:35:26 AM
Re Cleverley I read yesterday his deal at Everton is actually 70k a week which is what has caused the cafuffle with Mccarthy
Bargain!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Matt Collins on June 12, 2015, 09:39:32 AM
It's what you get with a Bosman but it clearly can cause problems of the McCarthy sort unless they're obviously a cut above
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: bob on June 12, 2015, 09:53:41 AM
An interesting enough interview.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3106356/Micah-Richards-talks-rollercoaster-year-loan-Fiorentina-Italy-better-player-ll-moving-on.html#ixzz3btUH2PZQ



Not sure if this has been posted up (couldn't see it) but this is another decent interview with him from Football Focus. Obviously ignore the goal he got against us at the end.



I think he'd certainly be an improvement on what we have and I like how he comes across. He obviously wants to play regular football and has matured as a person/footballer judging from these interviews. He must be pretty determined/focused/desperate to play regularly to be willing to give up the beauty and weather of Florence. That speaks volumes to me. Big wages aside I hope he signs. I think he'd do well for us and be a good fit.

I was trying to remember when that was.  If I recall correctly it was a Sunday night FA Cup game and his late equaliser took it to a replay.  Houllier era?

O'Leary. They battered us entire match but we took lead against run of play with about ten mins to go. Naturally we threw it away at the end and got tanked in the replay. Baros got our goal.

2-2, wasn't it?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 12, 2015, 09:58:40 AM
I seem to remember him swearing in the post match interview on TV.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: JUAN PABLO on June 12, 2015, 09:59:40 AM
This is interesting if true.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/583930/Ron-Vlaar-Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-transfer-news

I think Richards is better than Vlaar if he stays fit.


Wouldn't arse just be better off getting senders . The cheaper option on the medical table .
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: supertom on June 12, 2015, 10:02:54 AM
Okay I was all accepting of Richards signing. But I've just seen the picture of him in that article, wearing his hat on the back of his head like a twat. I'm not having that sort of nonsense at my club. He can take Zogbia by the hand and ruddy well bugger off down to London where that sort of nonsense can be tolerated. That's Tarquinion behaviour that is.


In all seriousness, my view on Richards is (twat hat aside) that if he's fit he walks into our team. If he gets a good run of games he'll be a success. If he's constantly suffering injury niggles, then he won't.

What he really needs is a good run. A solid 30 game season minimum. His injuries probably haven't been quite as bad as his appearance record might suggest over the last 3 seasons. I think it's been as much a case of just being unable to get into good sides, particularly in the case of City. Zabeletta has been immense ahead of him in the pecking order.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Diablo on June 12, 2015, 10:03:34 AM
An interesting enough interview.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3106356/Micah-Richards-talks-rollercoaster-year-loan-Fiorentina-Italy-better-player-ll-moving-on.html#ixzz3btUH2PZQ



Not sure if this has been posted up (couldn't see it) but this is another decent interview with him from Football Focus. Obviously ignore the goal he got against us at the end.



I think he'd certainly be an improvement on what we have and I like how he comes across. He obviously wants to play regular football and has matured as a person/footballer judging from these interviews. He must be pretty determined/focused/desperate to play regularly to be willing to give up the beauty and weather of Florence. That speaks volumes to me. Big wages aside I hope he signs. I think he'd do well for us and be a good fit.

I was trying to remember when that was.  If I recall correctly it was a Sunday night FA Cup game and his late equaliser took it to a replay.  Houllier era?

O'Leary. They battered us entire match but we took lead against run of play with about ten mins to go. Naturally we threw it away at the end and got tanked in the replay. Baros got our goal.


If you can bear to watch it this was his infamous interview after the equaliser. I'm guessing it was probably his first goal and his first interview. The apologies from the BBC are pretty amusing. I even thought so at the time despite being gutted about the manner and timing of the goal. As well as showing the exuberance of youth compared to the last interview it shows how much he's developed. If he signs hopefully he can grab a few headed goals for us (something we haven't had enough off from our defenders for far too long).

Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: olaftab on June 12, 2015, 10:11:49 AM
Is he THAT injury prone?
No not THAT injury.... it's ANOTHER injury!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: olaftab on June 12, 2015, 10:15:11 AM
There is just no way Sunderland offered him 90k. I refuse to believe that.
HIS AGENT SAID THEY DID SO HOW CAN ANYONE NOT BELIEVE THAT?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Matt Collins on June 12, 2015, 10:19:25 AM
This article may be ill informed but suggests Richards does see himself as a centre back

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3054103/Micah-Richards-Manchester-City-s-forgotten-man-cold-Fiorentina-Premier-League-snap-one-England-s-nearly-men.html
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Damo70 on June 12, 2015, 10:23:05 AM
There is just no way Sunderland offered him 90k. I refuse to believe that.
HIS AGENT SAID THEY DID SO HOW CAN ANYONE NOT BELIEVE THAT?


I reckon Richards' agent played his ace card and said to Sunderland "Give us ninety grand a week or stick with John O'Shea for another season".
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: olaftab on June 12, 2015, 10:25:54 AM
This headline is a throw back to late 70's early 80's when Villa and Liverpool were the top teams and manu and Aresenal were also rans!

"Ron Vlaar CLEARED to join Arsenal or Man Utd as Villa beat Liverpool to Micah Richards"
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Damo70 on June 12, 2015, 10:32:50 AM
You have to feel sorry for the Arsenal physio. In the week he gets shot of Abou Diabi he then finds out he might be getting Ron Vlaar.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: paul_e on June 12, 2015, 10:48:07 AM
You have to feel sorry for the Arsenal physio. In the week he gets shot of Abou Diabi he then finds out he might be getting Ron Vlaar.

They'd have had to go through redundancy proceedings with some of the medical staff otherwise, they should be praised for thinking of the staff.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Dave on June 12, 2015, 11:10:45 AM
If this happens then I think this is a signing with more positives than negatives.

We don't have the luxury of signing young, brilliant, cheap, injury-free players so we need to sacrifice somewhere. I daresay we could sign Michael Dawson from Hull or picked up Antonin Alcaraz for free and they would be completely injury free and a bit rubbish. I'd rather take a risk on a potentially great player than go with somebody who can be relied upon to be mediocre.

That's not to say that it shouldn't be approached with a bit of trepidation though.

The main positive here is that there was a player fairly heavily in demand who other teams wanted to sign and it looks like he may have chosen us. Regardless of the player in question, I can't see how that is anything other than a good thing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: JUAN PABLO on June 12, 2015, 11:34:35 AM
I'm happy with this .
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: aev on June 12, 2015, 11:35:21 AM
Let's face it, we'd be miffed if he was signing for Leicester or Newcastle.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: silhillvilla on June 12, 2015, 11:40:27 AM
I don't see we are In any position to grumble
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: footyskillz on June 12, 2015, 11:42:40 AM
Richards signing is very Sherwood the 110% effort is his idea of winning. The bosman move will cost villa in region of £2.5 mil to 3.5 a year. Signing on fee at £650 to 750 thou. We are looking at clauses and bonus for appearances, win matches any eng cal up and team performance targets. I feel glad of signing as it's a seeming replacement for big Ron. Big mica was a boyhood arsenal fan but he's welcomed to the club
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: KRS on June 12, 2015, 11:46:22 AM
The suggestions about 352 are misleading if you read the articles posted on here...the reference to 352 actually explains why he didn't get that many games in Italy rather than the formation change being to accommodate Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: paul_e on June 12, 2015, 11:54:19 AM
I hope we don't consider him only as a central defender, if we're struggling on the right I'd like to think we're happy to move him out one and bring in a central defender to try to fix it, that flexibility is something we should always be looking for because as well as helping with injury cover it also means you can make tactical changes during games, I'm fedup of seeing Villa have 1 game plan that we follow regardless of whether it's working, we've had 9 years of that under Lerner and it's made us predictable and dull.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: onje_villa on June 12, 2015, 12:20:28 PM
An interesting enough interview.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3106356/Micah-Richards-talks-rollercoaster-year-loan-Fiorentina-Italy-better-player-ll-moving-on.html#ixzz3btUH2PZQ


Refreshing and different interview that. Like how he doesn't always give the obvious answer, eg: playing for England. I can certainly see the point of people on here questioning his injury record. I don't think that is being overly negative. Still potentially a class act and if it's indicative of a change in our spending habits, this is great news (of course it could just be spending the Bent/Vlaar wages)

Not sure if this has been posted up (couldn't see it) but this is another decent interview with him from Football Focus. Obviously ignore the goal he got against us at the end.



I think he'd certainly be an improvement on what we have and I like how he comes across. He obviously wants to play regular football and has matured as a person/footballer judging from these interviews. He must be pretty determined/focused/desperate to play regularly to be willing to give up the beauty and weather of Florence. That speaks volumes to me. Big wages aside I hope he signs. I think he'd do well for us and be a good fit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: bridgwater villa on June 12, 2015, 12:20:53 PM
Let's face it, we'd be miffed if he was signing for Leicester or Newcastle.

Spot on
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: thegreatdane on June 12, 2015, 12:22:54 PM
http://www.micahrichards.com/

WOW
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 12, 2015, 12:24:57 PM
You have to feel sorry for the Arsenal physio. In the week he gets shot of Abou Diabi he then finds out he might be getting Ron Vlaar.

Why sorry? In the world of a physio the arrival of Ron Vlaar would be job security. Like a mechanic, he wouldn't be happy if there aren't any cars to fix. If Ron Vlaar was a car he'd always have a leak, a rattle or a Check Engine light on.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Comrade Blitz on June 12, 2015, 12:30:16 PM
Shouldn't that website read:

One of the self-proclaimed finest defenders in Europe?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PaulWinch again on June 12, 2015, 01:13:14 PM
I can't see why anyone would be unhappy with this.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Clark W Griswold on June 12, 2015, 01:18:18 PM
Very good potentially, I know who I would rather have next season, him or Vlaar. If we've offered him the contract we wanted Vlaar to sign, it's much better for us.

Vlaar to Arsenal then....FFS
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Ads on June 12, 2015, 01:21:41 PM
There a lot of positives.

He's a first team player for one and better than what we have, with age on his side and the attitude too. He's a proven Premeir League player, a good one at that, and we have signed precious few of those in the past five seasons.

If we can add similar quality to the midfield, then we may be able to avoid repeating the same nonsense we have for years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: KRS on June 12, 2015, 01:31:59 PM
Would anyone else think that Richards could make an excellent holding midfielder? He hasn't played there (as far as i'm aware) but he has the physical attributes to give us the speed, strength and power needed to fulfil that role quite well.

He'd certainly be a better option than Sanchez in that position, so if he were tasked to do the job of breaking up play, winning the ball and laying the ball off to the more creative players then playing the "Coquelin" role could suit him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Ads on June 12, 2015, 01:37:16 PM
Deal expected to be completed within a week according to Pete Colley, who I sincireley hope is £100 richer soon too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Dante Lavelli on June 12, 2015, 01:38:26 PM
I can't see why anyone would be unhappy with this.

the big reason for me is that his wages could cause problems amongst the existing players unless he is considerably better than the average (which I doubt he will be).  With these free transfers I would prefer that the wage stays comparable with the rest of the squad and bonuses/lump sums are paid when milestones of the contract are achieved.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PaulWinch again on June 12, 2015, 01:42:30 PM
Ultimately we need to compete in the Premier League, so we need to pay the wages.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 12, 2015, 01:48:39 PM
Firstly, the actual wages he'll be one aren't known. Whenever I read "understood" it means the reporter is really saying "we don't know so we'll make up a number that fits the story". Then, whatever he's on it will be measured against other players. In our company, while not the same as football which is a lot more public, when we hire someone from the outside and have to pay a little more in salary than existing staff we always look at what that means overall and if we should adjust their wages to avoid a large disparity. I imagine if Richards signs it will fit within a framework the club now has for contracts, and if a shift in that framework is required because of the new TV deal for example then everyone benefits.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: OCD on June 12, 2015, 03:19:38 PM
Even if the figure was correct it would probably be including a signing bonus.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: The Man With A Stick on June 12, 2015, 03:26:51 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villadelph on June 12, 2015, 03:29:51 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Is there space for him in the physio?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: LeeB on June 12, 2015, 03:34:32 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Is there space for him in the physio?

In the physio? Is he a tonton?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 12, 2015, 03:44:30 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Eh? Over he years Wenger's signed way worse defenders than Vlaar for lots of money.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villadelph on June 12, 2015, 03:44:41 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Is there space for him in the physio?

In the physio? Is he a tonton?

If I knew what a 'tonton' was I could probably answer that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on June 12, 2015, 03:52:40 PM
Reading that DM interview, it's very encouraging to hear him say how tactically he's improved in Italy. We'll need some leadership and organisation back there, not that we've had a great deal over the last few seasons.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Risso on June 12, 2015, 04:05:31 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Is there space for him in the physio?

In the physio? Is he a tonton?

If I knew what a 'tonton' was I could probably answer that.

I'm going to have a guess that it's rhyming slang, i.e. Tonton Macoute = fruit = homosexual.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villa `cross the mersey on June 12, 2015, 04:11:27 PM
From "Concrete" Ron to "Formica" Richards - lets hope he is made of sterner stuff
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: CT Villan on June 12, 2015, 04:16:06 PM
I would hope that he still has the winning mentality that he developed at City too. Could be another leader on the pitch.

A good signing for us...just a shame we missed out on Milner to complete the City hat-trick.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: OCD on June 12, 2015, 04:43:25 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Is there space for him in the physio?

In the physio? Is he a tonton?

If I knew what a 'tonton' was I could probably answer that.

I'm going to have a guess that it's rhyming slang, i.e. Tonton Macoute = fruit = homosexual.

I think he's talking about that creature in Empire Strikes Back that has it's stomach cut open and used for warmth.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: mr underhill on June 12, 2015, 04:52:44 PM
a neat trick but one that plays havoc with the sheets, even on a boil wash
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: KRS on June 12, 2015, 05:18:10 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Eh? Over he years Wenger's signed way worse defenders than Vlaar for lots of money.
I doubt Wenger would sign Vlaar...its just media bullshit at the moment.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: olaftab on June 12, 2015, 05:37:53 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal then....FFS
Keep it down...Anything that weakens one of our rivals next season is good news!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Witton Warrior on June 12, 2015, 05:57:56 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Is there space for him in the physio?

In the physio? Is he a tonton?

If I knew what a 'tonton' was I could probably answer that.

I'm going to have a guess that it's rhyming slang, i.e. Tonton Macoute = fruit = homosexual.

I think he's talking about that creature in Empire Strikes Back that has it's stomach cut open and used for warmth.

Thought it was pronounced torn-torn?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 12, 2015, 06:12:11 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Eh? Over he years Wenger's signed way worse defenders than Vlaar for lots of money.
I doubt Wenger would sign Vlaar...its just media bullshit at the moment.

That may well be the case. My point was if he did it would hardly signal the start of the end of his days as manager there.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Risso on June 12, 2015, 06:24:43 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Is there space for him in the physio?

In the physio? Is he a tonton?

If I knew what a 'tonton' was I could probably answer that.

I'm going to have a guess that it's rhyming slang, i.e. Tonton Macoute = fruit = homosexual.

I think he's talking about that creature in Empire Strikes Back that has it's stomach cut open and used for warmth.

You're probably right.  In which case I've just invented a high brow rhyming slang insult for gays.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: LeeB on June 12, 2015, 06:37:33 PM
Vlaar to Arsenal?  Seriously?  Jesus wept.  Expect Wenger's head on a stick by Christmas.

Is there space for him in the physio?

In the physio? Is he a tonton?

If I knew what a 'tonton' was I could probably answer that.

I'm going to have a guess that it's rhyming slang, i.e. Tonton Macoute = fruit = homosexual.

You have a wonderfully vivid imagination for a bean counter.

No, it's the creature in Star Wars that Luke is forced to cut open and climb inside in order to save his arse on the ice planet Hoth.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Bad English on June 12, 2015, 06:40:27 PM
Tonton is also what kids call their "oncle" (uncle) in France. They also say "tata" for "auntie".

So, tata would be " brown ha.. [That's enough homophobic insults. Ed]"
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: TheMalandro on June 12, 2015, 07:18:48 PM
Do I have to be careful saying tonton?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villadelph on June 12, 2015, 07:20:23 PM
A bored forum we are.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Nelson Lodge on June 12, 2015, 07:24:35 PM
His height is put at 1.80 metres that is a shade under 5ft 11inches. If the intention is to play him at centre half then that appears to be on the short side for a centre back in the modern game IMO.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Dave on June 12, 2015, 07:25:58 PM
His height is put at 1.80 metres that is a shade under 5ft 11inches. If the intention is to play him at centre half then that appears to be on the short side for a centre back in the modern game IMO.
Fabio Cannavaro - 5ft 9in.

Not saying that Micah Richards is Fabio Cannavaro or owt though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Nelson Lodge on June 12, 2015, 07:36:20 PM
Quote from: Nelson Lodge on Today at 06:24:35 PM
His height is put at 1.80 metres that is a shade under 5ft 11inches. If the intention is to play him at centre half then that appears to be on the short side for a centre back in the modern game IMO.
Fabio Cannavaro - 5ft 9in.

Not saying that Micah Richards is Fabio Cannavaro or owt though.Quote from: Nelson Lodge on Today at 06:24:35 PM

Don't think he played in the Premier did he? I think a lack of height could be a problem in this league that is all. Especially at set pieces which so many managers love. Recall the old adage "a good big one will beat a good little one".
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: brontebilly on June 12, 2015, 07:39:39 PM
Reading that DM interview, it's very encouraging to hear him say how tactically he's improved in Italy. We'll need some leadership and organisation back there, not that we've had a great deal over the last few seasons.

he had plenty of time for studying tactics while on Fiorentina's bench or in the stands as he spent the most of last season.

he has made 19 league starts in three years

his most noteworthy contribution in that time was his demand for a special medal - http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/379324/EXCLUSIVE-Manchester-City-to-make-Micah-Richards-a-special-Premier-League-winners-medal

I guess I would be in the underwhelmed camp re this signing
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Dave on June 12, 2015, 07:41:56 PM
Don't think he played in the Premier did he? I think a lack of height could be a problem in this league that is all. Especially at set pieces which so many managers love. Recall the old adage "a good big one will beat a good little one".

He didn't, but I'm pretty sure that as a central defender he would have had to deal with a tall striker here and there and seemed to do alright with it.

Crosses and corners happen in other leagues and in international football as well as in the Premier League.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: paul_e on June 12, 2015, 07:56:32 PM
The key is that, at his best, Richards has a hell of a leap on him which makes up for him being slightly on the short side.  If he can stay fit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: silhillvilla on June 12, 2015, 08:06:10 PM
We need someone who can raise the bar amongst the squad and especially the back line. Richards can do that and he's a leader.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Yossarian on June 12, 2015, 08:13:59 PM
We need someone who can raise the bar amongst the squad and especially the back line. Richards can do that and he's a leader.

I don't want any of our defenders raising the bar; it makes it easier for the opposition to score.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: rafter on June 12, 2015, 08:46:53 PM
He's having a medical on Tuesday.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 13, 2015, 12:50:43 AM
He is very fast and physically very strong.  Both these factors more than compensate for his apparent lack of height.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villan from luton on June 13, 2015, 01:01:26 AM
He is superb in the air, load of tosh. Still cannot believe some Villa fans are thinking he is not a good signing, he is a class player and seems a winner to me
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: pauliewalnuts on June 13, 2015, 02:03:59 AM
He is superb in the air, load of tosh. Still cannot believe some Villa fans are thinking he is not a good signing, he is a class player and seems a winner to me

In which case, lock the thread.

Definitive judgement has been reached.

Thanks for letting us know.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 13, 2015, 08:30:06 AM
Anyone remember Tosh Lines from The Bill?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: olaftab on June 13, 2015, 08:36:27 AM
We need someone who can raise the bar amongst the squad and especially the back line. Richards can do that and he's a leader.
Sorry but where and how has he proved that?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Ads on June 13, 2015, 08:40:23 AM
He's always seemed very vocal on the park and we know he's a winner, because he's got the medals to back it up. I agree with Silhill in that respect.

The more mentally strong players we can have out there, of genuine quality like Richards, the better.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: olaftab on June 13, 2015, 08:50:09 AM
I have no problem with this signing and should improve us but let's not hype him up too much. I have seen no evidence of leadership or winner mentality from him. He may have "won" a medal as being part of a very very talented squad but he was quite happy to sit on his arse (apart from loan spell with Fiorentina)  and see out his his lucrative contract with city and that's not leadership.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Nastylee on June 13, 2015, 09:07:32 AM
Given his playing history and where the club is placed currently then this is a good signing. Only his injury record can spoil it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Clark W Griswold on June 13, 2015, 09:13:45 AM
Its certainly one that you can't guarantee will go well, but fingers crossed. Is a total outlay of around £12m over four years (for arguments sake) really that much of a risk these days for a 26 year old former England international defender who i think we would all agree looked like one of the best young defenders in the league a few years back?
He has time on his side, unlike Joe Cole who we signed last summer, and could play for us for the best part of a decade if it goes well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: claret and blue blood on June 13, 2015, 09:19:42 AM
Our new McGrath ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Percy McCarthy on June 13, 2015, 09:40:51 AM
Our new McGrath ?

I'd say he's more like McGrath, Laursen, James Cowan and Frank Barson rolled into one.

But I agree with olaftab, let's not hype him up too much.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: N'ZMAV on June 13, 2015, 09:42:33 AM
Our new McGrath ?
seriously?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: john e on June 13, 2015, 09:44:50 AM
Our new McGrath ?
seriously?

Rory
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: nigel on June 13, 2015, 10:29:50 AM
Anyone remember Tosh Lines from The Bill?

Lived in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

Bumped into him there once, and all I managed was 'Alright, mate' 
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Damo70 on June 13, 2015, 10:30:32 AM
Our new McGrath ?
seriously?

Rory







Lloyd? This should be on time wasters. Name a McGrath......
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: silhillvilla on June 13, 2015, 10:34:05 AM
Kip
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Pat McMahon on June 13, 2015, 10:56:14 AM
I have no problem with this signing and should improve us but let's not hype him up too much. I have seen no evidence of leadership or winner mentality from him. He may have "won" a medal as being part of a very very talented squad but he was quite happy to sit on his arse (apart from loan spell with Fiorentina)  and see out his his lucrative contract with city and that's not leadership.

I am pretty much in agreement with Aftab. Richards may see this as a chance to be a key player instead of a benchie, delivering on that potential we saw 8-9 years ago. He could also turn out to be the next David Bentley.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Chris Smith on June 13, 2015, 11:08:37 AM
Our new McGrath ?

I'd say he's more like McGrath, Laursen, James Cowan and Frank Barson rolled into one.

But I agree with olaftab, let's not hype him up too much.

Same here. He is strong and quick but to my mind has never looked particularly comfortable with the ball at his feet.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: footyskillz on June 13, 2015, 11:34:16 AM
I have no problem with this signing and should improve us but let's not hype him up too much. I have seen no evidence of leadership or winner mentality from him. He may have "won" a medal as being part of a very very talented squad but he was quite happy to sit on his arse (apart from loan spell with Fiorentina)  and see out his his lucrative contract with city and that's not leadership.

I am pretty much in agreement with Aftab. Richards may see this as a chance to be a key player instead of a benchie, delivering on that potential we saw 8-9 years ago. He could also turn out to be the next David Bentley.

You mean Kieron Dyer not Bentley
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: footyskillz on June 13, 2015, 11:35:12 AM
Our new McGrath ?

You mean ugo ehiogouo not God
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Pat McMahon on June 13, 2015, 12:49:05 PM
I have no problem with this signing and should improve us but let's not hype him up too much. I have seen no evidence of leadership or winner mentality from him. He may have "won" a medal as being part of a very very talented squad but he was quite happy to sit on his arse (apart from loan spell with Fiorentina)  and see out his his lucrative contract with city and that's not leadership.

I am pretty much in agreement with Aftab. Richards may see this as a chance to be a key player instead of a benchie, delivering on that potential we saw 8-9 years ago. He could also turn out to be the next David Bentley.

You mean Kieron Dyer not Bentley

No, I mean Bentley. A player of talent who made over 100 appearances by his early 20s but who then just petered out.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Tony Erdington on June 13, 2015, 12:56:01 PM
I have no problem with this signing and should improve us but let's not hype him up too much. I have seen no evidence of leadership or winner mentality from him. He may have "won" a medal as being part of a very very talented squad but he was quite happy to sit on his arse (apart from loan spell with Fiorentina)  and see out his his lucrative contract with city and that's not leadership.

I am pretty much in agreement with Aftab. Richards may see this as a chance to be a key player instead of a benchie, delivering on that potential we saw 8-9 years ago. He could also turn out to be the next David Bentley.

You mean Kieron Dyer not Bentley

No, I mean Bentley. A player of talent who made over 100 appearances by his early 20s but who then just petered out.


yes , that's what I knew you meant. he went to spurs with all the hype and er nothing, remember that well
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Godfrey Brian on June 13, 2015, 01:18:34 PM
He's a step in the right direction and, as a sign of intent is a solid early buy. I think he'll strengthen us at the back and could be a good long term acquisition.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 13, 2015, 02:00:33 PM
If he shows the same attitude and application as Scott Sinclair then we will be making a good signing. Sometimes players just need to get to a point of maturity where they realize what they have is a pretty good deal and want to make the most of what is left. Playing careers aren't forever and players who want to make the most of it understand it at different points along the way or they never get it and waste it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: footyskillz on June 13, 2015, 02:07:47 PM
I have no problem with this signing and should improve us but let's not hype him up too much. I have seen no evidence of leadership or winner mentality from him. He may have "won" a medal as being part of a very very talented squad but he was quite happy to sit on his arse (apart from loan spell with Fiorentina)  and see out his his lucrative contract with city and that's not leadership.

I am pretty much in agreement with Aftab. Richards may see this as a chance to be a key player instead of a benchie, delivering on that potential we saw 8-9 years ago. He could also turn out to be the next David Bentley.

You mean Kieron Dyer not Bentley

No, I mean Bentley. A player of talent who made over 100 appearances by his early 20s but who then just petered out.

Kieron Dyer played similar role that of right back for England. He had injuries like Richards had. He made his England debut at young age like richards
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: footyskillz on June 13, 2015, 02:08:38 PM
If he shows the same attitude and application as Scott Sinclair then we will be making a good signing. Sometimes players just need to get to a point of maturity where they realize what they have is a pretty good deal and want to make the most of what is left. Playing careers aren't forever and players who want to make the most of it either never get it or understand it at different points along the way.

This
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on June 13, 2015, 04:58:56 PM
Sorry if old

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/12/micah-richards-aston-villa-medical-manchester-city

Quality player good age. Was instrumental in winning the league. Picked us over other clubs and we seem to be paying premier league wages.

I am genuinely delighted.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: CJ on June 13, 2015, 05:18:50 PM
Sorry if old

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/12/micah-richards-aston-villa-medical-manchester-city

Quality player good age. Was instrumental in winning the league. Picked us over other clubs and we seem to be paying premier league wages.

I am genuinely delighted.

Agreed. Except for the sorry if old bit  ;)
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Quiet Lion on June 13, 2015, 05:26:07 PM
People are going well over board here, like it is some kind of massive coup. There is a reason why it has been reported that only Sunderland completed for his signature.

We have basically signed Earl Barrett as far as I am concerned. Good athlete, poor footballer.

Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on June 13, 2015, 05:32:06 PM
People are going well over board here, like it is some kind of massive coup. There is a reason why it has been reported that only Sunderland completed for his signature.

We have basically signed Earl Barrett as far as I am concerned. Good athlete, poor footballer.

And Internazionale & West Ham. How true it all is I have no idea but it has been reported those other clubs were turned down by him.

Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 13, 2015, 05:54:39 PM
Not even i'd turn down Inter for us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villadelph on June 13, 2015, 06:49:56 PM
People are going well over board here, like it is some kind of massive coup. There is a reason why it has been reported that only Sunderland completed for his signature.

We have basically signed Earl Barrett as far as I am concerned. Good athlete, poor footballer.

 ::)
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: cdbearsfan on June 13, 2015, 06:58:25 PM
Barrett was ace.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: supertom on June 13, 2015, 07:00:24 PM
Richards has captained Man City in the past. I think he's the right sort of character for us. He's come from good, winning sides too. I think he'll have the sort of mentality we need in our new signings.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on June 13, 2015, 07:11:18 PM
I have no problem with this signing and should improve us but let's not hype him up too much. I have seen no evidence of leadership or winner mentality from him. He may have "won" a medal as being part of a very very talented squad but he was quite happy to sit on his arse (apart from loan spell with Fiorentina)  and see out his his lucrative contract with city and that's not leadership.

I am pretty much in agreement with Aftab. Richards may see this as a chance to be a key player instead of a benchie, delivering on that potential we saw 8-9 years ago. He could also turn out to be the next David Bentley.

You mean Kieron Dyer not Bentley

No, I mean Bentley. A player of talent who made over 100 appearances by his early 20s but who then just petered out.

Kieron Dyer played similar role that of right back for England. He had injuries like Richards had. He made his England debut at young age like richards
I don't remember Dyer playing right back...midfield surely?

When not trying to punch Lee Bowyer.
:D
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: myf on June 13, 2015, 07:51:34 PM
People are going well over board here, like it is some kind of massive coup. There is a reason why it has been reported that only Sunderland completed for his signature.

We have basically signed Earl Barrett as far as I am concerned. Good athlete, poor footballer.



You'll never beat Earl barrett
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Holte L2 on June 13, 2015, 10:06:16 PM
Barrett was ace.

Barrett was ace!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Diablo on June 13, 2015, 10:53:34 PM
Barrett was ace.

Barrett was ace!

Yep Barrett was ace! Really nice guy too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: dave.woodhall on June 13, 2015, 10:56:18 PM
I wonder how things would have panned out if BFR had fancied Barrett as a central defender.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on June 13, 2015, 11:02:40 PM
Earl Barrett instead of Shaun Teale and Dariusz Kubicki at right back?

Would either have been a stroke of genius or a disaster.  I can't decide which.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: TheMalandro on June 13, 2015, 11:11:14 PM
I always liked Earl. We've certainly had much worse in the last ten years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: darren woolley on June 14, 2015, 12:28:12 AM
I would be happy for us to sign Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: tomd2103 on June 14, 2015, 12:58:04 AM
I wonder how things would have panned out if BFR had fancied Barrett as a central defender.

Played for Oldham at CB before he came to us if I remember correctly. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villan from luton on June 14, 2015, 01:00:42 AM
I would love Micah Richards in our team, he is far far better than we have be it RB. CB or even defensive mid .
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: dave.woodhall on June 14, 2015, 01:08:04 AM
I wonder how things would have panned out if BFR had fancied Barrett as a central defender.

Played for Oldham at CB before he came to us if I remember correctly. 

He was signed as a centre back, probably as Paul McGrath's replacement but he refused to get old.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 14, 2015, 01:59:02 AM
I'm sure he's a blue nose.  But I welcome him nonetheless.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: CT Villan on June 14, 2015, 02:35:50 AM
Richards is a self-confessed gooner...

"I was a big Ian Wright fan when I was younger, so I supported Arsenal.
"Wright and Patrick Vieira were my idols so if the opportunity came to play for them one day I'd take it."
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on June 14, 2015, 03:28:05 AM
Well nobody is perfect.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Dave on June 14, 2015, 09:34:54 AM
I would love Micah Richards in our team, he is far far better than we have be it RB. CB or even defensive mid .
Has he ever played defensive midfield in his life?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: TopDeck113 on June 14, 2015, 09:44:17 AM
I wonder how things would have panned out if BFR had fancied Barrett as a central defender.

Played for Oldham at CB before he came to us if I remember correctly. 

He was signed as a centre back, probably as Paul McGrath's replacement but he refused to get old.

Barrett spent most of his time at right back the epitome of the square peg in the round hole. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: olaftab on June 14, 2015, 09:51:47 AM
I would be happy for us to sign Richards.
Thank you Darren. Can we , now, stop debating this please.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: JJ-AV on June 14, 2015, 10:08:47 AM
I'm sure he's a blue nose.  But I welcome him nonetheless.

Micah Richards isn't from Birmingham, you only have to hear him speak to know he's not.

I recall rumours on the messageboards back when we were decent and he was breaking through about how he's a Villa fan and a Brummie - all seemingly based on his Wikipedia page stating he was born in Birmingham. I can recall an interview with him where he explained he was just born here; he's never lived here, he's a Leeds lad and supported Arsenal as a boy.

I think an element of it was confusion with Sturridge, he was at Man City at the time, similarly hyped and really is from Birmingham (and had spent time at Villa as a kid).
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: JJ-AV on June 14, 2015, 10:13:17 AM
I have no problem with this signing and should improve us but let's not hype him up too much. I have seen no evidence of leadership or winner mentality from him. He may have "won" a medal as being part of a very very talented squad but he was quite happy to sit on his arse (apart from loan spell with Fiorentina)  and see out his his lucrative contract with city and that's not leadership.

He was absolutely fantastic in the year they won the title for the first time, I think it was 2011-12. I remember as I was in my last year at Uni. at the time, and I was mates with a Man City fan - Richards got injured towards the latter third of the season and Mancini put Zabaleta in for the run-in, as it looked like they'd let the title slip it was one of the (many) criticisms Mancini was getting for dropping the best right-back in the country. Man Utd blew it and it was all forgotten.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: tomd2103 on June 14, 2015, 10:17:20 AM
I wonder how things would have panned out if BFR had fancied Barrett as a central defender.

Played for Oldham at CB before he came to us if I remember correctly. 

He was signed as a centre back, probably as Paul McGrath's replacement but he refused to get old.

Barrett spent most of his time at right back the epitome of the square peg in the round hole.

Bit harsh, as although he was not the greatest on the ball or going forward, he was still solid in that position (as Ryan Giggs used to attest to). 
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Dave Cooper please on June 14, 2015, 11:26:38 AM
I would be happy for us to sign Richards.

And for this reason, I'm in.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Chris Jameson on June 14, 2015, 06:13:01 PM
I would be happy for us to sign Richards.

And for this reason, I'm in.

Once his agent see this he's ours.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villan from luton on June 14, 2015, 07:40:38 PM
I would love Micah Richards in our team, he is far far better than we have be it RB. CB or even defensive mid .
Has he ever played defensive midfield in his life?

He played there against Spuds in the Europa thing last season. Mate who is so one eyed even admitted he was the best player on the pitch by far
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: warleyboy on June 15, 2015, 10:29:17 AM
I wonder if he is possibly coming to us because TS has promised him the RB position.
I'd rather see him as a CB, unless Timmy has someone else in mind?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: SoccerHQ on June 15, 2015, 03:53:16 PM
He is garbage at CB though.
I think it's a good signing, would be a step up from the standard we were getting last season for example.
 
The bloke is 26/27 so still a decent age and someone who if he does have a couple of good seasons and gets back in for England we could sell for 5-6m.
 
Clearly Sherwood wants attacking FBs so he obviously fits into that.
 
If he dosen't come here, he'll probably go to a Stoke or West Ham and do fine.

At right back for our current level, can we really complain? He was a regular for a title winning team three years ago.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: cdbearsfan on June 15, 2015, 04:55:04 PM
I like him centre-half. Keep Bacuna right back. It's exciting.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ChicagoLion on June 15, 2015, 05:37:26 PM
Question, Will he improve the team?

Answer. Yes.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Pat McMahon on June 15, 2015, 05:54:49 PM
I like him centre-half. Keep Bacuna right back. It's exciting.

I would probably describe it as nerve wracking (as opposed to Hutton who is generally nerve wrecking)
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: cdbearsfan on June 15, 2015, 07:49:14 PM
Coward!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Villafirst on June 16, 2015, 02:03:42 PM
Seems to have gone quiet - any news of medical today?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: silhillvilla on June 16, 2015, 02:40:32 PM
Has this fallen through ? Should we go into panic mode yet
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Dave on June 16, 2015, 02:56:50 PM
Has this fallen through ? Should we go into panic mode yet
Do you have any other modes?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: LeeB on June 16, 2015, 05:07:51 PM
Has this fallen through ? Should we go into panic mode yet
Do you have any other modes?

lolorama
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: class-of-82 on June 16, 2015, 05:54:10 PM
My mate seen him at the one stop today so it's still on
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 16, 2015, 07:26:11 PM
My mate seen him at the one stop today so it's still on

I'll only believe it if he was buying a discounted Vlaar 4 shirt from JJB.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Percy McCarthy on June 16, 2015, 08:03:41 PM
Has this fallen through ? Should we go into panic mode yet
Do you have any other modes?

lolorama

Oi! That's how I lol.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: silhillvilla on June 16, 2015, 08:12:21 PM
My mate seen him at the one stop today so it's still on
Incog reckons he's in DXB
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villadelph on June 16, 2015, 09:18:26 PM
Local forum ITK Rafter (with all of his 4 posts) seems to have deleted his "Medical on Tuesday" post a few pages back.

Hell hath broken loose
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Lastfootstamper on June 16, 2015, 09:22:39 PM
Local forum ITK Rafter (with all of his 4 posts) seems to have deleted his "Medical on Tuesday" post a few pages back.

Hell hath broken loose

Sssshhh, ffs, silhill's just over there.....
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Chris Jameson on June 16, 2015, 10:16:50 PM
Saw a friend today who told me her Sam is devastated as Micah Richards is moving to Villa.

Sam is 8 and he's his favourite City player strangely enough. It's the best I've got.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Steve R on June 16, 2015, 10:44:05 PM
I saw a Nissan Micra driving through Dewsbury earlier. #nailedon.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: villadelph on June 17, 2015, 03:11:54 AM
Guys he's favorited a "Are you coming to Villa, please say yes" tweet.

panic averted!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on June 17, 2015, 04:50:01 AM
Guys he's favorited a "Are you coming to Villa, please say yes" tweet.

panic averted!

Panic .... decreasing.

Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Percy McCarthy on June 17, 2015, 08:24:34 AM
I saw a Nissan Micra driving through Dewsbury earlier. #nailedon.

Edited.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: silhillvilla on June 17, 2015, 08:47:07 AM
Guys he's favorited a "Are you coming to Villa, please say yes" tweet.

panic averted!
He's got big thumbs though I'd guess ? Maybe he went for delete and haphazardly hit the like button ?
Panic levels maintained .
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: footyskillz on June 17, 2015, 09:55:19 AM
Haha!! Big thumbz up to that joke!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: charleeco7 on June 17, 2015, 12:42:39 PM
He's signed according to this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/11680634/Aston-Villa-manager-Tim-Sherwood-makes-Manchester-City-defender-Micah-Richards-his-first-summer-signing.html
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Ads on June 17, 2015, 12:50:24 PM
Good signing is this.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: TheMalandro on June 17, 2015, 12:50:50 PM
Haha!! Big thumbz up to that joke!

knock knock..
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: ozzjim on June 17, 2015, 12:52:47 PM
Good signing is this.

Pleased he is here we are.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: cdbearsfan on June 17, 2015, 01:00:27 PM
Welcome to the Home of Football, Micah.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Jon Crofts on June 17, 2015, 01:25:50 PM
Good signing is this.

I read that in a Yoda voice in my head.

At last some much needed quality at the back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Pete on June 17, 2015, 01:31:22 PM
According to the Guardian he'll be playing at centre-half rather than fullback.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: silhillvilla on June 17, 2015, 01:41:14 PM
According to the Guardian he'll be playing at centre-half rather than fullback.
Vlaar replacement I'd guess
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Richard E on June 17, 2015, 01:44:14 PM
According to the Guardian he'll be playing at centre-half rather than fullback.
Vlaar replacement I'd guess

Hopefully.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Dave on June 17, 2015, 01:46:29 PM
He's signed according to this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/11680634/Aston-Villa-manager-Tim-Sherwood-makes-Manchester-City-defender-Micah-Richards-his-first-summer-signing.html

I'm sure that it'll happen and that he'll sign for us, but that just says that he has agreed to sign for us and that the club will announce the signing at some point.

Which (apart from the fact that a medical might have taken place) isn't really anything more than the article that PWS started this thread with a week ago.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Villa in Denmark on June 17, 2015, 01:55:13 PM
According to the Guardian he'll be playing at centre-half rather than fullback.
Vlaar replacement I'd guess

Hopefully.
So not only are they able to announce the signing before anyone at the club has even hinted that it might be happening, but they now know where Sherwood's planning on playing him.

For all those worried about Okore only being a whisker over 6', how does Richards improve on that.

I'd personally say that a back line of

Richards - Okore - Clark - Richardson / A.N.Other would be better defensively than what we lined up with for most of last season.

The Okore / Clark partnership seemed from (my these days fallible) memory to coincide with one of our better spells, until injuries caught up with us again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Hookeysmith on June 17, 2015, 01:59:19 PM
He is out of contract and contracts (IIRC) run from July 1st to July 1st. Out of contract players can agree a deal with new club up to 6 months prior to current contract ending so I assume officially he will sign on July 1st
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Pete on June 17, 2015, 02:04:55 PM
According to the Guardian he'll be playing at centre-half rather than fullback.
Vlaar replacement I'd guess

Hopefully.
So not only are they able to announce the signing before anyone at the club has even hinted that it might be happening, but they now know where Sherwood's planning on playing him.


There are no direct quotes but it reads like they've spoken to someone at the club, it says that Sherwood was tempted because Richards can play at centre half, and that Richards likes the idea. Daniel Taylor is a reputable journalist, I doubt he'd just make it up . Why would he?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Hookeysmith on June 17, 2015, 02:10:11 PM
Pro's

Very athletic
Was only replaced at Citeh by a world class player in Zabaletta
Winning mentality
Very strong defensively (or he was before he disappeared)
Former England international who will have the chance to show the world what he is made of and possibly get his place back

Cons

He did seemingly disappear for a good while
Not sure what he is like once over the half way line - Bacuna cannot defend but adds something to our attack
Without being too pessimistic I would have thought he would be coveted by those further up the food chain
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Ryu on June 17, 2015, 02:15:59 PM
I think I'd rather see him as a marauding full back than a centre half but if he's still got the pace and power he had when he first came through he could be a useful addition.  I'm not sure I'd like to see the Clark and Okore partnership broken up, though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Dave on June 17, 2015, 02:16:26 PM
He is out of contract and contracts (IIRC) run from July 1st to July 1st. Out of contract players can agree a deal with new club up to 6 months prior to current contract ending so I assume officially he will sign on July 1st

Liverpool have announced the signings of Milner, Bogdan and Ings, all of whom are in the same position as Richards contract-wise.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Hookeysmith on June 17, 2015, 02:20:13 PM
He is out of contract and contracts (IIRC) run from July 1st to July 1st. Out of contract players can agree a deal with new club up to 6 months prior to current contract ending so I assume officially he will sign on July 1st

Liverpool have announced the signings of Milner, Bogdan and Ings, all of whom are in the same position as Richards contract-wise.

Just goes to show I know fuck all :(
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PaulWinch again on June 17, 2015, 02:21:55 PM
Welcome Micah, very glad to have you here.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: TheMalandro on June 17, 2015, 03:01:03 PM
He is out of contract and contracts (IIRC) run from July 1st to July 1st. Out of contract players can agree a deal with new club up to 6 months prior to current contract ending so I assume officially he will sign on July 1st

Liverpool have announced the signings of Milner, Bogdan and Ings, all of whom are in the same position as Richards contract-wise.

Just goes to show I know fuck all :(

Join the club
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: SamTheMouse on June 17, 2015, 03:06:02 PM
My memory is hazy, but I remember him being quite good at right-back, and dire at centre-half.

Hopefully he's improved since then.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: dekko on June 17, 2015, 04:04:41 PM
This line in the guardian article caught my eye:

 
Quote
Sunderland had also spoken to him at length about joining them as a centre-back and there was interest from Everton and West Ham in the player

I feel a bit better knowing that Sherwood isn't the only person who thinks he can be a CB
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Smirker on June 17, 2015, 04:08:40 PM
Happy with this.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: OCD on June 17, 2015, 05:08:25 PM
Spending a year in Italy should have improved his defensive game.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Tuscans on June 17, 2015, 05:17:19 PM
I think Clark is nailed on as first choice CB. I think Tim really likes him and looked absolutely gutted when he came off at Spurs. Fair play to him as I thought he wasn't going to make it 3-4 seasons ago but he's impressed me tons the last 2 seasons, really matured as a defender.

I still think Richards will play at right back, it's definitely his best position in my opinion. As for Okore I believe he'll warm the bench and be used when necessary. I think the injury obviously knocked his progression back a year and isn't quite ready tactically, he has a Dunne in him every game.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Tuscans on June 17, 2015, 05:18:52 PM
Where's the Micah in a Villa shirt pics from the site?
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Tokyo Sexwhale on June 17, 2015, 05:25:52 PM
I'd be concerned if Richards is our first choice centre back.

As a contender for right back and a back-up centre back, I think he's a great signing for us; but if he's been guaranteed Okore's place, I'd be concerned.

I suppose the other option is that he's a centre back in a 3 man central defence.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Tokyo Sexwhale on June 17, 2015, 05:29:30 PM
OFFICIAL:

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4800877,00.html

Quote
Aston Villa Football Club is delighted to announce the signing of Micah Richards.

The 26-year-old defender has agreed a four-year deal with the club and will join on a free transfer on July 1.

Richards will arrive at Villa Park following the expiry of his contact with Manchester City after a one-year loan deal in Italy with Fiorentina.

He helped City win the Barclays Premier League and FA Cup and has played in the Champions League.

He has also represented England on 13 occasions to date.

Manager Tim Sherwood said: "I'm really pleased to get Micah on board and I'm sure he will prove to be an excellent signing for the football club."
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on June 17, 2015, 05:31:42 PM
Spending a year in Italy should have improved his defensive game.

Agreed. Even though he never played that much, the day to day training will have been a massive education.

Welcome, Micah.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: warleyboy on June 17, 2015, 05:33:32 PM
Welcome Micah, looking forward to seeing you in the claret and blue.
This really is an exciting and quality signing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 17, 2015, 05:33:43 PM
Quote
Aston Villa Football Club is delighted to announce the signing of Micah Richards.

The 26-year-old defender has agreed a four-year deal with the club and will join on a free transfer on July 1.

Richards will arrive at Villa Park following the expiry of his contract with Manchester City after a one-year loan deal in Italy with Fiorentina.

He helped City win the Barclays Premier League and FA Cup and has played in the Champions League.

He has also represented England on 13 occasions to date.

Manager Tim Sherwood said: "I'm really pleased to get Micah on board and I'm sure he will prove to be an excellent signing for the football club."
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Clampy on June 17, 2015, 05:33:51 PM
He's officially signed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on June 17, 2015, 05:36:35 PM
Excellent , I see him possibly ousting Okore out who lets face it seems to make at least one kamikaze error per game. Hutton can nail down the RB berth .
We still need a LB .
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on June 17, 2015, 05:41:32 PM
Decent start to the summer.

Well done all concerned.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: warleyboy on June 17, 2015, 05:45:54 PM
Excellent , I see him possibly ousting Okore out who lets face it seems to make at least one kamikaze error per game. Hutton can nail down the RB berth .
We still need a LB .

He does make some butt clenching errors, but I'm hoping Micah could maybe show him the ropes a little, they may be a great pairing if Micah is to play CB.
With a stronger RB and LB, okore maybe a really good player.

I really think he could be quality, he is still very young, fingers crossed for an LB next.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on June 17, 2015, 05:48:42 PM
Couldn't even be arsed to stretch the shirt? Bodymoor closed or Bodymoor open it's no excuse. Sort it, Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on June 17, 2015, 05:49:37 PM
Welcome Micah, I wish you a great career at the Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: l_mckay on June 17, 2015, 05:52:48 PM
Pleased it's finally done. Good player and plenty of experience!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on June 17, 2015, 06:00:16 PM
Very much a step in the right direction. Ci£y fans rate him highly which says a lot when you see the talent they've had these past few years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: waspy on June 17, 2015, 06:04:44 PM
Man City fan here. Pleased that Micah is back in the prem and hope he rediscovers the form he had before his knee injury at the start of the 2012/13 season. He played 30 games in our prem winning season 2011/12 and made 5 assists bombing forward from full back. Just unfortunate for him that Pablo Zabaleta took his chance and never let go of the right back spot.
Prior to Joleon Lescott joining he played centre half for three seasons alongside Richard Dunne or Vincent Kompany. Very quick, a huge leap, reading of the game got better with age.
One downside is his ever present injury niggles, hopefully he can get over these.

Good luck to him and I hope he is a success at Villa Park.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on June 17, 2015, 06:07:58 PM
Man City fan here. Pleased that Micah is back in the prem and hope he rediscovers the form he had before his knee injury at the start of the 2012/13 season. He played 30 games in our prem winning season 2011/12 and made 5 assists bombing forward from full back. Just unfortunate for him that Pablo Zabaleta took his chance and never let go of the right back spot.
Prior to Joleon Lescott joining he played centre half for three seasons alongside Richard Dunne or Vincent Kompany. Very quick, a huge leap, reading of the game got better with age.
One downside is his ever present injury niggles, hopefully he can get over these.

Good luck to him and I hope he is a success at Villa Park.
Cheers Waspy. UTV
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on June 17, 2015, 06:25:43 PM
I hope Tim intends to play him at right back, not saying he can't play in the middle but he's very good running the line - as WASPy said.

Nice to have you on here.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on June 17, 2015, 06:31:24 PM
Manchester fans showing their love and respect..

http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/thank-you-micah-and-good-luck.313286/
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: UK Redsox on June 17, 2015, 07:21:43 PM
So, what now for the Scottish Cafu?

His contract extension looked strange at the time and even more so now
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tony Erdington on June 17, 2015, 07:25:58 PM
Very much a step in the right direction. Ci£y fans rate him highly which says a lot when you see the talent they've had these past few years.

Sorry but them twats rated Ireland as well, and he was exceptional  :o

lets hope he gets the splinters out of his arse and can produce a bit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: UK Redsox on June 17, 2015, 07:28:57 PM
Yep, Citeh owe us one after the bloke with eight grandmothers
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on June 17, 2015, 07:31:16 PM
So, what now for the Scottish Cafu?

His contract extension looked strange at the time and even more so now
Cafu RB, Micah in middle with Clark .
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Louzie0 on June 17, 2015, 07:38:09 PM
He's officially signed.
Now that is great news. Welcome, Micah, really looking forward to seeing you in the team next season. UTV!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Walmley_Villa on June 17, 2015, 07:47:04 PM
What is wrong with competition in positions? Something we have moaned about in the past. Great free signing. NEXT!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on June 17, 2015, 07:51:56 PM
So, what now for the Scottish Cafu?

His contract extension looked strange at the time and even more so now
I think the New Bomb Squad awaits, he will have plenty of company.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on June 17, 2015, 07:59:28 PM
Good signing for the small risk involved. I just get the feeling that behind the scenes there really is a deal in the making and we will get good new owners, Delph signing, Richards being attracted, it wouldn't happen without a brighter future next season would it?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulTheVillan on June 17, 2015, 08:10:38 PM
Reported £65k a week 4 years. £13m then.

Thought it was a free ;)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on June 17, 2015, 08:19:48 PM
I get the feeling that some people would rather we pay £15-20k a week for more Bennetts and Lowtons. Get over it! £65k a week is the going rate if you want to up the class of your squad. Ffs Rooney is on £250k a week!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: citizenDJ on June 17, 2015, 08:29:24 PM
Really good signing this, I think. He's a good player and easily better than some of those we have.

I remember him predominantly as a right-back but I'm pretty sure i've seen him do well at centre-back too. If we do end up playing him and Okore together at centre-back, that's a pretty rapid pair of defenders which could come in handy. If we play three of them, then he, Okore and Clark would be pretty solid too.

Good start to business.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on June 17, 2015, 08:32:29 PM
Is he the only member of our squad with -
CL experience
PL winners medal
FA cup winners medal
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulTheVillan on June 17, 2015, 08:35:07 PM
I'm very happy with this signing. Welcome. UTV.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on June 17, 2015, 08:36:16 PM
So, what now for the Scottish Cafu?

His contract extension looked strange at the time and even more so now
I think the New Bomb Squad awaits, he will have plenty of company.

I hope so but doubt it. Richards won't play at right-back. Hutton and the fine recent tradition of Villa right-backs i.e. Carlos Cuellar (when played out of position) holding his limp-wrist out when running, is set to continue.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: themossman on June 17, 2015, 08:38:51 PM
Is there a definitive house view on whether it's Mike-ah or Meek-ah as I've heard both on the radio today and I feel I should be on top of this now he's our player.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on June 17, 2015, 08:40:00 PM
Be interested to see what number he gets.
2 would indicate RB.
4 , 5 or 6 CB ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: UK Redsox on June 17, 2015, 08:58:06 PM
Nathan "I've been playing an hour so it's time to go down injured" Baker already has number 2

What number did Micah have at MC?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on June 17, 2015, 08:59:39 PM
Nathan "I've been playing an hour so it's time to go down injured" Baker already has number 2

What number did Micah have at MC?
2
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 17, 2015, 09:02:43 PM
Is he the only member of our squad with -
CL experience
PL winners medal
FA cup winners medal

Keiran Richardson says hi.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Shrek on June 17, 2015, 09:05:13 PM
I get the feeling that some people would rather we pay £15-20k a week for more Bennetts and Lowtons. Get over it! £65k a week is the going rate if you want to up the class of your squad. Ffs Rooney is on £250k a week!

So everyone above us will be paying higher wages than us then..
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on June 17, 2015, 09:06:25 PM
Is he the only member of our squad with -
CL experience
PL winners medal
FA cup winners medal

Keiran Richardson says hi.

FA Cup?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 17, 2015, 09:09:04 PM
Is he the only member of our squad with -
CL experience
PL winners medal
FA cup winners medal

Keiran Richardson says hi.

FA Cup?

Yeah ok he won the wrong domestic cup but it's close enough. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on June 17, 2015, 09:10:05 PM
Manchester fans showing their love and respect..

http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/thank-you-micah-and-good-luck.313286/

A real love fest. I'm also surprised a club higher up didn't nab him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on June 17, 2015, 09:11:44 PM
Is he the only member of our squad with -
CL experience
PL winners medal
FA cup winners medal

Keiran Richardson says hi.
Cole?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on June 17, 2015, 09:12:15 PM
Senderos?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Lastfootstamper on June 17, 2015, 09:14:53 PM
I get the feeling that some people would rather we pay £15-20k a week for more Bennetts and Lowtons. Get over it! £65k a week is the going rate if you want to up the class of your squad. Ffs Rooney is on £250k a week!

Agree with this. What do people want? Proven premier league player looking to get back on track, attainable international aspirations, coming from cit£h; 65k seems a relative snip.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: manic-road on June 17, 2015, 09:27:37 PM
Welcome to the Villa Micah, I hope you have a great career in claret and blue.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 17, 2015, 09:34:00 PM
Is he the only member of our squad with -
CL experience
PL winners medal
FA cup winners medal

Keiran Richardson says hi.
Cole?

True, I didn't get that far, I start with the goalkeepers and then went to left backs.  Given has played in CL (for Newcastle) and got an FA cup (Man City) as well, just never quite managed to get the league title despite being in a few teams who challenged (I think he got 2 or 3 runners up spots).
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on June 17, 2015, 09:34:08 PM
Good shout joe Cole has the set
Senderos hasn't won PL
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 17, 2015, 10:09:59 PM
Which all serves to show that we do have a decent amount of GOOD experience in the squad and we have some quality who haven't got that experience but have the ability to play for clubs at that level (Benteke, Delph for sure, Grealish in all likelihood and possibly Clark and Okore as well) if we can build out the quality by signing more players like Richards who have the experience but are also young enough to build a squad around then we should be in a much better position.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on June 17, 2015, 10:30:15 PM
Nathan "I've been playing an hour so it's time to go down injured" Baker already has number 2

I think he prefers the moniker Nathan "Oooh, Fuck, Get Me Off, I've Hurt Me Beard" Baker these days.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on June 17, 2015, 10:33:09 PM
Spending a year in Italy should have improved his defensive game.

He hardly got off the bench, so it will at least have improved his Angry Birds game.







ignore me. all the best, Micah.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Richard E on June 17, 2015, 10:36:46 PM
Spending a year in Italy should have improved his defensive game.

He hardly got off the bench, so it will at least have improved his Angry Birds game.







ignore me. all the best, Micah.
By all accounts he's more of a Candy Crush Saga kind of guy.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve kirk on June 17, 2015, 10:38:58 PM
Welcome Micah to our wonderful club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nodge on June 17, 2015, 10:45:32 PM
Is there a definitive house view on whether it's Mike-ah or Meek-ah as I've heard both on the radio today and I feel I should be on top of this now he's our player.


He could be brown
He could be blue
He could be violet sky
He could be hurtful
He could be purple
He could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: KRS on June 17, 2015, 10:53:24 PM
Great news to get this deal sorted. Welcome to Villa Park Micah! :)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on June 17, 2015, 11:05:11 PM
Slightly concerned with his injury record, but if we keep him fit he is a quality player.

Welcome Micah
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OCD on June 17, 2015, 11:06:31 PM
Spending a year in Italy should have improved his defensive game.

He hardly got off the bench, so it will at least have improved his Angry Birds game.







ignore me. all the best, Micah.

I was thinking more of the coaching he will have had for a year. And even if it didn't work out for him at centre back, it's pretty clear that he can be an excellent right back. There are questions about his injuries but if there weren't, we probably wouldn't have got him so it seems to have been worth the punt.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on June 17, 2015, 11:18:43 PM
Welcome Micah. We provide England players to order. You'll soon be another one off the production line. Christ, if we can do it for Tomnonymous Cleverly, we can definitely do it for you!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 17, 2015, 11:38:00 PM
Are there really concerns about his injury history from people who have any reason to be concerned? - http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/micah-richards/verletzungen/spieler/32617 - that's hardly an unending list of serious injuries, a couple of hamstring injuries will mean that was something they'll have looked at in the medical but otherwise there's very little to worry about in that record.  Being behind the guy who was the best right back in the league for a season and a half and then failing to settle at a foreign club seems to have created a myth that he's been injured a lot more than he has.  What is true is that he's picked up injuries at the worst possible times for him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on June 17, 2015, 11:42:55 PM
Are there really concerns about his injury history from people who have any reason to be concerned? - http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/micah-richards/verletzungen/spieler/32617 - that's hardly an unending list of serious injuries, a couple of hamstring injuries will mean that was something they'll have looked at in the medical but otherwise there's very little to worry about in that record.  Being behind the guy who was the best right back in the league for a season and a half and then failing to settle at a foreign club seems to have created a myth that he's been injured a lot more than he has.  What is true is that he's picked up injuries at the worst possible times for him.
The main reason that it seems that a lot of Liverpool fans don't want to sign Benteke is that he is 'injury-prone'. i.e he has had an injury that they have heard about, so assume it's a frequent thing.

I wonder if Richards could be similar.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on June 17, 2015, 11:58:26 PM
Are there really concerns about his injury history from people who have any reason to be concerned? - http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/micah-richards/verletzungen/spieler/32617 - that's hardly an unending list of serious injuries, a couple of hamstring injuries will mean that was something they'll have looked at in the medical but otherwise there's very little to worry about in that record.  Being behind the guy who was the best right back in the league for a season and a half and then failing to settle at a foreign club seems to have created a myth that he's been injured a lot more than he has.  What is true is that he's picked up injuries at the worst possible times for him.
The main reason that it seems that a lot of Liverpool fans don't want to sign Benteke is that he is 'injury-prone'. i.e he has had an injury that they have heard about, so assume it's a frequent thing.

I wonder if Richards could be similar.

Almost certainly.

Nathan Baker, Joe Cole & Ron Vlaar I would describe as injury prone.
You could argue that van Persie and Diego Costa are as well.

Someone who's had one serious knee injury and 2 unrelated hamstring tweaks in the last 4 years? 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 18, 2015, 12:09:58 AM
Are there really concerns about his injury history from people who have any reason to be concerned? - http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/micah-richards/verletzungen/spieler/32617 - that's hardly an unending list of serious injuries, a couple of hamstring injuries will mean that was something they'll have looked at in the medical but otherwise there's very little to worry about in that record.  Being behind the guy who was the best right back in the league for a season and a half and then failing to settle at a foreign club seems to have created a myth that he's been injured a lot more than he has.  What is true is that he's picked up injuries at the worst possible times for him.
The main reason that it seems that a lot of Liverpool fans don't want to sign Benteke is that he is 'injury-prone'. i.e he has had an injury that they have heard about, so assume it's a frequent thing.

I wonder if Richards could be similar.

Almost certainly.

Nathan Baker, Joe Cole & Ron Vlaar I would describe as injury prone.
You could argue that van Persie and Diego Costa are as well.

Someone who's had one serious knee injury and 2 unrelated hamstring tweaks in the last 4 years? 

Vlaar's record is one that rings alarm bells - http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ron-vlaar/verletzungen/spieler/30697 - all those calf injuries in 3 seasons is a huge worry, there's clearly an underlying problem and, wherever he goes next, I'd be amazed if anyone offers him anything more than a 2 year deal, it's just too big a risk.

Baker is an odd one, on paper his record isn't that bad but it's the number of games that he limps off with a dislocated beard or some shit that are the problem.  He also gets his injuries at the worst possible time for the club, which is infuriating.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: The Left Side on June 18, 2015, 03:36:16 AM
Welcome Micah
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt Collins on June 18, 2015, 11:00:21 AM
TS: "He is a player who can play in a number of positions. He can play right-back, centre-half and also in a three man defence so his versatility is another real positive.

Perhaps he is considering three at the back after all. I hope not.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on June 18, 2015, 11:02:48 AM
Not the best-written article in the world, but worth posting nonetheless.

Quote
Micah Richards turns 27 next week, another example of football's innate ability to play tricks on the mind. Where did that fresh-faced defender go? How is he possibly less than five years younger than James Collins? What have we all been doing with our lives?

Richards is still England's youngest ever defender, beating Rio Ferdinand to that honour when called up by Steve McClaren in 2006. Quick, strong and skilful, he started six competitive international matches before turning 20. This was Gary Neville for a new generation, England's answer at right-back. A gem had been unearthed in Manchester, via Oldham.

How quickly exciting potential becomes wasted opportunity. Richards has transformed from tomorrow's answer to yesterday's man. Following his release by Manchester City, the defender has joined Aston Villa on a four-year deal. While his old side compete for the title, Richards seeks regular football at the club who have finished 16th, 15th, 15th and 17th in the last four Premier League seasons.

An England international defender in the prime of his career joining one English club from another should be big news, as the aforementioned Ferdinand can testify. Richards, however, will slip out of a side door at the Etihad, his departure met with neither anguish nor celebration. There is nothing as demeaning as being ignored.

Richards' decline is symbolised by the inevitability of his departure from City. This is a club whose only homegrown options for next season are a first-choice goalkeeper, a 29-year-old French left-back and a 37-year-old goalkeeper whose last Premier League start was in 2007. City were keen to let Richards leave on loan last season, yet Dedryck Boyata made two Premier League appearances.

There was talk of interest from Juventus and Internazionale in Richards last summer, but a move to Fiorentina only served to continue the alarming decline. He started only seven Serie A Matches, criticised by coach Vicenzo Montella in January for his lack of fitness.

"His fitness levels weren't up to scratch," Montella said. "He is more of a full-back in a four-man defence and when he arrived, in my view, his fitness levels weren't up to scratch to sustain that role." Very few in Florence will have mourned his retreat back to the Premier League.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Richards attempted to improve his PR by claiming disbelief at his lack of minutes in Italy. "I don't know whether it's because I've been on loan and I haven't made a commitment to stay," he said. "No disrespect to the players here, I feel I should have been playing." The article described Richards as a 'football obsessive' and 'renaissance man'. One doth protest too much?

Once renowned for his pace and endeavour to surge forward, disagreements with the views of various managers has become the new hallmark of Richards' career. When Roberto Mancini was City boss, he famously reminded his defender to "remember to pick up his brain".

"He has good quality but sometimes Micah thinks he can play at only 50%," Mancini said. "If Micah plays to 100%, he can become one of the top full-backs in Europe. But he needs to improve. His body is on the pitch, but his mind is left at home sometimes." And that's coming from one of his fans.

Manuel Pellegrini took a harder line, starving Richards of first-team football. Again Richards claims to have been harshly treated, but the council for the defence can simply exclaim 'Pablo Zabaleta' in a loud voice before resting its case. Richards must now hope to pip Alan Hutton for Villa's right-back spot. It's an easier gig.

With 16 league starts since April 2012, the time has surely come for Richards to embark on a period of introspection. Being castigated and ignored by one coach could be considered an anomaly, but three or four suggests that the problem lies at Richards' feet (or should that be mind?). There have been consistent insinuations about his attitude.

A young, English defender. An academy graduate with multiple Premier League winner's medals. An Englishman who was prepared to go abroad. These are characteristics which generate a great deal of goodwill for Richards. A car doesn't start with only goodwill in the tank.

Football is littered with the wretched dimmed light of bright young things, but few Englishmen shone brighter than Micah Richards at the age of 19. Villa Park might not be the end of the line, but it could represent the last chance saloon for a player in dramatic decline when still in his prime.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OCD on June 18, 2015, 11:03:40 AM
TS: "He is a player who can play in a number of positions. He can play right-back, centre-half and also in a three man defence so his versatility is another real positive.

Perhaps he is considering three at the back after all. I hope not.

He also said right back and centre back. So he probably wants a back 4 most of the time but to have the option of switching to a back 3 when the situation requires.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt Collins on June 18, 2015, 01:01:06 PM
Yeah maybe. It's a bit odd to reference though. I mean how many centre backs can't play in a back three?

Also a bit odd that there's nothing from micah himself?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 18, 2015, 01:23:48 PM
Quote
Tim Sherwood has spoken of his delight at the capture of Micah Richards.

And the Villa manager insists the club have landed a player who is coming into his "peak years".

Richards has already won the Premier League and FA Cup, played in the Champions League and represented England at senior level.

Despite this impressive football CV, Sherwood thinks there's still plenty for Richards to achieve as he welcomed him to the claret and blues.

Sherwood also believes his "winning mentality" will be invaluable at Bodymoor Heath.

He said: "I'm really pleased to get Micah on board and I'm sure he will prove to be an excellent signing for the football club.

"Micah is a winner. He helped Manchester City win their first Premier League title in 44 years, has won the FA Cup and has played in the Champions League.

"So we are signing a player who is used to winning football matches. I want players with that winning mentality here.

"And we are also signing a player at his peak.

"At 26, we are getting him when he should be producing the best football of his career."

Sherwood also hailed the versatility of Richards - and spelled out his belief that the defender can get back into the Three Lions shirt if he can perform in B6.

He added: "Micah has played international football for England in the past and if he performs as well as I know he can for Aston Villa then there is no reason why he can't get back to that level again.

"Tom Cleverley's form at the end of the season for us got him back in the England squad so Micah knows he will get a platform here to push for that.

"He is a player who can play in a number of positions. He can play right-back, centre-half and also in a three man defence so his versatility is another real positive.

"When I spoke with Micah it was clear how determined he is to get his career back on track and I've every confidence he will recapture the form and quality he displayed before he moved over to Italy.

"He had a lot of choices but I'm delighted he chose Aston Villa."
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on June 18, 2015, 01:24:34 PM
Was it badly-written? It were alright, I thought.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OCD on June 18, 2015, 01:38:42 PM
Yeah maybe. It's a bit odd to reference though. I mean how many centre backs can't play in a back three?

Also a bit odd that there's nothing from micah himself?

You're probably being a bit over-analytical there. It's a natural way of answering a question, you don't dissect what you're about to say before you say it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt Collins on June 19, 2015, 08:20:28 AM
Possibly. Interesting that almost everything i read from people who've watched him a lot says he is vastly better at right back. To the extent that he's not a very good centre back. Happy to see him play there though he isn't going to replicate bacuna's crossing. But that leaves a centre back and left back position to fill (if vlaar goes) before we even get into replacing cleverley or nzogbia. So I'd be surprised if sherwood would have prioritised a right back signing
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on June 19, 2015, 09:52:52 AM
Yeah maybe. It's a bit odd to reference though. I mean how many centre backs can't play in a back three?

Also a bit odd that there's nothing from micah himself?

Maybe he's on holiday, who knows.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tom_Mc9? on June 19, 2015, 09:59:37 AM
Or still traumatised.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gregorys Boy on June 25, 2015, 10:31:40 AM
If he stays fit then I think its a good signing.  He will add much needed experience to the side and can be a threat going forward as well as strong defending.  I think this is a gamble worth taking considering its a free transfer too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dr Butler on July 03, 2015, 04:37:29 PM
he's here :) some pictures from the official site...

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4839069,00.html

do us proud Micah

UTV
The Doc
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villadelph on July 03, 2015, 04:41:15 PM
he's here :) some pictures from the official site...

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4839069,00.html

do us proud Micah

UTV
The Doc

Showed up in a fedora.. as did Gueye. If he wasn't build like a fridge I'd poke fun.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on July 03, 2015, 06:30:13 PM
Ah the traditional quotes about the facilities & training ground. Just once I would giggle if the quote was "He described the facilities as 'fine I suppose, who cares?'"

edit: bloody hell his upper body , he could crush my skull with his bare hands.

edit2: Wow, what an incredibly nice bloke. I hope he does well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bad English on July 03, 2015, 06:36:41 PM
He is not ITSOTP; signing not official.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Percy McCarthy on July 03, 2015, 07:15:46 PM
He is not ITSOTP; signing not official.

Although Man City announced it the other day,
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bad English on July 03, 2015, 07:28:18 PM
Sorry. Training tops do not count. ITSOTP.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on July 05, 2015, 10:01:20 AM
Sorry. Training tops do not count. ITSOTP.
I'd like it to be changed to ITSOTPHAC
Holding
A
Carp.

Until I see Idrissa ITSOTPHAC I won't accept him as a Villa player. Even if he plays the whole of next season and captains us to an FA Cup victory. If he's not held a giant carp. He's not one of us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: KRS on July 05, 2015, 01:37:50 PM
Good job your not lysdexic and spelt "carp" wrong!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on July 05, 2015, 02:06:03 PM
Good job your not lysdexic and spelt "carp" wrong!
Damn it I spelt Crap wrong! ha ha.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on July 05, 2015, 04:19:01 PM
Ah the traditional quotes about the facilities & training ground. Just once I would giggle if the quote was "He described the facilities as 'fine I suppose, who cares?'"

edit: bloody hell his upper body , he could crush my skull with his bare hands.

edit2: Wow, what an incredibly nice bloke. I hope he does well.

Went round to see some friends we hadn't seen for a while last week, their 8 year old son is a Citeh fan and his mum works with Micah's brother's girlfriend (I think!), word got back to him about this and out of the blue he sent a signed shirt he'd worn in a match and some bits and pieces. Shortly after he moved to Fiorentina another parcel arrived, this time containing a signed Fiorentina shirt. A very nice man!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gompedyret on July 05, 2015, 05:11:52 PM
Certainly seems to be a ray of sunlight, our Micah!  8)

Hopefully his contribution on the ball is as positive.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on July 05, 2015, 06:29:12 PM
Ah the traditional quotes about the facilities & training ground. Just once I would giggle if the quote was "He described the facilities as 'fine I suppose, who cares?'"
"Who gives a f*ck? It's a treadmill and a swimming pool, just like the ones that I have in my house."
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Diablo on July 07, 2015, 05:04:48 PM
Certainly seems to be a ray of sunlight, our Micah!  8)

Hopefully his contribution on the ball is as positive.

I agree, even with his dodgy My Villa Dream Team

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4847261,00.html
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve kirk on July 07, 2015, 08:51:06 PM
Just seen Micah sporting the new kit, looks a very powerful lad, centre half material me thinks rather than right back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 07, 2015, 08:57:30 PM
He's built like a combine harvester. Bloody massive. If he dos play RB getting past him then Okore might be a bit of a challenge
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OCD on July 07, 2015, 10:42:49 PM
In the kit unveiling, I spent a good few minutes trying to figure out who he was before Jim White started talking to him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ron Manager on July 09, 2015, 09:56:50 AM
Seems to like interacting with the sporting press doesn't he. Lets hope he can keep quiet when he needs to!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on July 09, 2015, 10:13:51 AM
Seems to like interacting with the sporting press doesn't he. Lets hope he can keep quiet when he needs to!
Does he?

Aren't the press just all reporting the same quotes from his club-organised press conference?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ivo Stas on July 18, 2015, 10:39:32 AM
Sky Sports News - 4 days ago:
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11677/9911682/micah-richards-i-did-not-tell-delph-to-reject-city (http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11677/9911682/micah-richards-i-did-not-tell-delph-to-reject-city)

New Aston Villa signing Micah Richards has denied he persuaded Fabian Delph to snub Manchester City and stay at the Midlands club.

Richards admitted last week that Delph had asked him about life at Manchester City, where the defender spent the first 10 years of his career.

Richards said of Delph's proposed move: "It's tough isn't it? If he's got guarantees to play... he's been unbelievable for Aston Villa. Every player wants to play at the highest level. If he's going to be playing Champions League... I don't know, but if he's going there to be a squad player, then no.”

But after Delph’s apparent U-turn on Saturday, Richards has denied playing any part in the England midfielder’s decision.

Richards said on Twitter: "If people actually think I had an influence on Delph not going to City you’re wrong! And I have nothing but great things to say about City!"


BBC News - yesterday:

Fabian Delph: Manchester City sign Aston Villa captain for £8m (http://Fabian Delph: Manchester City sign Aston Villa captain for £8m)

Aston Villa captain Fabian Delph has signed a five-year contract at Manchester City less than a week after saying he was staying at Villa Park.

On Friday, he said he had spoken to his England team-mate and City goalkeeper Joe Hart - as well as Villa's new signing from City Micah Richards - before signing.

"Micah Richards told me that as far as he is concerned, this is the best club in the world and he had the time of his life here," added Delph.



Anybody else uneasy about Micah Richards role in Delph's departure..? Remember how O'Neill felt about Patrick Berger in a similar situation..?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frank black on July 18, 2015, 10:42:57 AM
I just don't like Footballers, but love the game.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gregorys Boy on July 18, 2015, 10:43:22 AM
No one with a brain in their head is uneasy about it no ;) This is a none story, lets move on, next?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ivo Stas on July 18, 2015, 10:49:24 AM
If I openly encouraged one of our leading performers to join a direct competitor, my employer would see that as gross misconduct. Just saying...
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on July 18, 2015, 10:57:44 AM
I think people should get the heads out of their arses, suck it up and move on.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 10:59:26 AM
If I openly encouraged one of our leading performers to join a direct competitor, my employer would see that as gross misconduct. Just saying...

What rubbish. He was asked his opinion about a club he'd been with since he was a boy and he was always going to say good things about it. Blaming Richards for Delph moving is ridiculous.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Monty on July 18, 2015, 11:00:51 AM
If he did encourage Delph to leave that doesn't demonstrate a *huge* level of commitment to his new club and its fortunes, it has to be said. It's not like Delph would have been persuaded by his advice, however - I don't think you make a decision like that because your new team-mate you've barely met says so.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on July 18, 2015, 11:01:15 AM
If I openly encouraged one of our leading performers to join a direct competitor, my employer would see that as gross misconduct. Just saying...

I doubt you'd be quizzed about your colleagues rumoured move in front of the national media.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ivo Stas on July 18, 2015, 11:03:36 AM
Quote
What rubbish. He was asked his opinion about a club he'd been with since he was a boy and he was always going to say good things about it. Blaming Richards for Delph moving is ridiculous.

Richards was quick to get on Twitter four days ago to tell everyone not to blame him for Delph's original decision to stay and captain Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on July 18, 2015, 11:06:32 AM
If I openly encouraged one of our leading performers to join a direct competitor, my employer would see that as gross misconduct. Just saying...

What rubbish. He was asked his opinion about a club he'd been with since he was a boy and he was always going to say good things about it. Blaming Richards for Delph moving is ridiculous.

Yes but Delph should have had the good grace to keep his big mouth shut. I bet Richards thinks that as well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: leylandalbion on July 18, 2015, 11:07:31 AM
I think people are looking for scape goats and delph by stating that is looking for distraction.  The lad was at City from an early age of course he loved the club, like Grealish / Gabby etc would say about villa.
Give the lad a break and see how he performs in C&B.

There should be blame to only 1 person in this saga.  The club did what they can to keep him, but agents have power in negotiating deals, particularly in a failing club.  I just want to move on, forget the little fuker.  (ps anyone know how to remove name from a kids top!) 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 11:08:30 AM
Quote
What rubbish. He was asked his opinion about a club he'd been with since he was a boy and he was always going to say good things about it. Blaming Richards for Delph moving is ridiculous.

Richards was quick to get on Twitter four days ago to tell everyone not to blame him for Delph's original decision to stay and captain Villa.

You're being ridiculous. What if for the sake of argument Wilfred Bony asked Delph what kind of club Villa was if he was thinking of coming here?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ivo Stas on July 18, 2015, 11:13:22 AM
Quote
You're being ridiculous. What if for the sake of argument Wilfred Bony asked Delph what kind of club Villa was if he was thinking of coming here?

Martin O'Neill might not agree with you:

Patrik Berger's career at Aston Villa was terminated yesterday for urging Gareth Barry to take up the "opportunity of a lifetime" and move to Liverpool this summer.

"We are paying Patrik's wages for him to recommend one of our players to another football club. It's ludicrous," he said.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2299710/Villa-dump-Patrik-Berger-over-Barry-advice.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2299710/Villa-dump-Patrik-Berger-over-Barry-advice.html)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on July 18, 2015, 11:14:00 AM
If I openly encouraged one of our leading performers to join a direct competitor, my employer would see that as gross misconduct. Just saying...

What rubbish. He was asked his opinion about a club he'd been with since he was a boy and he was always going to say good things about it. Blaming Richards for Delph moving is ridiculous.

No ones blaming him, just saying it doesn't sit right. After all, he's at he Villa now, rumoured £65k a week because he was frozen out at Citeh.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect him to say "Yeah it a good Club but it's a graveyard for English footballers once frozen out, that's why me and Scott are here".
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on July 18, 2015, 11:14:31 AM
I wish people would stop looking for excuses. You can blame his agent, the club, Richards all you like but ultimately he's a grown man who makes his own decisions and constructs his own lies.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 11:17:55 AM
If I openly encouraged one of our leading performers to join a direct competitor, my employer would see that as gross misconduct. Just saying...

What rubbish. He was asked his opinion about a club he'd been with since he was a boy and he was always going to say good things about it. Blaming Richards for Delph moving is ridiculous.

No ones blaming him, just saying it doesn't sit right. After all, he's at he Villa now, rumoured £65k a week because he was frozen out at Citeh.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect him to say "Yeah it a good Club but it's a graveyard for English footballers once frozen out, that's why me and Scott are here".

But it doesn't need a fellow footballer to tell him that, he probably knew that anyway.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 11:23:33 AM
Delph is a ****** but Richards should really have just kept bloody quiet.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 11:24:37 AM
Delph is a c*** but Richards should really have just kept bloody quiet.

It wouldn't have made much difference if he had.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on July 18, 2015, 11:25:13 AM
If I openly encouraged one of our leading performers to join a direct competitor, my employer would see that as gross misconduct. Just saying...

What rubbish. He was asked his opinion about a club he'd been with since he was a boy and he was always going to say good things about it. Blaming Richards for Delph moving is ridiculous.

No ones blaming him, just saying it doesn't sit right. After all, he's at he Villa now, rumoured £65k a week because he was frozen out at Citeh.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect him to say "Yeah it a good Club but it's a graveyard for English footballers once frozen out, that's why me and Scott are here".

But it doesn't need a fellow footballer to tell him that, he probably knew that anyway.

Then why bother asking anything then. And then throwing our new signing under the bus.

Delph has handled this about as poorly as its possible to.


Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 11:26:38 AM
Delph is a c*** but Richards should really have just kept bloody quiet.

It wouldn't have made much difference if he had.
Maybe not but its not the sort of thing we want to hear from a new signing. Thick as pig shit some footballers
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: *shellac* on July 18, 2015, 11:27:13 AM
Used to have a soft spot for them when they were a yo-yo club.

Now I hate Citeh.

Barry. Milner. Delph. And fucking Ireland.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on July 18, 2015, 11:27:56 AM
Delph is a c*** but Richards should really have just kept bloody quiet.

It wouldn't have made much difference if he had.

You don't actually know that though do you. 

After all Delph claims it was Richards conversation that helped him with his decision.  Although I'm not sure I trust what Fibian says anymore.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 11:29:18 AM
Used to have a soft spot for them when they were a yo-yo club.

Now I hate Citeh.

Barry. Milner. Delph. And fucking Ireland.
Dunne Sinclair Given. We do seem to trade with them a lot.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 11:31:03 AM
Delph is a c*** but Richards should really have just kept bloody quiet.

It wouldn't have made much difference if he had.

You don't actually know that though do you. 

After all Delph claims it was Richards conversation that helped him with his decision.  Although I'm not sure I trust what Fibian says anymore.

Of course I believe it. I'm sure he took advice from other people, not just Richards. Richards possibly asked Milner what kind of club we were before moving here, it happens.

If you're trying to find a scapegoat for Delph pledging his loyalty twice and still moving on, then you're picking on the wrong person.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Summers on July 18, 2015, 11:32:06 AM
Delph is a grown up. He made this decision. Don't blame Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: *shellac* on July 18, 2015, 11:33:15 AM
Given and Dunne were ok-ish but Ireland was a complete waste of money.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 11:33:48 AM
Delph is a grown up. He made this decision. Don't blame Richards.
We're not , just saying to stop running his mouth off inadvertently to the media about promoting a Delph move to ci£y.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 11:35:33 AM
Delph is a grown up. He made this decision. Don't blame Richards.
We're not , just saying to stop running his mouth off inadvertently to the media about promoting a Delph move to ci£y.

He was asked the question and he answered it. It's not as if he rang up Sky personally.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 11:36:21 AM
Delph is a grown up. He made this decision. Don't blame Richards.
We're not , just saying to stop running his mouth off inadvertently to the media about promoting a Delph move to ci£y.

He was asked the question and he answered it. It's not as if he rang up Sky personally.
No comment was all he had to say.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 11:38:53 AM
Delph is a grown up. He made this decision. Don't blame Richards.
We're not , just saying to stop running his mouth off inadvertently to the media about promoting a Delph move to ci£y.

He was asked the question and he answered it. It's not as if he rang up Sky personally.
No comment was all he had to say.

Possibly but he'd already spoken to Delph anyway so what was the point? Man Utd or Chelsea might have come in and he still would have gone so to say Richards played a part in him moving is nonsense.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 11:41:23 AM
No but it's more about how the club is being fucking run. New players coming in and talking to the press about our captain leaving etc.
Another symptom of a very poorly run show.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Summers on July 18, 2015, 11:44:26 AM
Delph is a grown up. He made this decision. Don't blame Richards.
We're not , just saying to stop running his mouth off inadvertently to the media about promoting a Delph move to ci£y.

He was asked the question and he answered it. It's not as if he rang up Sky personally.
No comment was all he had to say.

He spent 10 years there, making close to 300 appearances. He has every right to say positive things about the club.

I fucking hate City, but it's perfectly reasonable and acceptable that Micah has good things to say.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on July 18, 2015, 11:46:21 AM
Show me another decent sized Club where that is allowed to happen. It'd never happen at 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', Spurzz or even the Barcodes for instance.

 They wouldn't stand for it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 18, 2015, 11:46:26 AM
Utter drivel. It's pathetic of Delph to cause trouble for a new signing, just to attempt to justify his treacherous lickspittlery. I'm assuming he probably asked Sinclair his opinion too. Funny he hasn't leaked his responses to the media.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on July 18, 2015, 11:47:17 AM
Delph is a grown up. He made this decision. Don't blame Richards.
We're not , just saying to stop running his mouth off inadvertently to the media about promoting a Delph move to ci£y.

He was asked the question and he answered it. It's not as if he rang up Sky personally.
No comment was all he had to say.

He spent 10 years there, making close to 300 appearances. He has every right to say positive things about the club.

I fucking hate City, but it's perfectly reasonable and acceptable that Micah has good things to say.


And the City fans love him if that leaving thread on blue moon was anything to go by
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 18, 2015, 11:47:34 AM
Show me another decent sized Club where that is allowed to happen. It'd never happen at 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', Spurzz or even the Barcodes for instance.

 They wouldn't stand for it.


They don't allow players to talk in the dressing room?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Summers on July 18, 2015, 11:50:13 AM
Show me another decent sized Club where that is allowed to happen. It'd never happen at 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', Spurzz or even the Barcodes for instance.

 They wouldn't stand for it.


Load of shit. Players talk. They're all mates, we have a couple of ex City players and Delph was in two minds. He was always going to seek their opinions. And because they're mates, they're hardly going to lie to him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ivo Stas on July 18, 2015, 11:53:20 AM
This is the way Sky Sports are reporting it:
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/9916884/fabien-delph-has-revealed-micah-richards-helped-change-his-mind-over-manchester-city (http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/9916884/fabien-delph-has-revealed-micah-richards-helped-change-his-mind-over-manchester-city)

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Fabien Delph has revealed Micah Richards helped change his mind over Manchester City

Fabian Delph says Micah Richards played a key role in his City U-turn

Fabian Delph has revealed that conversations with former Manchester City defender Micah Richards influenced him to change his mind about moving to the club.

Delph signed a five-year contract with City on Friday, less than a week after rejecting the transfer and committing his future to Aston Villa through a strongly-worded statement.

It has now emerged that new Villa signing Richards, who had denied persuading Delph to snub City earlier this week, was influential in the U-turn.
 
“Micah Richards told me that as far as he is concerned, this is the best club in the world and he had the time of his life here," Delph said in an interview on City’s official website.

City triggered the £8m release clause in Delph’s Villa contract last week, but the midfielder released a statement in which he insisted: “I'm not leaving.

"I'm staying at the football club and I can't wait for the start of the Premier League season."

Richards then took to social media to deny suggestions he had encouraged Delph to stay at the Midlands club, saying on Twitter: "If people actually think I had an influence on Delph not going to City you’re wrong! And I have nothing but great things to say about City!"

I don't have the greatest respect for Sky Sports journalism but if I was Micah Richards, I'd want to rebut this quickly and publicly. So far he seems to care more about staying in City fans' good graces than he does about playing in the strongest possible Villa team.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on July 18, 2015, 11:54:47 AM
Delph is a grown up. He made this decision. Don't blame Richards.
We're not , just saying to stop running his mouth off inadvertently to the media about promoting a Delph move to ci£y.

He was asked the question and he answered it. It's not as if he rang up Sky personally.
No comment was all he had to say.

He spent 10 years there, making close to 300 appearances. He has every right to say positive things about the club.

I fucking hate City, but it's perfectly reasonable and acceptable that Micah has good things to say.

Of course but ultimately he left to further hs career as he'd been frozen out at Citeh as if you don't achieve instant success you're consigned to the stiffs never to be heard of again.

There are countless examples and Richards is one. How about he said something like;

"It's  a fuckin great club Fib, it really is, great support but the downside is you probably won't play every week, the Manager will be out by Christmas if things don't start well and I've had to move here to get any sort of game time just like Scott has."

Maybe he did we'll never know but it doesn't sit right with me.



Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 11:54:53 AM
Jesus Micah, just shut the fuck up already.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 11:56:00 AM
This is the way Sky Sports are reporting it:
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/9916884/fabien-delph-has-revealed-micah-richards-helped-change-his-mind-over-manchester-city (http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/9916884/fabien-delph-has-revealed-micah-richards-helped-change-his-mind-over-manchester-city)

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Fabien Delph has revealed Micah Richards helped change his mind over Manchester City

Fabian Delph says Micah Richards played a key role in his City U-turn

Fabian Delph has revealed that conversations with former Manchester City defender Micah Richards influenced him to change his mind about moving to the club.

Delph signed a five-year contract with City on Friday, less than a week after rejecting the transfer and committing his future to Aston Villa through a strongly-worded statement.

It has now emerged that new Villa signing Richards, who had denied persuading Delph to snub City earlier this week, was influential in the U-turn.
 
“Micah Richards told me that as far as he is concerned, this is the best club in the world and he had the time of his life here," Delph said in an interview on City’s official website.

City triggered the £8m release clause in Delph’s Villa contract last week, but the midfielder released a statement in which he insisted: “I'm not leaving.

"I'm staying at the football club and I can't wait for the start of the Premier League season."

Richards then took to social media to deny suggestions he had encouraged Delph to stay at the Midlands club, saying on Twitter: "If people actually think I had an influence on Delph not going to City you’re wrong! And I have nothing but great things to say about City!"

I don't have the greatest respect for Sky Sports journalism but if I was Micah Richards, I'd want to rebut this quickly and publicly. So far he seems to care more about staying in City fan's good graces than he does about playing in the strongest possible Villa team.

What utter nonsense. Like someone said earlier, he was asked about a club he played over 300 games for. What was he expected to say?

How about giving the bloke who pledged his loyalty twice and still pissed off some stick instead of trying to find a scapegoat?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on July 18, 2015, 11:57:17 AM
Show me another decent sized Club where that is allowed to happen. It'd never happen at 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', Spurzz or even the Barcodes for instance.

 They wouldn't stand for it.


They don't allow players to talk in the dressing room?

Of course you can't stop players saying what they like  to each other but it shows a disrespect to the club you play for and pays your wages when it's made public and you comment on it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 11:59:09 AM
This is what he said, taken from an article in the Daily Mail.

I told him I can’t comment to be honest.
‘I don’t want to say, 'Go there' and then he doesn’t play him.
‘He’ll be ringing me up afterwards.
‘It’s tough isn’t it. Every player wants to play at the highest level.
‘But if he’s going there to be a squad player, then no!

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 12:02:38 PM
And as Jimmy Cricket would say, there's more.

‘It makes it difficult because next year is the Euros,’ he said.
‘If you go to Man City and find yourself only playing ten games and someone has a really good season that player is going to play for England.
‘Things can change. He’s been unbelievable for Aston Villa. It would be great if he stays.’


Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ivo Stas on July 18, 2015, 12:04:22 PM
Quote
This is what he said, taken from an article in the Daily Mail.

I told him I can’t comment to be honest.
‘I don’t want to say, 'Go there' and then he doesn’t play him.
‘He’ll be ringing me up afterwards.
‘It’s tough isn’t it. Every player wants to play at the highest level.
‘But if he’s going there to be a squad player, then no!

And this is what he said on his own Twitter feed (four days ago when Delph decided to stay and captain Villa):

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@MicahRichards

If people actually think I had a influence on Delph not going to city your wrong! And I have nothing but great things to say about city!

And this is how a Villa fan responded to him on Twitter:

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@ryan114av

@MicahRichards All you've done since joining Villa is talk to the press. Let your feet do the talking.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 12:07:01 PM
Of course he's got good things to say about City, he was there for 10 years. I can't see what people don't get about that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pete3206 on July 18, 2015, 12:10:51 PM
I agree Clampy, but I think he should just shut the fuck up from now on.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ivo Stas on July 18, 2015, 12:11:50 PM
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Of course he's got good things to say about City, he was there for 10 years. I can't see what people don't get about that.

We don't like our own highest-earning players cheerleading from the sidelines when our Captain leaves us and credits them with influencing his change of heart.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: stevenavfc on July 18, 2015, 12:12:23 PM
Simply Delph looking to deflect some of the blame, morale coward.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on July 18, 2015, 12:14:40 PM
Of course he's got good things to say about City, he was there for 10 years. I can't see what people don't get about that.

For the love of McGrath we do see that.

The problem i have is he keeps talking publicly about it. Just say nothing to the press. It shows a lack of respect to the Club and fans who pays you £65k a week. Can you imagine a 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' player talking like that to the press.

And If he can't shut up then the Club needs to tell him to.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 12:17:15 PM
Simply Delph looking to deflect some of the blame, morale coward.

You may have a point.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on July 18, 2015, 12:20:22 PM
Simply Delph looking to deflect some of the blame, morale coward.

You may have a point.

Wouldn't surprise me either. Delph has form clearly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tony Erdington on July 18, 2015, 12:33:18 PM
Pantomime  comes to mind.

not to many are coming out of this with any credit.

Micah is now looking like a special agent.  some what soured his debut I feel.

Delph is a clown. I hope it goes horribly wrong for the twat, 7th November if he plays maybe Richards could tackle him and they both break each others legs. yes im bitter.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on July 18, 2015, 12:35:28 PM
Tony, you need to take a break from here.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 12:36:58 PM

Delph is a clown. I hope it goes horribly wrong for the twat, 7th November if he plays maybe Richards could tackle him and they both break each others legs. yes im bitter.

You're also a bit of an arse for writing something like that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on July 18, 2015, 12:41:24 PM
For fucks sake.

It's not Bentekes fault for him leaving.
It's not Micah Richards fault for him leaving.
It's not Randy Lerners fault for him leaving.

He is leaving because he decided he wants to follow the money trail and not be in a relegation fight. He told lies and deceived the club and it's fans and he alone shoulders the responsibility for it, not Richards for not saying Money City is a shithouse.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dante Lavelli on July 18, 2015, 12:46:00 PM
For fucks sake.

It's not Bentekes fault for him leaving.
It's not Micah Richards fault for him leaving.
It's not Randy Lerners fault for him leaving.

He is leaving because he decided he wants to follow the money trail and not be in a relegation fight. He told lies and deceived the club and it's fans and he alone shoulders the responsibility for it, not Richards for not saying Money City is a shithouse.

Agree except the money trail bit. I imagine he thinks he's going to play at a higher level, chumps league etc.

I'd be surprised if he's had that much of s pay rise to be honest.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tony Erdington on July 18, 2015, 12:46:38 PM

Delph is a clown. I hope it goes horribly wrong for the twat, 7th November if he plays maybe Richards could tackle him and they both break each others legs. yes im bitter.

You're also a bit of an arse for writing something like that.

Don't be like that clampy old chap, I just cant get my head round the fact that footballers are at will to treat the clubs paying them have no respect. in all honesty, after defending delph against a lot of people on here when this first started, foolishly. I now see the clubs mean zero to them, there is no loyalty, so why bother supporting something where the centre stage don't give a shit. Sorry but im really struggling with it, I don't think of you as an ARSE clampy. as im noit a keyboard warrior, atb.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tony Erdington on July 18, 2015, 12:53:30 PM
For fucks sake.

It's not Bentekes fault for him leaving.
It's not Micah Richards fault for him leaving.
It's not Randy Lerners fault for him leaving.

He is leaving because he decided he wants to follow the money trail and not be in a relegation fight. He told lies and deceived the club and it's fans and he alone shoulders the responsibility for it, not Richards for not saying Money City is a shithouse.

Agree except the money trail bit. I imagine he thinks he's going to play at a higher level, chumps league etc.

I'd be surprised if he's had that much of s pay rise to be honest.



this I agree with, I never really had any thoughts about citeh, yes I know they've done it with money ala Chelsea, ala yanited. but for a club with so many multi million pound players on sight, their crowds are still not flocking in , in the words of the great song empty seats my lord, so the citeh experiment is very much oil based, and I suppose Delph has been bought to help with filling one of the empty seats me lord.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ivo Stas on July 18, 2015, 12:55:44 PM
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It's not Micah Richards fault for him leaving.

Richards was certainly quick to take to Twitter four days ago to make sure all the City fans knew it wasn't his fault Delph didn't join at the first attempt...
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on July 18, 2015, 12:58:36 PM
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It's not Micah Richards fault for him leaving.

Richards was certainly quick to take to Twitter four days ago to make sure all the City fans knew it wasn't his fault Delph didn't join at the first attempt...

And why wouldn't he, he's a City boy at heart. Delph having no bottle, no loyalty, no brain or whatever has nothing to do with him. I'm sure Fibian knows enough about football to be able to make a decision without asking Micah Richards for some career changing advice. It's another smokescreen, snake makes it's own decisions. Delph is a twat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ivo Stas on July 18, 2015, 01:03:14 PM
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And why wouldn't he, he's a City boy at heart.

Because we pay him £65,000 a week.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: London Villan on July 18, 2015, 02:33:29 PM
Like Delph, Richards clearly doesn't know when it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut...
 
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt" - Lisa Simpson.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 18, 2015, 02:35:42 PM
Show me another decent sized Club where that is allowed to happen. It'd never happen at 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', Spurzz or even the Barcodes for instance.

 They wouldn't stand for it.


They don't allow players to talk in the dressing room?

Of course you can't stop players saying what they like  to each other but it shows a disrespect to the club you play for and pays your wages when it's made public and you comment on it.

Made public by a nosey media and a grovelling D***h looking to deflect some blame for his uttercuntery. At worst, Richards is guilty of being a bit naive. 

To the poster that said he hopes Richards breaks his legs... you're a prick.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on July 18, 2015, 02:37:01 PM

Delph is a clown. I hope it goes horribly wrong for the twat, 7th November if he plays maybe Richards could tackle him and they both break each others legs. yes im bitter.

Silly, silly man.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy65 on July 18, 2015, 02:38:04 PM
For fucks sake.

It's not Bentekes fault for him leaving.
It's not Micah Richards fault for him leaving.
It's not Randy Lerners fault for him leaving.

He is leaving because he decided he wants to follow the money trail and not be in a relegation fight. He told lies and deceived the club and it's fans and he alone shoulders the responsibility for it, not Richards for not saying Money City is a shithouse.

Agree except the money trail bit. I imagine he thinks he's going to play at a higher level, chumps league etc.

I'd be surprised if he's had that much of s pay rise to be honest.

He will have had a massive pay rise. Why move otherwise. His pay offer will have increased since last weekend, hence the move. He is a snake but does have some brains. He knows he wont play regularly but has been offered so much oil money he couldnt reject it. I dont blame him, its just the manner that pisses me, and everyone else, off
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Axl Rose on July 18, 2015, 02:40:16 PM
Show me another decent sized Club where that is allowed to happen. It'd never happen at 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', Spurzz or even the Barcodes for instance.

 They wouldn't stand for it.


They don't allow players to talk in the dressing room?

Of course you can't stop players saying what they like  to each other but it shows a disrespect to the club you play for and pays your wages when it's made public and you comment on it.

Made public by a nosey media and a grovelling D***h looking to deflect some blame for his uttercuntery. At worst, Richards is guilty of being a bit naive. 

To the poster that said he hopes Richards breaks his legs... you're a prick.

Haha. Youve cheered me up,mate
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on July 18, 2015, 02:40:24 PM


Delph is a clown. I hope it goes horribly wrong for the twat, 7th November if he plays maybe Richards could tackle him and they both break each others legs. yes im bitter.

You want a Villa player to break his leg, because he mentioned he likes his former club to Delph? good grief. Frankly wanting anyone to break their legs is pretty unpleasant. I hope Delph fails miserably at Citeh, but I'd rather that was on a performance basis than a horrible injury.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 02:47:04 PM

Delph is a clown. I hope it goes horribly wrong for the twat, 7th November if he plays maybe Richards could tackle him and they both break each others legs. yes im bitter.

You're also a bit of an arse for writing something like that.

Don't be like that clampy old chap, I just cant get my head round the fact that footballers are at will to treat the clubs paying them have no respect. in all honesty, after defending delph against a lot of people on here when this first started, foolishly. I now see the clubs mean zero to them, there is no loyalty, so why bother supporting something where the centre stage don't give a shit. Sorry but im really struggling with it, I don't think of you as an ARSE clampy. as im noit a keyboard warrior, atb.

Well, I still think you're an arse, it was a woeful comment to make.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 02:50:28 PM
Turning into a bit of a rentagob isn't he.
As posted before let your feet do the talking Micah.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on July 18, 2015, 02:52:38 PM
Turning into a bit of a rentagob isn't he.
As posted before let your feet do the talking Micah.

I'm sorry, what's he said now?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on July 18, 2015, 02:53:33 PM
Turning into a bit of a rentagob isn't he.
As posted before let your feet do the talking Micah.

I'm sorry, what's he said now?

He thought Wet Wet Wet were shit and Queen were c*nts for playing Sin City.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on July 18, 2015, 03:02:00 PM
Turning into a bit of a rentagob isn't he.
As posted before let your feet do the talking Micah.

I'm sorry, what's he said now?

He thought Wet Wet Wet were shit and Queen were c*nts for playing Sin City.

The club had better gag him before he gets started on U2, we'd be sinking through mud faster than you can say "Jermaine Beckford"
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 18, 2015, 03:02:55 PM
Turning into a bit of a rentagob isn't he.
As posted before let your feet do the talking Micah.

You won't be saying that once he tries to bicycle kick a ball he could easily have headed away.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on July 18, 2015, 03:04:00 PM
Turning into a bit of a rentagob isn't he.
As posted before let your feet do the talking Micah.

I'm sorry, what's he said now?

He thought Wet Wet Wet were shit and Queen were c*nts for playing Sin City.

The club had better gag him before he gets started on U2, we'd be sinking through mud faster than you can say "Jermaine Beckford"

If we were to sign Beckford it would be a real statement of intent.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Legion on July 18, 2015, 03:21:34 PM
Pantomime  comes to mind.

not to many are coming out of this with any credit.

Micah is now looking like a special agent.  some what soured his debut I feel.

Delph is a clown. I hope it goes horribly wrong for the twat, 7th November if he plays maybe Richards could tackle him and they both break each others legs. yes im bitter.

You wish serious injury on a Villa player? Charming.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ron Manager on July 18, 2015, 04:45:30 PM
Anybody who suggests that a player should break anothers legs on this site should get his/her ticket without hesitation!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt Collins on July 18, 2015, 05:27:29 PM
He's both dissuaded and persuaded delph to join citeh in the same week then

Or he hasn't and this is completely exaggerated
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on July 18, 2015, 08:11:26 PM
I should think that the article are rehashing words from last week.  I do not think Delph has been on the phone to Richards this week.  I think the comment from Richard last week was meant to say that Delph made up his own mind and was not influenced by anybody.

It happens all the time with media interviews with players.  They hold back some comments to get as many articles out of the same  interview as possible.  This is being taken to the limits by the media now in twisting the same words to give completely opposite view points.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 08:14:34 PM
Turning into a bit of a rentagob isn't he.
As posted before let your feet do the talking Micah.

I'm sorry, what's he said now?

He thought Wet Wet Wet were shit and Queen were c*nts for playing Sin City.

The club had better gag him before he gets started on U2, we'd be sinking through mud faster than you can say "Jermaine Beckford"

If we were to sign Beckford it would be a real statement of intent.
Ha. In other news , the day of Delphs return to B6, U2 play Glasgow Pacific quays . I wonder if I could "Phil Collins" the two.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Louzie0 on July 18, 2015, 08:18:15 PM
Turning into a bit of a rentagob isn't he.
As posted before let your feet do the talking Micah.

I'm sorry, what's he said now?

He thought Wet Wet Wet were shit and Queen were c*nts for playing Sin City.

The club had better gag him before he gets started on U2, we'd be sinking through mud faster than you can say "Jermaine Beckford"

If we were to sign Beckford it would be a real statement of intent.
Ha. In other news , the day of Delphs return to B6, U2 play Glasgow Pacific quays . I wonder if I could "Phil Collins" the two.
That would have to be on Concorde time with a 5.30 kick off. ;)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 08:19:50 PM
Damn you Sky .
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on July 18, 2015, 08:20:38 PM
I don't really care what Richards says to Delph about Man City. That's the sort of conversation that goes on between footballers all the time, it is no big deal.

What I am a bit bothered about is Richards and Delph talking about it to the press. Particularly Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 08:26:51 PM
I don't really care what Richards says to Delph about Man City. That's the sort of conversation that goes on between footballers all the time, it is no big deal.

What I am a bit bothered about is Richards and Delph talking about it to the press. Particularly Richards.
That is my main beef.
Does the club not have a policy about this? Is the manager ok with this ? Etc
I can't imagine a club like Chelsea or Yanited would ever let this shit happen
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on July 18, 2015, 08:31:30 PM
I don't really care what Richards says to Delph about Man City. That's the sort of conversation that goes on between footballers all the time, it is no big deal.

What I am a bit bothered about is Richards and Delph talking about it to the press. Particularly Richards.
That is my main beef.
Does the club not have a policy about this? Is the manager ok with this ? Etc
I can't imagine a club like Chelsea or Yanited would ever let this shit happen


Many things happen at many clubs all the time that we reckon only happen at Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ron Manager on July 18, 2015, 08:34:03 PM
I don't really care what Richards says to Delph about Man City. That's the sort of conversation that goes on between footballers all the time, it is no big deal.

What I am a bit bothered about is Richards and Delph talking about it to the press. Particularly Richards.
That is my main beef.
Does the club not have a policy about this? Is the manager ok with this ? Etc
I can't imagine a club like Chelsea or Yanited would ever let this shit happen

Just say Sir Alex was our manager. Not so young Mr Richards would still be shaking in his boots after a few quiet well chosen words in his ear.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 08:53:27 PM
I don't really care what Richards says to Delph about Man City. That's the sort of conversation that goes on between footballers all the time, it is no big deal.

What I am a bit bothered about is Richards and Delph talking about it to the press. Particularly Richards.
That is my main beef.
Does the club not have a policy about this? Is the manager ok with this ? Etc
I can't imagine a club like Chelsea or Yanited would ever let this shit happen


Many things happen at many clubs all the time that we reckon only happen at Villa.
Really ?  How many clubs lose their best 2 players within days of one another
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 18, 2015, 08:56:00 PM
Southampton lose about twelve of their best players every Summer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on July 18, 2015, 08:58:46 PM
Delph made his own decision, yes he will have spoken to people, but it is his decision. Cannot understand the stick Richards is getting, as he said last week he had no influence on any decision and I am sure it is still the same.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dante Lavelli on July 18, 2015, 09:04:12 PM
I don't really care what Richards says to Delph about Man City. That's the sort of conversation that goes on between footballers all the time, it is no big deal.

What I am a bit bothered about is Richards and Delph talking about it to the press. Particularly Richards.
That is my main beef.
Does the club not have a policy about this? Is the manager ok with this ? Etc
I can't imagine a club like Chelsea or Yanited would ever let this shit happen


Many things happen at many clubs all the time that we reckon only happen at Villa.

That Roy Keane interview on MUTV being a particular example of an excellent PR fuck up, much worse that the current Richards faux pas.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Lizz on July 18, 2015, 09:05:00 PM
I've probably mentioned too many times that I work in HR, to the extent that if someone else was saying it, it would get on my nerves. Reality is though, I hear conspiracy theories on an almost daily basis. My best work related experience of jumping to conclusions - an appeal hearing was postponed. One of the participants was convinced there were all sorts of Machiavellian reasons. The boring reality was one of the panel members had had a family bereavement.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on July 18, 2015, 09:06:03 PM
Isn't part of the deal with Sky etc to provide manager and players for interviews.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 18, 2015, 09:12:31 PM
I don't really care what Richards says to Delph about Man City. That's the sort of conversation that goes on between footballers all the time, it is no big deal.

What I am a bit bothered about is Richards and Delph talking about it to the press. Particularly Richards.
That is my main beef.
Does the club not have a policy about this? Is the manager ok with this ? Etc
I can't imagine a club like Chelsea or Yanited would ever let this shit happen

Just say Sir Alex was our manager. Not so young Mr Richards would still be shaking in his boots after a few quiet well chosen words in his ear.

Yes the same Sir Alex who gave Rooney a shiny new contract despite being a monstrous twat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on July 18, 2015, 09:16:11 PM
I've probably mentioned too many times that I work in HR, to the extent that if someone else was saying it, it would get on my nerves. Reality is though, I hear conspiracy theories on an almost daily basis. My best work related experience of jumping to conclusions - an appeal hearing was postponed. One of the participants was convinced there were all sorts of Machiavellian reasons. The boring reality was one of the panel members had had a family bereavement.

Lizz, my partner works in HR and I don't equate what she's like and you are (judging by what I know of you from here) with the monsters people seem to deal with at their work places! I hear daily stories of what she has to deal with and I don't know how she stats so calm and understanding, especially having to live with me!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on July 18, 2015, 09:16:33 PM
Delph made his own decision, yes he will have spoken to people, but it is his decision. Cannot understand the stick Richards is getting, as he said last week he had no influence on any decision and I am sure it is still the same.

Of course it is his decision. But if you take a look at the comments, it isn't just a case of people being annoyed at Richards for talking to Delph about it.

It is Richards revealing it to the press.

They're two distinct arguments.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on July 18, 2015, 09:22:10 PM
Delph made his own decision, yes he will have spoken to people, but it is his decision. Cannot understand the stick Richards is getting, as he said last week he had no influence on any decision and I am sure it is still the same.

Of course it is his decision. But if you take a look at the comments, it isn't just a case of people being annoyed at Richards for talking to Delph about it.

It is Richards revealing it to the press.

They're two distinct arguments.
As far as I know, the only quotes Richards has given about anything to anybody since he signed was at his club-organised press conference.

Delph saying to the press "Micah said this" has nothing to do with what Richards said ten days ago.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on July 18, 2015, 10:15:48 PM
My take on this is that there was one interview where a he said something like:

"Yeah we spoke about Man City, I told him it's a great club and I loved it there but also that my place went away quite quickly because at a club like that if you're injured or out of form there's every possibility that you won't get another chance so if he's been assured he'll play and he believes it then it's a good move but if not it could cost him his England place.  Either way I'm not going to offer him any advice because if I tell him to go and he doesn't play he'll be on the phone having a go."

You can pick bits out of that which suggest he convinced him to stay and you can pick out bits that say the opposite but simply put it's a none answer that says Delph is a big boy and can make his own decisions.  That Delph and the press are shit stirring it to look different shouldn't mean we all start slagging Richards off, it's just a deflection and one we could really do without.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on July 18, 2015, 10:21:01 PM
I don't really care what Richards says to Delph about Man City. That's the sort of conversation that goes on between footballers all the time, it is no big deal.

What I am a bit bothered about is Richards and Delph talking about it to the press. Particularly Richards.
That is my main beef.
Does the club not have a policy about this? Is the manager ok with this ? Etc
I can't imagine a club like Chelsea or Yanited would ever let this shit happen

Just say Sir Alex was our manager. Not so young Mr Richards would still be shaking in his boots after a few quiet well chosen words in his ear.

Yes the same Sir Alex who gave Rooney a shiny new contract despite being a monstrous twat.
All relative . They retained their best player rather than be undermined ,  embarrassed and plundered. I hate Yanited as much as the next man but they are a well run club who don't take shite.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pete3206 on July 18, 2015, 10:25:30 PM
I don't really care what Richards says to Delph about Man City. That's the sort of conversation that goes on between footballers all the time, it is no big deal.

What I am a bit bothered about is Richards and Delph talking about it to the press. Particularly Richards.
That is my main beef.
Does the club not have a policy about this? Is the manager ok with this ? Etc
I can't imagine a club like Chelsea or Yanited would ever let this shit happen

Just say Sir Alex was our manager. Not so young Mr Richards would still be shaking in his boots after a few quiet well chosen words in his ear.

Yes the same Sir Alex who gave Rooney a shiny new contract despite being a monstrous twat.
All relative . They retained their best player rather than be undermined ,  embarrassed and plundered. I hate Yanited as much as the next man but they are a well run club who don't take shite.

Being one of the biggest clubs in the world helps.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on July 18, 2015, 10:25:45 PM
"Yeah we spoke about Man City, I told him it's a great club and I loved it there but also that my place went away quite quickly because at a club like that if you're injured or out of form there's every possibility that you won't get another chance so if he's been assured he'll play and he believes it then it's a good move but if not it could cost him his England place.  Either way I'm not going to offer him any advice because if I tell him to go and he doesn't play he'll be on the phone having a go."

You can pick bits out of that which suggest he convinced him to stay and you can pick out bits that say the opposite but simply put it's a none answer that says Delph is a big boy and can make his own decisions.
Obviously you're paraphrasing (I think you've got the gist right though), but to me his quote read as though he thought of a sensible, managed opinion that was respectful to them, us and Delph and that he knew it was going to probably be repeated and requoted and didn't want it to be a rod for his back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on July 18, 2015, 10:27:31 PM
"Yeah we spoke about Man City, I told him it's a great club and I loved it there but also that my place went away quite quickly because at a club like that if you're injured or out of form there's every possibility that you won't get another chance so if he's been assured he'll play and he believes it then it's a good move but if not it could cost him his England place.  Either way I'm not going to offer him any advice because if I tell him to go and he doesn't play he'll be on the phone having a go."

You can pick bits out of that which suggest he convinced him to stay and you can pick out bits that say the opposite but simply put it's a none answer that says Delph is a big boy and can make his own decisions.
Obviously you're paraphrasing (I think you've got the gist right though), but to me his quote read as though he thought of a sensible, managed opinion that was respectful to them, us and Delph and that he knew it was going to probably be repeated and requoted and didn't want it to be a rod for his back.

Of course, I was just being lazy and didn't want to have to hunt down all the quoted snippets.  His twitter claims that it was nothing to do with him back this up as well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on July 18, 2015, 10:27:44 PM
Delph made his own decision, yes he will have spoken to people, but it is his decision. Cannot understand the stick Richards is getting, as he said last week he had no influence on any decision and I am sure it is still the same.

Of course it is his decision. But if you take a look at the comments, it isn't just a case of people being annoyed at Richards for talking to Delph about it.

It is Richards revealing it to the press.

They're two distinct arguments.

From what I have seen, Richards has not said anything to the press saying Delph should go. He said what a good club they are, but lets be honest, he knows more than most that not all excellent players will get a regular game.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on July 18, 2015, 10:35:56 PM
Of course, I was just being lazy and didn't want to have to hunt down all the quoted snippets
I wouldn't worry, I think the actual quotes were very much in line with your summation.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VillaAlways on July 18, 2015, 10:45:27 PM
Yes Delph, it's all Micah Richards fault that you changed your mind and nothing to do with the millions of pounds Man City were throwing at you.

Tosspot
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on July 18, 2015, 11:37:58 PM
Yes Delph, it's all Micah Richards fault that you changed your mind and nothing to do with the millions of pounds Man City were throwing at you.

Tosspot

Yes he does seem to be trying to shift the attention a bit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on July 27, 2015, 11:08:23 AM
Mirror reporting that Richards has unfollowed the clubs official twitter account. 

Slow news day?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Diablo on July 27, 2015, 12:58:17 PM
Mirror reporting that Richards has unfollowed the clubs official twitter account. 

Slow news day?

Any chance of a link I can't find it? I'm a little confused by the whole thing? Is Micah getting abuse/grief from the press or Villa fans?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 27, 2015, 01:05:29 PM
He probably got fed up with being reminded to "snap up" tickets for Villa vs Sunderland.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on July 27, 2015, 01:57:07 PM
He probably got fed up with being reminded to "snap up" tickets for Villa vs Sunderland.

Indeed. It's such a non story.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on July 27, 2015, 02:04:38 PM
He probably doesn't need to follow them for information updates, seeing as he you know, works there.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tony Erdington on July 27, 2015, 02:19:55 PM
I wonder if Micah could have a word with  zog
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on July 27, 2015, 02:40:41 PM
Mirror reporting that Richards has unfollowed the clubs official twitter account. 

Slow news day?


Was it Paul Lambets suppository Nursey? If so just add it to the list of bitter stories about Villa since his chum was sacked.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Legion on July 27, 2015, 03:54:09 PM
Volume down...

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on July 27, 2015, 04:07:47 PM
Looks pretty solid in the warm up games - he's quick and has good feet.  He did put the keeper under pressure with some of the back passes and looks like he took some risks when carrying the ball out of defense which could have been punished.  But given these are just warm ups and blowing the cobwebs away it looked promising to me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 27, 2015, 04:13:17 PM
I love his attitude and that's going to be very important to the players around him. He's a very good player that needs to be reminded of that. Sherwood will encourage him to not only be a leader but be again the player he was becoming when got into the England set up. And the England defence isn't one he should be afraid of because a good season and e can certainly get into that Euro 2016 squad.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on July 27, 2015, 04:18:34 PM

I look forward to seeing a defense of Amavi, Clark, Richards and Hutton.  If they gel it could be a really strong unit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: walsall villain on July 27, 2015, 04:30:56 PM
I love his attitude and that's going to be very important to the players around him. He's a very good player that needs to be reminded of that. Sherwood will encourage him to not only be a leader but be again the player he was becoming when got into the England set up. And the England defence isn't one he should be afraid of because a good season and e can certainly get into that Euro 2016 squad.
Perhaps best for Villa if non if our players get picked for England as it seems they soon get unsettled and become ex Villa players.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 27, 2015, 04:34:45 PM
I love his attitude and that's going to be very important to the players around him. He's a very good player that needs to be reminded of that. Sherwood will encourage him to not only be a leader but be again the player he was becoming when got into the England set up. And the England defence isn't one he should be afraid of because a good season and e can certainly get into that Euro 2016 squad.
Perhaps best for Villa if non if our players get picked for England as it seems they soon get unsettled and become ex Villa players.

The flip side being we never get good players joining us because they won't get picked for England. The truth is as a club if we hadn't been totally inept these past few years then players would want to stay with us longer. There's not a massive difference between say us and Everton and somehow they have managed to keep a hold of Baines, Jagielka and Barkley. Firstly we need to stop having such a fear of losing players but more importantly provide those players with a better environment and stop kicking around the arse end of the table year after year.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 27, 2015, 04:53:45 PM
Now come on. We've managed to keep hold of N'Zogbia. What more do you want?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: IAmTheOneIanOlney on July 27, 2015, 05:02:57 PM
I love his attitude and that's going to be very important to the players around him. He's a very good player that needs to be reminded of that. Sherwood will encourage him to not only be a leader but be again the player he was becoming when got into the England set up. And the England defence isn't one he should be afraid of because a good season and e can certainly get into that Euro 2016 squad.
Perhaps best for Villa if non if our players get picked for England as it seems they soon get unsettled and become ex Villa players.

I thought it was interesting (and depressing) that Hodgson said Delph's place in the England setup won't be in jeopardy even if he's not playing regularly at City. You just  can't imagine it being the same if the club was Villa  - or a number of others.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villabear on August 05, 2015, 10:27:40 AM
Don't know if it's been reported but on Twitter saying he's been named captain.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VillaAlways on August 05, 2015, 10:34:51 AM
Don't know if it's been reported but on Twitter saying he's been named captain.
Yes on the OS now with Gabby as club captain.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ryu on August 05, 2015, 10:41:01 AM
I think Clark maybe deserved a good shot but I suppose he has a good attitude and is experienced. 

Good luck to him and hopefully he does us proud as a commanding CB and leader.

Edit:  Does Gabby being club captain suggest that Sherwood doesn't expect him to be a regular starter, or just that he sees him as good in the dressing room but not the best leader on the pitch?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villabear on August 05, 2015, 11:08:45 AM
I think Clark maybe deserved a good shot but I suppose he has a good attitude and is experienced. 

Good luck to him and hopefully he does us proud as a commanding CB and leader.

Edit:  Does Gabby being club captain suggest that Sherwood doesn't expect him to be a regular starter, or just that he sees him as good in the dressing room but not the best leader on the pitch?
I've never understood 'club captain'. What's the point, is it just to appease someone who isn't going to be playing a lot as Ryu asked?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on August 05, 2015, 11:12:38 AM
I think Clark maybe deserved a good shot but I suppose he has a good attitude and is experienced. 

Good luck to him and hopefully he does us proud as a commanding CB and leader.

Edit:  Does Gabby being club captain suggest that Sherwood doesn't expect him to be a regular starter, or just that he sees him as good in the dressing room but not the best leader on the pitch?
I've never understood 'club captain'. What's the point, is it just to appease someone who isn't going to be playing a lot as Ryu asked?

Nor me.

I imagine it is like being Bert Cooper in Mad Men.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villabear on August 05, 2015, 11:23:52 AM
I think Clark maybe deserved a good shot but I suppose he has a good attitude and is experienced. 

Good luck to him and hopefully he does us proud as a commanding CB and leader.

Edit:  Does Gabby being club captain suggest that Sherwood doesn't expect him to be a regular starter, or just that he sees him as good in the dressing room but not the best leader on the pitch?
I've never understood 'club captain'. What's the point, is it just to appease someone who isn't going to be playing a lot as Ryu asked?

Nor me.

I imagine it is like being Bert Cooper in Mad Men.

Bow tie and hardly ever wore shoes indoors. Not as bad as Pete Campbell though, creepy bastard.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: passitsideways on August 05, 2015, 11:27:44 AM
I think Clark maybe deserved a good shot but I suppose he has a good attitude and is experienced. 

Good luck to him and hopefully he does us proud as a commanding CB and leader.

Edit:  Does Gabby being club captain suggest that Sherwood doesn't expect him to be a regular starter, or just that he sees him as good in the dressing room but not the best leader on the pitch?
I've never understood 'club captain'. What's the point, is it just to appease someone who isn't going to be playing a lot as Ryu asked?

I guess it's a ceremonial/symbolic role for someone who resonates with the common fan, in terms of having a close bond with the club. Probably of value to people out there who do place a value on that, and see it as something weird along the lines of the club having its heart in the right place or something.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on August 05, 2015, 11:28:38 AM
I think Clark maybe deserved a good shot but I suppose he has a good attitude and is experienced. 

Good luck to him and hopefully he does us proud as a commanding CB and leader.

Edit:  Does Gabby being club captain suggest that Sherwood doesn't expect him to be a regular starter, or just that he sees him as good in the dressing room but not the best leader on the pitch?
I've never understood 'club captain'. What's the point, is it just to appease someone who isn't going to be playing a lot as Ryu asked?
Even team captain - it's not like cricket where the whole strategy for the game is in your hands.

Apart from walking out in front of everyone else and calling the toss of a coin at the start, what else do they do? If they're a good motivator or a good leader then they'll be doing that regardless of whether they have a bit of elastic round their arm.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on August 05, 2015, 11:29:24 AM
I guess it's a ceremonial/symbolic role for someone who resonates with the common fan, in terms of having a close bond with the club.

Like Doug being President Emeritus

*gets coat*
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on August 05, 2015, 11:32:57 AM
I think Clark maybe deserved a good shot but I suppose he has a good attitude and is experienced. 

Good luck to him and hopefully he does us proud as a commanding CB and leader.

Edit:  Does Gabby being club captain suggest that Sherwood doesn't expect him to be a regular starter, or just that he sees him as good in the dressing room but not the best leader on the pitch?
I've never understood 'club captain'. What's the point, is it just to appease someone who isn't going to be playing a lot as Ryu asked?
Even team captain - it's not like cricket where the whole strategy for the game is in your hands.

Apart from walking out in front of everyone else and calling the toss of a coin at the start, what else do they do? If they're a good motivator or a good leader then they'll be doing that regardless of whether they have a bit of elastic round their arm.

I love Dennis Mortimer's quote, "In that team the captain had to toss the coin and pick up the trophies."
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: joe_c on August 05, 2015, 11:45:00 AM
I think Clark maybe deserved a good shot but I suppose he has a good attitude and is experienced. 

Good luck to him and hopefully he does us proud as a commanding CB and leader.

Edit:  Does Gabby being club captain suggest that Sherwood doesn't expect him to be a regular starter, or just that he sees him as good in the dressing room but not the best leader on the pitch?
I've never understood 'club captain'. What's the point, is it just to appease someone who isn't going to be playing a lot as Ryu asked?

Nor me.

I imagine it is like being Bert Cooper in Mad Men.

Captain Emeritus.

I am of course devoting the rest of the day to imagining the characters from Mad Men as players/managers. Alex McLeish would be the secretary who runs over the English ad exec's foot with a lawn mower. Not sure who would be the guy who cut off his nipple and presented it to Peggy.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Stirchley Villain on August 05, 2015, 11:54:17 AM
I think Clark maybe deserved a good shot but I suppose he has a good attitude and is experienced. 

Good luck to him and hopefully he does us proud as a commanding CB and leader.

Edit:  Does Gabby being club captain suggest that Sherwood doesn't expect him to be a regular starter, or just that he sees him as good in the dressing room but not the best leader on the pitch?
I've never understood 'club captain'. What's the point, is it just to appease someone who isn't going to be playing a lot as Ryu asked?

Nor me.

I imagine it is like being Bert Cooper in Mad Men.

Captain Emeritus.

I am of course devoting the rest of the day to imagining the characters from Mad Men as players/managers. Alex McLeish would be the secretary who runs over the English ad exec's foot with a lawn mower. Not sure who would be the guy who cut off his nipple and presented it to Peggy.

Chris Herd?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on August 05, 2015, 12:05:14 PM
Don't know about Chris Herd, but the guy getting run over by a lawnmower is definitely Nathan Baker.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Drummond on August 05, 2015, 12:20:31 PM
I think that Richards is a good choice; Clark doesn't need the pressure.

Club captain is a role that in essence is like the father of the house in the Commons, an official title for not doing much other than having been around a long time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on August 05, 2015, 12:25:20 PM
Gabby being club captain is recognition for length of time at the club and his loyalty. He's a good person who does a lot of work with Acorns. It's more an ambassadorial role. It's a good decision by the club to do this.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on August 05, 2015, 12:26:35 PM
I think Clark maybe deserved a good shot but I suppose he has a good attitude and is experienced. 

Good luck to him and hopefully he does us proud as a commanding CB and leader.

Edit:  Does Gabby being club captain suggest that Sherwood doesn't expect him to be a regular starter, or just that he sees him as good in the dressing room but not the best leader on the pitch?
I've never understood 'club captain'. What's the point, is it just to appease someone who isn't going to be playing a lot as Ryu asked?

Nor me.

I imagine it is like being Bert Cooper in Mad Men.

Captain Emeritus.

I am of course devoting the rest of the day to imagining the characters from Mad Men as players/managers. Alex McLeish would be the secretary who runs over the English ad exec's foot with a lawn mower. Not sure who would be the guy who cut off his nipple and presented it to Peggy.

Curcic.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on August 05, 2015, 12:27:08 PM
I think that Richards is a good choice; Clark doesn't need the pressure.

Club captain is a role that in essence is like the father of the house in the Commons, an official title for not doing much other than having been around a long time.

I think they also get to be pointer-in-chief.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Drummond on August 05, 2015, 01:21:01 PM
I think that Richards is a good choice; Clark doesn't need the pressure.

Club captain is a role that in essence is like the father of the house in the Commons, an official title for not doing much other than having been around a long time.

I think they also get to be pointer-in-chief.

And club representative when the real captain doesn't go.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ryu on August 05, 2015, 02:05:16 PM
Now, this might be the 2 Bulmers that I had at lunch but I'm optimistic about Clark and Richards as a central defence pairing.

For so long we've been a Captain at the back waiting to happen that would instantly undo any good work we'd done at the other end in a game.  I'm not totally sure about Richards as a CB but I at least have hope going in to this season!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on August 05, 2015, 02:09:15 PM
I'm hoping Okore still gets plenty of game time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on August 05, 2015, 03:04:00 PM
I'm hoping Okore still gets plenty of game time.

I'm happy with him being the 'next off the line' for now but I'd really like to see another that I'm happy with as cover for Clark, I really don't trust Baker, he needs game time but this season we just can't afford to give him it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on August 05, 2015, 03:48:07 PM
I'm hoping Okore still gets plenty of game time.

I'm happy with him being the 'next off the line' for now but I'd really like to see another that I'm happy with as cover for Clark, I really don't trust Baker, he needs game time but this season we just can't afford to give him it.
Well if you go with the normal left / right orthodoxy, Okore is cover for Richards and Senderos or Baker are covering for Clark.

Where it's really gone tits up for us the last few years is where we've had Clark on the right alongside Baker, or when we've had to field at least one CB who's only half fit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gregorys Boy on August 06, 2015, 02:26:59 PM
Think I would had gone with either Clark or Guzen as captain.  Richards makes sense, but I can see him being a bit injury prone too, and it sends an odd message to other players to give the armband to a player who has just arrived.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on August 06, 2015, 02:45:46 PM
I think it sends a message of this is a fresh new era, which is fine by me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on August 06, 2015, 03:23:39 PM
Not Guzan, I can#t stand keepers as the captain, just feels wrong.

I'd have been happy with Either Clark or Richards though so this is fine by me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on August 08, 2015, 05:36:58 PM
really excellent today. Just everywhere and as they hopefully stay fit and build a relationship with Clark can become a very nice partnership. We need to protect them better from wide areas but they and Richards in particular did really well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on August 08, 2015, 06:06:47 PM
He's built like a brick shite house but is still quick with it.  I wouldn't want to get in the way when he's charging out for a clearance.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on August 08, 2015, 06:08:45 PM
There's a few times he just bullied the forward off the ball with brute strength.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on August 08, 2015, 06:33:11 PM
His legs are like tree trunks
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on August 08, 2015, 06:47:26 PM
Sort the right back position out and we have a reasonable defence. I'd like a more commanding centre back next to him but not too many clubs seem to play with big brutes up front, a la Carroll, Benteke etc, so perhaps the more mobile Clark is the right choice? I like the fact that the press like Richards and our London contingent as this keeps us in vogue, getting some good coverage. It's only the Mail and the BBC who don't seem to report favourably.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: The Man With A Stick on August 08, 2015, 09:48:32 PM
His legs are like tree trunks

They're like Shaun Teale's ankles.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on August 08, 2015, 09:55:21 PM
Sort the right back position out and we have a reasonable defence. I'd like a more commanding centre back next to him but not too many clubs seem to play with big brutes up front, a la Carroll, Benteke etc, so perhaps the more mobile Clark is the right choice? I like the fact that the press like Richards and our London contingent as this keeps us in vogue, getting some good coverage. It's only the Mail and the BBC who don't seem to report favourably.

I don't give a monkeys what the press think about us, when we won the league over Ipswich, the press were creaming over them but we won the league and that is all that matters. What I do think is that Richards and Clark have the makings of an excellent relationship.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: silhillvilla on August 08, 2015, 10:46:46 PM
First of many MOTM performances today I suspect.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on August 08, 2015, 10:58:35 PM
Surprised me to be honest but he looked at home there. Love his runs, strength and vision. I will be interested to see how he does against ManU, he is one player of ours who will have no respect for them , I hope he can spread that through the rest of the team.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OCD on August 08, 2015, 11:01:50 PM
We see so often that it takes years for a central defender to learn the job and mature. His time in Italy would have been a great education for him too. He already had the physical attributes. Now he's got the potential to become very good there. With Clark maturing too, they could be a good partnership for a good few years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on August 08, 2015, 11:03:41 PM
Surprised me to be honest but he looked at home there. Love his runs, strength and vision. I will be interested to see how he does against ManU, he is one player of ours who will have no respect for them , I hope he can spread that through the rest of the team.

He seems to be a positive person from a few conversations heard and reckon he will be a massive asset
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: warleyboy on August 09, 2015, 12:19:18 AM
After the last few years of shite, it would be great if we could have a constant pairing for the whole season.
Hoping Micah and Clark have an injury free season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ciggiesnbeer on August 09, 2015, 01:36:56 AM
Surprised me to be honest but he looked at home there. Love his runs, strength and vision. I will be interested to see how he does against ManU, he is one player of ours who will have no respect for them , I hope he can spread that through the rest of the team.

He seems to be a positive person from a few conversations heard and reckon he will be a massive asset


Yeah going by his interviews he really seems very positive. Good to see.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on August 09, 2015, 01:42:48 AM
He seemed to be in charge today, He is a defender who is a top scoop
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on August 09, 2015, 01:43:14 AM
The thing for Richards is that at 27 if he performs every week there are very, very few better defenders out there. What he needs to do though is make sure he does not put in a mistake a game that costs us a goal, which he very nearly did in the first half today. Overall though the 2 of them looked to have a lot of potential, but we need back up for them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on August 09, 2015, 01:53:44 AM
Ozzyjim, he made one error as you have quite rightly pointed out. Clark made a massive error as well and Guzan sorted that, I have to say Richards v Vlaar is no question to me
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: passitsideways on August 09, 2015, 03:47:04 AM
Apart from his defending which was solid, I did like his willingness to surge forward with the ball to get out of pressure whenever the attacker overcommitted - and of course, he has the burst of pace in him necessary to do that successfully. Okore can sort of do it but our other CBs are a bit sluggish for that, which makes playing it out of the back a little more difficult.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: The Left Side on August 09, 2015, 04:01:51 AM
I loved his reaction to the Villa goal today, he loves us me thinks.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt Collins on August 09, 2015, 07:36:33 AM
Seemed to do really well and it's great to have his physicality and mentality back there

All three Bournemouth chances did come from villa mistakes though (Richards, Clark, and I forget the third). Let's hope we can cut that out
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ryu on August 09, 2015, 03:09:53 PM
With his power, pace and aggression forwards are not going to get an easy ride against us this season. Throw in Clark who isn't as powerful but these days seems more than willing to cut players in half and we might have quite an intimidating pairing at the back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: gervilla on August 09, 2015, 06:39:06 PM
Fingers crossed both Richards and Clark get a good run together. They looked good yesterday. Our CB pairings chopped and changed too much last season due to injuries.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: avfcpg on August 09, 2015, 06:43:35 PM
Seemed to do really well and it's great to have his physicality and mentality back there

All three Bournemouth chances did come from villa mistakes though (Richards, Clark, and I forget the third). Let's hope we can cut that out

I said the same...all 3 chances were from losing the ball when maybe overplaying at the back. Good to see them confident enough to do it though and they played it out well at times...sometimes Row Z will do though. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt Collins on August 09, 2015, 09:29:30 PM
I didn't think they were overplaying? Wasn't it Richards Mis controlling, Clark trying to play offside, Clark needlessly fouling on the half way line?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on August 09, 2015, 10:02:33 PM
One thing that did strike me is how easily I can see us switching to 3-5-2 at some points this season and using Amavi and Bacuna as deep wingers more than defensive players as they are both perfect wing backs, while Okore, Richards and Clark are all comfortable enough on the ball to play in a 3 and step out. So is Lescott, should that move happen before the end of the window.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on November 22, 2015, 07:56:16 PM
I have been less impressed with Richards of late.  I starting to wonder whether he is the right player to be building the defence around and leading the team.

I am probably wrong but he looks a loner on the pitch and aloof from the situation going on around him.  Is his attitude right?  Has Sherwood going affected him?  Does he have what it takes to play central defence?

I have started to notice mistakes and poor play creeping into his game.  A poster mentioned it in the match thread when Lukaku scored with his header, both players went to ground and whereas the Everton player stepped backwards into space, Richards chased the ball out towards the player on the bye-line, leaving Lukaku completely unmarked.

I am not sure that he works well with Hutton.  There seems to be a lack of communication between them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Richard on November 22, 2015, 08:00:11 PM
Man City got rid for reasons other than injuries, they recognised he was not quite up to it

Then again I really think he'd make a better right back
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on November 22, 2015, 09:17:51 PM
The Hutton/Richards axis is really poor, the Clark/Richardson is worse. Added to that Richards/Clark has never convinced really, Richards got motm against City but thought he was at fault for the three chances City missed. Behind them Guzan is crap while Lescott isnt a replacement option

In summary, there is a reason we are bottom of the league.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on November 22, 2015, 09:23:57 PM
He's not a centre back. Strikers pull off him too easily.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on November 22, 2015, 09:27:52 PM
I have never rated Richards as a centre half and yesterday to make things worse Clark had a terrible game.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: peter w on November 22, 2015, 09:39:54 PM
So, would people re-sign Vlaar on a short-term contract?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: KevinGage on November 22, 2015, 09:46:34 PM
Richards is a funny one.

He does so many things well in a game, could almost be classed as a leader in some respects (or the nearest thing we currently have to one).  In a good side, having a centre half who can surge up the field as well as he can to join in with the play would be a huge asset.

And yet for many of the goals we have conceded, or even chances ceced to the opposition, he is often directly responsible.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on November 22, 2015, 10:16:05 PM
So, would people re-sign Vlaar on a short-term contract?

Yes. I was never a fan of his but compared to Lescott he's like the second coming of Paul McGrath.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on November 22, 2015, 10:27:22 PM
Has Vlaar said anything since leaving Villa?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on November 22, 2015, 10:32:23 PM
Richards is big and physical but switches off and doesn't get class see enough in the box way too often. Has done ok at centre back but, given the choice, I'd be looking to sign at least one centre back in January and moving him to right back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: peter w on November 22, 2015, 10:33:01 PM
Has Vlaar said anything since leaving Villa?

Ouch.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on November 22, 2015, 10:34:07 PM
He's not a centre back. Strikers pull off him too easily.

Strikers don't need to, Richards goes AWOL every time the opposition attack. He's like a 7 year old in the playground, chasing the ball where ever it may be. He's never going to be a decent centre half. What was worrying yesterday was Clark seems to have started copying him too though that may have been down to our pathetic first half defensive midfield.

Bring Jores back to replace Richards and if he is no better (that would be really difficult), buy a proper right sided centre half on the 1st of January. We need leadership too so if we can get that into the bargain, so much the better.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on November 23, 2015, 12:12:51 AM
There's a reason why his best / most successful days have been as a right back and not a centreback.

The sooner Okore is fit enough to play and shove Richards out to right back we'll be a lot more robust at the back in more ways than one.

(Not so much as a whisper in the Danish media as to how close Okore is to a comeback.)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on November 23, 2015, 12:19:47 PM
He'll be fine in his rightful position of right back
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on November 23, 2015, 12:27:48 PM
I think we'll look back at the signing of Richards as a huge mistake unless we push him to right back.

To pander to a player by agreeing to let him play in a certain position and give him the captaincy (No idea if this was also promised, just a guess) is a huge mistake.
Like Stephen Ireland, he's actually only had one good season.



Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on November 23, 2015, 01:33:00 PM
I think Richards has been a great buy. We'd have lost games by a lot more goals had it not been for him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on November 23, 2015, 01:40:37 PM
Has Vlaar said anything since leaving Villa?

Ouch.

Where's the physio
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on November 23, 2015, 01:44:59 PM
I think Richards has been a great buy. We'd have lost games by a lot more goals had it not been for him.

Given he was on a free, I'd agree that he's been excellent value for money :).

Seriously, he's been OK from what I've seen but prone to some expensive bouts of ball watching where he gets caught way out of position, which given he's playing alongside either Clark or Lescott, neither of whom could be described as pacey,is a bit unfortunate as it means he's got to cover his own f¤¤k ups.

I'd feel a lot more confident with him at right back and Okore inside him. Amavi's injury is a real shame.  I think a back four of Richards-Okore- Clark-Amavi would have done alright.  Certainly enough pace to allow us to push 10 yards further up the pitch against most teams.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on November 23, 2015, 01:52:03 PM
I thought Amavi was dog shit as a defender and would be much better suited playing as a left sided midfielder with a more traditionally hutton type left back behind him
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Goldie.7 on November 24, 2015, 02:58:51 AM
I think Richards has been a great buy. We'd have lost games by a lot more goals had it not been for him.

If we had actually bought someone half decent that wasn't as poor as him, we might not have lost as many either.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: itbrvilla on November 24, 2015, 05:42:55 AM
I think Richards has been a great buy. We'd have lost games by a lot more goals had it not been for him.

If with had actually bought someone half decent that wasn't as poor as him, we might not have lost as many either.
I agree
 Not convinced.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on November 24, 2015, 06:01:16 AM
I think Richards is ok, the problem is the weak midfield in front of him. Okore would add more strength, but where is he?? I thought he was fit now after knee surgery....
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Goldie.7 on November 24, 2015, 06:38:16 AM
I think Richards is ok, the problem is the weak midfield in front of him. Okore would add more strength, but where is he?? I thought he was fit now after knee surgery....

Okore needs a long run in the team, he's only started something like 20 odd league games since he signed and one of them was the St Mary's horror show. Is he another injury prone CB? I hope not.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mister E on November 24, 2015, 07:40:29 AM
I think Richards is ok, the problem is the weak midfield in front of him. Okore would add more strength, but where is he?? I thought he was fit now after knee surgery....

Okore needs a long run in the team, he's only started something like 20 odd league games since he signed and one of them was the St Mary's horror show. Is he another injury prone CB? I hope not.
Well, either "yes" or he has a substance-abuse problem, or some suchlike.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on November 24, 2015, 07:52:49 AM
I think Richards is ok, the problem is the weak midfield in front of him. Okore would add more strength, but where is he?? I thought he was fit now after knee surgery....

Okore needs a long run in the team, he's only started something like 20 odd league games since he signed and one of them was the St Mary's horror show. Is he another injury prone CB? I hope not.
Well, either "yes" or he has a substance-abuse problem, or some suchlike.

okore is a strange one and not much from the club in the past 3 weeks

he played a couple of games before his bad injury and based on what i have seen since he has been mediocre and nothing more. im pinning no hopes on him
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on November 24, 2015, 12:24:13 PM
Richards has had more good performances than bad ones since he joined, MOTM a few times also

the whole team is low on confidence I saw the Man City defence look like the keystone cops on Saturday so it can happen to the best, but I wouldn't be dropping him in a hurry at the moment he is a battler which we need
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on November 26, 2015, 11:39:39 PM
Finally someone saying it as it is.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/12019414/Micah-Richards-Too-many-Aston-Villa-players-are-not-willing-to-run-the-extra-yard.html
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on November 27, 2015, 04:22:18 AM
Hmmmm, not sure how that article is going to help.
Seems to me there are some real divisions within the club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on November 27, 2015, 04:37:27 AM
I very much imagine Remi Garde will be having words with him about that article. Counter productive to say the least from a player who has shown some massive shortcomings in his games for us, not least of all fighting in the tunnel and getting a completely unnecessary ban.  Needs to get himself sorted out before he can point the finger at his team mates.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on November 27, 2015, 04:47:13 AM
From the outside looking in it just seems like our dressing room is horribly divided.  Our culture sounds appalling for a PL outfit.

First the unhelpful comments from Sherwood about the French players, that cretin Wilkins telling the world we weren't good enough to stay up and now Richards questioning certain players desire.  I suspect it may be true but why not just keep your mouth shut. 

Nothing good will come of going to the national press with it.




Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ron Manager on November 27, 2015, 05:29:23 AM
I like a player who tells it as it is and he certainly has.If Tim Sherwood could not get his ideas over to the French players that is the clubs fault and it should have been addressed. Richards is not happy and does not disguise it
His mate Lescott being useless cannot help his frame of mind.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tuscans on November 27, 2015, 05:35:58 AM
The Micah interview from the telegraph....

Micah Richards is sitting in a dressing room at Aston Villa’s training ground and pulling no punches on the season so far. He always knew his first season back in the Premier League would be difficult, but this has been an eye-opening experience that even he cannot have envisaged when he bid farewell to Florence.

Tim Sherwood, the manager who signed him, was sacked in October after 10 games and Villa are bottom of the table under Rémi Garde, with fears growing that this could be the season they are relegated. Last weekend at Everton, Villa produced arguably their worst performance of the campaign in losing 4-0, with Richards admitting that an 8-0 defeat would have been a fair reflection.
And ahead of Saturday’s huge game against Watford, the time has come for a few home truths from the captain, in a brutally honest assessment of the club’s struggles.


“I’m not going to sugarcoat it, we’ve got too many nice players and we’re too easy to play against,” he said. “Everybody seems to be – I wouldn’t say passing the blame – but they don’t want to run that extra mile and take responsibility. I’m not big on stats but I think we’ve run the least in the Premier League – if you’re not prepared to run the extra yard for your team-mate then obviously you’re going to concede chances.
“When we’ve got the ball we’re fine but defensively we’re too nice and it’s too easy to get past us. We haven’t got the players who have the mentality to not lose the game.
“There’s a few good players in the team and they’re probably thinking, ‘If Villa get relegated I’ll get a move in the summer’ – but it doesn’t work like that any more. They’ve got a massive chance at Villa, a club with great tradition and great facilities, and we need to realise the situation we’re in now.


“People said we’d always struggle when [Fabian] Delph and [Christian] Benteke went, but that’s gone now. Get that out of your head. Go and show that you’re the next Benteke and we don’t need them. That’s the attitude I have.”
How Garde could do with more players like Richards, who has led by example for much of the season and grasped what is at stake. Richards could have signed for a number of other Premier League clubs this summer after his contract at Manchester City expired. He had talks with West Ham United and Sunderland, but Sherwood’s sales pitch swung him to Villa, despite five years of the club battling against relegation.
But soon after the defender’s arrival, Delph jumped ship to join Richards' former club City, barely a week after insisting he would stay, while talismanic striker Benteke moved to Liverpool for £32.5million. Villa signed 12 players over the summer, with many of the new recruits coming from Ligue 1 in France, yet there is already huge pressure on chairman Randy Lerner to spend in January to save their season. When Richards is asked if Premier League experience is lacking, his response is admirably honest again. “Yeah, I think it is. You need experience in the Premier League and the players that will go over and beyond for you.


“I don’t want to blame anything on the new players. When I went to Italy [he spent a season on loan at Fiorentina] I wasn’t expecting to be the best player there. But we’ve had people come from France, Spain and the Championship and they need time.
“It’s not about if they’re not good enough, they need time to adapt and we haven’t got that now. The new manager has come in and hopefully he can get the best out of the French players, because there were certain things Tim was trying to get across that they didn’t understand because of the language barrier.”
Now 27, Richards has an abundance of experience at the top level of English football, ever since his star-is-born performance for City at Villa Park in a 2006 FA Cup tie. He flashes that trademark smile when you remind him of that game, when he scored a dramatic equaliser, ran into the crowd to celebrate and then dropped the F-bomb in a live post-match interview with Garth Crooks.


He has since lifted a Premier League title and the FA Cup under Roberto Mancini at City, made 13 appearances for England and played at the London Olympics in 2012. Relegation battles are nothing new, however.
“People think because I was at City that I’ve only won leagues and cups, but I was there when we were struggling. They don’t understand that I’ve been through this before when I was younger, so I know what it takes to get out of it. It’s just whether the other players understand what we’re in, do you know what I mean?”
Richards talks fondly of that season at Fiorentina, even though he made only seven league starts. He embraced life in Italy, and could have stayed in Serie A, but the lure of returning to the Premier League was always there.
“It was weird at Fiorentina, because I wouldn’t sign a contract and commit, so they played somebody else. But I definitely think it was still a good move and living in Florence was probably one of the best times of my life,” he said. “The football isn’t anywhere near the Premier League, though. There’s a lot of good technical players but it’s a little bit slower and boring to watch. This is more suited to me.

Despite their travails, Richards 'has enjoyed every single minute' at Villa
“Coming here was a massive relief for me and, to be honest, apart from the situation we’re in, I’ve enjoyed every single minute. I knew this wasn’t going to be easy but I still didn’t think it would be this tough.”
After two games in charge, Garde is acutely aware of the task ahead and Villa will face Watford five points adrift of 17th-placed Newcastle. There have also been further unpalatable headlines this week after footage emerged of Jack Grealish partying in a Manchester nightclub after last weekend’s defeat at Everton. Richards is determined to lead a response after that nightmare.
“We came up against an amazing team and they capitalised on all our weaknesses. It was lucky to be 4-0, it should have been 8-0, to be honest. It was like a training game for them. I think we had one shot all afternoon. Now we’ve got a massive game against Watford and if we win we can cut the gap on the teams above us. It’s not over for us, just look at Leicester last season.
“I like a challenge and if we get out of this we will have done very well. We have to stop the talking and just do it.”
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on November 27, 2015, 07:35:30 AM
Quote from: Micah Richards
"We have to stop the talking and just do it.”

I wonder if he appreciates the irony that he is pretty much the only player who seems to be giving lengthy interviews on the subject at the moment.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on November 27, 2015, 08:16:17 AM
Quote from: Micah Richards
"We have to stop the talking and just do it.”

I wonder if he appreciates the irony that he is pretty much the only player who seems to be giving lengthy interviews on the subject at the moment.

I agree. Captain motormouth. Yes he's arguably our best defender, the best of a bad bunch, but I wonder if Tim is still feeding him shit from behind the scenes. Keep it shut Micah and start proving it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on November 27, 2015, 08:17:47 AM
I don't think he's said too much wrong in that interview, we all know we're too nice a team and easy to play against. That said, maybe laying off any more interviews and getting on with it would probably be best for now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on November 27, 2015, 09:03:27 AM
I think it absolutely essential that criticism of team mates is done behind closed doors. What earthly good can come of public displays of disunity?  Unless of course the intention is to show support for Sherwood and if that were the case Remi Garde is going to take an even dimmer view of the article.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on November 27, 2015, 09:04:37 AM
I don't like how he's thrown the French players under the bus there. Couldn't understand what Dim is trying to get across? We signed them knowing they were French so we've got to help them understand, not give up on them after 7 or 8 games the fucking idiots. I can't imagine it would have been anything more than ''facking passion and balls, where's the facking passion and balls!!''
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on November 27, 2015, 09:06:04 AM
Richards is no centre back and certainly no captain of Villa either. He'll be one of the first ****** throwing his toys out of the pram when we go down for a transfer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on November 27, 2015, 09:19:49 AM
Richards is no centre back and certainly no captain of Villa either. He'll be one of the first c***s throwing his toys out of the pram when we go down for a transfer.

This

He has been average at best and when we go a goal behind at VP is he rolling his sleeves up and trying to gee everyone up?

is he fuck
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: itbrvilla on November 27, 2015, 09:25:26 AM
He a prick, very average and a twat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on November 27, 2015, 09:40:45 AM
The more I read that article the more it comes across as pay back for being told to play at right back.

MR). I don't want to play right back.
RG).  You will play wherever I want you to play.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on November 27, 2015, 09:46:57 AM
Have I missed something? When has he played at right back for us?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on November 27, 2015, 09:53:42 AM
Did I say he had played right back?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on November 27, 2015, 10:00:06 AM
Did I say he had played right back?

Well, you're kind of suggesting that he's been told to play there without much proof of it. You may be right, but let's see if it actually happens before we accuse him of throwing his toys out the pram.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villasjf on November 27, 2015, 10:00:47 AM
I see he puts his arms behind his back when in our penalty box presumably so as not to give away a penalty if the ball hits his arms. By doing this he loses his balance easily and falls over easily.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Marlon's Hairy Wood on November 27, 2015, 10:05:09 AM
I can see why people wouldn't be a fan of him coming out like this, but to be honest nothing else happens to be working at the moment, so maybe public shaming will gee them up a bit

I like Richards and I like the way he clearly gives a fuck about us. Everyone's always moaning about players who are the complete opposite of him (N'Zogbia, Gabby etc), so it's refreshing to see someone who actually does have passion in him

At the end of the day, if every player in our squad had his mentality and drive on the pitch to go with their individual talents then we wouldn't be in the relegation zone.

At the moment him and Amavi are our player of the seasons by a country mile, i'm fed up of seeing him having to be the one driving through the middle to try and start an attack because the rest of the squad have been unable to, hes a centre back for f*ck sake.

I also felt for him against Everton, clearly exasperated by the hollow centre midfield we had in Westwood and Gueye, leaving both him and Clark completely exposed.

He probably shouldn't have come out like this in public, but I won't be criticising him for it, these players obviously need a kick up the arse and the internal geeing up is obviously not working.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Marlon's Hairy Wood on November 27, 2015, 10:09:05 AM
The more I read that article the more it comes across as pay back for being told to play at right back.

MR). I don't want to play right back.
RG).  You will play wherever I want you to play.


Seems a strange thing to say. An attitude problem has been completely fabricated on the basis he prefers to play centre back and is being played there. You've no idea what Garde or Richards have said or not said. So, now he's come out and said what all the fans have been thinking themselves, it's suddenly some sort of throwing the toys out of the pram because he's been asked to switch position? okay then..
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on November 27, 2015, 10:09:28 AM
My little snippet of fictional dialogue between Micah Richards and Remi Garde is a condensed imaginary snapshot of an ongoing and probably heated discussion at Villa Park about whether a proven player of great ability is being used to the team's best advantage. That such a debate is going on is not in question.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on November 27, 2015, 10:13:22 AM
I have not "fabricated an attitude problem".  My words were I don't want to play right back.
What I am doing is speaking up for the team mates he has slated in a national newspaper
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Marlon's Hairy Wood on November 27, 2015, 10:13:50 AM
My little snippet of fictional dialogue between Micah Richards and Remi Garde is a condensed imaginary snapshot of an ongoing and probably heated discussion at Villa Park about whether a proven player of great ability is being used to the team's best advantage. That such a debate is going on is not in question.

Well up until this weekend Okore hasn't been fit enough to play, neither has Ilori.

Everyone suggesting Richards at right back is the best team, has also had one of those two at centre back.

Unless you'd prefer to have a centre back partnership of two left footers in Lescott and Clark, at the expense of Hutton playing at right back, then it's been an unnecessary debate
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on November 27, 2015, 10:39:47 AM
I am not convinced with Richards at centre back, and we do not look as solid there as we did with Clark and Okore last season. Don't want him played at right back though as Hutton has been one of our best players and doesn't deserve dropping.

I am getting tired of seeing Richards gobbing off in the press at every opportunity. It started with him recommending Man City to Delph, and rarely does his press interaction ever seem to be putting Villa's best interests first. He should not be slagging his team mates in public. I don't want him to remain as captain.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on November 27, 2015, 10:49:18 AM
I am not convinced with Richards at centre back...Don't want him played at right back though as Hutton has been one of our best players and doesn't deserve dropping...
So what would you do with him?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on November 27, 2015, 10:56:20 AM
Personally I think Hutton is shite
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on November 27, 2015, 11:01:14 AM
Just on 5Live that he's done an interview with Pat Murphy and we can all enjoy watching it when it's aired tomorrow.
The snippet they played basically had Richards saying we were shite/lucky against ManCi£y, our players have no belief in their own ability and we are in deep shit.
Lovely!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on November 27, 2015, 11:18:12 AM
He's just the leader we need, a deep mistrust of foreigner players, error prone and mourning the departure of a terrible manager.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on November 27, 2015, 11:37:23 AM
Just on 5Live that he's done an interview with Pat Murphy and we can all enjoy watching it when it's aired tomorrow.
The snippet they played basically had Richards saying we were shite/lucky against ManCi£y, our players have no belief in their own ability and we are in deep shit.
Lovely!
Sorry, it's on 5Live tonight.
Won't make very good viewing on the wireless!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on November 27, 2015, 11:44:19 AM
Personally I think Hutton is shite

You're entitled to your opinion of course.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on November 27, 2015, 11:45:49 AM
Personally I think Hutton is shite

You're entitled to your opinion of course.

I don't think he's very good, either, if you compare him to the rest of the league, but if you compare him to some of the dross in our side, he's easily good enough.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on November 27, 2015, 11:54:22 AM
Personally I think Hutton is shite

You're entitled to your opinion of course.

I don't think he's very good, either, if you compare him to the rest of the league, but if you compare him to some of the dross in our side, he's easily good enough.

It just shows you that not everyone loves a trier. He's exactly the type of player you can trust to apply himself to the very best of his ability and drag us out of this situation. An anti-Jack if you will.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Diablo on November 27, 2015, 11:57:18 AM
It will be interesting to see how Remi Garde interprets this interview. Personally I think it is really unhelpful and unprofessional from our current club captain given the circumstances and timing. To focus on our result against Man City (table leaders) as just lucky rather than well deserved through hard work is extremely negative. Compare that attitude and mind set to the Carlos Sanchez interview? I know who's I prefer. Link it to his banning following the Swansea game I don't think he is captain material. I would like to be proven wrong long term but I wouldn't be surprised if this costs him his position as captain.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on November 27, 2015, 12:04:24 PM
In our time of need we do seem to be imploding rather badly.

Remi must wonder what he's let himself in for.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on November 27, 2015, 12:09:47 PM
It will be interesting to see how Remi Garde interprets this interview. Personally I think it is really unhelpful and unprofessional from our current club captain given the circumstances and timing. To focus on our result against Man City (table leaders) as just lucky rather than well deserved through hard work is extremely negative. Compare that attitude and mind set to the Carlos Sanchez interview? I know who's I prefer. Link it to his banning following the Swansea game I don't think he is captain material. I would like to be proven wrong long term but I wouldn't be surprised if this costs him his position as captain.

I think that is the 2nd Strike for Richards after the Hope He (Garde) Makes Speak Them Speak English comment. Either he is utterly Thick, Has No Self Awareness or a mixture of both.

As others stated it may be that Garde wants him to go back to his initial position Right Back - where he was better as others have stated - which is probably what Sherwood told him wouldn't be the case.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on November 27, 2015, 12:19:53 PM
It sounds a bit like 'working his ticket' to me
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CJ on November 27, 2015, 12:29:35 PM
Can't say I disagree with a single word he's said tbh - after all it's only what we're all saying. Putting it in the public domain via the media as team captain however is a different matter, and smacks of getting his excuses in early in a Sherwood-stylee ready to be off if we drop.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on November 27, 2015, 12:34:35 PM
Apologies if this has been posted but yhis interview he's done has really rubbed me the wrong way. Why be so publically vocal in putting down your own team mates? Idiot. I'd strip him of the captaincy.

Edit: Sorry it had been posted.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on November 27, 2015, 12:40:00 PM
Just on 5Live that he's done an interview with Pat Murphy and we can all enjoy watching it when it's aired tomorrow.
The snippet they played basically had Richards saying we were shite/lucky against ManCi£y, our players have no belief in their own ability and we are in deep shit.
Lovely!
Sorry, it's on 5Live tonight.
Won't make very good viewing on the wireless!

I have no doubt Richards has a winners attitude and hates losing, I like that kind of player. What I don't like with him is he doesn't really care about us, where is the galvanising captains attitude? If a captain sense's players are down I want one to pick them up, if a captain senses the new guys aren't intergrating well then I want a captain that helps them cross the divide. I think Micah could be a leader but not for us, he doesn't care about Aston Villa really I feel. If we aren't good enough I want a captain who rallys everyone he can to put in some extra work. Basically I'd love a captain who doesn't want to go down with the ship because he has every intention of staying loyal to his ship. Micah is the opposite, over the course of the season, if things stay as bad as they are, I expect more public comments and for him to attempt a Dim Tim and distance himself from this mess and line himself up for a rat leaving the sinking ship manoeuvre in the summer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on November 27, 2015, 12:42:22 PM
I think it is time to circle the wagons and go into siege mentality. No more player interviews other than controlled ones through the club media.

There should be two people speaking for the club, Garde and Fox.

The media smells blood and are digging the knife in whatever way they can.  In this situation, what happens at Chelsea, only the manager speaks. We should take on the same approach and try and build a unified team spirit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on November 27, 2015, 12:43:39 PM
In our time of need we do seem to be imploding rather badly.

Remi must wonder what he's let himself in for.

The root causes of the problems will all rise to the surface. A club can't be continually as bad as we have been without a lot of bad stuff behind the scenes that we never get to hear about. Players lacking professionalism and Captains airing dirty linen in public doesn't surprise me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on November 27, 2015, 01:00:08 PM
Spit the gum out, shut your mouth, control yourself and be a proper captain.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on November 27, 2015, 01:06:51 PM
I would not be so annoyed with his back paging if he really was "telling it how it is" and "saying what the fans are saying" but he is not.  If he was doing that he would have the courage to say "Gabby is too fat" or "Richardson can't tackle" or "Grealish does not work hard enough" or "Guzan's judgement is terrible" or "Lescott is not up to it any more". Instead he makes blanket accusations which the media present as Sherwoodisms. Villa are in the cart because they bought useless foreign Money ball players who don't give a shit for the club.

This is simply untrue. The worst contributors to our Captain are the old guard.  The new, so called Moneyball players have pulled up no trees but their shortcomings have been as nothing compared to Gabby, Westwood, Guzan, Richardson, N'Zogbia, Clark and Bacuna, but the Richards broadsides will reverberate around Sherwoodland as vindication of him and blame on anybody and everybody else at the club. Sherwood will go into folklore as a victim.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on November 27, 2015, 01:12:37 PM
I would not be so annoyed with his back paging if he really was "telling it how it is" and "saying what the fans are saying" but he is not.  If he was doing that he would have the courage to say "Gabby is too fat" or "Richardson can't tackle" or "Grealish does not work hard enough" or "Guzan's judgement is terrible" or "Lescott is not up to it any more". Instead he makes blanket accusations which the media present as Sherwoodisms. Villa are in the cart because they bought useless foreign Money ball players who don't give a shit for the club.

This is simply untrue. The worst contributors to our Captain are the old guard.  The new, so called Moneyball players have pulled up no trees but their shortcomings have been as nothing compared to Gabby, Westwood, Guzan, Richardson, N'Zogbia, Clark and Bacuna, but the Richards broadsides will reverberate around Sherwoodland as vindication of him and blame on anybody and everybody else at the club. Sherwood will go into folklore as a victim.

I think singling players out would have been a dreadful thing to do personally and probably would have been worse than what he'd actually said.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on November 27, 2015, 01:19:04 PM
Now that he's said what he's said he better start showing it on he pitch. Being a leader isn't just about what you say, it is how you say it, and how you act. I don't have an issue with the article of it has the overall desired affect. I would hope he ran it by the club before giving it. The last thing we need is the captain going rogue.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on November 27, 2015, 02:00:31 PM
Clampy, I am not advocating him singling out players to blame. I don't think claims made on his behalf that he is "only telling it how it is" and "saying what the fans are saying" can hold up without naming names. If he can't/won't say who he holds responsible he should say nothing.  Generalised attacks on the players serve only to put the media into a feeding frenzy and make Remi Garde's job even harder.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ron Manager on November 27, 2015, 02:17:51 PM
Do thepayig staff have to get permission from the club before giving interviews to the press?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Darth Villa on November 27, 2015, 02:43:28 PM
He's no captain and an idiot to boot. He may have a winning mentality that some of our other players are badly missing but he plays for himself not the team and from what I've seen of him at CB he can't organise a back line. There's no need for him to air his opinions on his team mates in the media. If he has a problem with some of them then maybe he should try sorting it out privately and build up some rapport and moral with his team mates like a decent captain would.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on November 27, 2015, 03:01:17 PM
He's no captain and an idiot to boot. He may have a winning mentality that some of our other players are badly missing but he plays for himself not the team and from what I've seen of him at CB he can't organise a back line. There's no need for him to air his opinions on his team mates in the media. If he has a problem with some of them then maybe he should try sorting it out privately and build up some rapport and moral with his team mates like a decent captain would.

Not seen you before Darth, but that is very well put. Clichéd to say but it is a team game and they need some camaraderie.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Diablo on November 27, 2015, 03:20:47 PM
It sounds a bit like 'working his ticket' to me

Sadly you may well be right.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Darth Villa on November 27, 2015, 03:35:21 PM
He's no captain and an idiot to boot. He may have a winning mentality that some of our other players are badly missing but he plays for himself not the team and from what I've seen of him at CB he can't organise a back line. There's no need for him to air his opinions on his team mates in the media. If he has a problem with some of them then maybe he should try sorting it out privately and build up some rapport and moral with his team mates like a decent captain would.

Not seen you before Darth, but that is very well put. Clichéd to say but it is a team game and they need some camaraderie.


Cheers Malandro, been lurking here for years... I only rear my head in times of turmoil, a bit like an web based version of the Arthurian legend.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: glinch on November 27, 2015, 03:58:35 PM
He's no captain and an idiot to boot. He may have a winning mentality that some of our other players are badly missing but he plays for himself not the team and from what I've seen of him at CB he can't organise a back line. There's no need for him to air his opinions on his team mates in the media. If he has a problem with some of them then maybe he should try sorting it out privately and build up some rapport and moral with his team mates like a decent captain would.

Not seen you before Darth, but that is very well put. Clichéd to say but it is a team game and they need some camaraderie.


Cheers Malandro, been lurking here for years... I only rear my head in times of turmoil, a bit like an web based version of the Arthurian legend.

I might not go as far as calling him an idiot, but agree with everything else! Seems to have a pretty lofty opinion of himself, needs to worry about doing his own job right first. Wasn't sure why he was made captain in the first place either. Time to keep your mouth shut and do the business on the pitch.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on November 27, 2015, 04:03:36 PM
So what would you do with him?

Name a new captain, and drop him to the bench when Okore is fit.

As an aside I wish we had given Senderos a squad number, he is a better centre back than both Richards and Lescott.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on November 27, 2015, 04:11:28 PM
Should imagine Sherwood used the captaincy thing as a bit of a carrot to get him to sign...."We think you're brilliant you can play where you like, you're obviously a born leader Micah, so if you fancy the arm-band mate, it's yours. One of those French blokes will wash yer motor, you can be first in the bath and there's a couple of extra notes for you at the end of the week."
Sorted.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on November 27, 2015, 04:11:33 PM
So what would you do with him?

Name a new captain, and drop him to the bench when Okore is fit.

As an aside I wish we had given Senderos a squad number, he is a better centre back than both Richards and Lescott.

I may not be happy with His attitude but he's one of the best players we have, I wouldn't be benching him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on November 27, 2015, 04:27:19 PM
I may not be happy with His attitude but he's one of the best players we have, I wouldn't be benching him.

Clark and Okore had a decent partnership last season when they had a run in the team together. Better than any pairing Richards has been in this season. It's his poor positional awareness that is the problem, it would less of a problem at right back, but Hutton is doing OK there.

Of course he might look better in a back three, but not sure we have the midfield options for that system.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on November 27, 2015, 04:36:03 PM
So what would you do with him?

Name a new captain, and drop him to the bench when Okore is fit.
Surely if you have no faith in him at Centre Back or Right Back that means you wouldn't use him as a substitute doesn't it?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on November 27, 2015, 04:43:16 PM
Surely if you have no faith in him at Centre Back or Right Back that means you wouldn't use him as a substitute doesn't it?

It's not that I have no faith in him as a player, so much as I think we have a better right back (Hutton), and our best centre back pairing is Clark and Okore (when fit). He is more than good enough to be on the bench.

I don't have any faith in him as a captain though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: bob on November 27, 2015, 05:24:52 PM
He's clearly thick as fuck
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Diablo on November 27, 2015, 09:34:28 PM
So what would you do with him?

Name a new captain, and drop him to the bench when Okore is fit.

As an aside I wish we had given Senderos a squad number, he is a better centre back than both Richards and Lescott.

Leading by example Sanchez would be a better captain (in my opinion).

Yeah Senderos played well when he was fit. Hopefully we can name him in the squad in Jan if he's fit etc and you can do that sort of malarky.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 27, 2015, 09:54:54 PM
I cannot believe even Alan Huttons mum  would suggest he is a better right back than Richards. The man is a winner, no wonder he is pist off and not sure why he is getting pelters. He was crap at Everton, but I would say he is one of the few players who seems to care. He was only saying what many of us have been saying
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on November 27, 2015, 10:20:03 PM
That is the beef though VFL.  He is not saying what we are saying. He is saying what Sherwood was saying. He is slagging off the team of which he is captain. The atmosphere in the dressing room tomorrow will be exactly the opposite of what it should be and Richard's comments to a national newspaper and R5L will be substantially to blame.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on November 27, 2015, 10:30:47 PM
That is the beef though VFL.  He is not saying what we are saying. He is saying what Sherwood was saying. He is slagging off the team of which he is captain. The atmosphere in the dressing room tomorrow will be exactly the opposite of what it should be and Richard's comments to a national newspaper and R5L will be substantially to blame.

I'm at all siding with him here though it might appear I am. But maybe, what he's saying is correct. I don't agree in how he has delivered the message as it might backfire on him. But we are too nice, we do need a kick up the arse, because truthfully we have been pushovers for a long time. I'm not saying it has anything to do with us signing foreign players, and a bit of English would fix it, because the English or British lads have been just as soft. But as a club we've been everyone's whipping boys for too long. Whether this has the desired affect remains to be seen but I don't necessarily disagree with the underlying message he is delivering.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on November 27, 2015, 11:00:21 PM
These are times of crisis. It is simply not the time for airing grievances via the media. I am sorely tempted to consider the view of my valued friend Bob that Richards is simply thick.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on November 27, 2015, 11:21:52 PM
I hate to think what stripping him of the captaincy would do to him and ultimately us.
We just don't have a "leader" in the 25 man squad. Sure, we have players who we think could do it but we don't have a leader
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: West Derby Villan on November 27, 2015, 11:42:02 PM
Swapping and changing players has been our problem for the last few seasons. No one feels secure in their position and understanding with team mates only comes with a settled line up. We rode our luck against Man Citeh and the future was brighter, we got roasted by a good blue scouse and we are back to square one. Both of these matches were never win-able on our recent form but I think tomorrow is a pointer. I believe that MR has been a leader and one of our more consistent performers this season. A settled team is what is required to stay up
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 28, 2015, 12:09:28 AM
That is the beef though VFL.  He is not saying what we are saying. He is saying what Sherwood was saying. He is slagging off the team of which he is captain. The atmosphere in the dressing room tomorrow will be exactly the opposite of what it should be and Richard's comments to a national newspaper and R5L will be substantially to blame.

If he sits meekly and says nothing, will it be better? Dion Dublin was saying this week the players should front up and say hpw sit they have been. We need players to show some balls, who can we trust? I thought Vertout showed last week he will battle, Ayew also even if not his position. Richards is, Clark was awful but will not concede and Sanchez may not be everyones cup of tea but I like the bloke. I don't think he was doing a Sherwood thing, we knew it was going to be a tough start but not the shite it has been
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: GarTomas on November 28, 2015, 12:24:47 AM
Is there a link to the 5Live Interview?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on November 28, 2015, 12:39:56 AM
If he had bloody scored from a yard out against Sunderland and organised the back 4 a bit better at Leicester might not be in this situation either.

It is easy to point fingers. His job is to rally a unified side on the pitch to run through walls for each other.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 28, 2015, 12:53:19 AM
If he had bloody scored from a yard out against Sunderland and organised the back 4 a bit better at Leicester might not be in this situation either.

It is easy to point fingers. His job is to rally a unified side on the pitch to run through walls for each other.

If my aunt had bollocks she would be my uncle. As for Leicester there is one person to blame for that, you are 2-0 up, albeit luckily, get a defensive player on for Gil or Grealish. No, lets bring on Gestede for Gil. Total bollox. Don't blame Richards for that
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on November 28, 2015, 01:09:47 AM
I don't VFL I was simply making the point that Richards pointing the finger in the dressing room is a completely futile act. We all know the previous manager, basically through complete incompetence through a game, threw away maybe 6-8 points this season, but just as easily if you are pointing it at individual players they all have their faults. Richards as captain and leader has been highlighted more than once for his poor organisation of the back 4, Westwood has looked stupidly lightwieght, Amavi cost us 2-3 goals, Guzan has been dodgy as fuck, whoever wins the right back of the week competition has been poor, there have been no goals from midfield, Sinclair seems to have stopped getting into the opposition penalty area, Gestede has missed chances, and so on, and so on.

We clearly are not pulling together properly as a team, Sherwood was a massive issue, but Richards as captain should be joining that up now, getting them as one and working together.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on November 28, 2015, 01:13:15 AM
I'd be inclined to agree with Bob as well.  I think Richards is dim as a 10 watt bulb.  I imagine his aim was to appease the fans by saying what he thinks we want to hear, which in itself is arrogant and presumptuous, but also overlooks the blindingly obvious fact that people don't much like being slagged off in public by colleagues who are no more competent than themselves.  It's a downright idiotic interview by a man who appears to think he's not contributed to the calamities of this season.  Whether we as fans agree with any of the points he makes is irrelevant.  His words could never do anything but damage to his team-mates.  If he had half a brain he'd realise that sharing such thoughts is not helpful in this situation.  If he had half a brain he'd realise that the best way to get us onside is to stop playing like Frank Spencer, take some responsibility for the mess he's part of and do whatever it takes to galvanise his team and lead it to safety.  If he thinks that's the way to do it he's a massive thicko, and if this was some sort of rallying cry it's as misjudged as some of his positional play.  There are enough pundits getting paid to churn out this sort of specious rubbish, I don't want to hear it from any of our players, regardless of how true it may or may not be.  From what we've seen so far I'd be surprised if Garde didn't take a very dim view of this, and I'd expect to see some punishment.  (I'd then expect to see Richards bleating about how unfair the punishment was, and the entire Sherwood press agreeing with him).     
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on November 28, 2015, 01:53:46 AM
We are going to find out tomorrow how the interview was received. If he is still captain then Remi won't have seen any harm done by it. The best we can hope for is that has the affect Richards was looking for and that they all show significantly more character than they have shown over the past number of games. There's no place to hide right now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 28, 2015, 02:18:55 AM
I'd be inclined to agree with Bob as well.  I think Richards is dim as a 10 watt bulb.  I imagine his aim was to appease the fans by saying what he thinks we want to hear, which in itself is arrogant and presumptuous, but also overlooks the blindingly obvious fact that people don't much like being slagged off in public by colleagues who are no more competent than themselves.  It's a downright idiotic interview by a man who appears to think he's not contributed to the calamities of this season.  Whether we as fans agree with any of the points he makes is irrelevant.  His words could never do anything but damage to his team-mates.  If he had half a brain he'd realise that sharing such thoughts is not helpful in this situation.  If he had half a brain he'd realise that the best way to get us onside is to stop playing like Frank Spencer, take some responsibility for the mess he's part of and do whatever it takes to galvanise his team and lead it to safety.  If he thinks that's the way to do it he's a massive thicko, and if this was some sort of rallying cry it's as misjudged as some of his positional play.  There are enough pundits getting paid to churn out this sort of specious rubbish, I don't want to hear it from any of our players, regardless of how true it may or may not be.  From what we've seen so far I'd be surprised if Garde didn't take a very dim view of this, and I'd expect to see some punishment.  (I'd then expect to see Richards bleating about how unfair the punishment was, and the entire Sherwood press agreeing with him).     

Ozzyjim, not having a go, but think something needs to be done and maybe things need to be said. I think Richards is a top player for us, though may have to play right back (that may be the reason he came to us and has he a clause to play CB). If so that it is wrong, but he has been the best CB
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on November 28, 2015, 03:03:37 AM
I'd be inclined to agree with Bob as well.  I think Richards is dim as a 10 watt bulb.  I imagine his aim was to appease the fans by saying what he thinks we want to hear, which in itself is arrogant and presumptuous, but also overlooks the blindingly obvious fact that people don't much like being slagged off in public by colleagues who are no more competent than themselves.  It's a downright idiotic interview by a man who appears to think he's not contributed to the calamities of this season.  Whether we as fans agree with any of the points he makes is irrelevant.  His words could never do anything but damage to his team-mates.  If he had half a brain he'd realise that sharing such thoughts is not helpful in this situation.  If he had half a brain he'd realise that the best way to get us onside is to stop playing like Frank Spencer, take some responsibility for the mess he's part of and do whatever it takes to galvanise his team and lead it to safety.  If he thinks that's the way to do it he's a massive thicko, and if this was some sort of rallying cry it's as misjudged as some of his positional play.  There are enough pundits getting paid to churn out this sort of specious rubbish, I don't want to hear it from any of our players, regardless of how true it may or may not be.  From what we've seen so far I'd be surprised if Garde didn't take a very dim view of this, and I'd expect to see some punishment.  (I'd then expect to see Richards bleating about how unfair the punishment was, and the entire Sherwood press agreeing with him).     

Ozzyjim, not having a go, but think something needs to be done and maybe things need to be said. I think Richards is a top player for us, though may have to play right back (that may be the reason he came to us and has he a clause to play CB). If so that it is wrong, but he has been the best CB

Not Ozzyjim, but anyway, the point is that these things may well need to be said - but not in public. If he thinks his teammates need to shape up, he should say it somehow on the training ground. He should find the best way to get the message across, to motivate his teammates to improve. In other words, to be a captain. Put an arm round some shoulders, kick some arses, do whatever it takes, in person, with each individual. Blaming all the new signings in the press is patently an idiotic approach, it's unimpressive and most likely counterproductive.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on November 28, 2015, 11:43:28 AM
I'd be inclined to agree with Bob as well.  I think Richards is dim as a 10 watt bulb.  I imagine his aim was to appease the fans by saying what he thinks we want to hear, which in itself is arrogant and presumptuous, but also overlooks the blindingly obvious fact that people don't much like being slagged off in public by colleagues who are no more competent than themselves.  It's a downright idiotic interview by a man who appears to think he's not contributed to the calamities of this season.  Whether we as fans agree with any of the points he makes is irrelevant.  His words could never do anything but damage to his team-mates.  If he had half a brain he'd realise that sharing such thoughts is not helpful in this situation.  If he had half a brain he'd realise that the best way to get us onside is to stop playing like Frank Spencer, take some responsibility for the mess he's part of and do whatever it takes to galvanise his team and lead it to safety.  If he thinks that's the way to do it he's a massive thicko, and if this was some sort of rallying cry it's as misjudged as some of his positional play.  There are enough pundits getting paid to churn out this sort of specious rubbish, I don't want to hear it from any of our players, regardless of how true it may or may not be.  From what we've seen so far I'd be surprised if Garde didn't take a very dim view of this, and I'd expect to see some punishment.  (I'd then expect to see Richards bleating about how unfair the punishment was, and the entire Sherwood press agreeing with him).     

Ozzyjim, not having a go, but think something needs to be done and maybe things need to be said. I think Richards is a top player for us, though may have to play right back (that may be the reason he came to us and has he a clause to play CB). If so that it is wrong, but he has been the best CB

Not Ozzyjim, but anyway, the point is that these things may well need to be said - but not in public. If he thinks his teammates need to shape up, he should say it somehow on the training ground. He should find the best way to get the message across, to motivate his teammates to improve. In other words, to be a captain. Put an arm round some shoulders, kick some arses, do whatever it takes, in person, with each individual. Blaming all the new signings in the press is patently an idiotic approach, it's unimpressive and most likely counterproductive.

Just like Sherwood then. Basically giving it the big "Nothing to do with me guv". Sorry Micah, it's a team game and you're got at least a 1/11th involvement in our current shit sandwich of a situation.

There's something about Richards that I can't put my finger on, but intuitively don't like and this isn't the first time he's come out with something in this vein.

Regardless of whether what he's saying is true or not, that shit is kept in house, especially when you're captain.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on November 28, 2015, 11:46:19 AM
Richards and Gabby, both are supposed to be our on the field leaders but there's something about them both that makes me feel they're the most likely culprits of any divisions and cliques in the dressing room.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on November 28, 2015, 12:41:59 PM
Richards and Gabby, both are supposed to be our on the field leaders but there's something about them both that makes me feel they're the most likely culprits of any divisions and cliques in the dressing room.

personally i think gabby would be a terrible influence behind the scenes, mr billy big bollocks
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on November 28, 2015, 01:53:18 PM
I just want Richards to walk the talk. He's been really vocal this season, really pally pally with the media (talking up Delph to Man City for example). Just zip it, he's contributed to this shite Villa find themselves in - as captain he should take more of the blame in my opinion - how dare he be so brazen as to blame the rest of the team?! I'm embarrased for him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on November 29, 2015, 12:53:22 AM
To be fair to our man he  gives 110%  a  Saunders type  of player.  What Richards  fails to  recognise though is that collectively we are all in it together. 

I can see why he was made team captain and quite understand people saying he is  not a good fit.

I would make a perfect MP me. ha.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on November 29, 2015, 01:05:56 AM
Today's performance summed him up quite well.

Some driving runs which could have led to goals, a great headed goal and lots of effort and passion. At the same time, having the attention span of a demented springer spaniel that has got the scent of a rabbit when it came to discharging his duties of leading the back line.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 29, 2015, 01:12:50 AM
I'd be inclined to agree with Bob as well.  I think Richards is dim as a 10 watt bulb.  I imagine his aim was to appease the fans by saying what he thinks we want to hear, which in itself is arrogant and presumptuous, but also overlooks the blindingly obvious fact that people don't much like being slagged off in public by colleagues who are no more competent than themselves.  It's a downright idiotic interview by a man who appears to think he's not contributed to the calamities of this season.  Whether we as fans agree with any of the points he makes is irrelevant.  His words could never do anything but damage to his team-mates.  If he had half a brain he'd realise that sharing such thoughts is not helpful in this situation.  If he had half a brain he'd realise that the best way to get us onside is to stop playing like Frank Spencer, take some responsibility for the mess he's part of and do whatever it takes to galvanise his team and lead it to safety.  If he thinks that's the way to do it he's a massive thicko, and if this was some sort of rallying cry it's as misjudged as some of his positional play.  There are enough pundits getting paid to churn out this sort of specious rubbish, I don't want to hear it from any of our players, regardless of how true it may or may not be.  From what we've seen so far I'd be surprised if Garde didn't take a very dim view of this, and I'd expect to see some punishment.  (I'd then expect to see Richards bleating about how unfair the punishment was, and the entire Sherwood press agreeing with him).     

Ozzyjim, not having a go, but think something needs to be done and maybe things need to be said. I think Richards is a top player for us, though may have to play right back (that may be the reason he came to us and has he a clause to play CB). If so that it is wrong, but he has been the best CB

Not Ozzyjim, but anyway, the point is that these things may well need to be said - but not in public. If he thinks his teammates need to shape up, he should say it somehow on the training ground. He should find the best way to get the message across, to motivate his teammates to improve. In other words, to be a captain. Put an arm round some shoulders, kick some arses, do whatever it takes, in person, with each individual. Blaming all the new signings in the press is patently an idiotic approach, it's unimpressive and most likely counterproductive.

Just like Sherwood then. Basically giving it the big "Nothing to do with me guv". Sorry Micah, it's a team game and you're got at least a 1/11th involvement in our current shit sandwich of a situation.

There's something about Richards that I can't put my finger on, but intuitively don't like and this isn't the first time he's come out with something in this vein.

Regardless of whether what he's saying is true or not, that shit is kept in house, especially when you're captain.

Apologies re the name, but what he said is what people think surely. I saw comments that he is a shite centre back and Hutton is a better right back, get a fecking grip. The players are too soft and that is something I would not say Richards is. He is a winner and how many of them have we got? I said to my lad near the end of the first half I would have took Hutton off as he had so much space on the right and brought Okore on and put Richards right back. I heard the interview and have to say I was not impressed, but mostly about the club rather than his comments, which we all agree with.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 29, 2015, 01:14:44 AM
Today's performance summed him up quite well.

Some driving runs which could have led to goals, a great headed goal and lots of effort and passion. At the same time, having the attention span of a demented springer spaniel that has got the scent of a rabbit when it came to discharging his duties of leading the back line.

When you have two full backs like ours, I would be shitting myself constantly. He is trying to lead and yes he has faults, but he is a winner and that is what we need more of
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on November 29, 2015, 01:19:00 AM
Whether what he said was right or not isn't the point for me - it's that he should never be denigrating his team and club publically! Regardless of where they are in the league. Do it in the dressing room if you must. Stupid thing to do in my opinion. I was going to say that Villa should manage this sort of thing better but sadly Villa only manage to disappoint these days.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 29, 2015, 01:35:15 AM
Whether what he said was right or not isn't the point for me - it's that he should never be denigrating his team and club publically! Regardless of where they are in the league. Do it in the dressing room if you must. Stupid thing to do in my opinion. I was going to say that Villa should manage this sort of thing better but sadly Villa only manage to disappoint these days.

Do you not think he has not already done that? I reckon he will have been very vocal in the dressing room. Dion Dublin came out and said the players should admit it has not been good enough. He did that, I agree with him, players have to show balls/ How many of them do at the moment? He certainly does IMHO?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on November 29, 2015, 01:46:21 AM
Today's performance summed him up quite well.

Some driving runs which could have led to goals, a great headed goal and lots of effort and passion. At the same time, having the attention span of a demented springer spaniel that has got the scent of a rabbit when it came to discharging his duties of leading the back line.

When you have two full backs like ours, I would be shitting myself constantly. He is trying to lead and yes he has faults, but he is a winner and that is what we need more of

He s a swash buckler. He has to buckle his swash. He likes to see his cutlass flashing in the floodlights.  He likes to go a wandering.

It is all very inspiring, but somebody needs to be at home taking care of bidness. 

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 29, 2015, 01:52:29 AM
Today's performance summed him up quite well.

Some driving runs which could have led to goals, a great headed goal and lots of effort and passion. At the same time, having the attention span of a demented springer spaniel that has got the scent of a rabbit when it came to discharging his duties of leading the back line.

When you have two full backs like ours, I would be shitting myself constantly. He is trying to lead and yes he has faults, but he is a winner and that is what we need more of

He s a swash buckler. He has to buckle his swash. He likes to see his cutlass flashing in the floodlights.  He likes to go a wandering.

It is all very inspiring, but somebody needs to be at home taking care of bidness. 



I agree he is trying to do too much, but he is our best defender and others need to show similar attitude. I have read the comments he does not want to play for Villa, he has not said that and has not played like that
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on November 29, 2015, 02:00:59 AM
Today's performance summed him up quite well.

Some driving runs which could have led to goals, a great headed goal and lots of effort and passion. At the same time, having the attention span of a demented springer spaniel that has got the scent of a rabbit when it came to discharging his duties of leading the back line.

When you have two full backs like ours, I would be shitting myself constantly. He is trying to lead and yes he has faults, but he is a winner and that is what we need more of

He s a swash buckler. He has to buckle his swash. He likes to see his cutlass flashing in the floodlights.  He likes to go a wandering.

It is all very inspiring, but somebody needs to be at home taking care of bidness. 



I agree he is trying to do too much, but he is our best defender and others need to show similar attitude. I have read the comments he does not want to play for Villa, he has not said that and has not played like that

No, I agree with you about that at least. He gives his all.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 29, 2015, 02:03:40 AM
Today's performance summed him up quite well.

Some driving runs which could have led to goals, a great headed goal and lots of effort and passion. At the same time, having the attention span of a demented springer spaniel that has got the scent of a rabbit when it came to discharging his duties of leading the back line.

When you have two full backs like ours, I would be shitting myself constantly. He is trying to lead and yes he has faults, but he is a winner and that is what we need more of

He s a swash buckler. He has to buckle his swash. He likes to see his cutlass flashing in the floodlights.  He likes to go a wandering.

It is all very inspiring, but somebody needs to be at home taking care of bidness. 



I agree he is trying to do too much, but he is our best defender and others need to show similar attitude. I have read the comments he does not want to play for Villa, he has not said that and has not played like that

No, I agree with you about that at least. He gives his all.

So what do you not agree with? all opinions of course and no offence
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on November 29, 2015, 02:18:43 AM
Today's performance summed him up quite well.

Some driving runs which could have led to goals, a great headed goal and lots of effort and passion. At the same time, having the attention span of a demented springer spaniel that has got the scent of a rabbit when it came to discharging his duties of leading the back line.

When you have two full backs like ours, I would be shitting myself constantly. He is trying to lead and yes he has faults, but he is a winner and that is what we need more of

He s a swash buckler. He has to buckle his swash. He likes to see his cutlass flashing in the floodlights.  He likes to go a wandering.

It is all very inspiring, but somebody needs to be at home taking care of bidness. 



I agree he is trying to do too much, but he is our best defender and others need to show similar attitude. I have read the comments he does not want to play for Villa, he has not said that and has not played like that

No, I agree with you about that at least. He gives his all.

So what do you not agree with? all opinions of course and no offence

I do not doubt his effort or commitment.

I doubt he has the discipline, concentration or brain power to lead a back line like ours.

As I alluded earlier, he reminds me of my brother's spaniel when we go to the Clent Hills. Once he's off, he's off and there is no use trying to find out where he is. You just have to go back to the pub or the car and hope he turns up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 29, 2015, 02:29:56 AM
I doubt Einstein would have he brain power to cope with those full backs and even Clarj on the third goal.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on November 29, 2015, 09:12:25 AM
I doubt Einstein would have he brain power to cope with those full backs and even Clarj on the third goal.



Watch it again and please explain to me what the hell Richardson is doing too. Terrible defending all round.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tom_Mc9? on November 29, 2015, 09:14:14 AM
I have some degree of sympathy for Richardson. Clearly not up to the task and there's not much competition take his place. He is rubbish though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Exeter 77 on November 29, 2015, 12:06:20 PM
I'm beginning to get the impression that Richards thinks Villa are beneath him much in the same way David O'Leary did.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on November 29, 2015, 12:09:44 PM
I think he's passionate for the club.  He is never a Centre Half though.  The irony is he could be key to providing service to Gestede if he was to switch positions.  Trouble is Clark is equally capable of being terrible.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Marlon's Hairy Wood on November 29, 2015, 12:35:47 PM
I'm beginning to get the impression that Richards thinks Villa are beneath him much in the same way David O'Leary did.

On the basis of showing a bit of passion and saying what all the fans have been saying all season? or because of how much of other peoples work he does on the pitch?

By no means is he the perfect centre back, but he's playing alongside 3 defenders who are levels below him. He has the task of babysitting those players, on top of that he's an attacking threat through the middle of the park. Making bursting runs, going past players and starting attacks, something the midfield should be doing. He's also added scoring goals to his on the pitch 'to do' list.

He's currently our best player on the pitch, he's also the one that looks the most gutted when we concede, he's the one who gives the poor players the hand on the shoulder when they fuck up (Hutton OG) and he's getting himself on the score sheet

Yet he's still one of the players to get stick. Only Villa fans.. i have to laugh or else i'd cry
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: BoskoDjembaSalifou on November 29, 2015, 12:45:21 PM
Richards is an awful centre back. I agree with Exeter 77, I too get the impression he thinks he's way too good for us. Play him at right back FFS.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on November 29, 2015, 03:25:41 PM
Richards' weaknesses in defence are more hidden at RB and more exposed through the middle as a CB. He needs to play RB because he's better than Hutton, and we need to get Okore to replace him. The left side of the defence is fucking horrendous. Throw in a keeper who isn't exactly secure and it is what we have. We need a new LB, new left sided CB and goalkeeper. Let alone a forward as we all acknowledge.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Proposition Joe on November 29, 2015, 03:41:10 PM
What's happened to Crespo and what does Ilori do exactly?

I think most of us are coming round to:
RB: Richards
DCR: Okore

But what about Pulis-style:
DCL: Clark/Crespo
DL: Lescott



Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on November 29, 2015, 07:46:48 PM
I doubt Einstein would have he brain power to cope with those full backs and even Clarj on the third goal.



Watch it again and please explain to me what the hell Richardson is doing too. Terrible defending all round.

Yes, I agree, but Clark has to be aware of what I going on as well
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on November 29, 2015, 08:04:11 PM
What's happened to Crespo and what does Ilori do exactly?

I think most of us are coming round to:
RB: Richards
DCR: Okore

But what about Pulis-style:
DCL: Clark/Crespo
DL: Lescott

what's a DCR/DCL ?

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on November 29, 2015, 08:07:05 PM

Despite being constantly told how well he's playing, i've been less than convinced by Micah thus far, both as a player and captain.

Sometimes, certain players click together, even if they're not individually the best. With that in mind i still think and Okore/Clark pairing may well be our best central defence pairing. Richards can slot in at right back and add something to the side we desperately need, eg pace and skill going forward

But it still leaves the left back spot a worry. I have no answers other than Richardson, Lescott or Clark are not left backs
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on November 29, 2015, 08:23:13 PM
what's a DCR/DCL ?
Defender Central Right/Defender Central Left
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: class-of-82 on November 29, 2015, 09:01:50 PM
D c r you sure that's not the democratic congo republic ??????
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Oscar Arce on November 30, 2015, 05:24:21 PM
I too am not convinced with Richards at all as a centre half. I don't think he's a leader or an organiser, he seems to play off the cuff, he hasn't played centre back for most of his career. Look at the number of times he goes to ground, he's out of the game in virtually every goal we concede.
It would be brave to leave him out, but it's got to the stage where Garde needs to try anything, he cannot replace Hutton who is our best player at the moment, so I would like to see Okore back in on the right side paired with a natural leftie Lescott or Clark on the other side, if he's going to persist with a four.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: itbrvilla on December 29, 2015, 02:15:14 PM
Fuck you Micah you fucking baby and pathetic excuse of a footballer and captain.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mellin on December 29, 2015, 02:26:36 PM
I like him. He cares. He's quite blatantly not a centre back though and needs to be told. If he disagrees then he'll have to leave because the defence is an absolute mess.

Richards
Okore
Lescott
Cissokho

That's as good as it's going to get with our current squad. Maybe chuck Senderos in.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on December 29, 2015, 03:17:23 PM
Fuck you Micah you fucking baby and pathetic excuse of a footballer and captain.

Having deliberately avoided everything to do with yesterday, this one's caught my interest. Was there anything specific, or is he just proving himself to be all about me, myself and I?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on December 29, 2015, 03:27:20 PM



With that in mind i still think and Okore/Clark pairing may well be our best central defence pairing.


Except that it has got Clark in it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on December 29, 2015, 03:59:37 PM
In defence of Clark, anybody that has to play alongside Richards is going to struggle. It's more than time Richards gave up the dream of ever being a centre back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on December 29, 2015, 04:02:21 PM
Fuck you Micah you fucking baby and pathetic excuse of a footballer and captain.

Having deliberately avoided everything to do with yesterday, this one's caught my interest. Was there anything specific, or is he just proving himself to be all about me, myself and I?

I assume it's to do with his Twitter strop at Ian Wright.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Smirker on December 29, 2015, 04:02:55 PM
Fuck you Micah you fucking baby and pathetic excuse of a footballer and captain.

Having deliberately avoided everything to do with yesterday, this one's caught my interest. Was there anything specific, or is he just proving himself to be all about me, myself and I?

Ian Wright criticised his positioning on MOTD for the first goal. Nothing abusive or over the top he was just telling the truth, he was out of position for the goal and things like that are the reason we are getting relegated.

Micah loses it on Twitter and says it's not on. Looks a bit childish really if he can't take a pundit pointing out his tactical errors on a football show where they are analysing the match.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 29, 2015, 04:11:45 PM
Micah, when the side you are captain of hasn't won a league game since the opening day, the best thing to do is shut the fuck up and take it on the chin. The best way of getting back at any critic is to show it on the pitch by being the leader that you are being paid and expected to be. Instead of worrying about yourself based on criticism received on this performance you should be more concerned at the reputation you will have if the team you are captain of becomes the worst team in the history of the PL.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on December 29, 2015, 04:30:47 PM
awful captain and centre half.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on December 29, 2015, 04:38:33 PM
He doesn't even organise himself on the pitch, never mind the rest of the defence - which I would have thought was also his "job".
He wins balls in the air pretty well and has the occasional storming run up the pitch but I've been pretty surprised at how crap he is at defending generally.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villalion on December 29, 2015, 04:41:05 PM
Micah, when the side you are captain of hasn't won a league game since the opening day, the best thing to do is shut the fuck up and take it on the chin. The best way of getting back at any critic is to show it on the pitch by being the leader that you are being paid and expected to be. Instead of worrying about yourself based on criticism received on this performance you should be more concerned at the reputation you will have if the team you are captain of becomes the worst team in the history of the PL.

Nail on the head for me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on December 29, 2015, 05:07:51 PM
Fuck you Micah you fucking baby and pathetic excuse of a footballer and captain.

His problem is he thinks he is a "top player" not the captain of the worst team in the division.

Even when he used to take his career seriously the likes of Capello and Mancini saw through his bullsh*t

Sherwood's decision to give him free reign at centre half and make him captain was farcical.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on December 29, 2015, 06:39:53 PM
Pull your head out of your arse Micah.  We're bottom of the table without a win since August.  You shouldn't be suprised if people are pointing the finger at you.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on December 29, 2015, 07:46:31 PM
Fuck you Micah you fucking baby and pathetic excuse of a footballer and captain.

Having deliberately avoided everything to do with yesterday, this one's caught my interest. Was there anything specific, or is he just proving himself to be all about me, myself and I?

Ian Wright criticised his positioning on MOTD for the first goal. Nothing abusive or over the top he was just telling the truth, he was out of position for the goal and things like that are the reason we are getting relegated.

Micah loses it on Twitter and says it's not on. Looks a bit childish really if he can't take a pundit pointing out his tactical errors on a football show where they are analysing the match.

Wright is thick as pigshit, a terrible pundit. However like a broken watch it can be right twice a day and the one thing Wright could do was play football as a striker and therefore has a passing knowledge on defensive deficiencies. Micah is one big fucking deficiency.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on December 29, 2015, 07:49:45 PM
The thing I really struggled with yesterday about that first goal is that he actually looked back to see where Howson was.  So having done that why the hell did he just let him ghost in behind for the goal with no challenge.  Who exactly was he expecting to pick him up notwithstanding there was a slight deflection that took it away from him slightly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on December 29, 2015, 08:03:26 PM
So how about Micah as our Player of the Season?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on December 29, 2015, 08:06:35 PM
He has the attributes to be a good defender, he lets himself down in his positional play, his short fuse and the fact that he is injury prone.

Not the type of captain, top defender we were looking for.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on December 29, 2015, 10:22:10 PM
So how about Micah as our Player of the Season?

How about Steven Ireland as our player of the season? Those were the days my friends. 

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt C on December 29, 2015, 10:26:33 PM
Whoever likened him to a Labrador on the match thread in terms of his positional sense called it about right.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on December 29, 2015, 10:42:38 PM
He also sent a baby comment to Collymore about them getting stick when they play poorly from him but no credit when they give their all and get a draw against West Ham at home.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on December 29, 2015, 11:38:23 PM
It's breaking his heart don't you know.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/484166/Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-relegation-fight-breaking-heart
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on December 29, 2015, 11:41:51 PM
He's a shit defender, and an even worse captain.  Quite frankly, he can fuck right off.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VinnieChase84 on December 29, 2015, 11:51:46 PM
It's breaking his heart don't you know.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/484166/Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-relegation-fight-breaking-heart
If he cared so much he would play fucking RB. Never going to be a centre half regardless of what he/his contract dictates
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on December 29, 2015, 11:53:04 PM
It's breaking his heart don't you know.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/484166/Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-relegation-fight-breaking-heart
If he cared so much he would play fucking RB. Never going to be a centre half regardless of what he/his contract dictates

Is there any evidence,  or is this one of those internet myths that becomes accepted as fact?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on December 30, 2015, 12:16:51 AM
Was going to say.  It has to be amongst the biggest load of nonsense to suggest we can't move a player into a different position in the defence due to contractual limitations.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on December 30, 2015, 12:43:51 AM
He's a shit defender, and an even worse captain.  Quite frankly, he can fuck right off.

As much as Lescott has lost his legs and Okore is prone to errors, their partnership was streets better than Richards and anyone so far.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on December 30, 2015, 09:26:21 AM
It's breaking his heart don't you know.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/484166/Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-relegation-fight-breaking-heart
If he cared so much he would play fucking RB. Never going to be a centre half regardless of what he/his contract dictates

Is there any evidence,  or is this one of those internet myths that becomes accepted as fact?

I'm not saying it's definitely true, but if it isn't, then it's an unfortunate coincidence for him that he got injured just as Okore was fit to come back in and then spent 3-4 weeks getting over a minor knock but was fit to come back in as soon as Okore had to miss a game.

The squad / line up for Sunderland will be illuminating if Okore was just rested to allow swelling on his knee to subside.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on December 30, 2015, 09:36:43 AM
Was going to say.  It has to be amongst the biggest load of nonsense to suggest we can't move a player into a different position in the defence due to contractual limitations.
Is is nonsense, really?
In the days when players seem to be able to demand anything, I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility that a player with delusions of grandeur can say 'I'll only sign for your club if you pay me xxx K per week and play me in my favoured position'.
Of course, we don't know it's the case, but I don't think it's nonsense to suggest it.

We are the club that gave contracts to players like Tonev and Dawkins remember!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clark W Griswold on December 30, 2015, 09:50:23 AM
Well anyway, ignoring that I would play him right back because it's become evident he's really no better than the rest of the cack we've had playing at centre back over the last 5 years. I'm sure he would be an improvement on Hutton, and allow Okore and Lescott to firm up their vaguely promising partnership.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Boz on December 30, 2015, 10:43:58 AM
He's a shit defender, and an even worse captain.  Quite frankly, he can fuck right off.

Absolutely. Why are Villa a 20 minute team, is that because they don't train enough, certainly the defenders don't seem to know the fundamentals of defending and the strikers don't take the chances when they come along.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on December 30, 2015, 10:53:11 AM
It's breaking his heart don't you know.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/484166/Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-relegation-fight-breaking-heart
If he cared so much he would play fucking RB. Never going to be a centre half regardless of what he/his contract dictates

Is there any evidence,  or is this one of those internet myths that becomes accepted as fact?

Didn't we have this a while back when people thought Cleverley had in his contract that he starts every game?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villasjf on December 30, 2015, 10:59:26 AM
Doesn't stay on his feet enough, always falling over, poor defender and poor captain. He will jump ship as soon as he can.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on December 30, 2015, 12:38:02 PM
As a professional footballer, if the manager says you're playing right back then you play right back, and you give it your all, even if you're a centre forward.  To me, it's simple, although an expensive asset; he plays right back if told or he fucks off.  If he cares as much as he says he does he plays.  His choice. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Karl Bridges on December 30, 2015, 12:48:53 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithe on December 30, 2015, 12:52:28 PM
I'd suggest that if he wants to help the team then he doesn't play at all.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dante Lavelli on December 30, 2015, 12:56:34 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.

I hope that is true.  His swashbuckling style is a liability when playing centre back but could become a positive asset at RB.  It also suggests that his attitude is not as bad as we have assumed (myself included).
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: joe_c on December 30, 2015, 12:57:12 PM
It's breaking his heart don't you know.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/484166/Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-relegation-fight-breaking-heart
If he cared so much he would play fucking RB. Never going to be a centre half regardless of what he/his contract dictates

Is there any evidence,  or is this one of those internet myths that becomes accepted as fact?

None whatsoever. Someone suggested it, everyone believed it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dante Lavelli on December 30, 2015, 12:59:27 PM
It's breaking his heart don't you know.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/484166/Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-relegation-fight-breaking-heart
If he cared so much he would play fucking RB. Never going to be a centre half regardless of what he/his contract dictates

Is there any evidence,  or is this one of those internet myths that becomes accepted as fact?

None whatsoever. Someone suggested it, everyone believed it.

Doesn't it stem from newspaper reports after signing that sunderland offered more in wages yet he chose to join us.  Putting two and two together it was assumed that we had offered additional incentives.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on December 30, 2015, 01:08:01 PM
I'm sure a legal sort would put me right, but I'm not sure that a clause like that would even be enforceable.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 30, 2015, 01:12:03 PM
It's breaking his heart don't you know.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/484166/Micah-Richards-Aston-Villa-relegation-fight-breaking-heart
If he cared so much he would play fucking RB. Never going to be a centre half regardless of what he/his contract dictates

Is there any evidence,  or is this one of those internet myths that becomes accepted as fact?

None whatsoever. Someone suggested it, everyone believed it.

I wouldn't say everyone believed it, but it became one of those things that grew legs. Plus why would a player who has played both positions only commit to a club if he plays a specific position? Wouldn't that limit his chances of playing? And who would have even come up with that suggestion? It seemed a bit ludicrous from the start, but then ludicrous and Internet myths aren't exactly strange bedfellows.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: David_Nab on December 30, 2015, 01:13:08 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.

Then I hope sense is seen and he is played there , there is reason he got picked to play for England there.He has pace and strength and frankly could he be any worse at crossing then Hutton.

At this point our most reliable defence would be

Richards - Okore - Lescott - Cissoko

All of them are units so should help with cross's into box if they can stay in position.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Neil Hawkes on December 30, 2015, 01:28:28 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.

Then I hope sense is seen and he is played there , there is reason he got picked to play for England there.He has pace and strength and frankly could he be any worse at crossing then Hutton.

At this point our most reliable defence would be

Richards - Okore - Lescott - Cissoko

All of them are units so should help with cross's into box if they can stay in position.
I would like to see that line up
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on December 30, 2015, 03:30:32 PM
If he is then Bacuna lescott Okore Richards has to be the back 4 on Saturday.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on December 30, 2015, 03:50:33 PM
Play him RB, he'd do something with the space Hutton gets especially as I imagine Cissokho will be instructed not to cross the halfway line when he gets into the team.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pat McMahon on December 30, 2015, 03:55:31 PM
Has there ever been anything in Richards' career to suggest he can play centre half at a high level?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on December 30, 2015, 05:14:10 PM
Has there ever been anything in Richards' career to suggest he can play centre half at a high level?

Diddly squat as far as I can remember:

Break through for Man City as right back
Majority of appearances for Man City as right back.
All his England caps as right back.

Him being viewed as a right back was one of the reasons it went sour in Fiorentina when they switched to a back 3 which you'd think was an easier transition from right back than playing centre back in a flat four.

I can understand why he hasn't appeared at right back to date if he's not been fit at the same time as Okore, a pairing lacking in pace to the degree of Clark and Lescott anyone?

The unfortunate synchronisation of his injury with Okore's won't be helping the rumour mill.

Start off withhis involvement or otherwise in Delph's move getting some people's backs up before we'd even started pre season.
Add his dubious personal performances in what, according to urban legend, is his preferred position pissing people off even further and you've got someone who we've never really taken too, who's never been viewed as one of us.
Top of with his involvement in a team that is so shite it's breaking records Lambert could only dream about giving rise to feelings of impotent fury and you've got the sort of situation where every minute detail is raked over and analysed to find yet another contributory explanation for our apparent changes to both motto and "mission statement" which now read as "Unprepared" and "Proud History, Shite Future"
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on December 30, 2015, 05:30:49 PM
I agree with all of that VID and add the gratuitous stupidity of a ban for fighting in the tunnel and a five minute shoveathon in injury time at Norwich. We have had some stupid players over the years but he is well up there for the coveted title of El Stupido.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nastylee on December 30, 2015, 06:04:32 PM
I'd like to think that with him and Okore both fit  then the possibility of him shifting to RB is at least being considered. I can see why his has played right CB with the Lescott or Clark but now Okore can blance the middle it has to be time to have him down the right. As far as PR is concerned - someone needs to tell him to stop talking and using social media.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on December 30, 2015, 06:32:39 PM
I'd like to think that with him and Okore both fit  then the possibility of him shifting to RB is at least being considered. I can see why his has played right CB with the Lescott or Clark but now Okore can blance the middle it has to be time to have him down the right. As far as PR is concerned - someone needs to tell him to stop talking and using social media.

I didn't realise you'd started using Proportional Representation instead of First Past The Post, or in our case, Loads Inbetween The Posts.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on December 30, 2015, 06:36:13 PM
I agree with all of that VID and add the gratuitous stupidity of a ban for fighting in the tunnel and a five minute shoveathon in injury time at Norwich. We have had some stupid players over the years but he is well up there for the coveted title of El Stupido.

I'd forgotten about the tunnel fight. Still that happened before the diarrhoea sauce was added to the shit sandwich that is this season and that kind of bollocks went down well in some quarters "'cause at least 'ez showin' sum pazzion."
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on December 30, 2015, 09:43:29 PM
When I look at him on the pitch, he seems to have the ways of someone with a massive chip on his shoulder.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on December 30, 2015, 09:48:43 PM
Would any one be surprised if he is the first rat off the sinking ship?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: David_Nab on December 30, 2015, 09:49:34 PM
When I look at him on the pitch, he seems to have the ways of someone with a massive chip on his shoulder.

I certainly get the sense he is better than the rest of the team and its them at fault for our issues not him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: AV82EC on December 30, 2015, 09:54:58 PM
Seems a bit sensitive to criticism as well. Easy to hide behind everyone else at Cit£h with some very big personalities centre stage. As captain and on of our more experienced PL players he's front and centre now and is showing himself to be nowhere near captain/leader material.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on December 30, 2015, 10:09:50 PM
I would be tempted to play him in a central defensive midfield role on Saturday if Okore is fit. Can Cissokho play on Saturday, is he fit even?

As for Richards at Villa, think the Delph incident put some fans on a downer from the off and he has never recovered from that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on December 30, 2015, 10:15:58 PM
I want Richards to STFU and show us. The criticism is totally warranted. Great to have passion but be better at your job. That said, he has some utter tripe next to him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ian. on December 30, 2015, 11:37:16 PM
Play him at rightback and sign a decent centre half to play with Okore.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: godzvilla on December 31, 2015, 09:42:07 AM
I would be tempted to play him in a central defensive midfield role on Saturday if Okore is fit. Can Cissokho play on Saturday, is he fit even?

As for Richards at Villa, think the Delph incident put some fans on a downer from the off and he has never recovered from that.

According to the OS...." Aly Cissokho has returned to the club following a loan spell at Porto.

Cissokho was originally due to spend the season with the Primeira Liga club.

But the defender has been recalled early.

The 28-year-old will be eligible to play from January onwards, following the Sunderland game.
" .

Not sure why he can't play on the 2nd of January , given that the transfer deadline opens on the 1st (?). Whatever...one more game with the choice of a variety of dodgy Left Back's to choose from ........Godzvilla!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on December 31, 2015, 04:46:38 PM
I would be tempted to play him in a central defensive midfield role on Saturday if Okore is fit. Can Cissokho play on Saturday, is he fit even?

As for Richards at Villa, think the Delph incident put some fans on a downer from the off and he has never recovered from that.

i would be tempted not to play him at all, who the fuck does he think he is?

not a centre half for starters
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Lastfootstamper on December 31, 2015, 11:23:17 PM
Why do some of us think that we can sort our defensive woes by moving one of our not-so-good centre-halves into midfield? Are we unique in thinking like so? Clark before has often been suggested, now Richards. I'm struggling to think of examples when this has worked either here or anywhere else. The other way round, midfielder into defence, there's been a few, Southgate being one. I just don't see how his poor positioning and ball-watching would be negated by playing further up the pitch.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on December 31, 2015, 11:30:35 PM
Called clutching at straws I think LFS.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on December 31, 2015, 11:31:16 PM
Seems a bit sensitive to criticism as well. Easy to hide behind everyone else at Cit£h with some very big personalities centre stage. As captain and on of our more experienced PL players he's front and centre now and is showing himself to be nowhere near captain/leader material.

Perhaps he should spend a little bit less time on twitter and a bit more time working with his teammates on sorting the back line out.

As Big Ron would say.  Dont tell me, show me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: four fornicholl on December 31, 2015, 11:34:59 PM
Seems a bit sensitive to criticism as well. Easy to hide behind everyone else at Cit£h with some very big personalities centre stage. As captain and on of our more experienced PL players he's front and centre now and is showing himself to be nowhere near captain/leader material.

Perhaps he should spend a little bit less time on twitter and a bit more time working with his teammates on sorting the back line out.

As Big Ron would say.  Dont tell me, show me.
FKN TWITTER
self affirmating ******
hate the lot of em
CHRIS NICHOLL is coming to get you
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on December 31, 2015, 11:39:52 PM
I would be tempted to play him in a central defensive midfield role on Saturday if Okore is fit. Can Cissokho play on Saturday, is he fit even?

As for Richards at Villa, think the Delph incident put some fans on a downer from the off and he has never recovered from that.

According to the OS...." Aly Cissokho has returned to the club following a loan spell at Porto.

Cissokho was originally due to spend the season with the Primeira Liga club.

But the defender has been recalled early.

The 28-year-old will be eligible to play from January onwards, following the Sunderland game.
" .

Not sure why he can't play on the 2nd of January , given that the transfer deadline opens on the 1st (?). Whatever...one more game with the choice of a variety of dodgy Left Back's to choose from ........Godzvilla!

Because the transfer window doesn't open until midnight Jan 2nd.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Drummond on December 31, 2015, 11:58:13 PM
For a number if years now we've been calling for someone to be vocal, to show they care and want to win. Our captain does it and everyone wants him to shut up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 01, 2016, 12:02:00 AM
That's fine but he does need to do his day job properly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on January 01, 2016, 12:30:08 AM
That's fine but he does need to do his day job properly.
Exactly.
He's got everything in his arsenal to be a very good central defender, IF he can sort his concentration and awareness out and learn his position.
I don't necessarily think playing Right Back will negate him dropping bollocks by anymeans, but perhaps merely give him license to be effective going forward, and also drop bollocks in marginally less dangerous positions at the back.

No matter if he playings central or on the right he's got to improve his awareness and positioning regardless. If he could do that as a fullback he'd be able to do it as a CH I'd imagine. He was only initially moved to fullback in his younger years because of his inexperience and naivety IIRC. I think clearly he wants to be a CH. I just wish he'd learn his trade quicker, or we had someone with experience and legs next to him, who can organise. Lescott has never been an organiser for me. He had Kompany next to him at City, or I think Jagielka at Everton perhaps marshalled things with him too. And Lescott's legs have packed up now anyhow. I'd love to have a Martin Laursen here. He'd get the best out of someone like Richards I think.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 01, 2016, 12:58:11 AM
Why do some of us think that we can sort our defensive woes by moving one of our not-so-good centre-halves into midfield? Are we unique in thinking like so? Clark before has often been suggested, now Richards. I'm struggling to think of examples when this has worked either here or anywhere else. The other way round, midfielder into defence, there's been a few, Southgate being one. I just don't see how his poor positioning and ball-watching would be negated by playing further up the pitch.

McGrath played that role for RoI for a few years. But now you're talking about someone who Richards is barely fit to have his name on the back of a replica shirt.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on January 01, 2016, 01:01:55 AM
Moving Micah around all over the shop, or effectively moving him into midfield to keep him out of trouble is a bad idea. We need to decide on his long term position. If that is still CH, he's got to really be worked on. That means giving him a decent partner and perhaps hiring a decent defensive coach because clearly whatever we're doing in training is not making a blind bit of difference as our organisation is non-existent. Four headless chickens and a deer caught in headlights between the sticks.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on January 01, 2016, 01:11:07 AM
Moving Micah around all over the shop, or effectively moving him into midfield to keep him out of trouble is a bad idea. We need to decide on his long term position. If that is still CH, he's got to really be worked on. That means giving him a decent partner and perhaps hiring a decent defensive coach because clearly whatever we're doing in training is not making a blind bit of difference as our organisation is non-existent. Four headless chickens and a deer caught in headlights between the sticks.

Agree and it doesn't help if we're chopping and changing the back four every game.  Richards isn't the only one we need to make a decision on because if Lescott and Okore are not fit enough to play two games in a week then they won't be much use in the Championship and we should be looking at other options. 

I do however think a back four of Richards, Okore, Lescott and Cissokho could be something to work with, especially if they had a more solid keeper behind them and defensive midfielder in front of them. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on January 01, 2016, 01:25:13 AM
He will be gone this window.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: West Derby Villan on January 01, 2016, 02:07:17 AM
We need a tried, tested AND trusted back four. I like Micah's attitude, we need that across back four, but more importantly players playing in their best positions not their preferred positions. UTV
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Drummond on January 01, 2016, 12:18:17 PM
I'd find it hard to concentrate being surrounded with ineptitude.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on January 01, 2016, 01:09:39 PM
For a number if years now we've been calling for someone to be vocal, to show they care and want to win. Our captain does it and everyone wants him to shut up.

All of that's fine, but a captain also needs to be able to help organise the team on the pitch, which Richards is clearly very bad at, and lead by example, when all he seems to do is get involved in nonsensical shoving matches.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 01, 2016, 02:51:45 PM
I haven't really seen Micah be vocal where it counts though, on the pitch.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: claretandbeer on January 01, 2016, 05:19:26 PM
Why do some of us think that we can sort our defensive woes by moving one of our not-so-good centre-halves into midfield? Are we unique in thinking like so? Clark before has often been suggested, now Richards. I'm struggling to think of examples when this has worked either here or anywhere else. The other way round, midfielder into defence, there's been a few, Southgate being one. I just don't see how his poor positioning and ball-watching would be negated by playing further up the pitch.
Poor positioning and ball watching are serious weaknesses for a centre back.I can't think of a centre back where a coach has remedied those weaknesses.He is,however,a good tackler ,competent passer and outstanding athleticism means that he can go past players and hunt the ball down quickly.These qualities make him more suited to a defensive midfield role.Jack Charlton played Lawrenson and then McGrath in midfield in a successful Ireland team.SGT did the same initially with McGrath.Wrong but they performed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 01, 2016, 05:22:46 PM
I'd find it hard to concentrate being surrounded with ineptitude.
I'd find it improper to be a bit of a gobshite when I was part of that ineptitude.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on January 01, 2016, 05:28:38 PM
The reason his career stalled was because he was impetuous, when playing for Citeh he could have a good game then foul someone needlessly and give away free kicks.
He possibly could play centre half if he had someone very good and experienced along side him talking and covering. As the dominant player in that position he is obviously not up to it yet.
It has been an experiment that has gone badly wrong, alongside keeping Guzan in goal.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 01, 2016, 05:28:51 PM
Moving Micah around all over the shop, or effectively moving him into midfield to keep him out of trouble is a bad idea. We need to decide on his long term position. If that is still CH, he's got to really be worked on. That means giving him a decent partner and perhaps hiring a decent defensive coach because clearly whatever we're doing in training is not making a blind bit of difference as our organisation is non-existent. Four headless chickens and a deer caught in headlights between the sticks.

At no point in his carrier has anyone other than Micah Richards viewed him as anything other than a fullback, except in an emergency solution.

That we couldn't even take a risk on Senderos' fitness whilst Okore was recovering from his knee op and play Richards where is most suited to is possibly the 2nd most damaging decision of Sherwood's short reign.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Edvard Remberg on January 01, 2016, 08:22:07 PM
Ian Wright iss spot on when he responds to Micah's tweeting..."bottom of the league and you worry about me mentioning you are the captain?  " and a "no wonder why" emoticon
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on January 01, 2016, 09:16:21 PM
That's fine but he does need to do his day job properly.
Exactly.
He's got everything in his arsenal to be a very good central defender, IF he can sort his concentration and awareness out and learn his position.
I don't necessarily think playing Right Back will negate him dropping bollocks by anymeans, but perhaps merely give him license to be effective going forward, and also drop bollocks in marginally less dangerous positions at the back.

No matter if he playings central or on the right he's got to improve his awareness and positioning regardless. If he could do that as a fullback he'd be able to do it as a CH I'd imagine. He was only initially moved to fullback in his younger years because of his inexperience and naivety IIRC. I think clearly he wants to be a CH. I just wish he'd learn his trade quicker, or we had someone with experience and legs next to him, who can organise. Lescott has never been an organiser for me. He had Kompany next to him at City, or I think Jagielka at Everton perhaps marshalled things with him too. And Lescott's legs have packed up now anyhow. I'd love to have a Martin Laursen here. He'd get the best out of someone like Richards I think.

Richards has no defensive instincts and is a complete liability when the ball is behind him. It was a dreadful decision to bring him in as captain and play him centre half. He hasn't played the position regularly in years and when he did, next to Richard Dunne at City, he was useless.

As one of the highest earners at the club, we shouldn't be expected to bring in a player to teach him how to play the position.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on January 01, 2016, 09:58:14 PM
Ian Wright's right. IMO.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: David_Nab on January 01, 2016, 10:20:58 PM
Ian Wright iss spot on when he responds to Micah's tweeting..."bottom of the league and you worry about me mentioning you are the captain?  " and a "no wonder why" emoticon

He was also right in telling him he had an issue with the comments he could contact Wright in person not make a public song and dance about it on twitter.

Hopefully he is moved to RB for tomorrows game

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 02, 2016, 12:21:06 AM
I'd find it hard to concentrate being surrounded with ineptitude.
I'd find it improper to be a bit of a gobshite when I was part of that ineptitude.
Well put Sir ...a retort of Wilde magnitude!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on January 02, 2016, 12:28:18 AM
That's fine but he does need to do his day job properly.
Exactly.
He's got everything in his arsenal to be a very good central defender, IF he can sort his concentration and awareness out and learn his position.
I don't necessarily think playing Right Back will negate him dropping bollocks by anymeans, but perhaps merely give him license to be effective going forward, and also drop bollocks in marginally less dangerous positions at the back.

No matter if he playings central or on the right he's got to improve his awareness and positioning regardless. If he could do that as a fullback he'd be able to do it as a CH I'd imagine. He was only initially moved to fullback in his younger years because of his inexperience and naivety IIRC. I think clearly he wants to be a CH. I just wish he'd learn his trade quicker, or we had someone with experience and legs next to him, who can organise. Lescott has never been an organiser for me. He had Kompany next to him at City, or I think Jagielka at Everton perhaps marshalled things with him too. And Lescott's legs have packed up now anyhow. I'd love to have a Martin Laursen here. He'd get the best out of someone like Richards I think.

Richards has no defensive instincts and is a complete liability when the ball is behind him. It was a dreadful decision to bring him in as captain and play him centre half. He hasn't played the position regularly in years and when he did, next to Richard Dunne at City, he was useless.

As one of the highest earners at the club, we shouldn't be expected to bring in a player to teach him how to play the position.
That's true. But to be honest I think he'd be a liability at Right back too. He just has no awareness that a defender should. Even at his best at City he had proper CH's and midfielders who could cover him when he bombed forward.
We don't defend as a team and individually are bloody atrocious. No one will cover his mistakes.

Which is why he needs to be properly coached. Lets face it, he's youngish, and he's effectively done fuck all for about 2-3 years. So he's not really been learning the trade during key years. He's still making the errors players make at 22-23.

I like his passion on the pitch but it's so mis-managed, not just by our managers and coaches but by Richards himself. He's got it all in his locker. Pace, strength and he's good in the air, and comfortable on the deck, but until he engages his brain and someone teaches him his trade properly, he's going to be a liability every half the time which will negate the other half of the time where he looks like the missing piece.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 02, 2016, 05:10:05 PM
Micah, to paraphrase the Godfather of Soul, Mister James Brown, please, please, please FUCK OFF!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 02, 2016, 05:11:06 PM
Wimp and shit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on January 02, 2016, 05:13:43 PM
Micah, to paraphrase the Godfather of Soul, Mister James Brown, please, please, please FUCK OFF!

He's been found to be Talking Loud and Saying Nothing, and his positional sense is Superbad.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: myf on January 02, 2016, 05:18:01 PM
Never liked the guy. Epitomises all that is wrong with avfc
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: itbrvilla on January 02, 2016, 05:23:14 PM
He's a ****** and can join the others on my list of current Villa related ******.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 02, 2016, 05:25:05 PM
With Hutton probably out for a while the perfect chance to stick him at RB and see if it improves anything. Bet it's Bacuna that plays there though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: curiousorange on January 02, 2016, 05:30:18 PM
Hate is a strong word, but I certainly hate Micah Richards. On his own he's crap, but even as an emblem of the current state of this club, he's everything I despise about it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on January 02, 2016, 05:34:26 PM
With Hutton probably out for a while the perfect chance to stick him at RB and see if it improves anything. Bet it's Bacuna that plays there though.

Hutton out? Are you mistaking him for Adama?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 02, 2016, 05:37:02 PM
With Hutton probably out for a while the perfect chance to stick him at RB and see if it improves anything. Bet it's Bacuna that plays there though.

Hutton out? Are you mistaking him for Adama?

Nope. Hutton went off with hamstring problems.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on January 02, 2016, 05:38:38 PM
Ah good news!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 02, 2016, 05:42:41 PM
Very good news indeed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 02, 2016, 05:49:06 PM
Very good news indeed.

Yeah, losing one of the few players that's shown week in, week out, 100% commitment will make it much easier for the lazy, headless chickens like Richards and Bacuna to blend in. If every player showed Hutton's dedication we may have at least 2 more points, maybe even 3.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on January 02, 2016, 05:53:22 PM
Very good news indeed.

Yeah, losing one of the few players that's shown week in, week out, 100% commitment will make it much easier for the lazy, headless chickens like Richards and Bacuna to blend in. If every player showed Hutton's dedication we may have at least 2 more points, maybe even 3.

Exactly right. Hutton has, and always was limited in terms of ability. But FFS, he is one of the FEW players who has given a shit about this club all season.

We've got plenty of spineless, gutless chancers who need booting out of VP before Alan Hutton.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on January 02, 2016, 05:54:26 PM
Very good news indeed.

Yeah, losing one of the few players that's shown week in, week out, 100% commitment will make it much easier for the lazy, headless chickens like Richards and Bacuna to blend in. If every player showed Hutton's dedication we may have at least 2 more points, maybe even 3.

Constantly passing the ball to a dodgy, headless-chicken defender in attacking positions has been one of our poorest tactics.

I don't question his commitment, he's just not very good.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Goldie.7 on January 02, 2016, 05:57:02 PM
Hutton is beyond garbage and shouldn't be applying his shit trade anywhere near us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Goldie.7 on January 02, 2016, 05:59:06 PM
As for Richards he can do one too. Horrendous player, leader my arse! All I seem to see him doing is make some odd chewing movement with his mouth and do a lot of worried pointing.

Didn't want him when he was reportedly signing, definitely don't want him in the team now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 02, 2016, 06:00:10 PM
Hutton is beyond garbage and shouldn't be applying his shit trade anywhere us.

He should have gone in the summer, stock was high after getting back in to the team and we'd have got a couple of quid for him. He's an atrocious defender.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 02, 2016, 06:03:38 PM
Hutton is beyond garbage and shouldn't be applying his shit trade anywhere us.

He should have gone in the summer, stock was high after getting back in to the team and we'd have got a couple of quid for him. He's an atrocious defender.

Compared to that clown, Richards, he's Franco Baresi.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: curiousorange on January 02, 2016, 06:09:07 PM
If anybody does happen across Micah Richards on their travels, would you mind awfully screaming "you're a right back" in his face please?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ktvillan on January 02, 2016, 06:28:42 PM
Very good news indeed.

Yeah, losing one of the few players that's shown week in, week out, 100% commitment will make it much easier for the lazy, headless chickens like Richards and Bacuna to blend in. If every player showed Hutton's dedication we may have at least 2 more points, maybe even 3.

Exactly right. Hutton has, and always was limited in terms of ability. But FFS, he is one of the FEW players who has given a shit about this club all season.

We've got plenty of spineless, gutless chancers who need booting out of VP before Alan Hutton.

I must have been watching a different Hutton because the one I've seen shows plenty of willing to get forward and spoon a pathetic attempt at a cross into the keeper's hands but very little to get back into position or close down the opposition when they have the ball.  A gentle jog back, or casually ball watching as his winger drifts in behind him to score.  If that's him being 100% committed then the mind boggles at how bad he could be if he started slacking.  Or perhaps you're confusing his obvious enthusiasm for a ruck, inviting red and yellow cards, for commitment?  I think he's been bloody awful this season. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on January 02, 2016, 06:52:42 PM
Alan Hutton will leave Villa Park in the fullness of time.  When he goes, he goes with my respect for his professionalism, attitude and effort.  That he doesn't measure up to the standard of footballer required at this level and at this club is not his fault.  I can't play the piano but it doesn't stop me trying.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 02, 2016, 06:55:54 PM
Alan Hutton will leave Villa Park in the fullness of time.  When he goes, he goes with my respect for his professionalism, attitude and effort.  That he doesn't measure up to the standard of footballer required at this level and at this club is not his fault.  I can't play the piano but it doesn't stop me trying.

Spot on. I would prefer someone else there, but Hutton is one of the few in the side I have any time for.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: claret and blue blood on January 02, 2016, 07:02:47 PM
Hutton is a terrible player and should be nowhere near the team, likewise Richards who has proved to be a reckless liability , the appearance of Okore alongside Lescott gave a frustratingly brief glimpse of a decent pairing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on January 02, 2016, 07:21:47 PM
If Hutton was always mouthing off, tweeting stupidity or recommending our players to leave he'd get more stick from me. As it is he's a trier but just not the best. I wish more of our players tried.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 02, 2016, 07:25:10 PM
Well we are going to find out soon enough about Richards and playing RB. Looks like Hutton has an injury and Okore should be fit to start next game. Richards should start at RB.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Goldie.7 on January 02, 2016, 07:28:19 PM
I reckon there'll be more chance of seeing Bacuna back there.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 02, 2016, 07:32:47 PM
Moving Micah around all over the shop, or effectively moving him into midfield to keep him out of trouble is a bad idea. We need to decide on his long term position. If that is still CH, he's got to really be worked on. That means giving him a decent partner and perhaps hiring a decent defensive coach because clearly whatever we're doing in training is not making a blind bit of difference as our organisation is non-existent. Four headless chickens and a deer caught in headlights between the sticks.

I'd rather move him out of the exit door to be honest.  Much like a number of the players stealing a living of the club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulTheVillan on January 02, 2016, 07:43:24 PM
Richards is no leader if he's willing to see Hutton playing right back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 02, 2016, 07:46:07 PM
Sherwood junior.  Throws everyone else under a bus to save his sorry arse.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on January 02, 2016, 07:49:30 PM
Richards is no leader if he's willing to see Hutton playing right back.

I don't think it's really his decision whether to pick Hutton or not.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 02, 2016, 09:09:08 PM
Alan Hutton will leave Villa Park in the fullness of time.  When he goes, he goes with my respect for his professionalism, attitude and effort.  That he doesn't measure up to the standard of footballer required at this level and at this club is not his fault.  I can't play the piano but it doesn't stop me trying.

Spot on. I would prefer someone else there, but Hutton is one of the few in the side I have any time for.

I agree. (Although in my case it's bass guitar that sends the dog running)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on January 02, 2016, 11:08:05 PM
We should have a banner based on the Chelsea one for their captain. Words used to describe our defending this evening.

CALAMITOUS, LAUGHABLE, MISTAKE AFTER MISTAKE.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 02, 2016, 11:24:30 PM
Whatever we think of the snake, at least you knew he'd leave nothing on the field.

Richards showed no desire to prevent any of the three goals today.

There's plenty of people whose back I want to see moving though the exit door, and he's one of the main culprits.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on January 02, 2016, 11:27:27 PM
I didn't think he was too bad at CB in the early weeks but he's mirrored our form big time and has got more hopeless by the weeks, his positional sense has been as bad as I thought it would be and what I remember from when he played there at City and Dunne had to bail him out time and again.

If he has to play it has to be at RB. Him there, Adama also starting out wide and suddenly our team has a bit more pace in wide areas and looks more threatening.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villabear on January 03, 2016, 01:04:31 PM
Micah just on Twitter:
"I just want to say to all of you great Villa fans that I can assure you that me, the whole team and everyone at the club will be giving absolutely everything from now until the end of the season. There are 18 games to go and we will give everything for the badge! #UTV
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pete3206 on January 03, 2016, 01:07:04 PM
Fuck off. (not you villabear!)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on January 03, 2016, 01:18:45 PM
Micah just on Twitter:
"I just want to say to all of you great Villa fans that I can assure you that me, the whole team and everyone at the club will be giving absolutely everything from now until the end of the season. There are 18 games to go and we will give everything for the badge! #UTV

I'm sick and tired of all these bullshit quotes on social media, just go out there and fucking show us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on January 03, 2016, 01:19:49 PM
Micah just on Twitter:
"I just want to say to all of you great Villa fans that I can assure you that me, the whole team and everyone at the club will be giving absolutely everything from now until the end of the season. There are 18 games to go and we will give everything for the badge! #UTV

what a wanker

pity they couldnt be arsed for the first 20 games

if anyone wants him fuck him off in the window
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: itbrvilla on January 03, 2016, 01:26:17 PM
This ****** was one of the worst yesterday.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 03, 2016, 01:33:46 PM
Micah just on Twitter:
"I just want to say to all of you great Villa fans that I can assure you that me, the whole team and everyone at the club will be giving absolutely everything from now until the end of the season. There are 18 games to go and we will give everything for the badge! #UTV

Instead of telling us, why don't you show us you bunch of wet lettuces?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on January 03, 2016, 01:37:29 PM
Exactly.

Talks the talk but never walks the walk. Acts the tough guy in tunnels or where it doesn't matter.

Do it on the pitch. Be a fucking Captain. Be a fucking leader.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on January 03, 2016, 01:42:36 PM
If there is one thing I detest more than wastrel footballers, it's patronising, wastrel footballers.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on January 03, 2016, 01:44:38 PM
If  he played as much attention to his game when  he is not suspended or injured it would be a start.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on January 03, 2016, 01:46:26 PM
Fucking weasel.

Him and Clark a between then 70 international cap pairing. Both utterly useless.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on January 03, 2016, 01:48:05 PM
I didn't think he was too bad at CB in the early weeks but he's mirrored our form big time and has got more hopeless by the weeks, his positional sense has been as bad as I thought it would be and what I remember from when he played there at City and Dunne had to bail him out time and again.

If he has to play it has to be at RB. Him there, Adama also starting out wide and suddenly our team has a bit more pace in wide areas and looks more threatening.

I agree about his first few games, he was great. He has got worse though and it's time to put him back where should be playing. With Hutton out injured by the look of it, it's the ideal time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on January 03, 2016, 01:48:47 PM
Fucking weasel.

Him and Clark a between then 70 international cap pairing. Both utterly useless.

Seems it is nearer 30 - sorry for misinformaition
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 03, 2016, 01:55:45 PM
Micah just on Twitter:
"I just want to say to all of you great Villa fans that I can assure you that me, the whole team and everyone at the club will be giving absolutely everything from now until the end of the season. There are 18 games to go and we will give everything for the badge! #UTV

I'm sick and tired of all these bullshit quotes on social media, just go out there and fucking show us.

At the very least get it right.

The badge is a piece of fabric that you'll kiss for whoever is paying you the most money.

You're doing it for the fans.  Especially those that invest vast amounts of time and money following you around the country with a return of

F¤¤k all
(SQRT) F¤¤k all.

It must be like being a groupie following your favourite band around.

Turn up at every gig knowing that there's a good chance you're going to get  f¤¤ked by a least one of the band
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on January 03, 2016, 02:00:31 PM
We'll thank goodness
No worries now I feel becalmed by that tweet
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on January 03, 2016, 02:11:24 PM
And there was me fretting.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on January 03, 2016, 02:15:25 PM
It's great news and I'm sure has given everybody a real lift along with the news about the revenue from kit sponsorship. I look forward to captain fantastic kissing the badge when we secure a much needed point at home to Norwich.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on January 03, 2016, 02:17:37 PM
I feel sorry for the reporter. Take the gum out when you speak Micah.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on January 03, 2016, 02:27:20 PM
It's great news and I'm sure has given everybody a real lift along with the news about the revenue from kit sponsorship. I look forward to captain fantastic kissing the badge when we secure a much needed point at home to Norwich.

A point at home to Norwich? Oh you mad, crazy, optimistic fool you! 😏
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Proposition Joe on January 03, 2016, 02:28:20 PM
Sunderland's second goal showed why he should not be a centre back.  Stepping out into no man's land and leaving Lescott 1 on 1.  His positioning is all over the place.

Get him at RB, Okore and Lescott in the middle.  If he moans and will only play CB, send him to the U21s.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Singapore Villa on January 03, 2016, 02:38:52 PM
Ban the players from social media and only information based articles on the official website.  Completely fed up with all the nonsense that we are made to read. Show us you care on the f****ng pitch! 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 03, 2016, 02:46:19 PM
Exactly.

Talks the talk but never walks the walk. Acts the tough guy in tunnels or where it doesn't matter.

Do it on the pitch. Be a fucking Captain. Be a fucking leader.

I think he's too much of a loose cannon to be captain material.  A good captain should be a calming influence whenever there's any agro on the field, not jumping in and making it worse.

That said, there's nobody in the squad is would consider appropriate as a captain.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: passport1 on January 03, 2016, 11:55:55 PM
He reacts to situations rather than anticipating them as an experienced centre half would .Infact with his poor reading of the game combined with Guzans it is truly frightening.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 04, 2016, 12:02:29 AM
I feel sorry for the reporter. Take the gum out when you speak Micah.
Take the gum out of your arse Micah when you jump.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on January 04, 2016, 12:08:34 AM
id play him right back until the season end in every minute of every game

maybe just maybe he might play himself into some bit of form for some chump manager to bring this charlatan in their club next season

with the length of his contract, we need rid of him asap in the summer

dont think Micah's ego would take playing in the championship, better playing for fake medals like the one Citeh gave him one year when he hadnt played the required number of games
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nigel on January 04, 2016, 08:51:47 AM
He reacts to situations rather than anticipating them as an experienced centre half would .Infact with his poor reading of the game combined with Guzans it is truly frightening.

Guzan has the worst back 4 playing in front of him that I've witnessed for a Villa team.
It's little wonder he makes mistakes, he's having to concentrate on four other players games as well as his own.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on January 04, 2016, 08:54:59 AM
Perhaps the back four are unsettled by having such a bag of jelly between the sticks.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 04, 2016, 08:57:55 AM
I'd been frustrated but understanding of both Sherwood's and Garde's reluctance to play him at right back without Okore to fill in at centre back, but Saturday pissed me off.
Especially as the centre pairing that's looked least shit so far is Okore and Lescott.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nigel on January 04, 2016, 10:59:26 AM
Perhaps the back four are unsettled by having such a bag of jelly between the sticks.

I think that's very unlikely, Brian.

I think we all know that Guzan and Benteke, between them, kept us in the Prem for two or three seasons on their own, so we know that he's a very capable keeper.

I reckon that Peter Shilton and Gordon Banks (arguably the best two ever) would be reduced to shivering wrecks behind our back four    ;D
 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nigel on January 04, 2016, 11:06:44 AM
I'd been frustrated but understanding of both Sherwood's and Garde's reluctance to play him at right back without Okore to fill in at centre back, but Saturday pissed me off.
Especially as the centre pairing that's looked least shit so far is Okore and Lescott.

I'd read that Okore was carrying a knock, which was why he didnt start.
I can only assume that it's not a bad one as he was on the bench.

At the end of last season the Okore/Clark combo was looking good.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brend'Watkins on January 04, 2016, 11:06:50 AM
I'd been frustrated but understanding of both Sherwood's and Garde's reluctance to play him at right back without Okore to fill in at centre back, but Saturday pissed me off.
Especially as the centre pairing that's looked least shit so far is Okore and Lescott.

I didn't get that either. Why drop Okore when he has been less shit than anyone else in the middle? 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 04, 2016, 11:41:20 AM
I'd been frustrated but understanding of both Sherwood's and Garde's reluctance to play him at right back without Okore to fill in at centre back, but Saturday pissed me off.
Especially as the centre pairing that's looked least shit so far is Okore and Lescott.

I didn't get that either. Why drop Okore when he has been less shit than anyone else in the middle? 

He missed the Norwich game due to inflammation in the knee he's had two operations on which is obviously fair enough. But if he was fit enough to be on the bench, then presumably he was fit enough to start and could have missed Wycombe if necessary.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on January 04, 2016, 11:52:49 AM
The thought that it might be in his contract that he only plays at Centre half, if this was anyone else but the Aston Villa administration team, better known as the Chuckle Brothers, would be absolutely outrageous, even if it is, tell him this is where he needs to play, right back, if he does not like it he can go forth and multiply in the summer which he will probably do anyhow. Plays crap bomb squad him, it is not as if we have not done that to better players than him before.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on January 04, 2016, 11:55:08 AM
Oh and by the way stay of Twitter you Twat, do all your talking out on the pitch or under the supervision of a comms / media officer from Villa Park (if we have one) as it seems to be taking you longer after each twatter to get your boots out of your mouth.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cheltenhamlion on January 04, 2016, 05:19:33 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.

I heard different. There is nothing in his contract to say where he plays but he pointedly refuses to play at full back. A pretty bad egg around the club as well so I am told.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 04, 2016, 06:42:23 PM
fuck the fucker right off if true.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cheltenhamlion on January 04, 2016, 06:45:38 PM
I would fuck him off in January if someone takes on his wages. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Irish villain on January 04, 2016, 06:49:16 PM
To go from having captains and natural leaders such as Richardson, Townsend, Southgate, Melberg, Barry, Laursen and Petrov to the ones of recent years (Bent and Gabby were also appointed captains at one time right?) speaks volumes really.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on January 04, 2016, 06:51:04 PM
To go from having captains and natural leaders such as Richardson, Townsend, Southgate, Melberg, Barry, Laursen and Petrov to the ones of recent years (Bent and Gabby were also appointed captains at one time right?) speaks volumes really.

It just proves that the standard of players we signed over the years was in a steep decline.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Flamingo Lane on January 04, 2016, 06:56:47 PM
I'd also like to see him got rid of at the earliest possible opportunity.

In fact, I'd have Stanley the Vitality sausage dog in at full back before Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on January 04, 2016, 07:06:50 PM
I would fuck him off in January if someone takes on his wages.

seconded

i wouldnt mind if the wanker was any good
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 04, 2016, 07:33:55 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.

I heard different. There is nothing in his contract to say where he plays but he pointedly refuses to play at full back. A pretty bad egg around the club as well so I am told.

Then he should be dropped and left out of the squad until we can sell him in the Summer. Anyone making any kind of waves at the moment should be kicked to the curb and replaced by the youth team. We have nothing to lose, we have no points anyway, we need to start clamping down on shirkers and wankers now and set the disciplinary scene for next season now. ''Project championship'' needs to start today.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on January 04, 2016, 07:41:48 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.

I heard different. There is nothing in his contract to say where he plays but he pointedly refuses to play at full back. A pretty bad egg around the club as well so I am told.

Then he should be dropped and left out of the squad until we can sell him in the Summer. Anyone making any kind of waves at the moment should be kicked to the curb and replaced by the youth team. We have nothing to lose, we have no points anyway, we need to start clamping down on shirkers and wankers now and set the disciplinary scene for next season now. ''Project championship'' needs to start today.

agree 100%

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 04, 2016, 08:45:35 PM
I don't agree with much of what you say aj2k77 but if cheltenham's info is correct then I think that you're right on that one. We actually look worse with him lining up at centre back, as incredible as that seems.

If his head is so far up his arse that he refuses to play full back then:
1. Drop him. It's not as though we're weakening the team by not playing him at all
2. If it's not in his contract (and regardless of whether Karl or cheltenham are right, they've both heard that it isn't contractual that he can't play fullback) then if he's refusing then surely he's in breach of contract. Hopefully that would result in loss of wages / opening to tear up contract.

If he's actually willing to play there and it was Remi's call on Saturday then to me that's one almighty bollock dropped.

See what the line up is for Wycombe if Hutton's out. If Richards is in the starting 11 and anywhere other than right back then you'll probably hear me scream from there.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 04, 2016, 08:56:44 PM
If it's Bacuna right back and Richardson left back I'll join you in the screaming.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 04, 2016, 08:58:01 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.
I heard different. There is nothing in his contract to say where he plays but he pointedly refuses to play at full back. A pretty bad egg around the club as well so I am told.
So whilst  not explicitly written in the contract Sherwood must have agreed and convinced him that he will only play centre back. If so it's disgraceful neglect of duty by the then manager.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 04, 2016, 09:06:12 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.
I heard different. There is nothing in his contract to say where he plays but he pointedly refuses to play at full back. A pretty bad egg around the club as well so I am told.
So whilst  not explicitly written in the contract Sherwood must have agreed and convinced him that he will only play centre back. If so it's disgraceful neglect of duty by the then manager.
You expected anything else from Tim Charlatan?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 04, 2016, 09:07:31 PM
No... the Chisler was only interested in one thing!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cheltenhamlion on January 04, 2016, 09:42:07 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.
I heard different. There is nothing in his contract to say where he plays but he pointedly refuses to play at full back. A pretty bad egg around the club as well so I am told.
So whilst  not explicitly written in the contract Sherwood must have agreed and convinced him that he will only play centre back. If so it's disgraceful neglect of duty by the then manager.

Without revealing too much, that is about the size of it. And he hasn't stopped playing up like a kid disgusted with what was in his Christmas stocking since Tactics got the boot.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 04, 2016, 09:48:03 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.
I heard different. There is nothing in his contract to say where he plays but he pointedly refuses to play at full back. A pretty bad egg around the club as well so I am told.
So whilst  not explicitly written in the contract Sherwood must have agreed and convinced him that he will only play centre back. If so it's disgraceful neglect of duty by the then manager.

Without revealing too much, that is about the size of it. And he hasn't stopped playing up like a kid disgusted with what was in his Christmas stocking since Tactics got the boot.

The rumours about the "gentlemen's (ha f##king ha) agreement were circulating around the time he signed.  What a pair of - INSERT EXPLETIVE(S) OF OWN CHOICE.

If he wants maybe we could send some of the more prolific posters from the shithouse thread to leave something in his stockings.  They say actions speak louder than words.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on January 04, 2016, 09:48:54 PM
Like I said over on the the other thread, it doesn't sound like the kind of thing Garde would stand for. I'm trying not to come across that i'm doubting cheltenhamlion, just putting a different slant on it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on January 04, 2016, 09:50:01 PM
If true get rid ASAP.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cheltenhamlion on January 04, 2016, 09:58:13 PM
Like I said over on the the other thread, it doesn't sound like the kind of thing Garde would stand for. I'm trying not to come across that i'm doubting cheltenhamlion, just putting a different slant on it.

Doubt me all you like. I won't take it personally.

More than one person I rate for ITK has told me the same about Richards. Malignant is where we come back to.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 04, 2016, 10:05:56 PM
It says so much about the lack of discipline around Villa Park these days when you've got the bloody captain picking fights with people on twitter.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: four fornicholl on January 04, 2016, 10:19:44 PM
I maybe stating the obvious but he wont play fullback because he is an overpaid righteous lazy batarde
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on January 04, 2016, 10:26:00 PM
So it appears Delph may have been telling the truth about Richards encouraging him to jump ship.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on January 04, 2016, 10:40:55 PM
If I was manager and he refused to play full back he'd be in the reserves faster than you could say ******
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: glasses on January 04, 2016, 10:43:49 PM
It isn't in his contract I spoke to someone on Monday who has a long association with Micah and he is open to playing RB if it helps the team.

I heard different. There is nothing in his contract to say where he plays but he pointedly refuses to play at full back. A pretty bad egg around the club as well so I am told.
This seems believable to me. For some fuel for the fire I'd also watch a replay of his goal vs watford. A massive goal for us at the time, and boy did he celebrate.

Nobody celebrated with him. It always struck me as odd, that the captain scored, went ballistic, and none of his teammates seemed to give a shit. Remember thinking that was very telling
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 04, 2016, 10:49:53 PM
Seeing one or two things on twitter about Richards taking the piss out of Garde behind his back.

No proof of course, but is this really the behaviour expected of the captain of Aston Villa?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ian. on January 04, 2016, 10:52:04 PM
What is it with these Man City rejects and their so we're told behind the scenes attitudes? Dunne, Ireland, Richards...

I just hope Lescott does not develop one, what with being well past it and shit as well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: four fornicholl on January 04, 2016, 11:00:35 PM
he openly slagged off the French contingent as long ago as November when kmac was looking after us,
wanker
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 04, 2016, 11:05:16 PM
Seeing one or two things on twitter about Richards taking the piss out of Garde behind his back.
No proof of course, but is this really the behaviour expected of the captain of Aston Villa?
No it's the expected behaviour from Richards and it's unfortunate that some c*** appointed him as our captain.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: exigo on January 04, 2016, 11:11:17 PM
Strip him of the captaincy, fine him the maximum two weeks wages and show every other waste of a shirt that enough is enough.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on January 04, 2016, 11:16:13 PM
I'm suspicious about Richards.  It's no coincidence that we actually started to look a bit more solid at Newcastle and home to spam without him and as soon as he's back in the circus style defending has returned.  The issue is with him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on January 04, 2016, 11:22:41 PM
Can someone explain where Richards was for Sunderland's third goal?
He was nowhere to be seen when MOTD showed the goal, right from Bacuna's throw in till the goal, nowhere in sight!

This is a serious question as I would have expected our captain and CH to be in the vicinity of our penalty area, perhaps he was injured and off the pitch?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 04, 2016, 11:24:05 PM
So it appears Delph may have been telling the truth about Richards encouraging him to jump ship.
No matter how bad Richards is that slithering wanker two faced lying c*** will always trump him IMO. So we don't need to listen to him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on January 04, 2016, 11:26:20 PM
I'm convinced he's heavily involved in a dressing room split.  He came out with that article a while ago which was wholly ill advised effectively criticising the characters in the dressing room.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 04, 2016, 11:27:10 PM
Can someone explain where Richards was for Sunderland's third goal?


On twitter having an internet fight.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 04, 2016, 11:29:07 PM
I'm convinced he's heavily involved in a dressing room split.  He came out with that article a while ago which was wholly ill advised effectively criticising the characters in the dressing room.

The article where from memory he claimed the other players aren't trying as hard as he is? We have 8 pts, 8 measly points, of course there is a dressing room problem, a big one. This fucker will be there or there abouts.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Olof's Beard on January 04, 2016, 11:29:37 PM
Can someone explain where Richards was for Sunderland's third goal?
He was nowhere to be seen when MOTD showed the goal, right from Bacuna's throw in till the goal, nowhere in sight!

This is a serious question as I would have expected our captain and CH to be in the vicinity of our penalty area, perhaps he was injured and off the pitch?

You can see him in one of the replays, standing up on the half way line.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ian. on January 04, 2016, 11:31:17 PM
Can someone explain where Richards was for Sunderland's third goal?
He was nowhere to be seen when MOTD showed the goal, right from Bacuna's throw in till the goal, nowhere in sight!

This is a serious question as I would have expected our captain and CH to be in the vicinity of our penalty area, perhaps he was injured and off the pitch?
He was on his mobile tweeting Wrighty.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 04, 2016, 11:36:12 PM
I think Newcastle and West Ham showed that we are better at the back without him. West Ham the goal only came from the defensive re-organisation post Sanchez going off injured. Hutton was his usual liability but we at least held a back 4 for much of the game.

Richards is back and we concede comedy goal after comedy goal. I have never gone off a player so fast watching Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 04, 2016, 11:38:52 PM
Can someone explain where Richards was for Sunderland's third goal?
He was nowhere to be seen when MOTD showed the goal, right from Bacuna's throw in till the goal, nowhere in sight!

This is a serious question as I would have expected our captain and CH to be in the vicinity of our penalty area, perhaps he was injured and off the pitch?

I asked this on the match thread. He was literally no where to be seen. Bacuna ends up closest to Defoe.

What the feck was he doing, we had not just been laying siege the other end or anything.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: David_Nab on January 04, 2016, 11:42:30 PM
I think Newcastle and West Ham showed that we are better at the back without him. West Ham the goal only came from the defensive re-organisation post Sanchez going off injured. Hutton was his usual liability but we at least held a back 4 for much of the game.

Richards is back and we concede comedy goal after comedy goal. I have never gone off a player so fast watching Villa.

Combination of Richards returning and Sanchez being out

Just seems crazy we keep playing him at CB when all the video evidence shows he is causing us issues with his positioning and when at RB his good attributes speed and strength would easily make him a better option than Hutton
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Drummond on January 04, 2016, 11:44:43 PM
If all this is true then why the fuck are we giving him a game?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bully2345 on January 05, 2016, 07:20:43 AM
Richards spent the last ten minutes on Saturday going on his mad dashes up front with little effort to get back. By the time of the goal, I think he was playing up front
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on January 05, 2016, 09:08:11 AM
Richards being constantly out of position is bad enough but when Hutton does the same you can see as clear as day how we concede so many soft goals.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on January 05, 2016, 10:35:04 AM
I think Newcastle and West Ham showed that we are better at the back without him. West Ham the goal only came from the defensive re-organisation post Sanchez going off injured. Hutton was his usual liability but we at least held a back 4 for much of the game.

Richards is back and we concede comedy goal after comedy goal. I have never gone off a player so fast watching Villa.

Agree I'd punt him at right back for a couple of games though to see if he is any better than Hutton.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Quiet Lion on January 05, 2016, 01:17:33 PM
Even when he played at right back his positioning and concentration were his weakest points. Only a total idiot of Sherwoodesque proportions would think anyone with these specific deficiencies should play in the centre of defence.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on January 05, 2016, 01:22:41 PM
If all this is true then why the fuck are we giving him a game?

Because nobody as far as I can tell knows if it is true or not
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SamTheMouse on January 05, 2016, 01:23:40 PM
When he first made it into the Man City first team, I thought he looked a decent right-back, as he liked to go on rampaging runs forward and frequently caused havoc.

Then he played at CB and looked total rubbish, with no positional sense.

Plus ça change...
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bad English on January 05, 2016, 03:57:13 PM
I have just asked him (on Twitter) if he fancies playing left LB a bit. But I asked him in French.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 05, 2016, 05:46:37 PM
he probably knows more French than english
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on January 05, 2016, 06:24:08 PM
Seeing as we're all sticking the boot in for him being a tool - at City he used to impress the youth players (an old neighbour of mine being one of them) by doing handbrake turns in the car park at Citeh's old(?) training ground. At least he didn't stub Jamie Tandy's eye with a cigar, I guess. (Here's Joey's take on the latter incident if you're inclined to read it http://www.joeybarton.com/jamie-tandy-and-the-cigar/
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 05, 2016, 09:59:42 PM
Ian Taylor was really scathing about Richards on the radio last night.  Basically told him to shut up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulTheVillan on January 06, 2016, 09:22:52 AM
I believe Alan Hutton is contributing to the poor form of Richards.

Take a look at the average position of Hutton v Sunderland.

Look at the space Richards has to cover.

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/statszone/8-2015/matches/803352/team-stats/7/OVERALL_01#tabs-wrapper-anchor#:V8H3olfJfUXDVA

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Proposition Joe on January 06, 2016, 10:46:40 AM
I believe Alan Hutton is contributing to the poor form of Richards.

Take a look at the average position of Hutton v Sunderland.

Look at the space Richards has to cover.

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/statszone/8-2015/matches/803352/team-stats/7/OVERALL_01#tabs-wrapper-anchor#:V8H3olfJfUXDVA



Maybe, but Sunderland's second made me think it was the other way round.  The left side of defence drops back but Richards moves forward.  Hutton takes his lead from his captain and defensive "organiser" and also stays forward.  Meaning Lescott, who did the correct thing, was left all on his lonesome.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on January 06, 2016, 11:23:23 AM
I believe Alan Hutton is contributing to the poor form of Richards.

Take a look at the average position of Hutton v Sunderland.

Look at the space Richards has to cover.

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/statszone/8-2015/matches/803352/team-stats/7/OVERALL_01#tabs-wrapper-anchor#:V8H3olfJfUXDVA



Hutton is supposed to get forward and play slightly in front of the centre halves, Richards just does his own thing (i.e. awol for the 3rd goal)!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 06, 2016, 11:25:13 AM
I believe Alan Hutton is contributing to the poor form of Richards.

Take a look at the average position of Hutton v Sunderland.

Look at the space Richards has to cover.

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/statszone/8-2015/matches/803352/team-stats/7/OVERALL_01#tabs-wrapper-anchor#:V8H3olfJfUXDVA



Maybe, but Sunderland's second made me think it was the other way round.  The left side of defence drops back but Richards moves forward.  Hutton takes his lead from his captain and defensive "organiser" and also stays forward.  Meaning Lescott, who did the correct thing, was left all on his lonesome.

Whilst still not good enough, the defensive was noticeably less Keystone Cops like when Richards was out, with Hutton still playing at right back.

Neither of them are good enough as individuals where they're currently playing, but together they're the antithesis of being greater than the sum of your parts, they actually amplify each other's deficiencies.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on January 06, 2016, 12:19:44 PM
Didn't the West Ham goal come from a massive hole left by Hutton who had gone walkabout at that point? 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 06, 2016, 12:25:50 PM
It did, but also because Gil had come on down the right, where Westwood had been covering back for Hutton. Westwood moved, so there was a big hole.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on January 06, 2016, 01:16:52 PM
I believe Alan Hutton is contributing to the poor form of Richards.

He is, because despite putting in a lot of effort he's crap going forwards and defending, just as Richards is totally crap in the middle. The opposition don't mind him having the ball and bombing up the wing as they know there will be no end product which inevitably means they'll get the ball back and be able to attack down that side knowing he's stranded up the pitch or blowing out of his arse trying to get back

It's so glaringly obvious what needs doing
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 06, 2016, 01:34:06 PM
Hutton can't cross, so it's pointless him crossing the half way line.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 06, 2016, 06:39:11 PM
I sometimes wonder if we might be better off if none of them venture across the half way line.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on January 06, 2016, 06:47:32 PM
I sometimes wonder if we might be better off if none of them venture across the half way line.

TSM1 and TSM2 Version 2 had a damn good bash at that tactic.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 06, 2016, 08:37:55 PM
and we were never bottom
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pat McMahon on January 06, 2016, 10:16:00 PM
I sometimes wonder if we might be better off if none of them venture across the half way line.

We'd be better off if they didn't venture across the touch line.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on January 06, 2016, 11:01:26 PM
and we were never bottom

They knew a thing or two about a thing about or two.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on January 07, 2016, 11:52:07 AM
I sometimes wonder if we might be better off if none of them venture across the half way line.

We'd be better off if they didn't venture across the touch line.

Bravo
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: RussellC on January 07, 2016, 12:07:20 PM
Hutton isn't helped by the fact that that we don't keep possession very well in midfield or upfront. He's being asked to get forward and back constantly, but lose the ball so frequently and so quickly that he's often the fall guy when the whole team are caught out of shape.

I agree with the general consensus that he's still not good enough, but I think Richards at centre-half is more of a pressing concern.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: berneboy on January 07, 2016, 12:09:10 PM
Hutton isn't helped by the fact that that we don't keep possession very well in midfield or upfront. He's being asked to get forward and back constantly, but lose the ball so frequently and so quickly that he's often the fall guy when the whole team are caught out of shape.

I agree with the general consensus that he's still not good enough, but I think Richards at centre-half is more of a pressing concern.

I agree. Richards worries me. He seems to lack calmness and a real football brain. Strength and athleticism isn't enough.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on January 07, 2016, 12:22:47 PM
Hutton isn't helped by the fact that that we don't keep possession very well in midfield or upfront. He's being asked to get forward and back constantly, but lose the ball so frequently and so quickly that he's often the fall guy when the whole team are caught out of shape.

I agree with the general consensus that he's still not good enough, but I think Richards at centre-half is more of a pressing concern.

I agree. Richards worries me. He seems to lack calmness and a real football brain. Strength and athleticism isn't enough.

His positional sense and ability to "cover", seeing as he is the leading defender, is complete shite.

When I can muster the strength to watch any highlights I am consistently amazed at where he finds himself as the opposition - Sunderland ffs! - tear us apart with ease.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on January 07, 2016, 02:44:01 PM


With Hutton seemingly out, and Okore fit. If he doesn't play at right back this weekend i'll probably have a coronary

But unlike most i'd partner Okore with Clark in the hope they can recapture that partnership they started last season. Lescott can sit on his arse
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: AVH87 on January 07, 2016, 02:49:58 PM


With Hutton seemingly out, and Okore fit. If he doesn't play at right back this weekend i'll probably have a coronary

But unlike most i'd partner Okore with Clark in the hope they can recapture that partnership they started last season. Lescott can sit on his arse

I'd go with Lescott. Clark has had half a season where he has looked good enough out of about the last 6, Lescott had years of being a solid defender at Everton and Man City but is just a bit past it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on January 09, 2016, 12:09:43 AM
I can't remember the last time I disliked a Villa player as much as I do Richards.

Since he first rocked up and started recommending Man City to Delph he hasn't stopped gobbing off to the media and has been bloody annoying.

He has been bloody awful at centre half, constantly out of position and dropping clangers and keeping better players out of the team.

It also seems he has been a bad influence in the dressing room, with him being anti the french players in the press.

I really dislike him, and hope he gets sold pronto.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on January 09, 2016, 12:12:37 AM
I just think he's never been and never will a centre half. I think he'd be a really good right back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on January 09, 2016, 12:50:18 AM
I just think he's one of those horribly overrated players who lives off a couple of good seasons early on in his career - see also Stephen Ireland (although that wasmore like a good 6 months).

He's shown zero, nothing, zilch to suggest he's anywhere near Captain material and has largely been a liability. And that's before we start to mention his big mouth.

A bad influence allround.

Get rid if an offer comes along.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mister E on January 09, 2016, 07:27:06 AM
I just think he's one of those horribly overrated players who lives off a couple of good seasons early on in his career - see also Stephen Ireland (although that wasmore like a good 6 months).

He's shown zero, nothing, zilch to suggest he's anywhere near Captain material and has largely been a liability. And that's before we start to mention his big mouth.

A bad influence allround.

Get rid if an offer comes along.
CNZ is another example of a player living off one 6 month period.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 09, 2016, 08:58:06 AM
We seem to buy them too often
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on January 09, 2016, 09:01:37 AM


With Hutton seemingly out, and Okore fit. If he doesn't play at right back this weekend i'll probably have a coronary

But unlike most i'd partner Okore with Clark in the hope they can recapture that partnership they started last season. Lescott can sit on his arse

this

we need to be planning for the future and lescott isnt part of it
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on January 09, 2016, 02:52:48 PM
Micah Richards this season - Poor captain, poor centre back and now a poor right back.
A waste of resources
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on January 09, 2016, 02:56:07 PM
Blimey, just seen the footage of him "in a heavy conversation" with fans after the game.

Looks like fans were having a right pop at him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 09, 2016, 02:59:46 PM
He's shit. Doesn't deserve to captain a club like this.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ajdainty89 on January 09, 2016, 03:02:10 PM
I couldn't believe it when we signed him, it felt like we just re-brought Larsson. Since then Iv'e been wishing for him to go back to a right back,
Right back today now i'm wishing him to go back.



Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: bob on January 09, 2016, 03:04:50 PM
Terrible footballer
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on January 09, 2016, 03:10:17 PM
Disagree.....The shit Management and people running the club have destroyed the players confidence. All these players look decent anywhere than Villa. Need new ownership desperately. Most of it boils down to confidence which is completely shot with most of players with defeat after defeat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on January 09, 2016, 03:13:27 PM
Seemed to want to play his own game today and as a result, spent most of the game upfield.  We would get murdered against top flight opposition with him playing like that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on January 09, 2016, 03:16:36 PM
He's wank.

They showed the Man United goal this morning, he's jumping in an falling on his backside. That's fuck all to do with confidence, he's just shit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on January 09, 2016, 03:32:57 PM
Disagree.....The shit Management and people running the club have destroyed the players confidence. All these players look decent anywhere than Villa. Need new ownership desperately. Most of it boils down to confidence which is completely shot with most of players with defeat after defeat.

Disagree, the players aren't playing for the manager (whichever one it is) and that means a rotten dressing room to me. Garde's fighting an un winnable battle to my mind
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 09, 2016, 03:38:40 PM
so who are they playing for?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Walmley_Villa on January 09, 2016, 03:40:49 PM
so who are they playing for?

They aren't playing full stop.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on January 09, 2016, 03:41:27 PM
so who are they playing for?

clearly nobody
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 09, 2016, 03:59:56 PM
obviously but the implication was that they were specifically against Garde and reading between the lines pining for Tim
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: myf on January 09, 2016, 04:04:22 PM
Looks like hes been pumping weight and way too top heavy as well. Just a bit of a cock really. Theres no way he should be a captain. Thought his goal was lucky as well - didnt see many celebrating with him either
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on January 09, 2016, 04:07:19 PM
Looks like hes been pumping weight and way too top heavy as well. Just a bit of a cock really. Theres no way he should be a captain. Thought his goal was lucky as well - didnt see many celebrating with him either

Not much captain material in the squad though.
I thought he took his goal quite well, and I wouldn't look too deeply in the lack of celebration either. It's Division 4 Wycombe in the Cup not a PL match.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 09, 2016, 04:17:31 PM
Looks like hes been pumping weight and way too top heavy as well. Just a bit of a cock really. Theres no way he should be a captain. Thought his goal was lucky as well - didnt see many celebrating with him either

Not much captain material in the squad though.
I thought he took his goal quite well, and I wouldn't look too deeply in the lack of celebration either. It's Division 4 Wycombe in the Cup not a PL match.
There may or may not be anything in it, but it was similar when he scored against Watford.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on January 09, 2016, 04:18:37 PM
Looks like hes been pumping weight and way too top heavy as well. Just a bit of a cock really. Theres no way he should be a captain. Thought his goal was lucky as well - didnt see many celebrating with him either

Not much captain material in the squad though.
I thought he took his goal quite well, and I wouldn't look too deeply in the lack of celebration either. It's Division 4 Wycombe in the Cup not a PL match.
There may or may not be anything in it, but it was similar when he scored against Watford.

Well put it this way, I'd hope they'd be nothing in it. That's all we need.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on January 09, 2016, 04:21:03 PM
Who was it who, when he scored once, bent down and picked a bit of mud off his boot while ignoring everyone?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on January 09, 2016, 04:24:01 PM
Atkinson?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on January 09, 2016, 04:25:14 PM
He made a massive deal about Gil not running on to his pass too - way over the top.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Smirker on January 09, 2016, 04:25:31 PM
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/micah-richards-speaks-to-furious-aston-villa-fans-after-the-draw-at-wycombe-video/

Video of confrontation. Apologies if posted already.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 09, 2016, 04:26:39 PM
Who was it who, when he scored once, bent down and picked a bit of mud off his boot while ignoring everyone?

No idea but I never saw Sid celebrate a goal he'd scored.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: passport1 on January 09, 2016, 04:29:36 PM
Post goal celebrations this season. That could be the shortest thread ever.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on January 09, 2016, 04:29:56 PM
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/micah-richards-speaks-to-furious-aston-villa-fans-after-the-draw-at-wycombe-video/

Video of confrontation. Apologies if posted already.
At least he faced them
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 09, 2016, 04:35:39 PM
Looks like hes been pumping weight and way too top heavy as well. Just a bit of a cock really. Theres no way he should be a captain. Thought his goal was lucky as well - didnt see many celebrating with him either

Not much captain material in the squad though.
I thought he took his goal quite well, and I wouldn't look too deeply in the lack of celebration either. It's Division 4 Wycombe in the Cup not a PL match.
There may or may not be anything in it, but it was similar when he scored against Watford.

Well put it this way, I'd hope they'd be nothing in it. That's all we need.

I have a nasty feeling that that's where we've been pretty much from day 1 and the shit hit  the fan after Leicester. That was where Sherwood started the "nothing to do with me" routine and Richards was quoted about dressing room splits, whilst also managing to paint it all onto the French recruits.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 09, 2016, 04:38:51 PM
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/micah-richards-speaks-to-furious-aston-villa-fans-after-the-draw-at-wycombe-video/

Video of confrontation. Apologies if posted already.
At least he faced them

Yep, fair play to him for that. Didn't seem much of a heated confrontation, although hard to hear what Richards is saying in reply.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on January 09, 2016, 04:38:59 PM
Is it possible to hear what he actually said?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on January 09, 2016, 04:41:19 PM
Is it possible to hear what he actually said?

"I could be in Barbados you ungrateful plebs"
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Richard on January 09, 2016, 04:43:22 PM
Nothing to see here move on - thought it was a frank but not heated discussion about a lack of passion from the whole team
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Taylor on January 09, 2016, 04:43:38 PM
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/micah-richards-speaks-to-furious-aston-villa-fans-after-the-draw-at-wycombe-video/

Video of confrontation. Apologies if posted already.
At least he faced them

Yep, fair play to him for that. Didn't seem much of a heated confrontation, although hard to hear what Richards is saying in reply.
It all looks quite amicable to me, still would be interesting to hear what was said.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 09, 2016, 04:44:30 PM
Bournemouth reserves winning at the Sty.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 09, 2016, 04:44:48 PM
Bollocks, wrong thread!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on January 09, 2016, 04:45:22 PM
Is it possible to hear what he actually said?

Which one of you wants to chauffeur me home?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on January 09, 2016, 04:45:45 PM
Bournemouth reserves winning at the Sty.

Bit of good news today after all!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on January 09, 2016, 04:47:17 PM
Looks like hes been pumping weight and way too top heavy as well. Just a bit of a cock really. Theres no way he should be a captain. Thought his goal was lucky as well - didnt see many celebrating with him either

Not much captain material in the squad though.
I thought he took his goal quite well, and I wouldn't look too deeply in the lack of celebration either. It's Division 4 Wycombe in the Cup not a PL match.
There may or may not be anything in it, but it was similar when he scored against Watford.

Well put it this way, I'd hope they'd be nothing in it. That's all we need.

I have a nasty feeling that that's where we've been pretty much from day 1 and the shit hit  the fan after Leicester. That was where Sherwood started the "nothing to do with me" routine and Richards was quoted about dressing room splits, whilst also managing to paint it all onto the French recruits.

What a mess. I hate all this.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Duncan Shaw on January 09, 2016, 04:48:07 PM
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/micah-richards-speaks-to-furious-aston-villa-fans-after-the-draw-at-wycombe-video/

Video of confrontation. Apologies if posted already.
At least he faced them

Yep, fair play to him for that. Didn't seem much of a heated confrontation, although hard to hear what Richards is saying in reply.

It all looks quite amicable to me, still would be interesting to hear what was said.
This for me too, he's actually gone up in my estimation here as I thought I was going to see him having a go in a heated exchange.  He seems to be agreeing and debating calmly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: itbrvilla on January 09, 2016, 04:59:39 PM
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/micah-richards-speaks-to-furious-aston-villa-fans-after-the-draw-at-wycombe-video/

Video of confrontation. Apologies if posted already.
At least he faced them

Yep, fair play to him for that. Didn't seem much of a heated confrontation, although hard to hear what Richards is saying in reply.

It all looks quite amicable to me, still would be interesting to hear what was said.
This for me too, he's actually gone up in my estimation here as I thought I was going to see him having a go in a heated exchange.  He seems to be agreeing and debating calmly.
He still fucking shit.  And a baby. Why worry what Ian Wright has to say? Get on with it and prove him wrong... sorry,   you actually can't cause your fucking shit and certainly not a leader by example Micah.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on January 09, 2016, 05:11:04 PM
He did stay calm but can you imagine if he hadn't with cameras everywhere would've been the end for him he ain't that stupid.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 09, 2016, 05:15:14 PM
Garde has come out and defended him also which will go a long way in their relationship and in the dressing room. The fans have every right to be heard and feel the way they do especially the ones who follow the club around the country. But Richards handles it well and doesn't get into it with them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: lovejoy on January 09, 2016, 05:22:09 PM
Micah Ricahrds has gone up in my estimations today, respect to him for facing the fans like that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on January 09, 2016, 05:23:51 PM
Micah Ricahrds has gone up in my estimations today, respect to him for facing the fans like that.

Yeah, he's my new Villa hero.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mellin on January 09, 2016, 05:26:47 PM
He's not the most intelligent footballer, but I do think the effort's there. His weakness is positional, not work rate. Fair play to him for talking to the fans. Doesn't make him a hero, but there's a middle ground and it was a nice touch.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: curiousorange on January 09, 2016, 05:35:10 PM
Although I couldn't follow the exchange, Richards did the right thing by engaging with the fans. At a time when the whole country is laughing at us, the last thing you want is to feel the side aren't hearing how much it hurts.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JUAN PABLO on January 09, 2016, 05:36:27 PM
Micah Ricahrds has gone up in my estimations today, respect to him for facing the fans like that.

yep  better than running off like the others



I thought he did ok at RB actually , looked more threatening than Hutton.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on January 09, 2016, 05:37:47 PM
But what about his positioning as a right back?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JUAN PABLO on January 09, 2016, 05:38:15 PM
and yes I know his positioning  at times was poor but Mcgrath , sometimes Hutton is playing on Mars at the same time .
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on January 09, 2016, 05:39:27 PM
In fairness we are talking about today
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JUAN PABLO on January 09, 2016, 05:40:01 PM
Id prefer Richards , Okore , Lescott and Aly to be honest.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JUAN PABLO on January 09, 2016, 05:42:13 PM
In fairness we are talking about today

I know

and Hutton as cost us lots of points this season

I saw one bad time but he did get back to sort it .

Its not the answer but I just prefer him at RB than Hutton as Huttons final ball is awful and hes costing us more goals and Richards will cost us more at CB.

 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on January 09, 2016, 05:45:18 PM
I agree about Hutton and have been wanting Richards at right back from day one but his positioning today was awful, on more than your one occasion
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Eigentor on January 09, 2016, 05:53:41 PM
Today he was a liability in defence -- against Wycombe. Attackingly he wasn't so poor, maybe he can play in midfield (for 60 minutes). I'm not sure he would be worse than Westwood or Bacuna.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on January 09, 2016, 06:55:42 PM
I wouldn't fuck with him, he's a big lad.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Olof's Beard on January 09, 2016, 07:18:01 PM
But what about his positioning as a right back?

The exchange with the fans came before he was taken off.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Quiet Lion on January 09, 2016, 07:24:39 PM
But what about his positioning as a right back?

The exchange with the fans came before he was taken off.

Excellent
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: themossman on January 09, 2016, 07:39:41 PM
Micah Ricahrds has gone up in my estimations today, respect to him for facing the fans like that.

Yeah, he's my new Villa hero.

Lol'd.

I also respect him slightly more for getting amongst the fans. Fact remains he's a crap centre back and a crap leader. He thinks 'straight talking' is leadership and that talking shit on Twitter is the same thing, also that petulance = passion. I actually think if he could be put in his place, literally and figuratively, he could be good for us. But he's clearly thought he's doing us all a favour by being here since the day he rocked up and I can't see that changing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 09, 2016, 08:03:47 PM
At least the fans who confronted Richards appeared to be attempting a reasonable discussion with him.  Compared to the moronic behaviour of the ones outside the coach......
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on January 09, 2016, 08:06:37 PM
At least the fans who confronted Richards appeared to be attempting a reasonable discussion with him.  Compared to the moronic behaviour of the ones outside the coach......

The fact that there was no pane of glass in between them and the player might explain that one!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on January 09, 2016, 09:11:29 PM
The bloke is a grade A twunt.  Listening to him when we signed talking about his time in italy, I thought we might be getting somebody special, somebody who had moved to a foreign league to better themselves and expand their understanding of the game.  But no, he's just your usual thick as pig shit English footballer, and he's crap as well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on January 09, 2016, 09:19:16 PM
He is the player I most dislike in this team (saying something). A piss poor central defender, trouble maker and a total gobshite in the media.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on January 09, 2016, 09:33:32 PM
He is the player I most dislike in this team (saying something). A piss poor central defender, trouble maker and a total gobshite in the media.

As disappointed as I am with Micah, kudos to him for speaking to those fans.

I certainly hate Bacuna far more, smiling away and not caring one shit about anything to do with our football club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on January 09, 2016, 10:28:47 PM
I certainly hate Bacuna far more, smiling away and not caring one shit about anything to do with our football club.

I remember reading on here somebody who did work at his house and apparently it's basically a shrine to Aston Villa. And that he's extremely aware about how lucky he is to play for us.

Doesn't make him any better a footballer, but I don't see why him not being very good means he doesn't care. At the very least, I'd expect he'd care about his reduced wages next season in the Championship.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Harte on January 09, 2016, 10:33:14 PM
I certainly hate Bacuna far more, smiling away and not caring one shit about anything to do with our football club.

I remember reading on here somebody who did work at his house and apparently it's basically a shrine to Aston Villa. And that he's extremely aware about how lucky he is to play for us.

Doesn't make him any better a footballer, but I don't see why him not being very good means he doesn't care. At the very least, I'd expect he'd care about his reduced wages next season in the Championship.
Are people's reactions being weighted by Stan Collymore's comments about Bacuna's instagram from yesterday? I don't see what he'd done wrong, unless saying (to paraphrase) "try to take the positives from the negative stuff" is a bad thing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 09, 2016, 10:38:37 PM
He is the player I most dislike in this team (saying something). A piss poor central defender, trouble maker and a total gobshite in the media.

As disappointed as I am with Micah, kudos to him for speaking to those fans.

I certainly hate Bacuna far more, smiling away and not caring one shit about anything to do with our football club.

Some people react that way when they're nervous, stressed, under pressure or know that they've f##ked up.

It's called a nervous smile.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: bob on January 10, 2016, 01:26:12 AM
I don't respect him any more for speaking to those fans.

Their exchange is worth precisely the square root of fuck all.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 10, 2016, 01:30:02 AM
He is the player I most dislike in this team (saying something). A piss poor central defender, trouble maker and a total gobshite in the media.

As disappointed as I am with Micah, kudos to him for speaking to those fans.

I certainly hate Bacuna far more, smiling away and not caring one shit about anything to do with our football club.

Some people react that way when they're nervous, stressed, under pressure or know that they've f##ked up.

It's called a nervous smile.

I think Bacuna is smiling much of the time because it is his way of dealing with it. He works as hard as anyone, as ineffective as he may be.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: peter w on January 10, 2016, 01:35:58 AM
I like bacuna. he's not good enough for the Prem and it's 50/50 whether he is good enough for the Championship but you can see playing for us really means something to him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt C on January 10, 2016, 02:22:59 AM
I'd agree with that; it certainly doesn't look like he's not trying, he's just not very good - like a lot of them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Hoppo on January 10, 2016, 02:53:27 AM
Bacuna is crap. Utility player because he is crap everywhere.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 10, 2016, 02:59:03 AM
The other day I watched the season review DVD for last season (well I do love me some horror!) surprised me how many of our goals Bacuna was involved in during our all too brief spell of playing well under Sherwood.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on January 10, 2016, 06:37:42 AM
Richards I believe is the person who is the main divider in the dressing room and if Garde had any balls that Captains armband would be taken off him in a nano second. Poisonous self indulging twat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on January 10, 2016, 07:08:00 AM
Agree Kuwait. All the signs are, and have been since his encouragement of Delph to leave, that he is a massively disruptive influence.

All the social media twittering, the tunnel fighting, the Norwich shoveathon, the fan scrum by the dug out at Wycombe is a cover for his rabble rousing and refusal to follow instructions.  In the not so distant past he would be in the Bomb Squad.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: peter w on January 10, 2016, 08:09:08 AM
I too think he has been a force for no good and from thinking he was coup when signing, I welcome his departure.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: passport1 on January 10, 2016, 09:01:02 AM
If he genuinely cares perhaps as captain he could get the players to subsidise the travel and ticket costs of the away supporters for the remainder of the season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on January 10, 2016, 09:26:47 AM
I dont want his money passport , I just want to see him shifted from the matchday squad and left to rot
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on January 10, 2016, 09:50:41 AM
Richards I believe is the person who is the main divider in the dressing room and if Garde had any balls that Captains armband would be taken off him in a nano second. Poisonous self indulging twat.

he cost us nothing so i would just fuck him off

no way is he captain material or defender material for that matter
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 10, 2016, 09:54:50 AM
totally agree fuck the fucker right off. The football equivalent of Liam G.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on January 10, 2016, 10:50:51 AM
Agree Kuwait. All the signs are, and have been since his encouragement of Delph to leave, that he is a massively disruptive influence.

All the social media twittering, the tunnel fighting, the Norwich shoveathon, the fan scrum by the dug out at Wycombe is a cover for his rabble rousing and refusal to follow instructions.  In the not so distant past he would be in the Bomb Squad.

Completely agree.  He's like a playground bully who uses his physical presence to make up for the fact that he's not very good at anything.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithe on January 10, 2016, 11:05:51 AM
But what about his positioning as a right back?

The exchange with the fans came before he was taken off.

Bravo Sir, bravo. In a sea of shite that's really made me laugh.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Meanwood Villa on January 10, 2016, 12:11:46 PM
The other thing about him is that because he's a "big name" there's excessive focus on him by the media. The entirety of MOTD's analysis was about him. Summary: he got forward a lot and scored a goal but didn't perform the defensive part of his role. Howevere he's Trevor Sinclair's mate so on that basis he will be a decent right back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: UK Redsox on January 10, 2016, 12:37:44 PM
Micah looked like he wanted to come off as soon as he'd scored. I was surprised that he stayed in there as long as he did.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on January 10, 2016, 01:49:23 PM
The picture caption of the exchange with supporters in the Observer today describes him as Captain Courageous. Captain Captain would be more apt, imagine how bad things would be if the players couldn't be arsed and weren't putting in the effort.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Monty on January 10, 2016, 01:54:47 PM
Late to this one, but I was vaguely impressed. Obviously the players are trying - it's such a boring cliche to say they're not, as if everything in football is decided not by skill, or tactics, or teamwork, or luck, but just by 'trying hardest'. Everyone is trying in the sport with a few notable exceptions, and you can really really tell when they're not. The players have been unfit, they've played badly, they're mentally about as tough as snowflakes, they've been a bit unlucky sometimes and they've been let down by management decisions, but for the most part they've obviously been trying. They're just shit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on January 10, 2016, 01:56:09 PM
The other thing about him is that because he's a "big name" there's excessive focus on him by the media. The entirety of MOTD's analysis was about him. Summary: he got forward a lot and scored a goal but didn't perform the defensive part of his role. Howevere he's Trevor Sinclair's mate so on that basis he will be a decent right back.

It was quite obvious that he didn't want to be at RB, so he basically went out and played his own game.  I lost count of the number of times in the first half he was in the opposition penalty box.  He got us a goal yesterday, but we would get torn apart by decent teams if he played like that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on January 10, 2016, 02:05:12 PM
Late to this one, but I was vaguely impressed. Obviously the players are trying - it's such a boring cliche to say they're not, as if everything in football is decided not by skill, or tactics, or teamwork, or luck, but just by 'trying hardest'. Everyone is trying in the sport with a few notable exceptions, and you can really really tell when they're not. The players have been unfit, they've played badly, they're mentally about as tough as snowflakes, they've been a bit unlucky sometimes and they've been let down by management decisions, but for the most part they've obviously been trying. They're just shit.

I thought Gestede was 'trying' to employ a drastic economy of effort. Why does Ayew currently stand out from the rest if they are all busting a gut?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Monty on January 10, 2016, 02:08:53 PM
Late to this one, but I was vaguely impressed. Obviously the players are trying - it's such a boring cliche to say they're not, as if everything in football is decided not by skill, or tactics, or teamwork, or luck, but just by 'trying hardest'. Everyone is trying in the sport with a few notable exceptions, and you can really really tell when they're not. The players have been unfit, they've played badly, they're mentally about as tough as snowflakes, they've been a bit unlucky sometimes and they've been let down by management decisions, but for the most part they've obviously been trying. They're just shit.

I thought Gestede was 'trying' to employ a drastic economy of effort. Why does Ayew currently stand out from the rest if they are all busting a gut?

Because he's better than them?

As for Gestede, he's still trying his utmost - it's just that he has the mobility of an arthritic giraffe.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on January 10, 2016, 02:22:11 PM
Late to this one, but I was vaguely impressed. Obviously the players are trying - it's such a boring cliche to say they're not, as if everything in football is decided not by skill, or tactics, or teamwork, or luck, but just by 'trying hardest'. Everyone is trying in the sport with a few notable exceptions, and you can really really tell when they're not. The players have been unfit, they've played badly, they're mentally about as tough as snowflakes, they've been a bit unlucky sometimes and they've been let down by management decisions, but for the most part they've obviously been trying. They're just shit.

I thought Gestede was 'trying' to employ a drastic economy of effort. Why does Ayew currently stand out from the rest if they are all busting a gut?

Because he's better than them?

As for Gestede, he's still trying his utmost - it's just that he has the mobility of an arthritic giraffe.

I am not just referencing Ayew's technical ability or professional effectiveness though Monty. His demeanour suggests to me a higher level of pride and desire. As for Gestede, those who played any part in his recruitment are most culpable.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Monty on January 10, 2016, 02:25:22 PM
I think that's just a style thing. Ayew is sprinting around a lot but he does get out of position a bit through following the ball. The others may look like they're not trying as hard, but perhaps they're just trying to stay in position more.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 10, 2016, 02:31:23 PM
Players like Gestede, Sinclair, Gana are all trying very hard. They are just awful players.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Jockey Randall on January 10, 2016, 02:33:20 PM
Late to this one, but I was vaguely impressed. Obviously the players are trying - it's such a boring cliche to say they're not, as if everything in football is decided not by skill, or tactics, or teamwork, or luck, but just by 'trying hardest'. Everyone is trying in the sport with a few notable exceptions, and you can really really tell when they're not. The players have been unfit, they've played badly, they're mentally about as tough as snowflakes, they've been a bit unlucky sometimes and they've been let down by management decisions, but for the most part they've obviously been trying. They're just shit.

Spot on. I find it puzzling when so many people in football point to a lack of effort in situations like this when surely after our performances over the last 3 or 4 years the most likely reason for our failure is just because we've got too many players who simply aren't good enough for the level they're at. You could hardly say we've seen enough from them previously to say that they've clearly got the ability locked away somewhere and they just can't be arsed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on January 10, 2016, 02:37:29 PM
Late to this one, but I was vaguely impressed. Obviously the players are trying - it's such a boring cliche to say they're not, as if everything in football is decided not by skill, or tactics, or teamwork, or luck, but just by 'trying hardest'. Everyone is trying in the sport with a few notable exceptions, and you can really really tell when they're not. The players have been unfit, they've played badly, they're mentally about as tough as snowflakes, they've been a bit unlucky sometimes and they've been let down by management decisions, but for the most part they've obviously been trying. They're just shit.

Spot on. I find it puzzling when so many people in football point to a lack of effort in situations like this when surely after our performances over the last 3 or 4 years the most likely reason for our failure is just because we've got too many players who simply aren't good enough for the level they're at. You could hardly say we've seen enough from them previously to say that they've clearly got the ability locked away somewhere and they just can't be arsed.

There were a couple of instances yesterday where players were hiding from the ball when we were in possession. Looked like they were scared to take responsibility.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on January 10, 2016, 02:37:39 PM
I think that's just a style thing. Ayew is sprinting around a lot but he does get out of position a bit through following the ball. The others may look like they're not trying as hard, but perhaps they're just trying to stay in position more.

They're actually trying to stay in position? I might concede they are trying to stay in 20th position. If Bacuna and Gestede amongst others are giving the full 100% to the cause I'm Rembrandt.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on January 10, 2016, 02:43:29 PM

As for Gestede, he's still trying his utmost - it's just that he has the mobility of an arthritic giraffe.

Is he balls.  I can't remember who it was, but one of our players absolutely tore him a new one when he just lazily loped into the box, then just stopped as the ball came in.  He's crap, AND he's lazy.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Diablo on January 10, 2016, 03:05:44 PM

As for Gestede, he's still trying his utmost - it's just that he has the mobility of an arthritic giraffe.

Is he balls.  I can't remember who it was, but one of our players absolutely tore him a new one when he just lazily loped into the box, then just stopped as the ball came in.  He's crap, AND he's lazy.
I don't think Gestede is actually as bad as he has looked (bad I admit) I think his confidence is totally shot and we're not helping him with our style of play (style??) we're certainly not playing to his strengths. I think that has contributed to him being unable to do the simple/basic things.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on January 10, 2016, 03:26:35 PM
I'd rather have Marlon  or Ivanhoe instead of Gestede, that's how crushingly bad he is
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on January 10, 2016, 03:29:01 PM
I'd rather have Marlon  or Ivanhoe instead of Gestede, that's how crushingly bad he is

Indeed for all the criticism of Heskey he at least put himself about, he was a completely different level to Gestede. Gestede is the least imposing 'targetman' I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Jockey Randall on January 10, 2016, 03:31:02 PM
Late to this one, but I was vaguely impressed. Obviously the players are trying - it's such a boring cliche to say they're not, as if everything in football is decided not by skill, or tactics, or teamwork, or luck, but just by 'trying hardest'. Everyone is trying in the sport with a few notable exceptions, and you can really really tell when they're not. The players have been unfit, they've played badly, they're mentally about as tough as snowflakes, they've been a bit unlucky sometimes and they've been let down by management decisions, but for the most part they've obviously been trying. They're just shit.

Spot on. I find it puzzling when so many people in football point to a lack of effort in situations like this when surely after our performances over the last 3 or 4 years the most likely reason for our failure is just because we've got too many players who simply aren't good enough for the level they're at. You could hardly say we've seen enough from them previously to say that they've clearly got the ability locked away somewhere and they just can't be arsed.

There were a couple of instances yesterday where players were hiding from the ball when we were in possession. Looked like they were scared to take responsibility.


I think that might be more to do with an individual's mentality rather than a blatent lack of effort. Everyone reacts differently to situations of adversity and obviously we have too many players who when their confidence is rock bottom start thinking 'I'm not good enough, I don't want the ball' when really we need a few more big characters who will back their ability regardless of how good they actually are.

More than anything though I can't really understand what a player would be looking to achieve with deliberately not trying? A move to a worse team on less wages? Especially doing it in full view of their colleagues, family, fans etc. I think the mental side of football is still massively overlooked and perhaps we should look a bit deeper in these situations rather than the usual 'he's lazy, he's not trying' line. A lot of the players aren't Premier League level in terms of footballing ability, but too many of them are also mentally weak as well imo.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on January 10, 2016, 03:50:17 PM

I'm sure it'd help a LOT if we had a leader/voice out on the pitch. As it is we have a collection of individuals with little communication or direction.

Giving Richards the armband is one thing, but that doesn't mean he's comfortable being the voice/leader, it doesn't come naturally to him clearly, and Lescott is the same.

That said, i've no idea how in our side it would come naturally to. But we need someone to do the talking out there ASAP
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: hipkiss92 on January 10, 2016, 03:53:28 PM

I'm sure it'd help a LOT if we had a leader/voice out on the pitch. As it is we have a collection of individuals with little communication or direction.

Giving Richards the armband is one thing, but that doesn't mean he's comfortable being the voice/leader, it doesn't come naturally to him clearly, and Lescott is the same.

That said, i've no idea how in our side it would come naturally to. But we need someone to do the talking out there ASAP

You only have to look at the side when they come out for the start of either half, when we concede a goal, or if there are breaks in play for injuries that there is no leadership in the team, no one to cajole the rest of the players to bounce back from a set-back. This is the biggest problem with the team, there's no leadership and no fight to drag the team through bad spells (albeit this bad spell has lasted between 20 games and five years, depending on how you look at it).
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on January 10, 2016, 06:39:54 PM
I'm torn on Richards. Sometimes I like him, sometimes I think he's a gobshite. I give him credit for going to the fans yesterday, knowing full well he'd get an earful.

Keep him at right back and get in a decent coaching team to ensure he's in a more cohesive backline. He needs to improve his awareness and concentration tenfold but beyond that I think he should be fine. He at least shows passion. That is something I do like about him. He's got the fire and vocals to be a captain, just not the consistency or temperament. But he's far and away the best option we have. Probably the only option. Lescott could be but he's just so done at this level it's not funny. Gabby has hopefully played his last game for the club.
We need to buy a decent skipper for one thing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on January 10, 2016, 06:46:51 PM
I'm torn on Richards. Sometimes I like him, sometimes I think he's a gobshite. I give him credit for going to the fans yesterday, knowing full well he'd get an earful.

Keep him at right back and get in a decent coaching team to ensure he's in a more cohesive backline. He needs to improve his awareness and concentration tenfold but beyond that I think he should be fine. He at least shows passion. That is something I do like about him. He's got the fire and vocals to be a captain, just not the consistency or temperament. But he's far and away the best option we have. Probably the only option. Lescott could be but he's just so done at this level it's not funny. Gabby has hopefully played his last game for the club.
We need to buy a decent skipper for one thing.

Richards attitude on the pitch is a joke, mighty Wycombe's best chances all came from him going walkabout

will help us create more on the right than Hutton though. Hutton is a crap defender too really
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on January 10, 2016, 07:06:32 PM
I'm torn on Richards. Sometimes I like him, sometimes I think he's a gobshite. I give him credit for going to the fans yesterday, knowing full well he'd get an earful.

Keep him at right back and get in a decent coaching team to ensure he's in a more cohesive backline. He needs to improve his awareness and concentration tenfold but beyond that I think he should be fine. He at least shows passion. That is something I do like about him. He's got the fire and vocals to be a captain, just not the consistency or temperament. But he's far and away the best option we have. Probably the only option. Lescott could be but he's just so done at this level it's not funny. Gabby has hopefully played his last game for the club.
We need to buy a decent skipper for one thing.

Richards attitude on the pitch is a joke, mighty Wycombe's best chances all came from him going walkabout

will help us create more on the right than Hutton though. Hutton is a crap defender too really

I don't think him going walkabout is necessarily his attitude, more the fact he's probably got shit for brains. He still plays like he's 18 years old and can't concentrate.

The sad part is, Richards and Hutton are probably two of the very few players here who have even a smidgen of character. They both should be vying for one position, and as you say, Hutton's a bit shit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 10, 2016, 08:20:29 PM

I'm sure it'd help a LOT if we had a leader/voice out on the pitch. As it is we have a collection of individuals with little communication or direction.

Giving Richards the armband is one thing, but that doesn't mean he's comfortable being the voice/leader, it doesn't come naturally to him clearly, and Lescott is the same.

That said, i've no idea how in our side it would come naturally to. But we need someone to do the talking out there ASAP

You only have to look at the side when they come out for the start of either half, when we concede a goal, or if there are breaks in play for injuries that there is no leadership in the team, no one to cajole the rest of the players to bounce back from a set-back. This is the biggest problem with the team, there's no leadership and no fight to drag the team through bad spells (albeit this bad spell has lasted between 20 games and five years, depending on how you look at it).

No better example than the Watford game.
Get back level just before half time. Come out in second half and are completely on top. Then their keeper gets injured and we were never in it again. The whole team switched off during those 9 minutes.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 10, 2016, 09:23:26 PM
Seems Lescott and Guzan were swearing at fans behind dugout and promoted clash with Richards.

Admittedly it's Nursey who runs the story, but not good to hear.

I think the atmosphere behind the scenes is even more toxic than anyone realises.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fin Feds Dad on January 10, 2016, 09:29:01 PM
Seems Lescott and Guzan were swearing at fans behind dugout and promoted clash with Richards.

Admittedly it's Nursey who runs the story, but not good to hear.

I think the atmosphere behind the scenes is even more toxic than anyone realises.

This was posted earlier on FB by a fan who was at the game .

The Papers are portraying that it was fans being upset over the performance when it was in fact down to 2 senior players messing around on the bench clearly in view trying to see which one can spit there chewing gum the closest to the touch line and laughing with no interest in the game.

Lescott & Guzan who are supposed to be so called senior players were approached by a fan who knocked the dug out and they both told him to F**K Off

IT WAS THEN RICHARDS came out to talk to the fan and others that then gathered.

For me get rid of the lot and let's have a go with players who are proud to wear the shirt!!!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 10, 2016, 09:39:18 PM
It isn't right though that the fan comes down to the dugout. And I bet he didn't just knock on it politely and ask if they wanted to join him for a cuppa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LTA on January 10, 2016, 09:42:37 PM
Pretty obvious now there's state of civil war between the club and the fans. 

I can't believe how toxic a club we have become.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Jimbo on January 10, 2016, 09:53:19 PM
When things really fall apart, I happens fast.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 10, 2016, 10:28:47 PM
And it's what happens when things are papered over and the majority of the communication with the fans is complete bullshit or sales patter. You can only insult peoples intelligence for so long before they think fuck it, I've had enough.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on January 10, 2016, 10:33:11 PM
And it's what happens when things are papered over and the majority of the communication with the fans is complete bullshit or sales patter. You can only insult peoples intelligence for so long before they think fuck it, I've had enough.

Good point. That time is now. I hope we don't lose against Palace or else. Leicester on the box next week could be even worse.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 11, 2016, 05:19:47 AM
the probability is that we'll loose both given our record this season and I'm more than a little surprised that fans' frustration has taken this long to really start to manifest itself
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on January 11, 2016, 05:46:49 AM
Diablo I think you may have a very valid point there, I see in Gestede a player who is totally shot of confidence, a player who is not sure what his role in the team is supposed to be, his team mates are wary of involving him as his first touch is awful, he is afraid to try anything apart from the bare basics, but and there is always a but , if that is the case and we can see it, why can't the manager.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on January 11, 2016, 06:21:38 AM
Not sure if it's already been posted but at the other end of the fan interaction scale Jonjo Shelvey offered one of the Swansea fans to have a chat with him in the car park after the game. Bring reported by the Mirror but I can't link the story on my phone for some reason.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Oscar Arce on January 11, 2016, 03:38:58 PM
Whatever you think of him as a player, and I personally think he is poor with no positional sense and no concentration, you have to admire him for putting his neck on the line and talking to those guys like that. There is a cancer in our club that will get even worse before it gets better.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on January 11, 2016, 04:01:50 PM
Whatever you think of him as a player, and I personally think he is poor with no positional sense and no concentration, you have to admire him for putting his neck on the line and talking to those guys like that. There is a cancer in our club that will get even worse before it gets better.

I don't admire him for it at all. As he has shown lots lately, he just loves mouthing off. I'd have had some respect for him if he'd used his position as captain to tell that pair of twats Guzan and Lescott to grow up.

I can't think of a time in my life, where almost to a man, I despise each and every player.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 11, 2016, 04:52:38 PM
And that's one of the reasons the fans have turned Risso, there's no one left at the club that the fans have any good memories of or goodwill towards. There's no link from the team to the support. No leader we rally behind, no Striker who's scored memorable goals that won us important matches, no Defender who's put his head on the line and kept the opposition at bay. They're either nobodies like the Westwoods and Richardsons we have or goons like Gabby, Nzog, Bacuna.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nii Lamptey on January 11, 2016, 05:54:50 PM
Whatever you think of him as a player, and I personally think he is poor with no positional sense and no concentration, you have to admire him for putting his neck on the line and talking to those guys like that. There is a cancer in our club that will get even worse before it gets better.

I don't admire him for it at all. As he has shown lots lately, he just loves mouthing off. I'd have had some respect for him if he'd used his position as captain to tell that pair of twats Guzan and Lescott to grow up.

I can't think of a time in my life, where almost to a man, I despise each and every player.

This. As captain, he should spend more time using that gob of his ON the pitch, sending a rocket up Bacuna's ass where he misplaces 'another' pass or doesn't track his man, or screaming at Westwood for bottling 'another' challenge, or Gestede for basically just being Gestede.

Yes, I suppose it's good that he's not shying away from the abuse.... but for Christ's sake, we'd be better off if he (and the rest of em) did their talking on the pitch.
The only players worth their salt in Villa shirts at the moment are the 2 Jordans (would probably be 3 if Amavi wasn't injured) and Carles Gill. The rest of them can do one.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CJ on January 11, 2016, 06:21:24 PM
Central News have picked up on the story now so presumably the club will have to make a statement and hopefully take action against Guzan and Lescott
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on January 11, 2016, 07:19:05 PM
Central News have picked up on the story now so presumably the club will have to make a statement and hopefully take action against Guzan and Lescott

selling the to some mugs another team would be a good start
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LukeJames on January 11, 2016, 10:39:53 PM
Central News have picked up on the story now so presumably the club will have to make a statement and hopefully take action against Guzan and Lescott
I've just caught this on the late edition of central news, its pissed me off that they're making Richards out to be some sort of hero thats approached some neandothol fans, the fans, especially the main bloke that was talking came across as well spoken and calm and was asking a sensible question in the circumstances, if anything the fans side of it should be whats reported on.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on January 12, 2016, 05:17:49 PM
Central News have picked up on the story now so presumably the club will have to make a statement and hopefully take action against Guzan and Lescott
Guzan has to go ASAP. He's a complete liability and if he's gonna start being a piss-take merchant like some of the others I'd sooner put Bunn in goal.

If Steer is out on loan it might be worth recalling him if we can.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on January 12, 2016, 05:21:03 PM
I would prefer the midget.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on January 12, 2016, 09:37:14 PM
That's good from Richards at the end of the game, he looks delighted.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 12, 2016, 09:59:53 PM
That's good from Richards at the end of the game, he looks delighted.

I saw that too. There were a lot from the bench that looked the same.

There was someone, I think Sinclair, that looked like he'd been told he got to wash Chamakh's hair with his tongue. And the hair gel he'd got to get rid of was as promoted in There's Something About Mary.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Diablo on January 12, 2016, 11:27:10 PM
Diablo I think you may have a very valid point there, I see in Gestede a player who is totally shot of confidence, a player who is not sure what his role in the team is supposed to be, his team mates are wary of involving him as his first touch is awful, he is afraid to try anything apart from the bare basics, but and there is always a but , if that is the case and we can see it, why can't the manager.
I think Remi could and quite rightly took Gestede out of the firing line today which paid dividends (as he said we need 11 players at 100% to get a win). Hopefully Gestede will return to the first team all the better for a break and hopefully some rebuilt confidence (and possibly into a team that doesn't have major difficulty remembering its last win).
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on January 13, 2016, 07:13:22 PM
I'd still put Richards in ahead of Bacuna at RB against Leicester. A back line of Richards, Okore, Lescott & Cissokho looks really strong to me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 13, 2016, 08:38:57 PM
And Bacuna ahead of Westwood in midfield. I imagine Richards wasn't played because of the injury he picked up at the weekend. Either way, and fair play to him, he looked absolutely delighted for the other players.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Goldie.7 on January 21, 2016, 11:40:46 PM
I see Richards has deleted all his tweets about giving it all for the rest of the season! Yes Micah, what's it been like... 3 weeks? Leave the one of the two fools doing some shit dance on a hoverboard up though. ::)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on January 22, 2016, 08:50:34 AM
Whilst he always looks like a good player, the team seems to do better when isn't playing. I'd leave him on the bench and stick with Lescott and Okore.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on January 22, 2016, 08:53:31 AM
Whilst he always looks like a good player, the team seems to do better when isn't playing. I'd leave him on the bench and stick with Lescott and Okore.

Me too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: AVH87 on January 22, 2016, 10:12:14 AM
Either plays Right Back or not at all for me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 22, 2016, 10:34:25 AM
I see Richards has deleted all his tweets about giving it all for the rest of the season! Yes Micah, what's it been like... 3 weeks? Leave the one of the two fools doing some shit dance on a hoverboard up though. ::)

Is he off?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on January 22, 2016, 11:06:42 AM
I see Richards has deleted all his tweets about giving it all for the rest of the season! Yes Micah, what's it been like... 3 weeks? Leave the one of the two fools doing some shit dance on a hoverboard up though. ::)

Is he off?

If we got a fee for him I'd take it. Bad influence.

Replace him with a loan till the end of the season, or promote Senderos back into the squad (better centre half anyway).

If we drop we have Baker to come back, who has done well in the championship this season, and Still have Clark, Okore and Lescott who would all be in the top 10% at Championship level. if we stay up then we can replace with a better player.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mattjpa on January 22, 2016, 11:19:34 AM
I see Richards has deleted all his tweets about giving it all for the rest of the season! Yes Micah, what's it been like... 3 weeks? Leave the one of the two fools doing some shit dance on a hoverboard up though. ::)

Is he off?

If we got a fee for him I'd take it. Bad influence.

Replace him with a loan till the end of the season, or promote Senderos back into the squad (better centre half anyway).

If we drop we have Baker to come back, who has done well in the championship this season, and Still have Clark, Okore and Lescott who would all be in the top 10% at Championship level. if we stay up then we can replace with a better player.

What possible reasoning have you got to back up he is a bad influence? From what ive seen he has been quite a positive influence, hence why he was made captain. The problem with him is he probably isnt a good enough player to back it up. Physically impervious, he has only cost us points through rushes of blood to the head and lack of positional discipline. If anything, some of his mistakes have been from trying too hard to compensate for others and ultimately not doing his own job.

I dont know whether he is too far gone to have it drilled into him but a CB needs to be focussed and disciplned for the whole match. Thats why, as others above have said, I think he needs moving back to RB. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 22, 2016, 11:21:56 AM
I got the feeling he was made Captain as a promise from Dim to convince him to sign. Nothing he's done so far has shown him as good captain material.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on January 22, 2016, 11:23:04 AM
What possible reasoning have you got to back up he is a bad influence? From what ive seen he has been quite a positive influence, hence why he was made captain. The problem with him is he probably isnt a good enough player to back it up. Physically impervious, he has only cost us points through rushes of blood to the head and lack of positional discipline. If anything, some of his mistakes have been from trying too hard to compensate for others and ultimately not doing his own job.

I dont know whether he is too far gone to have it drilled into him but a CB needs to be focussed and disciplned for the whole match. Thats why, as others above have said, I think he needs moving back to RB. 

Never out of the press, usually spouting bollocks. He had barely been at the club a week before he was recommending to our best midfielder (Delph) that he join Man City. When Sherwood got the boot he was widely quoted as blaming the foreign signings.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on January 22, 2016, 04:25:17 PM
has he improved the defence? no
is he captain material? no
does he keep spouting bollocks? yes

never mind getting a fee for him, he cost us nothing and thats what i would let him go for
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 22, 2016, 08:31:04 PM
he's another fucker who ought to be fucked right off fucking quick
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bad English on January 23, 2016, 05:13:12 PM
If I were Garde, I would do unto Richards as he has done unto Agbonlahor and N'Zogbia. We are down, why persist with that half-arsed waste of a shirt?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ger Regan on January 23, 2016, 05:18:19 PM
Agreed. He plays for himself and nobody else.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on January 23, 2016, 05:21:47 PM
A fuckwit without portfolio.  Cheers, Timah.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on January 23, 2016, 05:23:19 PM
As I have said before, poor Centre Back, poor Right Back, not Captain material
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 23, 2016, 05:35:00 PM
Crap player, summer time bye bye hopefully.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on January 23, 2016, 06:27:07 PM
theres still time for him to fuck off this window

fingers crossed
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on January 23, 2016, 06:43:35 PM
He seems as though he is another player that does not want to put the hard work in.  He looked as though he wanted to just stroll around all afternoon.  I had no problems with his defensive display today but a fullback needs to be more than that.  Considering how he used to play at fullback at Man City, he can do it but looks like he can't be arsed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on January 23, 2016, 11:58:54 PM
Some how for all his pluses in the  game, he is always one step away for a "switch off" and a sending off. 

Plenty of players of this ilke have played in the top division but not for long.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT Villan on January 24, 2016, 04:13:12 PM
I thought he did well in the aerial challenges, but was crap with the ball at his feet or when trying to move off-the-ball...and he could easily have seen red.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on January 24, 2016, 05:45:51 PM
He seems as though he is another player that does not want to put the hard work in.  He looked as though he wanted to just stroll around all afternoon.  I had no problems with his defensive display today but a fullback needs to be more than that.  Considering how he used to play at fullback at Man City, he can do it but looks like he can't be arsed.

Thank you. That saved me writing exactly the same words!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on January 24, 2016, 08:21:26 PM
He just looks like he has reached an age where he cannot be arsed to run anymore.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on January 25, 2016, 02:53:27 PM
He looked to me on Saturday like he knew his days were numbered, was willing to do the job asked of him but lacked the application because his heart isn't in it anymore.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: UK Redsox on January 25, 2016, 02:58:44 PM
Micah is on A League of their Own this week.

I've never watched the programme. Is it worth tuning in just to see Villa's on-field captain ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on January 25, 2016, 03:22:07 PM
Micah is on A League of their Own this week.

I've never watched the programme. Is it worth tuning in just to see Villa's on-field captain ?

Doesn't that have James Corden on it? If so, I wouldn't watch it if Keira Nightly had promised to fire ping pong balls from her snatch live on air.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on January 25, 2016, 03:26:50 PM
Micah is on A League of their Own this week.

I've never watched the programme. Is it worth tuning in just to see Villa's on-field captain ?

Doesn't that have James Corden on it? If so, I wouldn't watch it if Keira Nightly had promised to fire ping pong balls from her snatch live on air.

Ah, Patpong ping pong.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on January 25, 2016, 03:48:27 PM
Micah is on A League of their Own this week.

I've never watched the programme. Is it worth tuning in just to see Villa's on-field captain ?

Doesn't that have James Corden on it? If so, I wouldn't watch it if Keira Nightly had promised to fire ping pong balls from her snatch live on air.

I think I might then
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on January 25, 2016, 03:54:10 PM
Micah is on A League of their Own this week.

I've never watched the programme. Is it worth tuning in just to see Villa's on-field captain ?

Doesn't that have James Corden on it? If so, I wouldn't watch it if Keira Nightly had promised to fire ping pong balls from her snatch live on air.

I think I might then
Yep.  I'd be sky+ing that one.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on January 25, 2016, 04:03:14 PM
Micah is on A League of their Own this week.

I've never watched the programme. Is it worth tuning in just to see Villa's on-field captain ?

Doesn't that have James Corden on it? If so, I wouldn't watch it if Keira Nightly had promised to fire ping pong balls from her snatch live on air.

I think I might then
Yep.  I'd be sky+ing that one.

I'd wait for the Youtube clip.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Percy McCarthy on January 25, 2016, 04:04:43 PM
Micah is on A League of their Own this week.

I've never watched the programme. Is it worth tuning in just to see Villa's on-field captain ?

Doesn't that have James Corden on it? If so, I wouldn't watch it if Keira Nightly had promised to fire ping pong balls from her snatch live on air.

I think I might then
Yep.  I'd be sky+ing that one.

Yes, let's not be hasty. I'd record it and fast-forward through Corden.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on January 25, 2016, 04:12:18 PM
Micah is on A League of their Own this week.

I've never watched the programme. Is it worth tuning in just to see Villa's on-field captain ?

Doesn't that have James Corden on it? If so, I wouldn't watch it if Keira Nightly had promised to fire ping pong balls from her snatch live on air.

I think I might then
Yep.  I'd be sky+ing that one.

I'd wait for the Youtube clip.

I'd want full HD on this to be honest.  Maybe even borrow a mates 3D TV.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nodge on January 25, 2016, 04:23:13 PM
Last week flicking through the channels and that came on.  Corden , Whitehall, Redknapp, Flintoff and Ashley Cole, a bigger bunch of twats you'd struggle to find.  I'd have put my foot through the telly if it wasn't mine. Cue endless hilarious jokes from Whitehall about what Cole would do for money.  I say endless, for the 10 minutes I could stomach it it was.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on January 25, 2016, 04:29:33 PM
Last week flicking through the channels and that came on.  Corden , Whitehall, Redknapp, Flintoff and Ashley Cole, a bigger bunch of twats you'd struggle to find.  I'd have put my foot through the telly if it wasn't mine. Cue endless hilarious jokes from Whitehall about what Cole would do for money.  I say endless, for the 10 minutes I could stomach it it was.

but would it have been improved by some Knightley vs Minogue ping pong?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on January 25, 2016, 04:45:24 PM
Last week flicking through the channels and that came on.  Corden , Whitehall, Redknapp, Flintoff and Ashley Cole, a bigger bunch of twats you'd struggle to find.  I'd have put my foot through the telly if it wasn't mine. Cue endless hilarious jokes from Whitehall about what Cole would do for money.  I say endless, for the 10 minutes I could stomach it it was.

but would it have been improved by some Knightley vs Minogue ping pong?

Now that's moving the goalposts a bit, nobody had factored Minogue in. That's a game changer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on January 25, 2016, 04:47:58 PM
Last week flicking through the channels and that came on.  Corden , Whitehall, Redknapp, Flintoff and Ashley Cole, a bigger bunch of twats you'd struggle to find.  I'd have put my foot through the telly if it wasn't mine. Cue endless hilarious jokes from Whitehall about what Cole would do for money.  I say endless, for the 10 minutes I could stomach it it was.

but would it have been improved by some Knightley vs Minogue ping pong?

Now that's moving the goalposts a bit, nobody had factored Minogue in. That's a game changer.
I don't think there's a ping-pongonging punani on the planet that could make Whitehall bearable to watch.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on January 25, 2016, 05:32:00 PM
Micah is on A League of their Own this week.

I've never watched the programme. Is it worth tuning in just to see Villa's on-field captain ?

Doesn't that have James Corden on it? If so, I wouldn't watch it if Keira Nightly had promised to fire ping pong balls from her snatch live on air.

I think I might then
Yep.  I'd be sky+ing that one.

I'd wait for the Youtube clip.

I'd want full HD on this to be honest.  Maybe even borrow a mates 3D TV.

What channel is this on?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ger Regan on January 26, 2016, 01:56:01 PM
Not the greatest review, truth be told (http://www.balls.ie/football/why-a-league-of-their-own-is-a-load-of-insufferable-nonsense/322237)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 26, 2016, 02:25:35 PM
I think it's about right though. Whitehall is by a distance one of the most annoying people on TV. How he is with the lovely Gemma Chan from humans is beyond my understanding.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on January 26, 2016, 02:32:03 PM
Am I the only hot blooded male who doesn't find Kylie Minogue in the slightest bit attractive. She's got a fucking terrible singing voice as well.

Think I've just done the equivalent of drowning a sack of puppies.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on January 26, 2016, 02:32:10 PM
Has anyone else been laughing at "Flintoff: Lord of the Fries" on Sky. Freddie tours Britain in a mobile fish and chip van. One of those series where someone obviously thought of the title first ( a Partridge fan, probably) and built the show around it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on January 26, 2016, 03:13:45 PM
Not the greatest review, truth be told (http://www.balls.ie/football/why-a-league-of-their-own-is-a-load-of-insufferable-nonsense/322237)
Loved this line: "On the face of it, it seems as if it has no idea of how wholesomely dire it is, displaying about as much self-awareness as Nicklas Bendtner."
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: peter w on January 26, 2016, 03:31:59 PM
Am I the only hot blooded male who doesn't find Kylie Minogue in the slightest bit attractive. She's got a fucking terrible singing voice as well.

Think I've just done the equivalent of drowning a sack of puppies.

I've never got it either. Her "dimunitive" figure and constant views of her backside just make me feel like a paedophile. Pretty enough but nothing else.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: serbentoflight on January 26, 2016, 03:47:05 PM
If Kylie signed for the Villa, I'd renew my season ticket.  And she might score more than our strikers.  Lets sign her up
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on January 26, 2016, 03:59:48 PM
Am I the only hot blooded male who doesn't find Kylie Minogue in the slightest bit attractive. She's got a fucking terrible singing voice as well.

Think I've just done the equivalent of drowning a sack of puppies.

I've never got it either. Her "dimunitive" figure and constant views of her backside just make me feel like a paedophile. Pretty enough but nothing else.

She's more attractive than Keira Knightly though, who has all the feminine charm of the gardening tools section of B&Q.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: itbrvilla on January 26, 2016, 05:59:36 PM
Fuck him off
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bad English on January 26, 2016, 06:43:32 PM
Am I the only hot blooded male who doesn't find Kylie Minogue in the slightest bit attractive. She's got a fucking terrible singing voice as well.

Think I've just done the equivalent of drowning a sack of puppies.

I've never got it either. Her "dimunitive" figure and constant views of her backside just make me feel like a paedophile. Pretty enough but nothing else.

She's more attractive than Keira Knightly though, who has all the feminine charm of the gardening tools section of B&Q.
But would you or not?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 26, 2016, 07:12:11 PM
Kylie is lovely! Take her over knightly any day.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villan For Life on January 26, 2016, 07:17:29 PM
I much prefer Keira to Kylie. I always thought Danni was the better looking Minogue sister.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 26, 2016, 07:35:28 PM
I'd quite like to be the filling in a Minogue sandwich tbh , or is that being greedy?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on January 26, 2016, 07:37:03 PM
I much prefer Keira to Kylie. I always thought Danni was the better looking Minogue sister.

Totally agree with this. Danni is fecking lovely. I used to fancy that Natalie Imbruglia until she puffed her face and lips up too. Saying that, Charlize will do for me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 30, 2016, 05:13:48 PM
His performance today was summed up perfectly by Ozzjim who said "Richards is about as bothered about playing for Villa as I am for Blues".

I can only guess he's heard about us signing Debuchy on loan and knows he won't be playing for us again. I'm praying he never wears the Villa shirt again. The man's an utter disgrace to the club and himself.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on January 30, 2016, 05:15:27 PM
I thought he'd be a good signing, I've found myself really disliking him very quickly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 30, 2016, 05:19:36 PM
My disliking him has now moved on to hate, Chris. I can put up with players that lack ability but players that don't give a shit really annoy the fuck out of me. I'm not sure he even has the ability but one thing is for sure, he's completely taking the piss.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 30, 2016, 05:19:48 PM
Am I the only hot blooded male who doesn't find Kylie Minogue in the slightest bit attractive. She's got a fucking terrible singing voice as well.

Think I've just done the equivalent of drowning a sack of puppies.

I've never got it either. Her "dimunitive" figure and constant views of her backside just make me feel like a paedophile. Pretty enough but nothing else.

She's more attractive than Keira Knightly though, who has all the feminine charm of the gardening tools section of B&Q.

I've seen more contours on a sheet of glass. She's as skinny as a rake too, so your gardening tools analogy is appropriate. Kylie all day

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SamTheMouse on January 30, 2016, 05:20:54 PM
Off-topic: Kylie is fucking amazing, and I invite all of you to fight me outside!

Back on-topic: Micah Richards is a useless moron. I bet he doesn't fancy Kylie either.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: myf on January 30, 2016, 05:23:18 PM
He'll be in the papers tomorrow spotted drinking in Manchester with the snake
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: brontebilly on January 30, 2016, 05:34:20 PM
Awful signing, another injury prone has been at the back who gave up playing the game seriously a few years ago. Fits in nicely with the likes of Cole and Senderos.

Im counting this as a winner, although he hasnt missed many game through injury

Got Gestede spectacularly wrong though, thought he would be decent for us
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on January 30, 2016, 05:35:52 PM
My disliking him has now moved on to hate, Chris. I can put up with players that lack ability but players that don't give a shit really annoy the fuck out of me. I'm not sure he even has the ability but one thing is for sure, he's completely taking the piss.

Hate is probably the word I should have used to be honest!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 30, 2016, 05:36:08 PM
It won't shock me at all to see Richards sold in the summer. He's not the player we all hoped he could be again and critically not remotely the leader we needed him to be.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: curiousorange on January 30, 2016, 05:37:53 PM
But he spoke to the fans, so that's okay.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT Villan on January 30, 2016, 05:43:52 PM
N'Zogbia > Richards
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ger Regan on January 30, 2016, 05:47:17 PM
I truly loath him. Most of the time it's as if he thinks he's playing 5-a-side with his mates.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on January 30, 2016, 05:47:26 PM
This man is not fit to replicate the work of Dennis Mortimer, Kevin Richardson, Andy Townsend, Allan Evans, etc. All of whom wore the armband with honesty and pride. You sir, are a cheat. Your barely fit to wear the shirt never mind the armband.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 30, 2016, 05:48:34 PM
It won't shock me at all to see Richards sold in the summer.

We'll no doubt end up having to pay him compensation as he takes a drop in salary at his next victims.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 30, 2016, 05:49:59 PM
It won't shock me at all to see Richards sold in the summer.

We'll no doubt end up having to pay him compensation as he takes a drop in salary at his next victims.

hopefully he'll think better of it that stay with us on his relegation clause affected pay.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 30, 2016, 05:52:38 PM
Like many of us I thought he could be a decent signing, but he's been wank.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ger Regan on January 30, 2016, 05:54:34 PM
This man is not fit to replicate the work of Dennis Mortimer, Kevin Richardson, Andy Townsend, Allan Evans, etc. All of whom wore the armband with honesty and pride. You sir, are a cheat. Your barely fit to wear the shirt never mind the armband.
He hasn't got a drop of the integrity of someone like Petrov, either.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on January 30, 2016, 05:56:33 PM
I was criticised for calling him a poseur.
Any one disagree with this now?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 30, 2016, 06:05:21 PM
It won't shock me at all to see Richards sold in the summer. He's not the player we all hoped he could be again and critically not remotely the leader we needed him to be.
I hope he is but I can see another addition to our famous bomb squad.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 30, 2016, 06:06:14 PM
I was criticised for calling him a poseur.
Any one disagree with this now?

Yeah! He's not a poseur, he's a gutless, money grabbing, pathetic excuse for a footballer, lazy, pointless twat.

There were times in the 2nd half today when I'm sure his objective was to get as close to the Man City fans as possible so he could hear them singing his name, regardless of what was happening on the pitch.

I'm really struggling to remember a Villa player show such a lack of interest in a game. I even think Hodge showed more interest in that infamous Norwich game. All the talk about moving him to right back - Hutton's ten times the player and 100 times the man Richards is. An absolute disgrace.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT Villan on January 30, 2016, 06:08:30 PM
hopefully he'll think better of it that stay with us on his relegation clause affected pay.

If he can't be bothered to turn it on for the Premier League stage, I think he'll be even less interested in the Championship. I would sell him (now if possible !)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on January 30, 2016, 06:09:16 PM
I was criticised for calling him a poseur.
Any one disagree with this now?

Yeah! He's not a poseur, he's a gutless, money grabbing, pathetic excuse for a footballer, lazy, pointless twat.

There were times in the 2nd half today when I'm sure his objective was to get as close to the Man City fans as possible so he could hear them singing his name, regardless of what was happening on the pitch.

I'm really struggling to remember a Villa player show such a lack of interest in a game. I even think Hodge showed more interest in that infamous Norwich game. All the talk about moving him to right back - Hutton's ten times the player and 100 times the man Richards is. An absolute disgrace.
OK, got that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Witton Warrior on January 30, 2016, 06:12:29 PM
I just know he thinks he's doing us a favour being here....
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: A|C on January 30, 2016, 06:34:05 PM
He's an utter fuckwit, how he is captain I have no idea.  A disgrace to the club, I truly detest this man.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on January 30, 2016, 06:37:43 PM
I have to say, when we signed him I thought it was the beginning of our new dawn. A player who was used to being a winner - I thought it was an excellent signing.

As we stand now, I'll be happy if he leaves in the next two days or at least never plays for us again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Meanwood Villa on January 30, 2016, 06:40:35 PM
I have to say, when we signed him I thought it was the beginning of our new dawn. A player who was used to being a winner - I thought it was an excellent signing.

As we stand now, I'll be happy if he leaves in the next two days or at least never plays for us again.

Agreed
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 30, 2016, 06:43:43 PM
I have to say, when we signed him I thought it was the beginning of our new dawn. A player who was used to being a winner - I thought it was an excellent signing.

As we stand now, I'll be happy if he leaves in the next two days or at least never plays for us again.

I think we all looked at the good points, the fact he looked good when Man City won the league and he seemed vocal and over looked the now obvious bad points, that he hasn't really played much football since 2011/12.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Goldie.7 on January 30, 2016, 06:50:08 PM
Even at RB he is incompetent of doing his job in the most basic form properly, get rid.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: myf on January 30, 2016, 07:39:58 PM
Didnt he score against us under DOL in the cup on his debut in the dying minutes?  Had bad vibes about him ever since
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 30, 2016, 07:43:11 PM
Didnt he score against us under DOL in the cup on his debut in the dying minutes?  Had bad vibes about him ever since

Yep, 5th round to force a replay at their place. There was only about 23K there that day as well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy65 on January 30, 2016, 07:45:51 PM
Didnt he score against us under DOL in the cup on his debut in the dying minutes?  Had bad vibes about him ever since

Yep, 5th round to force a replay at their place. There was only about 23K there that day as well.

And then swore on a live after match interview....
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on January 30, 2016, 08:06:33 PM
I wouldn't be bothered if he went without us getting a fee for him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on January 30, 2016, 08:08:58 PM
I just know he thinks he's doing us a favour being here....

That is a very good assesment
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on January 30, 2016, 08:12:59 PM
He's not the brightest tool in the box! 

What pisses me off most about him is the fact that he has a personal crusade against one of the opposition every game.  Instead of winning a personal  battle of football with his opponent we have all the Joey Barton attributes  - he is a car crash.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on January 30, 2016, 08:43:15 PM
Doesn't it just sum up the malaise at the club that the 2 club captains for the last 3 years have been Gabby and Richards. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on January 30, 2016, 08:50:02 PM
Even at RB he is incompetent of doing his job in the most basic form properly, get rid.

Agree with your second point but not the first. I just don't think he is putting any effort in.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 30, 2016, 08:54:54 PM
He's not the brightest tool in the box! 

What pisses me off most about him is the fact that he has a personal crusade against one of the opposition every game.  Instead of winning a personal  battle of football with his opponent we have all the Joey Barton attributes  - he is a car crash.

I see it more as a fraudulent deception to make you think he's been in the game and he cares.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on January 30, 2016, 09:04:53 PM
The Swansea match summed him up, he was more interested in continuing a bit of push and shove in the Swansea box after a corner than getting back to help his team out. No doubt some thought he was showing a bit of 'passion' at the time, I just thought he was being a duck and very unprofessional. Seems he continued it after the final whistle too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on January 30, 2016, 09:07:56 PM
So let's get this right;

We signed him and the very first thing he does is sell his old club to our club captain and arguably most influential player resulting in him leaving,

He then becomes a divisive force in the dressing room tweeting about the work rate and ability of our new signing (who turn out to be our best players),

The are rumours (that's all) that he refuses to play RB for at least the first half of the season,

His performances have been woefully inadequate when he's played and the side look much better without him in it.

He's most probably one of our highest earners at the club.

He has in part Captained us to our worst league performance in nearly 30 years.

If we do no other business, this bloke and N'Zog would be the first out the door this week for me, absolute cancers in the club. 




Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 30, 2016, 09:45:01 PM
He's an utter fuckwit, how he is captain I have no idea.  A disgrace to the club, I truly detest this man.

Better ask Nice but Tim about the deal behind Mickey taking Richards' arrival.

I think he's still sulking about Tim's departure.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: David_Nab on January 30, 2016, 11:28:19 PM
Like Gabby his physical attributes have got him to this level but mentally he ,especially at CB is not prem standard.

How a player who barely played for 3 years came in as our first choice CB  ( a position he has never regularly played ) on a huge contract and was made captain is beyond belief.Arrogance on Tims behalf in that IMO he wanted to prove English talent was better and he could nurture him into a England player again ....

Like Gabby once his pace goes he will be utterly useless
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on January 30, 2016, 11:40:38 PM
Like others thought on paper at least and on a free transfer he was a very decent signing and certainly an upgrade in defence.

But he has turned out to be a total disaster and every time he comes back into the team with the exception of a league 2 side we have looked absolutely feckin woeful in defence.  It cannot be a coincidence so I wouldn't play him as first choice again.  Let him go and get a job at Notcutts as their Santa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on January 30, 2016, 11:46:59 PM
Couldn't believe the space he had on the right hand side in the second half, he had more than I had in the top of the Holte, but every time he received the ball instead of bombing forward he played the ball back, when we lost the ball he ambles back towards our defence. He shirks all responsibility and doesn't help out team mates, a complete disaster on all accounts.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pat McMahon on January 31, 2016, 01:58:04 AM
It won't shock me at all to see Richards sold in the summer. He's not the player we all hoped he could be again and critically not remotely the leader we needed him to be.

I could never work out why anybody thought he would be good for us. He has never been a centre half and has been out of regular football for a few years now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 31, 2016, 02:00:01 AM
Couldn't believe the space he had on the right hand side in the second half, he had more than I had in the top of the Holte, but every time he received the ball instead of bombing forward he played the ball back, when we lost the ball he ambles back towards our defence. He shirks all responsibility and doesn't help out team mates, a complete disaster on all accounts.

He was like that at right back last week.

If Debuchy signing means we see a back 5 of Bunn, Debuchy, Okore, Lescott, Cissokho until the last ball is kicked, then happy days.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on January 31, 2016, 06:46:51 AM
Him and CNZ are all that is rotten about modern day prem football, it says more about us than him, that we have on a consistent basis allowed this sort of player to ever pull on the shirt of Aston Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on January 31, 2016, 07:18:24 AM
Him and CNZ are all that is rotten about modern day prem football, it says more about us than him, that we have on a consistent basis allowed this sort of player to ever pull on the shirt of Aston Villa.

I don't think that's a comparison that can be made. Richards is a poor footballer but his attitude cannot be questioned, whereas CNZ is just a mercenary who has no interest in playing football and is happy to milk the club dry.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on January 31, 2016, 07:29:57 AM
Richards is so far up his own arse, his dentists is a gynecologist and I would also ask you to think back, did CNZ cause this sort of disruption after such a short time at the club, the answer was no.
Richards has had far to much influence from day one, he is a billy big bollocks and I am a 100% sure that if no one wants him come the end of the season, we will again be stuck with a high earning parasite.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on January 31, 2016, 08:45:46 AM
We'd only reported back from training one week before Richards started tweeting about how great it was at Citeh and then started selling them to our club captain.  In their rightful fury at Snake many forgot about Richards role in that, turns out it was just par for the course.

We have to start to make a stand against this sort of rubbish, Berger did it with Barry regards the Redscouse and he was awarded a new contract, Richards did it with Delph and he was awarded the Capataincy. FFS Villa.

Fuck him off, he's shit.



Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ROBBO on January 31, 2016, 09:13:06 AM
 If Debuchy signs it gives us another few months to find a right back for next season and Garde will ditch Richards
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 31, 2016, 09:15:48 AM
We'd only reported back from training one week before Richards started tweeting about how great it was at Citeh and then started selling them to our club captain.  In their rightful fury at Snake many forgot about Richards role in that, turns out it was just par for the course.

We have to start to make a stand against this sort of rubbish, Berger did it with Barry regards the Redscouse and he was awarded a new contract, Richards did it with Delph and he was awarded the Capataincy. FFS Villa.

Fuck him off, he's shit.

Berger wasn't awarded a new contract after the Barry stuff. He had a one year extension at the end of 2007. 2008 was the Barry stuff, his contract expired that summer and he went back to Prague.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: claret and blue blood on January 31, 2016, 09:23:18 AM
O'Neil slated Berger for that and kicked him out, love or loathe MON he didn't let players rule the roost.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on January 31, 2016, 09:38:11 AM
Happy to stand corrected on the timeline re Berger but the point remains.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on January 31, 2016, 09:42:59 AM
Richards can fuck off

And take (for varying reasons) CNZ, Gabby, Sinclair, Guzan, Clark, Richardson, Westwood and that may not be the end of it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on January 31, 2016, 09:47:22 AM
Him and CNZ are all that is rotten about modern day prem football, it says more about us than him, that we have on a consistent basis allowed this sort of player to ever pull on the shirt of Aston Villa.

I don't think that's a comparison that can be made. Richards is a poor footballer but his attitude cannot be questioned, whereas CNZ is just a mercenary who has no interest in playing football and is happy to milk the club dry.

Richards attitude is a disgrace imo
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 31, 2016, 08:44:58 PM
Like Gabby his physical attributes have got him to this level but mentally he ,especially at CB is not prem standard.

How a player who barely played for 3 years came in as our first choice CB  ( a position he has never regularly played ) on a huge contract and was made captain is beyond belief.Arrogance on Tims behalf in that IMO he wanted to prove English talent was better and he could nurture him into a England player again ....

Like Gabby once his pace goes he will be utterly useless

At least Gabby waited until his pace had gone before turning into a completely useless squad member.

Richards to me is blatantly sulking when he's playing at right back and blatantly shit when playing centre back.

There's a reason why he got no game time in Italy when they switched to 352.  Not trusted as centre back and not good enough going forward to play wing back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on January 31, 2016, 09:11:29 PM
I was hoping we would get rid during January, I don't want him stinking the place out next season. Terrible signing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on January 31, 2016, 09:15:45 PM
I would try and sell him at the end of the season if we can find a buyer.  I hope he has a reduced wages clause in his contract just in case we cannot sell him.  I would then consider loaning him out and paying half his wages.  It might cost us £20k a week but it might be worth it and I am sure a PL club would take him off our hands for about £30k a week wages.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: David_Nab on January 31, 2016, 11:25:51 PM
According to Daily Mail Sunderland have made offer for him
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on January 31, 2016, 11:27:15 PM
Drive him up there if they're offering 5m.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 31, 2016, 11:27:50 PM
It could be a great transfer window after all then.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 31, 2016, 11:27:54 PM
Please let it be true and I will take a day off work and drive him up there.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 31, 2016, 11:28:49 PM
Please let it be true and I will take a day off work and drive him up there.

I call shotgun!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: curiousorange on January 31, 2016, 11:29:38 PM
If his replacement's signed and sealed, Sunderland can have him for nothing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on January 31, 2016, 11:31:06 PM
£5m would be a great deal, his replacement can be a Yorkshire terrier.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 31, 2016, 11:31:54 PM
His replacement could be Nathan Baker and we'd be no worse off.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Goldie.7 on January 31, 2016, 11:40:13 PM
If we manage to fuck this donkey off tomorrow and still don't get anyone in, at least we'll have a reason to celebrate something.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on January 31, 2016, 11:44:28 PM
Genuinely if we could pull that Sane and loan Debuchy tomorrow and then fuck Richards off we would be miles better off.

If we could do that, AND sign striker, it would be the best day of the season so far!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on January 31, 2016, 11:55:34 PM
Genuinely if we could pull that Sane and loan Debuchy tomorrow and then fuck Richards off we would be miles better off.

If we could do that, AND sign striker, it would be the best day of the season so far!

If we could get £5m for Richards, Debuchy to the end of the season would be fine.  I would take the money now, rather than risk not being able to sell later.  We would also save about £200k on wages.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on February 01, 2016, 02:51:36 AM
Sell. Bad egg but I imagine there are plenty who would fall for his bullshit still.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on February 01, 2016, 03:07:56 AM
Rearrange this commonly used saying:  off hand bite their.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on February 01, 2016, 03:34:16 AM
Rearrange this commonly used saying:  off hand bite their.

Yep. If we get Debuchy in, Debuchy - Okore - Lescott - Cissokho should be our back four for the rest of the season. If we need a back-up CH, Clark is adequate cover. Cash in now, he won't be here next season anyway.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on February 01, 2016, 07:29:02 AM
Please let it be true and I will take a day off work and drive him up there.

I call shotgun!

I'll fly over just make sure he gets in the car, but I'm not going to Sunderland. 3 trips is enough for this lifetime thank you.

If he does go anywhere, cue at least a week's worth of "My Villa Hell" headlines as "Micah Lifts The Lid On A Club in Meltdown" along with by lines such as "It was hard to motivate myself after Tim left, he never stood a chance with that French Clique in the dressing room."
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on February 01, 2016, 07:32:47 AM
isnt the debuchy deal dead?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on February 01, 2016, 09:10:45 AM
I don't know but check with Goldman Sachs?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Duncan Shaw on February 01, 2016, 09:45:37 AM
You can bet Fat Sam would get him playing like a world-beater!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on February 01, 2016, 01:31:30 PM
Can we christen him as "The Aussie"

The f##ker goes walkabout more often than Crocodile Dundee.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT Villan on February 01, 2016, 01:44:24 PM
We should bite off Sunderland's hand for that offer...we get £5m and at the same time weaken a relegation rival...do it now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: class-of-82 on February 01, 2016, 07:32:24 PM
Think debuchy gone to bordeaux
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on February 01, 2016, 07:38:15 PM
Fuck him off and promote a kid.
I actually think Richards is the shittest center-half we've had in ages, possibly since I can remember (since football began). Why? He's quick, he's strong as an ox. He's leaps like a salmon. He's good on the ball for a defender...so why is he so fucking awful? Because despite having every attribute. I've never known a defender so utterly fucking hopeless at playing as part of a unit, as part of a team. He has no awareness of what others are doing. He's got no idea where he's supposed to position himself. Half the time he doesn't even seem to care. He just plays by himself. His own game. He's an awful choice as captain. He's also got a poor attitude and temperament.

Sell him now. He's awful. Simply fucking terrible. It's understandable why some players are shit. But why would a player who's built for it and has every physical and skill attribute so terrible? Inexcusable. Pathetic excuse for a defender.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on February 01, 2016, 07:57:08 PM
Fuck him off and promote a kid.
I actually think Richards is the shittest center-half we've had in ages, possibly since I can remember (since football began). Why? He's quick, he's strong as an ox. He's leaps like a salmon. He's good on the ball for a defender...so why is he so fucking awful? Because despite having every attribute. I've never known a defender so utterly fucking hopeless at playing as part of a unit, as part of a team. He has no awareness of what others are doing. He's got no idea where he's supposed to position himself. Half the time he doesn't even seem to care. He just plays by himself. His own game. He's an awful choice as captain. He's also got a poor attitude and temperament.

Sell him now. He's awful. Simply fucking terrible. It's understandable why some players are shit. But why would a player who's built for it and has every physical and skill attribute so terrible? Inexcusable. Pathetic excuse for a defender.

Wholeheartedly agree, and just down to his shitty attitude for me. He thinks he's made it already, earning 65k a week, probably too good for us. The fact he's been Captain sums the club up. A player who gives the bare minimum of effort. Only beaten by another for effort, that being Gabby.

Oh, he's been Captain too. Sigh.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on February 01, 2016, 08:03:29 PM
Fuck him off and promote a kid.
I actually think Richards is the shittest center-half we've had in ages, possibly since I can remember (since football began). Why? He's quick, he's strong as an ox. He's leaps like a salmon. He's good on the ball for a defender...so why is he so fucking awful? Because despite having every attribute. I've never known a defender so utterly fucking hopeless at playing as part of a unit, as part of a team. He has no awareness of what others are doing. He's got no idea where he's supposed to position himself. Half the time he doesn't even seem to care. He just plays by himself. His own game. He's an awful choice as captain. He's also got a poor attitude and temperament.

Sell him now. He's awful. Simply fucking terrible. It's understandable why some players are shit. But why would a player who's built for it and has every physical and skill attribute so terrible? Inexcusable. Pathetic excuse for a defender.

Bravo.

Shame he's still here
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on February 01, 2016, 08:12:19 PM
he cost us nothing so i would let the c*** go for nothing
 
we are calling out for strong leader on the pitch and someone to lead by example and we have this useless fuckwit
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on February 01, 2016, 08:36:23 PM
isnt the debuchy deal dead?
It is now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on February 01, 2016, 08:49:58 PM
I'm not on Twitter but I'm hoping he's put out a message of solidarity, urging us to stick together and promising he'll be giving 100% to the cause.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on February 01, 2016, 09:34:22 PM
One thing that I feel in my gut about Richards more than anything is, that when the inevitable happens, he'll be the first rat to try and desert. I think it's written all over him. He'll come out with a few lines about wanting to be in the elite of the Premier League. He'll probably go as far as handing in a request and someone will probably buy him in the misguided belief that he's a good player. I don't envision him having a shred of loyalty at all.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on February 01, 2016, 10:31:04 PM
There's no way he'll hand in a transfer request as long as the earth spins round the sun and Jim White spouts bollocks on transfer deadline day.

Ask for a transfer and kiss goodbye to 3½ years of £60K per week in "loyalty bonus?" There's more chance of us staying up than that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: curiousorange on February 02, 2016, 09:40:10 PM
I have to say, I thought he really put in a shift tonight. To be honest, I'd have pushed him further forward after the first goal went in.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on February 02, 2016, 09:40:51 PM
Thought he did alright tonight.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on February 03, 2016, 12:18:08 AM
Arguably his best performance for us. All too little too late.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on February 03, 2016, 06:18:37 AM
Richards will have more good games than bad ones for the rest of the season, because Mr. Richards only cares about Mr. Richards he will take it as a chance to put himself in the window, if Sunderland stop up , long shot I know they will come back with an offer, probably around 5 mill and he will be gone.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on February 03, 2016, 06:38:56 AM
The sooner the better. He epitomises every dubious character defect in all the long list of players who have taken so much from us and given back so little.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on February 03, 2016, 06:52:07 AM
That appears to be a professional footballer your describing there Brian, or should I say the ones attracted to Aston Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on February 03, 2016, 07:04:56 AM
Yes, I am cynical I confess where the upper echelons of the game are concerned.  They receive so much and put back so little.  What they put back is invariably only part of a PR charm offensive to either mask a record of self interest or to achieve some sort of unearned reputation.  I have more respect for Paul Birch who became a postman and died young than I do for the likes of Richards.  At least Paul is immortalised in song.  More than Richards will ever be.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villabear on March 04, 2016, 11:19:53 PM
Apparently he's got a buy out clause in his contract.

Bye then.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/12184243/Micah-Richards-deal-lets-club-captain-leave-doomed-Aston-Villa-for-a-paltry-5-million.html

It'll be interesting to find out who's leaking all this to the Telegraph.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on March 04, 2016, 11:25:25 PM
He cost us fuck all.
He is a disruptive prima donna.
He's one of the reasons we are in the mess we are in.
We'll get £5m for him.
He ain't that good.

No biggie....bye.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Percy McCarthy on March 04, 2016, 11:30:05 PM
Paltry? £8m for Delph was paltry. £5m for Richards is the crime of the century.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on March 04, 2016, 11:30:09 PM
At last, some good news.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Stirchley Villain on March 04, 2016, 11:33:50 PM
I'd get rid for £5M now. He's absolute gash. In fact I'll drive him myself to Stoke or wherever the fuck whenever he likes.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on March 04, 2016, 11:59:54 PM
I'd take £5. Get him gone.

Awful defender.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt C on March 05, 2016, 12:23:13 AM
£5m for a defender with the positional sense of a Labrador is great business.

More interesting is who is talking to the Telegraph because either the club or the players (/their agents) are talking, this stuff isn't appearing by chance.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pete3206 on March 05, 2016, 12:29:16 AM
Who on earth is going to stump up £5 mil for Richards?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on March 05, 2016, 12:31:51 AM
This is like when you hear of a Brazilian player and his club have placed a £75m release clause on him and you think who the fuck is going to pay that, why bother.

This blokes a clown.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gregorys Boy on March 05, 2016, 01:04:31 AM
He has been poor, but as long as we could at least 15 matches out of him in the Championship I'd say he might be worth keeping.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mellin on March 05, 2016, 08:04:32 AM
Absolutely not. Our biggest problem ahead of a lack of quality is the disgraceful attitude of a decent percentage of the squad. We need to show in no uncertain terms that isn't acceptable. N'Zogbia's gone anyway, Richards needs to be shipped too. Gabby and the remainder can be fired from a cannon.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ormy Droid on March 05, 2016, 08:56:19 AM
At first I thought it must be the club briefing Percy to let other clubs know that Richards was available for £5m, but then the phrase 'Cut Price' got stuck in my head. £5m for him isn't 'Cut Price' at any stretch of the imagination, so I can only assume it's come from his agent.

There's so much money coming into the Prem this year, it's likely that someone might feel he's worth a gamble even as back up, which would be at least one saving grace.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: passport1 on March 05, 2016, 09:03:41 AM
I doubt there will a queue around the block for him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on March 05, 2016, 09:08:43 AM
Which manager in his right mind wants a trouble maker in the dressing room?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: phantom limb on March 05, 2016, 09:11:25 AM
This is where I would normally think it'll be just our luck that he will go on to another club and be great for them, but I just can't see it happening. He's absolute gash.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on March 05, 2016, 09:18:35 AM
I thought he was great in his first few games under Sherwood. His last good game though was West Ham away, he was excellent that night.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Can Gana Be Bettered!?!? on March 05, 2016, 09:23:14 AM
£5m for a defender with the positional sense of a Labrador is great business.

More interesting is who is talking to the Telegraph because either the club or the players (/their agents) are talking, this stuff isn't appearing by chance.

It's easy to train Labradors though and get them to do what you want them to. Not sure that equates to Richards being like a Labrador. A cat maybe? They just wander wherever they like and won't have anyone tell them what to do.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Neil Hawkes on March 05, 2016, 09:34:47 AM
£5m for a defender with the positional sense of a Labrador is great business.

More interesting is who is talking to the Telegraph because either the club or the players (/their agents) are talking, this stuff isn't appearing by chance.

It's easy to train Labradors though and get them to do what you want them to. Not sure that equates to Richards being like a Labrador. A cat maybe? They just wander wherever they like and won't have anyone tell them what to do.
Perfect "Cat Richards"
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on March 05, 2016, 09:36:10 AM
Is this supposed to be bad news? Can't see anyone paying that kind of money for him. Must be a misprint.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Drummond on March 05, 2016, 11:12:47 AM
He will end up as another one that we can't shift, even on a free.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on March 05, 2016, 11:18:20 AM
I'd ship him out for £5.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on March 05, 2016, 11:25:58 AM
I'm quote happy to someone boot the underperforming cretiin to wherever the fuck he wants to go next.

Poor technique, poor positional play, undermotivated and overpaid
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on March 05, 2016, 11:26:43 AM
I'd ship him out for £5.

Done, will you take a cheque?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on March 05, 2016, 11:56:25 AM
A fully committed Micah Richards is worth £5M. He was terrific at Man City. But the the whole culture at Villa from top to bottom is a shambles and breeds a couldn't care less attitude amongst many of the players.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on March 05, 2016, 12:09:30 PM
I'd ship him out for £5.

Done, will you take a cheque?

I'd take a dog-eared IOU scribbled on a bit of loo roll. So long as you take him!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 05, 2016, 01:14:25 PM
When I think of someone giving us £5m for him.

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Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Yossarian on March 05, 2016, 01:22:18 PM
Apparently he's got a buy out clause in his contract.

Bye then.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/12184243/Micah-Richards-deal-lets-club-captain-leave-doomed-Aston-Villa-for-a-paltry-5-million.html

It'll be interesting to find out who's leaking all this to the Telegraph.

That'll be his agent. Only his agent could think that he might possibly be worth five million quid. Perhaps his mom might as well. But nobody else.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on March 05, 2016, 01:30:49 PM
Apparently he's got a buy out clause in his contract.

Bye then.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/12184243/Micah-Richards-deal-lets-club-captain-leave-doomed-Aston-Villa-for-a-paltry-5-million.html

It'll be interesting to find out who's leaking all this to the Telegraph.

That'll be his agent. Only his agent could think that he might possibly be worth five million quid. Perhaps his mom might as well. But nobody else.

Dome mug punter will think he is thankfully. After all Villa's problems are all down to signing inexperienced French speaking players. The English players have been fighting as hard those on D-Day. That's the difference - don't you know?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on March 05, 2016, 01:50:04 PM
Apparently he's got a buy out clause in his contract.

Bye then.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/12184243/Micah-Richards-deal-lets-club-captain-leave-doomed-Aston-Villa-for-a-paltry-5-million.html

It'll be interesting to find out who's leaking all this to the Telegraph.

That'll be his agent. Only his agent could think that he might possibly be worth five million quid. Perhaps his mom might as well. But nobody else.

Dome mug punter will think he is thankfully. After all Villa's problems are all down to signing inexperienced French speaking players. The English players have been fighting as hard those on D-Day. That's the difference - don't you know?

That's a good point Rob. This misinformation peddled by the national media could actually work in our favour.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on March 05, 2016, 02:12:15 PM
Amazing that the likes of Richards have got away with it lightly despite being woeful most weeks, yet Veretout, Gana etc who are statistically and clearly the better players each week have taken the blame for the poor season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: myf on March 05, 2016, 04:23:25 PM
Wilm anyone pay 5m for that shithouse?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on March 05, 2016, 04:24:55 PM
Abortion of a defender.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on March 05, 2016, 04:26:17 PM
Shit attitude and appalling defender.

What a combination.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 05, 2016, 04:27:24 PM
He's flying up the Hodgeometer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on March 05, 2016, 04:48:16 PM
He's flying up the Hodgeometer.

He's gone beyond it for me.

Bet he's enjoying watching his beloved City today.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on March 05, 2016, 04:53:33 PM
He's flying up the Hodgeometer.

He's gone beyond it for me.

Bet he's enjoying watching his beloved City today.

Same here. I don't think he's given a shit since he's been here.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on March 05, 2016, 05:02:07 PM
He's flying up the Hodgeometer.

The mere fact he's in the conversation is an indictment unto itself. You have to be old enough to remember off course, but he is fast become Hodge incarnate.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: DaveD on March 05, 2016, 05:05:55 PM
At least Hodge had some decent games before he became a c***
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on March 05, 2016, 05:10:07 PM
I hope he is the first one out the door
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on March 05, 2016, 05:13:55 PM
A fully committed Micah Richards is worth £5M. He was terrific at Man City. But the the whole culture at Villa from top to bottom is a shambles and breeds a couldn't care less attitude amongst many of the players.

He was never anything but a typical bang average English player with a reputation that far exceeded his ability.

He gave up the game pretty much when Zabaleta took his place at City in 2011/12. Look at his pathetic playing record since. The come and get me plea via the Torygraph this week sums up this delusional moron.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on March 05, 2016, 05:20:06 PM
C***!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: myf on March 05, 2016, 08:01:56 PM
Why is garde playing him?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Salsa Party Animal on March 05, 2016, 09:32:04 PM
he is poor signing and think he is worse signing of the season in premier league. Is there any evidence he is a Villa fan. As we don't seem to have good luck with them especially with him, Agbonlahor or Collymore. But they can't all be like Sir Ian Taylor.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tokyo Sexwhale on March 05, 2016, 09:33:41 PM
he is poor signing and think he is worse signing of the season in premier league. Is there any evidence he is a Villa fan. As we don't seem to have good luck with them especially with him, Agbonlahor or Collymore. But they can't all be like Sir Ian Taylor.


Richards was born in Birmingham, but I don't think he was raised here - no evidence of him being a Villa fan.

Lescott supposedly is.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villabear on March 05, 2016, 10:05:36 PM
he is poor signing and think he is worse signing of the season in premier league. Is there any evidence he is a Villa fan. As we don't seem to have good luck with them especially with him, Agbonlahor or Collymore. But they can't all be like Sir Ian Taylor.




Richards was born in Birmingham, but I don't think he was raised here - no evidence of him being a Villa fan.

Lescott supposedly is.

I always discounted him as a Villa fan especially after the sweary post match interview he did when he scored against us for Man City.  I thought after that there were stories of him being a nose.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 05, 2016, 10:12:41 PM
Quote
I was born in Birmingham but I grew up in Leeds and, although I liked Leeds United, I supported Arsenal as well because of Ian Wright.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on March 06, 2016, 12:37:03 AM
Quote
I was born in Birmingham but I grew up in Leeds and, although I liked Leeds United, I supported Arsenal as well because of Ian Wright.

But what about Richards PWS?

Seriously though, we should have taken the money when Sunderland came in on deadline day.

My list of "outs" for this summer is huge!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 06, 2016, 12:41:14 AM
It's very rare for me to dislike players when they are with us. Him and Gabby are two that I am beginning to hate being here.
Players like Bacuna, Westwood, even Bowery type players, I may want them to leave the club but I don't dislike them. It's not their fault they aren't good enough or keep getting picked.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on March 06, 2016, 12:55:04 AM
Richards was too busy giving the Man City players a hand up off the floor to bother with defending properly. We let in four cheap goals. The volleyed effort for Aguero's goal was a nice move and finish but Hutton and Richards were diabolical in that move. I hope Richards was embarrassed with his performance, doubt it though. I also wonder if it's him releasing bits of info to the press?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: David_Nab on March 06, 2016, 01:05:24 AM
Useless again today , why he Garde Playing him ?

He is a utter liability he must be involved in 90% of the goals we concede with his useless positioning.He isn't a CB by a long shot being quick and strong isn't enough but at the same time he is not much better at RB where his lack of ability on ball makes him a passenger.

5mil I'd snap the hands off anyone offering that
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Jon Crofts on March 06, 2016, 02:16:43 AM
Nobody will pay £5 million for Richards, we are lumbered with him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on March 06, 2016, 02:44:05 AM
The 5 Million clause is based on a figure at which we must let him go I would venture, hard as that may to believe.

We will let him go for considerably less to a club for whom he may fulfill a role, as long as the role does not having any defensive discipline or a a longer attention span than a cocker spaniel with a lackadaisical owner when there are rabbits about.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Jon Crofts on March 06, 2016, 03:42:03 AM
He was a signing I really thought would make a difference, he's made a difference alright, he's turned our crap defence into a really crap defence.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt C on March 06, 2016, 05:57:20 AM
He was at fault for every goal today, all four of them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on March 06, 2016, 06:11:24 AM
I think we are all agreed that the player Micah Richards is crap and has no redeeming features, yet he still trots onto the pitch with the captains arm band, that to me sums up Aston Villa this season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Alex77 on March 06, 2016, 07:19:42 AM
& to prove his commitment to the cause, he was absolutely shit faced by 9pm on Thursday night at a bar in Wetherby!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on March 06, 2016, 07:36:41 AM
Tbf at least he's consistant, he's been fucking us over from day 1. Many thought he was being a bit naive advising Fibian about Citeh and discussing it in public.  We're just a cash cow to him, he's taken the piss all year.

Can't believe he's still gets picked let alone being our Captain. Him and Gabby, fucking arseholes the pair of them.


Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on March 06, 2016, 01:55:55 PM
& to prove his commitment to the cause, he was absolutely shit faced by 9pm on Thursday night at a bar in Wetherby!

Less of the allegations, unless you can afford a better lawyer than he can.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on March 06, 2016, 01:57:06 PM
& to prove his commitment to the cause, he was absolutely shit faced by 9pm on Thursday night at a bar in Wetherby!

Wasn't the same one that O'Leary frequents by any chance was it?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Diablo on March 06, 2016, 03:07:22 PM
& to prove his commitment to the cause, he was absolutely shit faced by 9pm on Thursday night at a bar in Wetherby!

How do you know this?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on March 07, 2016, 01:27:19 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Richards
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on March 07, 2016, 01:34:00 PM
Childish but amusing and oddly satisfying.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on March 07, 2016, 02:20:34 PM
Excellent.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on March 07, 2016, 02:24:23 PM
Nobody will pay £5 million for Richards, we are lumbered with him.

Seeing as we didn't pay a fee for him, I would accept anything anyone is willing to pay. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on March 07, 2016, 02:59:50 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Agbonlahor

I can't believe people find this sort of thing amusing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Smirker on March 07, 2016, 03:06:04 PM
Quote
Agbonlahor in typical playing position (stationary) for Aston Villa

 ;D
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: DaveD on March 07, 2016, 04:09:15 PM
They've both been wound back now, but you can still see the revisions. I do like 'Lescottius Laziarse'.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on March 07, 2016, 05:58:32 PM
I can't remember the last time I disliked one of our players s much as I do Micah Richards.  We can only dream of his ridiculous £5m clause being activated! I n reality we would be lucky to get someone to take him off our hands on a free transfer without us coughing up part of his salary.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Caribbeanvillan on March 07, 2016, 07:48:25 PM
When you look closer at his poor positioning and mistakes, it's as though he's doing it on purpose.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: DaveD on March 07, 2016, 09:32:38 PM
When you look closer at his poor positioning and mistakes, it's as though he's doing it on purpose.

Nah. He's just an incurable ball watcher. Twin that with a massive ego, and he'll be constantly drawn into the wrong position, and he'll still think he's doing the right thing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on March 07, 2016, 09:35:19 PM
When you look closer at his poor positioning and mistakes, it's as though he's doing it on purpose.

Nah. He's just an incurable ball watcher. Twin that with a massive ego, and he'll be constantly drawn into the wrong position, and he'll still think he's doing the right thing.

I can't remember who was playing inside him at centre back for Man City when they won the league with him at right back, but either Richards showed a positional discipline that he simply can't be arsed to think about reproducing for us, or there was someone almost McGrathesque at right centre back,
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: gpbarr on March 07, 2016, 09:36:40 PM
He's a player with physical ability, but a poor understanding of the game which is why his career is as it is. Will never make it in the big league, and his ego kills any other sense of ability he has. Poor signing and its really hurting us
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on March 07, 2016, 09:43:08 PM
Quote
Agbonlahor in typical playing position (stationary) for Aston Villa

 ;D

Just watched match of the day. What the fuck was he doing? Touching his toes. Pointing? Fuck off you overpaid waster
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on March 07, 2016, 10:08:02 PM
Jog on Micah forever.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: A Northern Soul on March 07, 2016, 10:14:56 PM
Was talking to a colleague today who is a Man City fan, he said Richards got too big for his boots there in his second season, wouldn't follow instructions, wandered off around the pitch and was an arrogant twat. He laughed out loud at the £5m valuation and noted very quickly that the source would be Richards himself.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on March 07, 2016, 10:33:26 PM
Was talking to a colleague today who is a Man City fan, he said Richards got too big for his boots there in his second season, wouldn't follow instructions, wandered off around the pitch and was an arrogant twat. He laughed out loud at the £5m valuation and noted very quickly that the source would be Richards himself.

Richards the one talking to the papers? Yup, makes total sense after some of the inane babble he's spouted this season, including offering out super Mario etc.  They get this stuff from somewhere. I think I recall Garde saying they had a mole at BUM didn't he?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on March 08, 2016, 07:19:05 AM
well clearly the geezer needs something up his arse, preferably long and pointy
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on March 08, 2016, 07:32:39 AM
I think it has universal acceptance that a cattle prod is the ideal answer to Richards and Agbonlahor's lassitude.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: MillerBall on March 08, 2016, 01:09:49 PM
A Sabre Tooth Tiger may perhaps encourage some movement but after what I witnessed last Saturday (and indeed for most of this season) I suspect most betting shops would still only offer relatively small odds.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on March 29, 2016, 02:12:00 PM
(http://i4.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article11105458.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Micah-Richards-comment.jpg)

Brave Micah. Bravo. You complete fucking bellend
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Walmley_Villa on March 29, 2016, 02:16:30 PM
Turned out a very poor signing - just hope we can offload him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VILLA MOLE on March 29, 2016, 02:30:29 PM
(http://i4.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article11105458.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Micah-Richards-comment.jpg)

Brave Micah. Bravo. You complete fucking bellend



I think we should all turn  up as clowns for the remaining games to show solidarity
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on March 29, 2016, 02:35:17 PM
"Long hard season" is he having a laugh?
Watching Richards attempt to play cb or rb  is pure slapstck. All that's missing is a painted face!
The sooner this "clown" is relieved of our club's colours and captaincy the better!!!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on March 29, 2016, 02:38:38 PM
Captain & Club Captain...fuck 'em both off asap
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Yossarian on March 29, 2016, 02:44:46 PM
(http://i4.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article11105458.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Micah-Richards-comment.jpg)

Brave Micah. Bravo. You complete fucking bellend

You think it has been hard for you? You should try having to regularly watch your shit performances.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: HolmesyVilla on March 29, 2016, 02:48:06 PM
(http://i4.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article11105458.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Micah-Richards-comment.jpg)

Brave Micah. Bravo. You complete fucking bellend

You think it has been hard for you? You should try having to regularly watch your shit performances.

This is shocking he might want to think about hiring a bodyguard cos I for one certainly want to drop this prick.
He's taking the piss out of Aston Villa
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 29, 2016, 02:48:47 PM
For me he's right up there with Hodge for players I really dislike and want out of the club asap.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on March 29, 2016, 02:49:22 PM
Captain & Club Captain...fuck 'em both off asap

We must be paying, what, a hundred grand a week to keep these pair of absolute pricks in Cuban cigars and Middle eastern jolly ups. Drop them, Remi - play a couple of teenagers in the first team and make these 2 talent-vacuums play in the reserves.   
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Des Little on March 29, 2016, 02:53:44 PM
We won't see his arse for dust when this season ends.  Thankfully.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on March 29, 2016, 02:54:12 PM
He's the one who's been playing like he wears size 30 clown boots, the massive wazzock.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: FiveKenMcNaughts on March 29, 2016, 02:57:12 PM
"After a long hard season"

There is still 1/5 of the season to play.

Got that's depressing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tim on March 29, 2016, 03:01:53 PM
"After a long hard season"

There is still 1/5 of the season to play.

Got that's depressing.
That's exactly what I was thinking - I'd be interested in finding out at which point in the last 8 months he thought the season had ended..?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on March 29, 2016, 03:16:29 PM
He's the one who's been playing like he wears size 30 clown boots, the massive wazzock.

Wazzock. Love it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on March 29, 2016, 03:18:33 PM
For me he's right up there with Hodge for players I really dislike and want out of the club asap.

He beats Hodge. He stinks.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on March 29, 2016, 03:20:15 PM
His attitude in that reply on instagram shows everything that was wrong with that trip and their attitudes
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt C on March 29, 2016, 03:44:58 PM
He'll be out of here quicker than you can say 'positional sense' come the summer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on March 29, 2016, 03:48:52 PM
He just refuses to learn doesn't he?  A terminal Cnut.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on March 29, 2016, 03:50:06 PM
Jog on Micah you hopelessly useless oaf. Yet another cretin we don't need at the club. Plus the PR department should ban them from social media. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on March 29, 2016, 03:50:45 PM
Was he wearing glasses in those Dubai photos? It may explain a lot.

Worse than Hodge for me though in his defence, he was also known to have no positional sense at Man City.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on March 29, 2016, 03:54:45 PM
What an absolute arsehole, long hard season? These bell ends want a wake up call, you should see my work load, im exhaused, real work would scare these twats to death
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on March 29, 2016, 03:57:43 PM
Worse use of social media since Ian Botham tweeted his cock.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on March 29, 2016, 04:00:21 PM
I'd be very happy for Garde to just drop him permanently. I don't want anything from Richards other than to sod off.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on March 29, 2016, 04:03:40 PM
I'd be very happy for Garde to just drop him permanently. I don't want anything from Richards other than to sod off.

proper sherwood player
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on March 29, 2016, 04:17:32 PM
(http://i4.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article11105458.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Micah-Richards-comment.jpg)

Brave Micah. Bravo. You complete fucking bellend

It is the "after a long hard season" that is most telling. The season hasn't finished yet Micah you talentless lazy gobshite!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villalion on March 29, 2016, 04:28:47 PM
Long hard season?  I've just finished six weeks of 4.30 get up, home at 7pm six days a week. Tossa
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on March 29, 2016, 04:29:08 PM
(http://i4.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article11105458.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Micah-Richards-comment.jpg)

Brave Micah. Bravo. You complete fucking bellend

It is the "after a long hard season" that is most telling. The season hasn't finished yet Micah you talentless lazy gobshite!

Sorry Skipper. I don't think any of your adoring fans really considered the level of effort required to be as shit as you and Flabby. Semi competent professionals must expend Izzardian levels of effort.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Axl Rose on March 29, 2016, 04:34:35 PM
He just refuses to learn doesn't he?  A terminal Cnut.

My thoughts exactly. I hope our fans give Richards,fat, wanker in a shit cap and the other scrotums pelters on Saturday. I fucking hate them. It's the only plus regarding relegation-theyre likely to be shipped out. ******.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VinnieChase84 on March 29, 2016, 04:37:21 PM
(http://i4.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article11105458.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Micah-Richards-comment.jpg)

Brave Micah. Bravo. You complete fucking bellend

It is the "after a long hard season" that is most telling. The season hasn't finished yet Micah you talentless lazy gobshite!

Sorry Skipper. I don't think any of your adoring fans really considered the level of effort required to be as shit as you and Flabby. Semi competent professionals must expend Izzardian levels of effort.

One player I firmly cannot wait to see holding up a shirt of another club. Absolute to55er.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve kirk on March 29, 2016, 05:09:33 PM
I've developed a real dislike for this tosser.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bad English on March 29, 2016, 05:18:24 PM
Can I just register my contempt for this piss-taking team "captain"? Cheers!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CJ on March 29, 2016, 06:25:37 PM
Neither of our 'captains' are fit to wear the shirt and I hope we let them know that in no uncertain terms on Saturday.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on March 29, 2016, 06:28:00 PM
Neither of our 'captains' are fit to wear the shirt and I hope we let them know that in no uncertain terms on Saturday.

I hope neither are in the squad and are currently sat in a Dubai prison about to be found guilty of being utter wankers. Gabby has the additional charge of being a thick poorly dressed prat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cheltenhamlion on March 29, 2016, 06:29:07 PM
Careful now. Calling Gabby out will get you called a ****** on his thread.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on March 29, 2016, 06:34:27 PM
Slight deviation but, a rousing chorus of the following next Saturday would be nice:

Gabby, Gabby, Gabby, Gabby, Gabby Agbonlahor,

There's the door, there's the door...or...or...or.

Repeat ad nauseum.  He makes me sick anyway.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Proposition Joe on March 29, 2016, 06:42:15 PM
"After a long hard season"

There is still 1/5 of the season to play.

Got that's depressing.

That's the most telling part of the tweet I think. Don't expect much resistance vs Chelsea on Sat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on March 29, 2016, 06:50:14 PM
I can tolerate an idiot, but what I can't tolerate is an idiot with a superiority complex. Look Micah you utter bellend you're lucky that you time in football happened to coincide with a period of media globalisation and greed. You earn a lot of money, but you're a very poor footballer and worse than that a pretty pathetic man.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on March 29, 2016, 07:03:37 PM
I can tolerate an idiot, but what I can't tolerate is an idiot with a superiority complex. Look Micah you utter bellend you're lucky that you time in football happened to coincide with a period of media globalisation and greed. You earn a lot of money, but you're a very poor footballer and worse than that a pretty pathetic man.

Yep.

I don't think I've ever gone from being so pleased when a Villa player joined to despising them in such a quick time before Richards.

What a tool.

Even ignoring the 'are we not entitled to a break' part, after the stream of senior pro related shit this season with Lescott et al - surely the penny has dropped that it's best to just say nothing you great screaming twat. Can you not even get that right? Essentially it's called doing fuck-all, just ask your mate Gabby, he's an expert.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Allan C on March 29, 2016, 07:19:56 PM
This "player" emphasises all that is wrong and sick at our club. His first trick was to encourage our best player to join the club he had just left. He is vastly overrated and a shockingly poor purchase. He is what is wrong at Villa
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on March 29, 2016, 08:38:26 PM
Given the stupidity of the comment is it definitely his account?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on March 29, 2016, 08:51:53 PM
How is he still the captain of Aston Villa. A long list of fuckups against the fans now for this fool.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on March 29, 2016, 08:54:36 PM
Given the stupidity of the comment is it definitely his account?
Well he's proven beyond doubt already that he's a gasbagging gobshite.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on March 29, 2016, 08:57:17 PM
Someone on my FB villa fan page says that Cowans has said he the only one who cares about the club,
not read that anywhere so don't know if it has any truth to it
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on March 29, 2016, 09:06:55 PM
Just one of a number of our current players who I never want to see in a Villa shirt again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on March 29, 2016, 09:15:56 PM
I've got a feeling Richards might not make the final 23 for France this summer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: AV89 on March 29, 2016, 11:05:24 PM
One of them is the club captain.  The other is the team captain.

Says a lot about the shocking attitude in this team.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gregorys Boy on March 29, 2016, 11:09:39 PM
Richards seemed one of those no-brainer type signers at the start of the season, just what we need right? ::) I'd actually keep him as the Championship does seem about his level, but he needs to step up next season for sure. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: AV89 on March 29, 2016, 11:10:45 PM
Richards seemed one of those no-brainer type signers at the start of the season, just what we need right? ::) I'd actually keep him as the Championship does seem about his level, but he needs to step up next season for sure.

No brainer is a rather fitting phrase I think.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gregorys Boy on March 29, 2016, 11:18:42 PM
Richards seemed one of those no-brainer type signers at the start of the season, just what we need right? ::) I'd actually keep him as the Championship does seem about his level, but he needs to step up next season for sure.

No brainer is a rather fitting phrase I think.

I know, thought I'd give you that one for free! He's not the sharpest knife in the draw to be fair.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on March 29, 2016, 11:21:58 PM
Richards seemed one of those no-brainer type signers at the start of the season, just what we need right? ::) I'd actually keep him as the Championship does seem about his level, but he needs to step up next season for sure.

No brainer is a rather fitting phrase I think.

I know, thought I'd give you that one for free! He's not the sharpest knife in the draw to be fair.

I'm not convinced he's the sharpest spoon in the draw to be fair.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oldtimernow on April 03, 2016, 12:25:49 PM
Just thought I would resurrect this thread because he seems to be getting off relatively lightly after yesterdays showing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on April 03, 2016, 12:27:23 PM
Yes, I don't understand it.  He should be getting pelters from the first whistle to last.  Also, seeing as he was away with Agbonlahor, why isn't he facing any censure from the club?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pete3206 on April 03, 2016, 12:29:25 PM
Absolute waste of space. Pathetic performances from a so called leader.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on April 03, 2016, 12:55:22 PM
He was awful yesterday. I know Sanchez was more obviously awful, but time and again Richards was prancing about miles out of position, never had a clue where his man was, and watch his attempted "block" on the first goal. Going through the motions of pretending to defend.

Can't wait for him and his little cretins to fuck off.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on April 03, 2016, 12:58:13 PM
Total Wanker.

A stain on Aston Villa. Hope therrs amug punter out therr who will part with a couple of million.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pbavfckuwait on April 03, 2016, 12:59:32 PM
Total shot in the dark with the Gabby / Richards thing, but I wonder if Richards asked and got permission to go out of the country and Gabby had not, as club captain they may have had Gabby lined up for certain promotional (Acorns and such like) activities.

But yes Richards is to me one of the most useless and unprofessional players I have encountered in over 45 years of following the Villa.So I hope he gets plenty between now and the end of the season, or better still I hope he gets none because he is not playing and he is not on the bench.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on April 03, 2016, 01:10:51 PM
I thought he looked like a right fat twat yesterday. Heavier, fatter and more sluggish than normal.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on April 23, 2016, 06:12:32 PM
Just thought I would resurrect this thread because he seems to be getting off relatively lightly after yesterdays showing.

Once again this gutless tool managed to escape the majority of the crowds displeasure, is his shirt made of teflon. His performance today was shambolic and he wouldn't even come out for the second half, probably suffering from a strained ego, ship the tosser out now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on April 23, 2016, 06:17:33 PM
He was basically crap for 45 minutes but the icing on the cowpat was his effort at defending when Long hit the bar. Later in the first half he tried some of his comical forward surges that ended up nowhere as usual. I bet he refused to come out for the second half.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on April 23, 2016, 06:28:26 PM
Richards seemed one of those no-brainer type signers at the start of the season, just what we need right? ::) I'd actually keep him as the Championship does seem about his level, but he needs to step up next season for sure.

Can't we just get someone to drown in the canal? Probably more use as fish food.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on April 23, 2016, 06:39:00 PM
I thought he looked like a right fat twat yesterday. Heavier, fatter and more sluggish than normal.

He shares the same conditioning coach as Gabby
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on April 23, 2016, 06:39:05 PM
I don't think I've ever hated a Villa player more than Richards, not even Hodge. He disgusts me. We give Lescott pelters but he's just a knackered old carthorse, a bit thick, who's crap with social media but Richards is just a complete twat. He really doesn't give a shit. A great example today was their second goal where instead of racing back, he casually jogged back. The man is a disgrace. The thought of him being here next season frightens me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on April 23, 2016, 06:44:11 PM
I don't think I've ever hated a Villa player more than Richards, not even Hodge. He disgusts me. We give Lescott pelters but he's just a knackered old carthorse, a bit thick, who's crap with social media but Richards is just a complete twat. He really doesn't give a shit. A great example today was their second goal where instead of racing back, he casually jogged back. The man is a disgrace. The thought of him being here next season frightens me.

I suspect that him and Agbonlahor have hit it off from day 1 and all that entails.

Yet another odious shitstain on the payroll.  Even if we've got to bung him a million, kick this f##ker out of the club ASAP.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on April 23, 2016, 06:52:54 PM
It's critical that the club recognizes it needs to cut ties with certain players to actually start to get out of this mess. We've paid out numerous managers and executives over the past few years but this will be the best money we will spend to eliminate roaches like Agbonlahor and Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ian. on April 23, 2016, 08:04:09 PM
With Richards at centre back what is the actual total of goals we have conceded? Who's good at stats? I'd love to know the average goals per game we concede with our captain playing in his preceded position.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Lastfootstamper on April 23, 2016, 08:18:45 PM
With Richards at centre back what is the actual total of goals we have conceded? Who's good at stats? I'd love to know the average goals per game we concede with our captain playing in his preceded position.

How peculiar. A topic broached by my twittering brother earlier today, as it happens. According to him, whenever Richards has played we've not won, and conceded 2.2 goals.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ian. on April 23, 2016, 08:22:51 PM
Thanks for that.

You know, that's actually better than I thought. Fair play Richads you have done quite well!?!

I'm just wondering now stats people has any other captain faired better ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisf on April 23, 2016, 08:23:04 PM
With Richards at centre back what is the actual total of goals we have conceded? Who's good at stats? I'd love to know the average goals per game we concede with our captain playing in his preceded position.

How peculiar. A topic broached by my twittering brother earlier today, as it happens. According to him, whenever Richards has played we've not won, and conceded 2.2 goals.
... and if another twitterer's stats are accurate, we averaged a point a game when Okore played. Not so surprising he's pissed off. Fucking hate Richards. Worst captain ever.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on April 23, 2016, 09:11:19 PM
It's critical that the club recognizes it needs to cut ties with certain players to actually start to get out of this mess. We've paid out numerous managers and executives over the past few years but this will be the best money we will spend to eliminate roaches like Agbonlahor and Richards.

My worst fear, regardless of who we get, is that the new manager / owner come in with the idea that they are going to give everyone a clean slate and try to get the most of what we've got already.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt C on April 23, 2016, 09:17:08 PM
Another bottler. Sooner we can bin him the better. When you remind yourself this moron plus Gabby & Lescott are the 'captains' I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on April 23, 2016, 09:24:58 PM
With Richards at centre back what is the actual total of goals we have conceded? Who's good at stats? I'd love to know the average goals per game we concede with our captain playing in his preceded position.

How peculiar. A topic broached by my twittering brother earlier today, as it happens. According to him, whenever Richards has played we've not won, and conceded 2.2 goals.
Richards played in the opening win against Bournemouth and was excellent. It seems so long ago but there was just the faintest signs of optimism creeping in after that start.

He has been a complete shithouse since.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve R on April 23, 2016, 10:27:56 PM
It's critical that the club recognizes it needs to cut ties with certain players to actually start to get out of this mess. We've paid out numerous managers and executives over the past few years but this will be the best money we will spend to eliminate roaches like Agbonlahor and Richards.

I don't think it is enough to create another bomb squad, isolated from first team affairs. Some of these twats are stinking the whole club out and have to go by July 1st.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Irish villain on April 23, 2016, 10:37:20 PM
With Richards at centre back what is the actual total of goals we have conceded? Who's good at stats? I'd love to know the average goals per game we concede with our captain playing in his preceded position.

How peculiar. A topic broached by my twittering brother earlier today, as it happens. According to him, whenever Richards has played we've not won, and conceded 2.2 goals.
... and if another twitterer's stats are accurate, we averaged a point a game when Okore played. Not so surprising he's pissed off. Fucking hate Richards. Worst captain ever.

Clark and Okore last season were as good a centre-back pairing as we have had since say, Dunne and Collins in 11/12. I genuinely think they should have been our first choice pairing this year with Richards as right back.

We had absolutely zero spine in our team this season with Micah Richards as Centre-Back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on April 23, 2016, 11:30:01 PM
It's critical that the club recognizes it needs to cut ties with certain players to actually start to get out of this mess. We've paid out numerous managers and executives over the past few years but this will be the best money we will spend to eliminate roaches like Agbonlahor and Richards.

I don't think it is enough to create another bomb squad, isolated from first team affairs. Some of these twats are stinking the whole club out and have to go by July 1st.

Yep, I'm not suggesting a bomb squad Steve. Because that would mean those players are still at the club. I'm talking about selling them or releasing them as quickly as possible. They simply cannot be at the club come the pre-season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on April 24, 2016, 12:23:00 AM
With Richards at centre back what is the actual total of goals we have conceded? Who's good at stats? I'd love to know the average goals per game we concede with our captain playing in his preceded position.

How peculiar. A topic broached by my twittering brother earlier today, as it happens. According to him, whenever Richards has played we've not won, and conceded 2.2 goals.
... and if another twitterer's stats are accurate, we averaged a point a game when Okore played. Not so surprising he's pissed off. Fucking hate Richards. Worst captain ever.

Clark and Okore last season were as good a centre-back pairing as we have had since say, Dunne and Collins in 11/12. I genuinely think they should have been our first choice pairing this year with Richards as right back.

We had absolutely zero spine in our team this season with Micah Richards as Centre-Back.

There's a very good reason for that. Can you guess what it is?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on April 24, 2016, 12:27:43 AM
It's critical that the club recognizes it needs to cut ties with certain players to actually start to get out of this mess. We've paid out numerous managers and executives over the past few years but this will be the best money we will spend to eliminate roaches like Agbonlahor and Richards.

My worst fear, regardless of who we get, is that the new manager / owner come in with the idea that they are going to give everyone a clean slate and try to get the most of what we've got already.

We can't discount it but I think the hatred for certain players is such that the club won't want to keep them and frankly those players won't want to be here. I can see all of Guzan, Gabby, Richards, Bacuna and Lescott not being at the club next season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on April 24, 2016, 12:32:15 AM
It's critical that the club recognizes it needs to cut ties with certain players to actually start to get out of this mess. We've paid out numerous managers and executives over the past few years but this will be the best money we will spend to eliminate roaches like Agbonlahor and Richards.

My worst fear, regardless of who we get, is that the new manager / owner come in with the idea that they are going to give everyone a clean slate and try to get the most of what we've got already.

We can't discount it but I think the hatred for certain players is such that the club won't want to keep them and frankly those players won't want to be here. I can see all of Guzan, Gabby, Richards, Bacuna and Lescott not being at the club next season.

It's where Hollis and particularly Brian Little should step in.  The minute the final whistle blows at the Emirates Stadium, certain players should be told that they will never play for the club again and need to look for a new club. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on April 24, 2016, 12:34:33 AM
I imagine those conversations have started to take place between the club and agents. That once the season ends their Villa careers will too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on April 24, 2016, 12:34:42 AM
I agree but the only one i'm not sure about is Gabby.

I'm praying most of those are MLS targets tbh, that's the escape route (for us).
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on April 24, 2016, 12:37:33 AM
It's critical that the club recognizes it needs to cut ties with certain players to actually start to get out of this mess. We've paid out numerous managers and executives over the past few years but this will be the best money we will spend to eliminate roaches like Agbonlahor and Richards.

My worst fear, regardless of who we get, is that the new manager / owner come in with the idea that they are going to give everyone a clean slate and try to get the most of what we've got already.

We can't discount it but I think the hatred for certain players is such that the club won't want to keep them and frankly those players won't want to be here. I can see all of Guzan, Gabby, Richards, Bacuna and Lescott not being at the club next season.

It's where Hollis and particularly Brian Little should step in.  The minute the final whistle blows at the Emirates Stadium, certain players should be told that they will never play for the club again and need to look for a new club. 

The way they're "playing" I could almost believe that they've already been told that, but to get their pay-offs they're going to have to "suck it up, bitch."

However that kind of bollocks belongs on the conspiracy thread and I just need to accept that certain players are bigger ****** than I ever thought I'd see besmirch the shirt.  Certainly not 5 or 6 first team regulars.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on April 24, 2016, 12:50:07 AM
It's critical that the club recognizes it needs to cut ties with certain players to actually start to get out of this mess. We've paid out numerous managers and executives over the past few years but this will be the best money we will spend to eliminate roaches like Agbonlahor and Richards.

My worst fear, regardless of who we get, is that the new manager / owner come in with the idea that they are going to give everyone a clean slate and try to get the most of what we've got already.

We can't discount it but I think the hatred for certain players is such that the club won't want to keep them and frankly those players won't want to be here. I can see all of Guzan, Gabby, Richards, Bacuna and Lescott not being at the club next season.

It's where Hollis and particularly Brian Little should step in.  The minute the final whistle blows at the Emirates Stadium, certain players should be told that they will never play for the club again and need to look for a new club. 

The way they're "playing" I could almost believe that they've already been told that, but to get their pay-offs they're going to have to "suck it up, bitch."

However that kind of bollocks belongs on the conspiracy thread and I just need to accept that certain players are bigger c***s than I ever thought I'd see besmirch the shirt.  Certainly not 5 or 6 first team regulars.

The 'Fantastic Five' are Guzan, Richards, Lescott, Bacuna and Agbonlahor.  I suppose Okore has added himself to that list, which is a shame as I've got time for him. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on April 24, 2016, 12:58:40 AM
It's critical that the club recognizes it needs to cut ties with certain players to actually start to get out of this mess. We've paid out numerous managers and executives over the past few years but this will be the best money we will spend to eliminate roaches like Agbonlahor and Richards.

My worst fear, regardless of who we get, is that the new manager / owner come in with the idea that they are going to give everyone a clean slate and try to get the most of what we've got already.

We can't discount it but I think the hatred for certain players is such that the club won't want to keep them and frankly those players won't want to be here. I can see all of Guzan, Gabby, Richards, Bacuna and Lescott not being at the club next season.

It's where Hollis and particularly Brian Little should step in.  The minute the final whistle blows at the Emirates Stadium, certain players should be told that they will never play for the club again and need to look for a new club. 

The way they're "playing" I could almost believe that they've already been told that, but to get their pay-offs they're going to have to "suck it up, bitch."

However that kind of bollocks belongs on the conspiracy thread and I just need to accept that certain players are bigger c***s than I ever thought I'd see besmirch the shirt.  Certainly not 5 or 6 first team regulars.

The 'Fantastic Five' are Guzan, Richards, Lescott, Bacuna and Agbonlahor.  I suppose Okore has added himself to that list, which is a shame as I've got time for him. 

Whatever the rights and wrongs of Okore's falling out with Black, he's never looked like he's ever trying anything other than 100% when he's on the pitch and is obviosuly pissed off when he's not playing.

For me even within the Spunk Buckets 'R' US 5-a-side team there's differing levels of cuntishness.
Richards and Agbonlahor on the top shelf of ******
Lescott and Guzan on the next shelf down
Bacuna one step down again
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: edgysatsuma89 on April 24, 2016, 01:13:00 AM
Change Lescott to c**t shelf 3 and Bacuna up to c**t shelf 2 then that's where I am at. Bacuna's grin alone warrants him that spot.

I love to hate people but I can't quite get there with Lescott. I genuinely just think he is incredibly thick. Those comments after we were relegated were not malicious... just f**king stupid.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villan from luton on April 24, 2016, 01:24:32 AM
Why we bought Lescott after his performance in the FA Cup game last season is beyond me, he is past it, but I was still genuinely happy when he signed as thought he may help us out. Heart over head and his antics at Wycombe were a disgrace, what kind of example is that? Bacuna sarcastically the fans today, why play him? We are down, give the kids a chance, at least Grealish goes at people
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on April 24, 2016, 10:07:39 AM
Change Lescott to c**t shelf 3 and Bacuna up to c**t shelf 2 then that's where I am at. Bacuna's grin alone warrants him that spot.

I love to hate people but I can't quite get there with Lescott. I genuinely just think he is incredibly thick. Those comments after we were relegated were not malicious... just f**king stupid.

I put Bacuna on shelf 3 because I'm convinced the whole grin thing started out as some sort of nervous reflex. It's a bit cuntish that it's still there. He must know he's winding people up with it constantly.still being there.

Lescott is a whole diffraction class of ****** for me, with his fuck you attitude to fans on social media, his bullshit excuses when he gets called out and Wycombe.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on April 24, 2016, 10:11:56 AM
For me even within the Spunk Buckets 'R' US 5-a-side team there's differing levels of cuntishness.
Richards and Agbonlahor on the top shelf of c***s
Lescott and Guzan on the next shelf down
Bacuna one step down again

I know he's leaving anyway because his contract is up, but I think you're being very unfair to N'Zogbia. He's proved time and time again that he belongs very firmly on the top shelf of cuntishness. If only for his comment about why should he have to work when he doesn't have the ball. And his fashion sense. He's worked hard for his reputation as a twat and deserves a pick.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cheltenhamlion on April 24, 2016, 10:19:04 AM
Lescott has shown more desire than some of them (damping with faint praise as that is). Richards is a lazy excuse of a footballer, with a shit attitude and the positional sense of a Virgin.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on April 24, 2016, 11:13:55 AM
Sheffield, good call. I'd forgotten all about insomnia / repressed the memory.

Cheltenham, "worse positional sense than a virgin" is a fantastic insult. Which also fits nicely into the theme of this lot being a bunch of ******.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on April 24, 2016, 11:23:59 AM
It's critical that the club recognizes it needs to cut ties with certain players to actually start to get out of this mess. We've paid out numerous managers and executives over the past few years but this will be the best money we will spend to eliminate roaches like Agbonlahor and Richards.

My worst fear, regardless of who we get, is that the new manager / owner come in with the idea that they are going to give everyone a clean slate and try to get the most of what we've got already.

We can't discount it but I think the hatred for certain players is such that the club won't want to keep them and frankly those players won't want to be here. I can see all of Guzan, Gabby, Richards, Bacuna and Lescott not being at the club next season.

It's where Hollis and particularly Brian Little should step in.  The minute the final whistle blows at the Emirates Stadium, certain players ishould be told that they will never play for the club again and need to look for a new club. 

The way they're "playing" I could almost believe that they've already been told that, but to get their pay-offs they're going to have to "suck it up, bitch."

However that kind of bollocks belongs on the conspiracy thread and I just need to accept that certain players are bigger c***s than I ever thought I'd see besmirch the shirt.  Certainly not 5 or 6 first team regulars.

The 'Fantastic Five' are Guzan, Richards, Lescott, Bacuna and Agbonlahor.  I suppose Okore has added himself to that list, which is a shame as I've got time for him.

Not sure Guzan deserves to be in that camp, his confidence has steadily declined over 18 months to its current rock bottom state. Happened Gomez at Spurs but now look at him at Watford. Guzan needs to leave for the sake of his career but I suspect he is a solid pro behind it all.

Lescott with only a year left on his deal should be easy enough to shift.

Richards sat on his ample ass for years at Man City. Gabby is a parasite now in open revolt with the club. Getting rid of those two won't be easy imo but it has to be done asap for the sake of the club. There should be no second chances for those two and I sincerely hope no effort is made to get them back onside

Bacuna is a spineless moron but again wouldn't have him in the same camp as the three amigos.

Sinclair and Sanchez are another two that need running out of the club asap.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: edgysatsuma89 on April 24, 2016, 01:01:09 PM
Change Lescott to c**t shelf 3 and Bacuna up to c**t shelf 2 then that's where I am at. Bacuna's grin alone warrants him that spot.

I love to hate people but I can't quite get there with Lescott. I genuinely just think he is incredibly thick. Those comments after we were relegated were not malicious... just f**king stupid.

I put Bacuna on shelf 3 because I'm convinced the whole grin thing started out as some sort of nervous reflex. It's a bit cuntish that it's still there. He must know he's winding people up with it constantly.still being there.

Lescott is a whole diffraction class of c*** for me, with his fuck you attitude to fans on social media, his bullshit excuses when he gets called out and Wycombe.

Yeah Wycombe was c**tish, I'd forgotten about that. I don't do much social media so I haven't seen anything (other than mentions on here) so I'm probably missing some PHD level of c**tishness. I think the bullshit excuse in terms of the car goes into the under 10 IQ section as it was so shit.

I'd forgotten about N'Zogbia as well. He's got his very own trophy cabinet.

Also agree on the virgin line. Not heard that one before.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on April 24, 2016, 09:53:45 PM
Lescott has shown more desire than some of them (damping with faint praise as that is). Richards is a lazy excuse of a footballer, with a shit attitude and the positional sense of a Virgin.

Cheltenham, I would like to know how you know this?  The positional sense of the virgin?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ron Manager on August 03, 2016, 07:45:40 AM
The silence from Micah Richards is absolutely deafening
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Hookeysmith on August 03, 2016, 07:54:32 AM
It tells me 2 things

1. Clearly it is thought he was a "problem" both on and off the pitch last season

2. He is very much surplus to requirements

Both of those is fair and reasonable - the sooner he goes the better
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on August 03, 2016, 08:23:15 AM
Richards can fuck right off.

A total fucking parasite.

Fuck the fucking twunt.

Fucking waste of oxygen - people like him are of zero use to the Human Race
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Duncan Shaw on August 03, 2016, 08:31:50 AM
I think it's good we are not hearing about him, to me it shows the club are quietly trying to get rid of him with little fanfare or press so that it doesn't remind people what a twat he was.
Such as shame Big Sam hadn't pushed it through before he got the England job!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 03, 2016, 08:45:00 AM
as soon as Hull/ A N other get to the last week of the window they will swoop right in.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on August 03, 2016, 08:55:31 AM
I was talking to an old time Man City fan yesterday who said how mortified he was with the way Richards performed for us last season. He like us expected him to resolve our defensive problems at the start of the season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Witton Warrior on August 03, 2016, 04:52:40 PM
I saw some activity on this thread and thought he was gone. Sad now...
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisf on August 03, 2016, 05:23:01 PM
I saw some activity on this thread and thought he was gone. Sad now...
Me too :(
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on August 03, 2016, 05:41:48 PM
It got me thinking, despite the awful attitude and performances of many players last season.
The most rotten of the bad eggs in terms of his influence on the team was probably Richards.
His appointment as Captain, his shocking positional sense, his lack lustre performances,his lack of leadership and finally his sulk when asked to play in a position that might help the team.
More telling because it is obvious to fans and team mates that he has all the physical attributes of a very good footballer but chose to focus on his ego.
Wanker.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisf on August 03, 2016, 05:43:22 PM
It got me thinking, despite the awful attitude and performances of many players last season.
The most rotten of the bad eggs in terms of his influence on the team was probably Richards.
His appointment as Captain, his shocking positional sense, his lack lustre performances,his lack of leadership and finally his sulk when asked to play in a position that might help the team.
More telling because it is obvious to fans and team mates that he has all the physical attributes of a very good footballer but chose to focus on his ego.
Wanker.
I'm still waiting for the betting scandal to break. It just looked so deliberate at times.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villadelph on August 03, 2016, 05:47:12 PM
It got me thinking, despite the awful attitude and performances of many players last season.
The most rotten of the bad eggs in terms of his influence on the team was probably Richards.
His appointment as Captain, his shocking positional sense, his lack lustre performances,his lack of leadership and finally his sulk when asked to play in a position that might help the team.
More telling because it is obvious to fans and team mates that he has all the physical attributes of a very good footballer but chose to focus on his ego.
Wanker.

He just seemed like the sort of defender that relied on his athleticism to make up to his poor position and bad timing. In the PL a defender will get eaten alive with that sort of ideology, but I think he'll do fine in the Chump if he stays on. I had such high hopes for him, but he was worthless.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: phantom limb on August 03, 2016, 05:52:31 PM
Out of all of the players from last season, he's the one I wish would just fuck off the most. Every time there's a new post on this thread I click on it in hope.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villatillidie25 on August 03, 2016, 06:01:57 PM
Out of all of the players from last season, he's the one I wish would just fuck off the most. Every time there's a new post on this thread I click on it in hope.

Completely agree. Of all the parasites last season, he is the one that i literally can't stand
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisf on August 03, 2016, 06:39:10 PM
Out of all of the players from last season, he's the one I wish would just fuck off the most. Every time there's a new post on this thread I click on it in hope.

Completely agree. Of all the parasites last season, he is the one that i literally can't stand

I'm 48 years old and I've spent a lot of the last 43 years idolising Villa players.  Richards is the first I've hated.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on August 03, 2016, 06:42:55 PM
Richards can fuck right off.

A total fucking parasite.

Fuck the fucking twunt.

Fucking waste of oxygen - people like him are of zero use to the Human Race

Perfectly put.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on August 03, 2016, 06:51:40 PM
Richards can fuck right off.

A total fucking parasite.

Fuck the fucking twunt.

Fucking waste of oxygen - people like him are of zero use to the Human Race

This.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tony Erdington on August 03, 2016, 06:54:19 PM
Richards can fuck right off.

A total fucking parasite.

Fuck the fucking twunt.

Fucking waste of oxygen - people like him are of zero use to the Human Race

This.


one is amused
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on August 03, 2016, 07:08:00 PM
Well I don't  agree. Would like to see Richards given a chance by RDM. I still think there's a good player in there. Would rather he played at RB than Hutton.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on August 03, 2016, 07:18:33 PM
Richards can fuck right off.

A total fucking parasite.

Fuck the fucking twunt.

Fucking waste of oxygen - people like him are of zero use to the Human Race

Perfectly put.

he deserves that purely for the way he pranced about in the box with his arms behind his back

the twat
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on August 04, 2016, 12:39:16 AM
It says so much for what must be his appalling attitude that a player such as him who you'd think would rip up the Championship at wing back is nowhere near the first team squad.  I disagree about him being the worst parasite however.  Gabby still wins that by a country mile in my opinion.  But they are two cheeks of the same arse.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on August 04, 2016, 08:00:13 AM
It says so much for what must be his appalling attitude that a player such as him who you'd think would rip up the Championship at wing back is nowhere near the first team squad.  I disagree about him being the worst parasite however.  Gabby still wins that by a country mile in my opinion.  But they are two cheeks of the same arse.

Totally agree and your final sentence sums it up perfectly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on August 04, 2016, 08:16:13 AM
Gabby retains the trophy for worst wanker simply because he did what he did from a platform of affection and respect from the fans.  He was family and he fucked us over.  Richards however does score highly in the tosser trophy because his conduct has been motivated by wilful animosity from the moment he arrived at the club.  We were holed below the waterline by Sherwood's (and KMac's) refusal to integrate the incoming new players and Richards played ringleader undermining post Sherwood performances.  KMac did much the same at Spurs.  If they could not have Timmy they were going to trash the joint.  The fact that nobody wants Richards even for peanuts tells you that he is now regarded as a known trouble maker.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on August 04, 2016, 08:18:53 AM
I seem to remember the first thing he did on joining us was telling one of our players (Delph?) that he should join Man City and what a wonderful club they are. I might be wrong but wasn't he the captain of Villa at that point too?

Also that ill-advised Christmas Santa video with him and the rest chuckling away while Villa were in dire straights in the league. Not his doing but I don't think it was endearing.

That blazing row with fans at Wycombe and just a general self-importance and ego with the impression given to me at least that he couldn't give a toss about Villa, that this is all beneath him.

I'll be glad when he goes.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on August 04, 2016, 08:23:53 AM
Chortling away on the Santa video without a single French speaking player.  Aided and abetted by whichever idiot at VP put it up on the big screens thinking we would not notice.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ron Manager on August 04, 2016, 09:53:14 AM
We stand a better chance of getting Richards out than Agbonlahor despite his high wages.I am fairly sure he will move on by the end of the month .
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on August 04, 2016, 10:58:14 AM
Garbage player living on one season in a very good Man City side. Get rid of the ****** he's thought since he stepped in that he's bigger than this club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on August 04, 2016, 12:57:24 PM
I thought (and hoped) the talentless annoying gobshite would have left by now. Hopefully some mug will take him on a free transfer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on August 04, 2016, 04:24:21 PM
I thought (and hoped) the talentless annoying gobshite would have left by now. Hopefully some mug will take him on a free transfer.

Don't worry has Hull written all over him
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 04, 2016, 04:29:49 PM
Don't care that much one way or the other about Richards. Agbonlahor is, by far, the player I most want rid of.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bad English on August 04, 2016, 07:19:33 PM
I was looking at the squad on Pravda (on my phone) just now. When I got to Ongoalayear I involuntarily punched the screen.

I also laughed at Elphick who seems to be wearing school uniform (without a tie) for his photo.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on August 04, 2016, 07:30:29 PM
Well I don't  agree. Would like to see Richards given a chance by RDM. I still think there's a good player in there. Would rather he played at RB than Hutton.

You've clearly forgotten his attempts at RB when played there last season then. The man has no engine anymore, he can't burst up the line and get back like he once did YEARS ago. He's completely lost it, whether that's down to a shit attitude or his body giving up on him I don't know.

But he's still on par with Gabby as my number 1 Villa Villain

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: London Villan on August 04, 2016, 07:32:26 PM
I wonder in the management have an idea about the general opinion of richards and co?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: MoetVillan on August 04, 2016, 08:12:27 PM
I hope they don't care and base their decisions entirely on skill, aptitude and attitude now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on August 04, 2016, 08:23:43 PM
Well I don't  agree. Would like to see Richards given a chance by RDM. I still think there's a good player in there. Would rather he played at RB than Hutton.

You've clearly forgotten his attempts at RB when played there last season then. The man has no engine anymore, he can't burst up the line and get back like he once did YEARS ago. He's completely lost it, whether that's down to a shit attitude or his body giving up on him I don't know.

But he's still on par with Gabby as my number 1 Villa Villain



Let's give the guy a chance with these new fitness coaches. The previous management and coaching was a complete shambles. At 28 he should be in his prime. His early performance s last year were whole hearted.  Give him a chance ffs!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on August 04, 2016, 09:05:37 PM
Let's give the guy a chance with these new fitness coaches. The previous management and coaching was a complete shambles. At 28 he should be in his prime. His early performance s last year were whole hearted.  Give him a chance ffs!

Gave him a chance already, and he has has shown himself to be a giant bell end. Sooner he goes the better, preferably to Newcastle seeing as they are happy to take our dross defenders off our hands.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on August 04, 2016, 09:15:15 PM
Well I don't  agree. Would like to see Richards given a chance by RDM. I still think there's a good player in there. Would rather he played at RB than Hutton.

You've clearly forgotten his attempts at RB when played there last season then. The man has no engine anymore, he can't burst up the line and get back like he once did YEARS ago. He's completely lost it, whether that's down to a shit attitude or his body giving up on him I don't know.

But he's still on par with Gabby as my number 1 Villa Villain



Let's give the guy a chance with these new fitness coaches. The previous management and coaching was a complete shambles. At 28 he should be in his prime. His early performance s last year were whole hearted.  Give him a chance ffs!

He had a season of chances, he is a spineless gutless w*nker who didn't even want to play in the last games of the season because of the reception he would get. F*ck him off to who gives a f*ck where but get him out of the club now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisf on August 04, 2016, 10:52:58 PM
Let's give the guy a chance with these new fitness coaches. The previous management and coaching was a complete shambles. At 28 he should be in his prime. His early performance s last year were whole hearted.  Give him a chance ffs!
Check out his commitment to defending our goal here. Give him a chance.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john2710 on August 04, 2016, 11:16:47 PM
Richards was comfortably the worst of a bad bunch. At least Lescott, Guzan & Bacuna played out the remaining games & faced up to the stick they got.

Never in a million years will he ever make a central defender.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 05, 2016, 05:39:06 AM
or a footballer. nice teeth though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villadelph on August 05, 2016, 06:45:45 AM
or a footballer. nice teeth though.

and that haircut..
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt Collins on August 05, 2016, 07:00:17 AM
Richards was comfortably the worst of a bad bunch. At least Lescott, Guzan & Bacuna played out the remaining games & faced up to the stick they got.

Never in a million years will he ever make a central defender.
 

We can't say we weren't warned either. Practically every fan of his former clubs will tell you he just can't do it
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on August 05, 2016, 08:14:03 AM
Well I don't  agree. Would like to see Richards given a chance by RDM. I still think there's a good player in there. Would rather he played at RB than Hutton.

You've clearly forgotten his attempts at RB when played there last season then. The man has no engine anymore, he can't burst up the line and get back like he once did YEARS ago. He's completely lost it, whether that's down to a shit attitude or his body giving up on him I don't know.

But he's still on par with Gabby as my number 1 Villa Villain



Let's give the guy a chance with these new fitness coaches. The previous management and coaching was a complete shambles. At 28 he should be in his prime. His early performance s last year were whole hearted.  Give him a chance ffs!

Footballers have to have self-discipline and be totally focused on the football to succeed.  GA's mind is somewhere else and would seem to have the attitude that he does not have to put in the hard miles.  However, I would say that past managers have allowed this to happen.  He should have been pulled up years ago.  As it is now, he has gone past the point of no return.  He may have a short term revival but he is on the down slope and past a point where he is fit for purpose for Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Hookeysmith on August 05, 2016, 08:19:07 AM
I cannot see any report of injury so assume him going from club captain to my invisible is an indication the club realised where some of the issue lay

Sooner he goes the better
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Axl Rose on August 05, 2016, 08:42:24 AM
Well I don't  agree. Would like to see Richards given a chance by RDM. I still think there's a good player in there. Would rather he played at RB than Hutton.

You've clearly forgotten his attempts at RB when played there last season then. The man has no engine anymore, he can't burst up the line and get back like he once did YEARS ago. He's completely lost it, whether that's down to a shit attitude or his body giving up on him I don't know.

But he's still on par with Gabby as my number 1 Villa Villain



Let's give the guy a chance with these new fitness coaches. The previous management and coaching was a complete shambles. At 28 he should be in his prime. His early performance s last year were whole hearted.  Give him a chance ffs!

Footballers have to have self-discipline and be totally focused on the football to succeed.  GA's mind is somewhere else and would seem to have the attitude that he does not have to put in the hard miles.  However, I would say that past managers have allowed this to happen.  He should have been pulled up years ago.  As it is now, he has gone past the point of no return.  He may have a short term revival but he is on the down slope and past a point where he is fit for purpose for Villa.

No more chances for twats like Richards and Agbonlahor. I refuse to support either of that pair.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ian. on August 05, 2016, 08:59:07 AM
I hope he's gone soon. I think he's been one of my biggest let downs of any of our signings for a very long time. I expected so much more from him. He's bloody useless.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on August 05, 2016, 10:00:25 AM
I have no doubt he's a fine athlete of sorts.

A central defender for a professional football team - never!
One of the worst I've seen at VP in over 50 years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ron Manager on August 05, 2016, 10:18:20 AM
I wonder if Di Matteo checked with his Italian contacts re Richards stay with Fiorentina?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on August 05, 2016, 11:22:00 AM
I don't really buy into this thing about players being deliberately shit, spineless and not caring etc.  A lot of that gets said about various players on here, but I'm sure each and every one of them wanted to win matches and not go through the sort of season we endured last year.  You don't get to play anywhere near this level without a decent attitude and heart.

With that said, there is no doubt that Micah and Gabby (and several others) were very, very poor last year.  They lost form & confidence and it was a downwards spiral.  I think Gabby is a busted flush for Villa.  I'm not sure if the fans will accept Micah back, but deep down I think he could probably do a very decent job for us a right back at this level.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mister E on August 05, 2016, 11:31:06 AM
I don't really buy into this thing about players being deliberately shit, spineless and not caring etc.  A lot of that gets said about various players on here, but I'm sure each and every one of them wanted to win matches and not go through the sort of season we endured last year.  You don't get to play anywhere near this level without a decent attitude and heart.

With that said, there is no doubt that Micah and Gabby (and several others) were very, very poor last year.  They lost form & confidence and it was a downwards spiral.  I think Gabby is a busted flush for Villa.  I'm not sure if the fans will accept Micah back, but deep down I think he could probably do a very decent job for us a right back at this level.
For the amount that they get paid, fans expect the players to give the appearance of caring and making the effort.
In my long years in people-development, the loss of motivation and active disengagement is almost-always the result of crap management and / or a toxic culture.
In the case of these players, Matteo & Clarke either need to find the motivational 'key' to them or accept that they need to be moved on. My guess is that we 're close to finding out which way it'll swing: come August 31 and the closing window they'll either be sent out on loan, sold or kept. If kept, it'll be because the management feel they can extract value out of them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on August 05, 2016, 01:37:54 PM
I don't really buy into this thing about players being deliberately shit, spineless and not caring etc.  A lot of that gets said about various players on here, but I'm sure each and every one of them wanted to win matches and not go through the sort of season we endured last year.  You don't get to play anywhere near this level without a decent attitude and heart.

With that said, there is no doubt that Micah and Gabby (and several others) were very, very poor last year.  They lost form & confidence and it was a downwards spiral.  I think Gabby is a busted flush for Villa.  I'm not sure if the fans will accept Micah back, but deep down I think he could probably do a very decent job for us a right back at this level.
For the amount that they get paid, fans expect the players to give the appearance of caring and making the effort.
In my long years in people-development, the loss of motivation and active disengagement is almost-always the result of crap management and / or a toxic culture.
In the case of these players, Matteo & Clarke either need to find the motivational 'key' to them or accept that they need to be moved on. My guess is that we 're close to finding out which way it'll swing: come August 31 and the closing window they'll either be sent out on loan, sold or kept. If kept, it'll be because the management feel they can extract value out of them.
or that no one else will take them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on August 05, 2016, 01:47:11 PM
You don't get to play anywhere near this level without a decent attitude and heart.

But Richards didn't play anywhere near prem level last season. His attitude and heart last year would have seen us relegated from whichever league we were playing in.   
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on August 05, 2016, 01:58:35 PM
You don't get to play anywhere near this level without a decent attitude and heart.

But Richards didn't play anywhere near prem level last season. His attitude and heart last year would have seen us relegated from whichever league we were playing in.   

Plus, as with any attribute, being successful at the top of a profession requires more than 'decent'.  Compare and contrast the interview with McCormack yesterday where he talked about not settling for a draw in any game, versus Lescott's utter bollocks last season about relegation being a weight off the shoulders.

The sooner that ilk are out of our club the better.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on August 05, 2016, 02:05:34 PM
You don't get to play anywhere near this level without a decent attitude and heart.

But Richards didn't play anywhere near prem level last season. His attitude and heart last year would have seen us relegated from whichever league we were playing in.   
No, I agree with that, he was awful.  The point I was making is that I think there is more to it than being 'spineless' or not caring etc.  There are many reasons for losing form, but having got to the level of becoming a professional footballer, I really doubt it it through not giving a shit etc.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on August 05, 2016, 02:10:11 PM
Perhaps it was because they had made it as a professional footballer they now had free rein to enjoy not having to work so hard.  That's the hard bit done, now which way to the Mercedes showroom/pie shop/knocking shop?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on August 05, 2016, 02:23:34 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pat McMahon on August 05, 2016, 02:25:14 PM
I have no doubt he's a fine athlete of sorts.

A central defender for a professional football team - never!
One of the worst I've seen at VP in over 50 years.

For the life of me I have no idea why anybody saw anything in his playing career to suggest he would be a good centre half.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VILLA MOLE on August 05, 2016, 02:28:09 PM
Perhaps it was because they had made it as a professional footballer they now had free rein to enjoy not having to work so hard.  That's the hard bit done, now which way to the Mercedes showroom/pie shop/knocking shop?

is there a one stop shop for all that ??
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on August 05, 2016, 02:36:56 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mister E on August 05, 2016, 02:39:24 PM
I don't really buy into this thing about players being deliberately shit, spineless and not caring etc.  A lot of that gets said about various players on here, but I'm sure each and every one of them wanted to win matches and not go through the sort of season we endured last year.  You don't get to play anywhere near this level without a decent attitude and heart.

With that said, there is no doubt that Micah and Gabby (and several others) were very, very poor last year.  They lost form & confidence and it was a downwards spiral.  I think Gabby is a busted flush for Villa.  I'm not sure if the fans will accept Micah back, but deep down I think he could probably do a very decent job for us a right back at this level.
For the amount that they get paid, fans expect the players to give the appearance of caring and making the effort.
In my long years in people-development, the loss of motivation and active disengagement is almost-always the result of crap management and / or a toxic culture.
In the case of these players, Matteo & Clarke either need to find the motivational 'key' to them or accept that they need to be moved on. My guess is that we 're close to finding out which way it'll swing: come August 31 and the closing window they'll either be sent out on loan, sold or kept. If kept, it'll be because the management feel they can extract value out of them.
or that no one else will take them.
someone will take them, even if we're picking up 95% of the wages.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on August 05, 2016, 06:10:19 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer. 

I'm finding it very difficult to understand how you attempt to defend the indefensible. Being Captain it is his responsibility to go out onto the pitch and lead by example, he did that and was sh*t, so were the team. As Captain it was his responsibility to bring together all the players regardless of nationality, he failed miserably even setting up a clique with the French players exempt. Working with a number of other players whose names were reported at the time as Guzan, Agbonlahor, Lescott, Clark to break the system Garde was trying to implement. Gutless and spineless is just what he was, I feel that he went out on the pitch and coasted through the games and tried to give an impression of trying when in fact he couldn't give a f*ck.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on August 05, 2016, 06:16:15 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer. 

I'm finding it very difficult to understand how you attempt to defend the indefensible. Being Captain it is his responsibility to go out onto the pitch and lead by example, he did that and was sh*t, so were the team. As Captain it was his responsibility to bring together all the players regardless of nationality, he failed miserably even setting up a clique with the French players exempt. Working with a number of other players whose names were reported at the time as Guzan, Agbonlahor, Lescott, Clark to break the system Garde was trying to implement. Gutless and spineless is just what he was, I feel that he went out on the pitch and coasted through the games and tried to give an impression of trying when in fact he couldn't give a f*ck.
I'm not defending the way he played - I have said it was awful.  But everything you wrote in bold is pure conjecture and hyperbole.  He and several others had a terrible season.  I simply don't accept he wanted to be shit, which is pretty much your inference.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on August 05, 2016, 06:27:41 PM
You may be right Chrisw1 in that he never set out to be shit.  It's just that he didn't seem to care that he was.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on August 05, 2016, 07:09:28 PM
You may be right Chrisw1 in that he never set out to be shit.  It's just that he didn't seem to care that he was.
Nail on head Dave.

The common factor between Richards and Agbonlahor is sum of fucks given = 0.

There was obviously a split dressing room. Richards himself admitted it just before Nice but Tim got the bullet. And our 2 captain's contribution to rectifying that and integrating the foreign recruits?
Briefing against Garde in the press and holding anyone who'd come in from France up to ridicule for all of Villa Park to see in that awful Secret Santa video.

It may not have been deliberate and malicious, but in that case it must be because they're so fucking thick, it's a miracle they don't forget to breathe.

Either way, we've purged the upper reaches of the club of those culpable for last season. Those two goons are next on the priority and culpability list. Trouble is I think we're stuck. In which case they can do something useful like clean the Holte End steps with a toothbrush. Bigger contribution than letting them anywhere near the pitch on match day.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on August 05, 2016, 07:18:13 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer.

I completely disagree, in tough times last season very few of our players showed the necessary character to do basics like play to the final whistle, track runners, encourage team mates, run hard, the very basic essentials of a professional footballer at any level. There was a decent core of players that threw in the towel in basically and they should never be forgiven for it. We had a mix of charlatans who though they were above a relegation fight, lads who used the club as a retirement home and the rest of decidedly average pr*cks and our three managers could fit in those categories too.

For a squad with our budget to finish with 17 points was an absolute disgrace. Deliberately shit, no, cowards and a disgrace to AVFC and their profession generally, absolutely.

Micah Richards was the biggest disgrace of all, diabolical signing giving that clown a four year contract on huge money, playing him in a position he had failed in years before, a player who was in semi retirement already and making him captain. Cheers Tim. There were games particularly when at right back near the end where he did not try a leg. I absolutely despise him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on August 05, 2016, 07:32:42 PM
Ok, I accept that Internet forums will always attract extreme views, particularly on such an emotive subject as football and we're obviously never going to agree on this whole 'deliberately shit' thing, so I'll leave it there.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oldham_villa on August 05, 2016, 07:37:40 PM
Great post Brontebilly, my sentiments exactly.

Hope he loses all his money before he turns 35
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: IFWaters on August 05, 2016, 07:37:57 PM
You may be right Chrisw1 in that he never set out to be shit.  It's just that he didn't seem to care that he was.
Nail on head Dave.

The common factor between Richards and Agbonlahor is sum of fucks given = 0.

There was obviously a split dressing room. Richards himself admitted it just before Nice but Tim got the bullet. And our 2 captain's contribution to rectifying that and integrating the foreign recruits?
Briefing against Garde in the press and holding anyone who'd come in from France up to ridicule for all of Villa Park to see in that awful Secret Santa video.

It may not have been deliberate and malicious, but in that case it must be because they're so fucking thick, it's a miracle they don't forget to breathe.

Either way, we've purged the upper reaches of the club of those culpable for last season. Those two goons are next on the priority and culpability list. Trouble is I think we're stuck. In which case they can do something useful like clean the Holte End steps with a toothbrush. Bigger contribution than letting them anywhere near the pitch on match day.

If we CANT get rid of him and HAVE to pay him his contract he should be given something like :

- cleaning steps as mentioned above.
- taking on the General Krulak role answering angry posts on here. Except he isnt allowed to refer anyone to Nicky Keye.
- sorting out Nicky Keye's inbox.
- dressing as a clown and standing in front of the Holte each match day to fetch balls for Gollini.

I'm sure others have ideas as to how we can be useful to the club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on August 05, 2016, 09:01:20 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer.

I completely disagree, in tough times last season very few of our players showed the necessary character to do basics like play to the final whistle, track runners, encourage team mates, run hard, the very basic essentials of a professional footballer at any level. There was a decent core of players that threw in the towel in basically and they should never be forgiven for it. We had a mix of charlatans who though they were above a relegation fight, lads who used the club as a retirement home and the rest of decidedly average pr*cks and our three managers could fit in those categories too.

For a squad with our budget to finish with 17 points was an absolute disgrace. Deliberately shit, no, cowards and a disgrace to AVFC and their profession generally, absolutely.

Micah Richards was the biggest disgrace of all, diabolical signing giving that clown a four year contract on huge money, playing him in a position he had failed in years before, a player who was in semi retirement already and making him captain. Cheers Tim. There were games particularly when at right back near the end where he did not try a leg. I absolutely despise him.

Well said.

A blood sucking parasite of the first order.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on August 05, 2016, 09:11:22 PM
Agreed, well said.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OCD on August 05, 2016, 09:12:37 PM
'Sorting out Nicky Keye's inbox'?! Not sure what she's done to deserve that!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ron Manager on August 07, 2016, 02:27:31 PM
I am positive he will be picked up someone before the transfer window closes. Agbonlahor however will be with us until his contract runs out.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on August 07, 2016, 09:02:39 PM
The gutless tosser wouldn't come anywhere near the Villa end today to warm up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Alex77 on August 07, 2016, 10:02:12 PM
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Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gareth on August 10, 2016, 07:28:53 PM
So....he is back in tonight, right back & captain.

Although I disliked him last season if RDM has told him that he is a right back only & he has been working with the fitness coach to get a footballers physique not a back row forwards! then 'maybe' he could be an asset.

Would prefer he departs though....
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: themossman on August 10, 2016, 07:32:55 PM
Agree, said similar in the other thread. He's probably my least favourite of all the dicks on our books but also the one most worth salvaging if he can be got on the right track again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: London Villan on August 10, 2016, 07:36:06 PM
Hmmm... pity we've had to pick him. Muppet of the highest order.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tuscans on August 10, 2016, 07:38:49 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer.

I completely disagree, in tough times last season very few of our players showed the necessary character to do basics like play to the final whistle, track runners, encourage team mates, run hard, the very basic essentials of a professional footballer at any level. There was a decent core of players that threw in the towel in basically and they should never be forgiven for it. We had a mix of charlatans who though they were above a relegation fight, lads who used the club as a retirement home and the rest of decidedly average pr*cks and our three managers could fit in those categories too.

For a squad with our budget to finish with 17 points was an absolute disgrace. Deliberately shit, no, cowards and a disgrace to AVFC and their profession generally, absolutely.

Micah Richards was the biggest disgrace of all, diabolical signing giving that clown a four year contract on huge money, playing him in a position he had failed in years before, a player who was in semi retirement already and making him captain. Cheers Tim. There were games particularly when at right back near the end where he did not try a leg. I absolutely despise him.
He was the only one man enough to show the character to front up to the yobs who went down to the dugout against Wycombe. Others hid behind the perspex playing blowing bubbles. I'm not sure what Richards has actually done to be honest, unless being mates with Lescott and Co. are now crimes.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on August 10, 2016, 07:51:38 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer.

I completely disagree, in tough times last season very few of our players showed the necessary character to do basics like play to the final whistle, track runners, encourage team mates, run hard, the very basic essentials of a professional footballer at any level. There was a decent core of players that threw in the towel in basically and they should never be forgiven for it. We had a mix of charlatans who though they were above a relegation fight, lads who used the club as a retirement home and the rest of decidedly average pr*cks and our three managers could fit in those categories too.

For a squad with our budget to finish with 17 points was an absolute disgrace. Deliberately shit, no, cowards and a disgrace to AVFC and their profession generally, absolutely.

Micah Richards was the biggest disgrace of all, diabolical signing giving that clown a four year contract on huge money, playing him in a position he had failed in years before, a player who was in semi retirement already and making him captain. Cheers Tim. There were games particularly when at right back near the end where he did not try a leg. I absolutely despise him.
He was the only one man enough to show the character to front up to the yobs who went down to the dugout against Wycombe. Others hid behind the perspex playing blowing bubbles. I'm not sure what Richards has actually done to be honest, unless being mates with Lescott and Co. are now crimes.

I had a similar thought but then I'd forgotten the Christmas video. Micah is scum.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on August 10, 2016, 07:54:54 PM
Following on from a discussion a few months ago around squadie humour and the Falklanders been referred to as Bennies and when that was banned they became Stills and then Andies as "And e's still a Bennie", Micah for me will be henceforth known as Andy. And e's still a c....
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: usav on August 10, 2016, 07:56:02 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer.

I completely disagree, in tough times last season very few of our players showed the necessary character to do basics like play to the final whistle, track runners, encourage team mates, run hard, the very basic essentials of a professional footballer at any level. There was a decent core of players that threw in the towel in basically and they should never be forgiven for it. We had a mix of charlatans who though they were above a relegation fight, lads who used the club as a retirement home and the rest of decidedly average pr*cks and our three managers could fit in those categories too.

For a squad with our budget to finish with 17 points was an absolute disgrace. Deliberately shit, no, cowards and a disgrace to AVFC and their profession generally, absolutely.

Micah Richards was the biggest disgrace of all, diabolical signing giving that clown a four year contract on huge money, playing him in a position he had failed in years before, a player who was in semi retirement already and making him captain. Cheers Tim. There were games particularly when at right back near the end where he did not try a leg. I absolutely despise him.
He was the only one man enough to show the character to front up to the yobs who went down to the dugout against Wycombe. Others hid behind the perspex playing blowing bubbles. I'm not sure what Richards has actually done to be honest, unless being mates with Lescott and Co. are now crimes.

I had a similar thought but then I'd forgotten the Christmas video. Micah is scum.
What  did he do in the xmas video?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tuscans on August 10, 2016, 07:58:55 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer.

I completely disagree, in tough times last season very few of our players showed the necessary character to do basics like play to the final whistle, track runners, encourage team mates, run hard, the very basic essentials of a professional footballer at any level. There was a decent core of players that threw in the towel in basically and they should never be forgiven for it. We had a mix of charlatans who though they were above a relegation fight, lads who used the club as a retirement home and the rest of decidedly average pr*cks and our three managers could fit in those categories too.

For a squad with our budget to finish with 17 points was an absolute disgrace. Deliberately shit, no, cowards and a disgrace to AVFC and their profession generally, absolutely.

Micah Richards was the biggest disgrace of all, diabolical signing giving that clown a four year contract on huge money, playing him in a position he had failed in years before, a player who was in semi retirement already and making him captain. Cheers Tim. There were games particularly when at right back near the end where he did not try a leg. I absolutely despise him.
He was the only one man enough to show the character to front up to the yobs who went down to the dugout against Wycombe. Others hid behind the perspex playing blowing bubbles. I'm not sure what Richards has actually done to be honest, unless being mates with Lescott and Co. are now crimes.

I had a similar thought but then I'd forgotten the Christmas video. Micah is scum.
What  did he do in the xmas video?
Laughed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: themossman on August 10, 2016, 08:05:19 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer.

I completely disagree, in tough times last season very few of our players showed the necessary character to do basics like play to the final whistle, track runners, encourage team mates, run hard, the very basic essentials of a professional footballer at any level. There was a decent core of players that threw in the towel in basically and they should never be forgiven for it. We had a mix of charlatans who though they were above a relegation fight, lads who used the club as a retirement home and the rest of decidedly average pr*cks and our three managers could fit in those categories too.

For a squad with our budget to finish with 17 points was an absolute disgrace. Deliberately shit, no, cowards and a disgrace to AVFC and their profession generally, absolutely.

Micah Richards was the biggest disgrace of all, diabolical signing giving that clown a four year contract on huge money, playing him in a position he had failed in years before, a player who was in semi retirement already and making him captain. Cheers Tim. There were games particularly when at right back near the end where he did not try a leg. I absolutely despise him.
He was the only one man enough to show the character to front up to the yobs who went down to the dugout against Wycombe. Others hid behind the perspex playing blowing bubbles. I'm not sure what Richards has actually done to be honest, unless being mates with Lescott and Co. are now crimes.

I had a similar thought but then I'd forgotten the Christmas video. Micah is scum.
What  did he do in the xmas video?

Wanked a sheepdog.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on August 10, 2016, 08:13:54 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer.

I completely disagree, in tough times last season very few of our players showed the necessary character to do basics like play to the final whistle, track runners, encourage team mates, run hard, the very basic essentials of a professional footballer at any level. There was a decent core of players that threw in the towel in basically and they should never be forgiven for it. We had a mix of charlatans who though they were above a relegation fight, lads who used the club as a retirement home and the rest of decidedly average pr*cks and our three managers could fit in those categories too.

For a squad with our budget to finish with 17 points was an absolute disgrace. Deliberately shit, no, cowards and a disgrace to AVFC and their profession generally, absolutely.

Micah Richards was the biggest disgrace of all, diabolical signing giving that clown a four year contract on huge money, playing him in a position he had failed in years before, a player who was in semi retirement already and making him captain. Cheers Tim. There were games particularly when at right back near the end where he did not try a leg. I absolutely despise him.
He was the only one man enough to show the character to front up to the yobs who went down to the dugout against Wycombe. Others hid behind the perspex playing blowing bubbles. I'm not sure what Richards has actually done to be honest, unless being mates with Lescott and Co. are now crimes.

I had a similar thought but then I'd forgotten the Christmas video. Micah is scum.
What  did he do in the xmas video?

Can't quite remember, but it would probably have got shot by the police on your side of the water.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: usav on August 10, 2016, 08:14:07 PM
He strikes me as the sort of Billy Big Bollocks who had been there and done that in one good season at Citeh.  Then thought all he had to do was turn up for us grateful people each week to automatically qualify as captain and our adulation would know no bounds.

When it transpired that a lack of quality players making him look much better than he ever was found him out and much worse found his overall appetite for hard work out. The very epitome of our awfulness.
See, threads on here are full of this sort of rhetoric, repeated so often it is treated as fact.  'Spineless, cowards, thieves, gutless, lazy etc etc.'  The perceived wisdom is they all pretty much wanted to be shit and did it on purpose.  I just don't buy this.  I strongly suspect they wanted to be successful, but for various reasons were woefully short of confidence and form.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely agree that the majority of them were very poor last year and I totally understand the anger against them - I have it myself.  I just don't think they were deliberately shit or cowards etc as many people seem to infer.

I completely disagree, in tough times last season very few of our players showed the necessary character to do basics like play to the final whistle, track runners, encourage team mates, run hard, the very basic essentials of a professional footballer at any level. There was a decent core of players that threw in the towel in basically and they should never be forgiven for it. We had a mix of charlatans who though they were above a relegation fight, lads who used the club as a retirement home and the rest of decidedly average pr*cks and our three managers could fit in those categories too.

For a squad with our budget to finish with 17 points was an absolute disgrace. Deliberately shit, no, cowards and a disgrace to AVFC and their profession generally, absolutely.

Micah Richards was the biggest disgrace of all, diabolical signing giving that clown a four year contract on huge money, playing him in a position he had failed in years before, a player who was in semi retirement already and making him captain. Cheers Tim. There were games particularly when at right back near the end where he did not try a leg. I absolutely despise him.
He was the only one man enough to show the character to front up to the yobs who went down to the dugout against Wycombe. Others hid behind the perspex playing blowing bubbles. I'm not sure what Richards has actually done to be honest, unless being mates with Lescott and Co. are now crimes.

I had a similar thought but then I'd forgotten the Christmas video. Micah is scum.
What  did he do in the xmas video?
Laughed.
That's all I remembered.  Ok, moving on........
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villabear on August 10, 2016, 09:18:32 PM
How the fuck is Richards captain? Not seen him open his gob once even with all this shit going on tonight.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on August 10, 2016, 09:19:44 PM
At fault for the second the clown diving out of position and disrupting any shape.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: phantom limb on August 10, 2016, 09:21:50 PM
Hopefully this is his swansong, as he should have already been removed from the team. He is not a leader, just a poisonous reminder of last season's abject failure.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on August 10, 2016, 09:24:39 PM
He shouldnt have been anywhere near our first team squad.

He is, and we fall apart. If RDM can't see this, then we have a major problem.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on August 10, 2016, 09:31:32 PM

He was the only one man enough to show the character to front up to the yobs who went down to the dugout against Wycombe. Others hid behind the perspex playing blowing bubbles. I'm not sure what Richards has actually done to be honest, unless being mates with Lescott and Co. are now crimes.

They weren't yobs at all. They were pissed of fans who, because of where we were sitting, had a rare opportunity to let the players know how angry they were while the game was being played. I hate him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on August 10, 2016, 09:33:36 PM
He's no fucking footballer. Just a ******.  A shitty one.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villabear on August 10, 2016, 09:34:33 PM
Extra security near the coach tonight methinks
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: He wears a magic hat on August 10, 2016, 09:46:28 PM
Whatever anyone thinks of Richards there is no doubt he has just turned in the worst 45 minutes I have ever seen. It was like watching a school kid being constantly out of position. For a professional football of his years experience it was quite unbelievable.

At least he has guaranteed he won't be featuring on Saturday
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on August 10, 2016, 09:48:02 PM
Was dismayed to see him on the bench at the weekend, disgusted to see him captain the side tonight

He truly played his part, hopefully convincing RDM once and for all that he should never ever have any association with our first team again

still has three years left on his deal but I couldnt care what it costs the club he simply has to be got rid of asap, hands behind his back Micah style
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy65 on August 10, 2016, 09:48:45 PM
Whatever anyone thinks of Richards there is no doubt he has just turned in the worst 45 minutes I have ever seen. It was like watching a school kid being constantly out of position. For a professional football of his years experience it was quite unbelievable.

At least he has guaranteed he won't be featuring on Saturday

Was he really worse than the rest? I dont think so
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on August 10, 2016, 09:50:17 PM
Whatever anyone thinks of Richards there is no doubt he has just turned in the worst 45 minutes I have ever seen. It was like watching a school kid being constantly out of position. For a professional football of his years experience it was quite unbelievable.

At least he has guaranteed he won't be featuring on Saturday
He is, without doubt, one of the worst professional footballers I have ever seen.

A pretty good athlete, but that's about it...he seems to have no knowledge, understanding or experience of the game he is paid a small fortune to play.


I have not seen him play tonight.
I knew this already.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: MonsXI on August 10, 2016, 09:51:18 PM
A misfit in football boots.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 10, 2016, 09:51:30 PM
That second half from him is as bad as anything i've ever seen.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on August 10, 2016, 09:53:19 PM
He's not a footballer. He genuinely doesn't know how to play the game. Even when we were on top in the first half he spent most of the time trying to be an attacking centre mid or a striker. He's like a child playing on a field. He's fucking hopeless, but then again so is Hutton.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on August 10, 2016, 09:55:02 PM
The only consolation I take from tonight is that RDM wakes up and smells the napalm...and gets rid/never picks the players who are simply not good enough/with shit for brains and brings in players with skill, passion to play/win and a big helping of nous to recognise what's needed, when, and how to deliver it.
Elphick's got it and he didn't cost £25m...they're out there and we need to find them, pronto.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: He wears a magic hat on August 10, 2016, 09:55:13 PM
Yes he was worse. Watch the game again and watch his positioning. In particular watch the second goal. Bare in mind how much time was spent with the ball bouncing around and see where our centre half is when their guy taps it in. Its an absolute disgrace
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VILLA MOLE on August 10, 2016, 09:55:34 PM
the Throw ins , exhibit A ! :-[
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villabear on August 10, 2016, 09:56:23 PM
For two of the goals he did a really stupid diving header challenge when a boot would have done. Shite.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on August 10, 2016, 09:57:11 PM
He's shit, he's the kid at school who doesn't give a fuck so plays where he wants with no responsibility for the team running around trying to look good for Micah. Twat of the highest order. Please sell, a couple of million, a couple of pence, just get him out of the dressing room and club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tony Erdington on August 10, 2016, 10:01:01 PM
He's not a footballer. He genuinely doesn't know how to play the game. Even when we were on top in the first half he spent most of the time trying to be an attacking centre mid or a striker. He's like a child playing on a field. He's fucking hopeless, but then again so is Hutton.

about right.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Goldie.7 on August 10, 2016, 10:01:57 PM
When we see this clowns name on the team sheet, by now none us should be surprised with horrendous results like this... I wouldn't even call him a pub player.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Jimbo on August 10, 2016, 10:03:20 PM
Get him out. Whatever the cost, get rid now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tuscans on August 10, 2016, 10:15:49 PM
Slice of warm humble pie please.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on August 10, 2016, 10:20:11 PM
For two of the goals he did a really stupid diving header challenge when a boot would have done. Shite.

This.  I genuinely don't know what was going through his mind.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on August 10, 2016, 10:22:09 PM
The only thing Richards is good at is improving the reputation of Steve Hodge.

Just get rid whatever the cost.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on August 10, 2016, 10:42:03 PM
Fucking useless ******
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on August 10, 2016, 10:44:45 PM
I watch Richards and wonder why Bacuna gets just as much stick, if not more.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on August 10, 2016, 10:45:11 PM
I can't believe how her persistently dives in, out of position and disrupts any semblance of shape and structure at the back. Paulie Tweeted two stills of this.

He's awful and the root of the demise second half.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithe on August 10, 2016, 10:47:48 PM
Baker was 10 yards too far up the pitch for first goal.

Fuck me I was looking forward to a fresh start but these ****** don't make it easy do they?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fin Feds Dad on August 10, 2016, 10:48:22 PM
I am mystified how he was given the captaincy tonight.

Surely Di Matteo should be well aware of last seasons antics from this twat.

Get rid quick please.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on August 10, 2016, 10:51:37 PM
Baker was 10 yards too far up the pitch for first goal.

Fuck me I was looking forward to a fresh start but these c***s don't make it easy do they?

The difference Elphick and a not so friendly "stay fucking level with me Bakes " comment can make. Organisation, that defence with captain cock end and his one man mission to dive out of position at every opportunity must be contagious.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithe on August 10, 2016, 10:59:29 PM
I only ever played at Sunday level but that first goal was a shocker to concede. The CBs and Fbs should always know when each other are, that first goal was fucking criminal.

And, whilst I acknowledge that it was his first game, Tshbola was lacking, the amount of times th ball was fed into the forward without pressure was embarrassing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on August 10, 2016, 11:04:12 PM
Fucking useless c***
Absolutely well summed up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on August 11, 2016, 12:01:26 AM
Get him out. Whatever the cost, get rid now.

You honestly begin to wonder if he's doing this on purpose to get a pay off.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Walmley_Villa on August 11, 2016, 12:02:41 AM
F*ck off....please
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on August 11, 2016, 12:07:38 AM
RDM and Xia have called for leadership, team ethic, a desire to fight for the cause. Players who want to play for Aston Villa. And 2 games in Micah Richards is captain of an Aston Villa side which humbly crumbled to defeat. It's hardly a surprise. We really are the kings of shooting ourselves in our foot.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: shirley_villan on August 11, 2016, 12:24:46 AM
Anyone else reckon RDM put him as captain tonight in the hope that he'd have a good game and it would sway someone else to have a punt on him?

Cos I can't think of another reason why he'd play that fucking prick.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on August 11, 2016, 12:29:54 AM
He couldn't have been more of  clown if he had turned up in Ronald McDonalds shoes. Get rid of this bell end now please.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Axl Rose on August 11, 2016, 03:29:32 AM
We hounded Lerner out. Let's do the same with this cretin.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on August 11, 2016, 07:55:10 AM
For those that still believe that he isn't a gutless, spineless, talentless wanker then you couldn't have been at Luton last night, evn people who can't play put effort in. The only effort he put in was to avoid the responsibility of anything he does.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on August 11, 2016, 08:05:13 AM
I'm not only stunned he played, but amazed that RDM made him the bloody Captain.

That shows a worrying lack of homework done by RDM and his staff.

Just like Gabby, Lescott etc - pay them off, get rid, otherwise we will never be able to start afresh.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: UK Redsox on August 11, 2016, 08:15:43 AM
2 min 25 secs in, Micah dives in for a header near the half way line. The next time that he appears on screen is as the ball crosses the line.

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/10531312/luton-3-1-aston-villa

That's some quality can't be arsed loafing around
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on August 11, 2016, 08:25:33 AM
I actually thought this megatwat would be good for us when he initially signed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: David_Nab on August 11, 2016, 08:42:06 AM
2 min 25 secs in, Micah dives in for a header near the half way line. The next time that he appears on screen is as the ball crosses the line.

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/10531312/luton-3-1-aston-villa

That's some quality can't be arsed loafing around

The guy is fucking hopeless , just like last season (Norwich away springs to mind ) he has no awareness of where he needs to be on the pitch.In 20 odd years as a supporter I can not think of a worse CB at the club
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: avfcdale on August 11, 2016, 08:51:40 AM
Can anyone donate a Villa shirt with Richards 4 on it, it's about time i started making my Guy Fawkes ready for November
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: FatSam on August 11, 2016, 08:52:51 AM
2 min 25 secs in, Micah dives in for a header near the half way line. The next time that he appears on screen is as the ball crosses the line.

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/10531312/luton-3-1-aston-villa

That's some quality can't be arsed loafing around

He positional awareness for Luton's last chance in those highlights when it was already 3-1 is shocking also. He doesn't know where the Luton player is, and is just standing in space.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on August 11, 2016, 09:34:38 AM
He is even more annoying in that he does that 'swagger around with your chest puffed out like you're some kind of defensive God' thing. He also does that "charge wildly out of defence with the ball and people will think you're dead good" thing too.

Last night highlighted all the worst things about him. The diving in brainlessly, the strolling around, the near total lack of positional awareness.

He would get away with it more often at right back but I honestly can not believe anyone thinks he is in any way, shape or form a centre half.

Awful player. I just hope we somehow manage to bin him this month, he's a real poster boy for the clueless, incompetent basket case of a club we've been these last few years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Oscar Arce on August 11, 2016, 09:39:43 AM
We can only hope that RDM has seen for his own eyes once and for all what we all know, in that he is a liability as a centre back.
The worst positional sense I have ever seen in a player bar none.
When I saw him swaggering onto the pitch annoyingly chewing his gum with his 'I couldn't giuve a fu**' attitude I knew we were in for more embarrassment.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: not3bad on August 11, 2016, 09:41:40 AM
He also does that "charge wildly out of defence with the ball and people will think you're dead good" thing too.

I must admit that had me fooled for a while. Then I noticed nothing good ever came of it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on August 11, 2016, 10:15:06 AM
Crock of fucking shite

Has the positional sense of a blind drunk Polar Bear wandering around the Sahara
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: levico on August 11, 2016, 10:23:23 AM
You seriously have to question RDMs judgement in making Richards captain last night.

Given the fans clear and justified view of the player it does bring the old refrain back into your mind:

"Just don't think you understand.".
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on August 11, 2016, 10:27:15 AM
Titus Bramble would be a better option than either Richards or Okore at centre half, the pair of them are fucking useless.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on August 11, 2016, 10:32:20 AM


He was absolute gash before last night, he's still absolute gash this morning. A complete twat of a player with zero reason to still be at the club apart from a no doubt huge contract. I don't EVER want to see him in the shirt again, not on the bench, not in the stiffs NOTHING
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on August 11, 2016, 02:14:46 PM
The only time Richards and Okore should be paired up together ever again is as two halves of a pantomime horse. Awful player.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on August 11, 2016, 02:32:10 PM
The only time Richards and Okore should be paired up together ever again is as two halves of a pantomime horse. Awful player.

I think you'll find Gestede has that position nailed down.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on August 11, 2016, 02:33:35 PM
The only time Richards and Okore should be paired up together ever again is as two halves of a pantomime horse. Awful player.

I think you'll find Gestede has that position nailed down.

It's the one position we have plenty of competition for.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on August 11, 2016, 02:50:40 PM
He and Richards should never play for us again. One thing I like about Tony is he seems pro-active and won't just bugger off into obscurity like Randy and just accept things are going okay because we're scraping on by with the dross. At least he's not been reluctant to back RDM so far.

I know it's not always good to try and integrate so many players together in one go, and we look at the midfield and attack and feel like it's a way off, but the defence is our biggest issue for me. Amavi, Baker and Elphick are the only players I'd be happy with, and Baker largely as a back up. We're need Chester in, and then a couple of full-backs. Bare minimum.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on August 11, 2016, 02:57:57 PM
He and Richards should never play for us again. One thing I like about Tony is he seems pro-active and won't just bugger off into obscurity like Randy and just accept things are going okay because we're scraping on by with the dross. At least he's not been reluctant to back RDM so far.

I know it's not always good to try and integrate so many players together in one go, and we look at the midfield and attack and feel like it's a way off, but the defence is our biggest issue for me. Amavi, Baker and Elphick are the only players I'd be happy with, and Baker largely as a back up. We're need Chester in, and then a couple of full-backs. Bare minimum.

We definitely need fullbacks, I thought Hutton and Cissokho would be fine at this level but I got it wrong on the evidence thus far. I don't rate Amavi as a left back (think he might make a left winger) either.

Thing is though any defence will struggle with such a weak midfield, they get no protection at all at the moment. Having a Jedinak (or similar) in midfield is as much about improving the defence as the midfield.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdward on August 11, 2016, 03:11:47 PM
Titus Bramble would be a better option than either Richards or Okore at centre half, the pair of them are fucking useless.
Wilfrid Bramble and his horse would be a better option after their performances last night
(http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/352861_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on August 11, 2016, 03:30:45 PM
Titus Bramble would be a better option than either Richards or Okore at centre half, the pair of them are fucking useless.
Wilfrid Bramble and his horse would be a better option after their performances last night
(http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/352861_1.jpg)

Why have you posted a picture of Jordan Veretout?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on August 11, 2016, 03:34:18 PM
There was some competition for his worst moment last night, but seeing him outpaced in a foot race by a league two journeyman has to be one of them.   
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on August 11, 2016, 03:34:47 PM
Titus Bramble would be a better option than either Richards or Okore at centre half, the pair of them are fucking useless.
Wilfrid Bramble and his horse would be a better option after their performances last night
(http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/352861_1.jpg)

Why have you posted a picture of Jordan Veretout?

That's not Veretout, that's our very own Percy.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nick harper on August 11, 2016, 03:54:43 PM
There was some competition for his worst moment last night, but seeing him outpaced in a foot race by a league two journeyman has to be one of them.   

Trying to head the ball from six inches off the ground before Okore deftly steered it into the bottom corner steals it for me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on August 11, 2016, 04:42:57 PM
Titus Bramble would be a better option than either Richards or Okore at centre half, the pair of them are fucking useless.
Wilfrid Bramble and his horse would be a better option after their performances last night
(http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/352861_1.jpg)

Needs to go in the Paul Weller thread.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 11, 2016, 06:17:10 PM
Well that's entertainment
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on August 11, 2016, 08:11:23 PM
There was some competition for his worst moment last night, but seeing him outpaced in a foot race by a league two journeyman has to be one of them.   

Trying to head the ball from six inches off the ground before Okore deftly steered it into the bottom corner steals it for me.

that was good, as was the similar knee height diving header which led to their other goal
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on August 11, 2016, 08:20:56 PM
The Richards we are seeing now is not the Richards that arrived on the scene at Man City.  He is either carrying too much weight or has become too muscular.  Before he was well balanced but now looks cumbersome and slow.  At Man City it was his pace and power that got him out of trouble at times.  Without that he is nothing as his positioning is very poor.  The foul throw last night just about summed up what he has become.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on August 11, 2016, 08:26:05 PM
Moving him to centre back last night was a mistake. He was doing ok at right back, against a fourth tier side, that is. I really want this to work but he just isn't good enough.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on August 11, 2016, 09:46:08 PM
The only time Richards and Okore should be paired up together ever again is as two halves of a pantomime horse. Awful player.

It would be a mutant horse. No head but 2 arses.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on August 11, 2016, 09:48:24 PM
Moving him to centre back last night was a mistake. He was doing ok at right back, against a fourth tier side, that is. I really want this to work but he just isn't good enough.

Huge mistake, he can't organise a defence and he's far too willing to throw himself out of position trying to win a 50/50.  Could be ok as a fullback but I think we'd be better off getting a new one and letting him go.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tony Erdington on August 11, 2016, 09:52:17 PM
micah please just go now, please.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on August 12, 2016, 11:59:10 AM


Has he gone yet ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: DeeBoy1 on August 12, 2016, 12:29:43 PM
There was some competition for his worst moment last night, but seeing him outpaced in a foot race by a league two journeyman has to be one of them.   

Trying to head the ball from six inches off the ground before Okore deftly steered it into the bottom corner steals it for me.

that was good, as was the similar knee height diving header which led to their other goal

He has this bizarre fetish with getting himself airborne but parallel and as close to the ground as possible, it's really strange.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ClaretAndBlueBlood on August 12, 2016, 02:49:15 PM
There was some competition for his worst moment last night, but seeing him outpaced in a foot race by a league two journeyman has to be one of them.   

Trying to head the ball from six inches off the ground before Okore deftly steered it into the bottom corner steals it for me.

that was good, as was the similar knee height diving header which led to their other goal

He has this bizarre fetish with getting himself airborne but parallel and as close to the ground as possible, it's really strange.

he thinks he is superman, but is scared of heights
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisf on August 12, 2016, 03:36:09 PM
It still gets my hopes up every time this thread pops to the top. No such luck.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: The Left Side on August 12, 2016, 05:52:34 PM
It still gets my hopes up every time this thread pops to the top. No such luck.

Me too, the same goes for the Gabby thread.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on August 12, 2016, 08:18:38 PM
Moving him to centre back last night was a mistake. He was doing ok at right back, against a fourth tier side, that is. I really want this to work but he just isn't good enough.

Doing ok at right back? lost count the amount of times there was a Luton player crossing from the left with no right back in sight.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: IFWaters on August 30, 2016, 07:29:16 PM
whats the latest on him moving on ?

if not the warm up clown in the fancy dress beckons
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on August 30, 2016, 07:39:55 PM
Wet Spam are apparently about to make all our Christmases come early by signing the Bad Santa himself.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sid1964 on August 31, 2016, 12:14:52 PM
Looking at the BBC website, West Ham do want him on loan and then a permanent deal

Fingers crossed!!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tim on August 31, 2016, 12:19:08 PM
whats the latest on him moving on ?

if not the warm up clown in the fancy dress beckons
Has there even been any confirmed interest recently? Even the chance of getting them at a knock down price must seem beyond a lot of clubs' sense, based on the way they performed last season.   
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Axl Rose on August 31, 2016, 12:22:36 PM
Wet Spam are apparently about to make all our Christmases come early by signing the Bad Santa himself.

Just thinking of him laughing in that Santa costume almost sends me over the edge in rage.

I've been playing the lottery alot in Japan. If I win, I'm going to buy Richards and fire him into the sun.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on August 31, 2016, 12:24:31 PM
Have they lost their mind?

I mean great signing - powerful, athletic, diligent, skillful, positive influence in dressing room. Model pro.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 31, 2016, 12:34:03 PM
Mooted to be a loan so  the only Santa who comes twice
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VILLA MOLE on August 31, 2016, 12:34:11 PM
Have they lost their mind?

I mean great signing - powerful, athletic, diligent, skillful, positive influence in dressing room. Model pro.



I miss him already  :(
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on August 31, 2016, 12:48:33 PM
Please let this happen.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on August 31, 2016, 01:00:32 PM
I reckon the Porno Dwarfs are on a wind up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 31, 2016, 01:32:07 PM
what they want him as a 24 hour mechanical sex aid?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: auntiesledd on August 31, 2016, 02:16:35 PM
what they want him as a 24 hour mechanical sex aid?

I didn't realise there was a demand for an enormous flacid cock.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Percy McCarthy on August 31, 2016, 02:17:51 PM
what they want him as a 24 hour mechanical sex aid?

I didn't realise there was a demand for an enormous flacid cock

....with no positional sense.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 31, 2016, 02:20:56 PM
all cat's are grey at night
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on August 31, 2016, 06:22:11 PM
Apparently we pulled the loan deal as we wanted a fee. I would have thought getting the twat out the club and off our wage bill for season would be extremely enticing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CJ on August 31, 2016, 06:27:34 PM
I reckon Wham pulled out of the deal as they couldn't persuade the government to stump up taxpayers' money for his wages and any fee
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pete3206 on August 31, 2016, 08:58:14 PM
Somebody please buy him. Please
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on August 31, 2016, 08:59:53 PM
Somebody please buy this useless wanker.

Are you his agent 'cause I need one. What's your commission?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pete3206 on August 31, 2016, 09:33:35 PM
Ha I edited that. Not quick enough
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on August 31, 2016, 09:43:31 PM
Sorry Pete. Too good to pass up!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Percy McCarthy on August 31, 2016, 09:57:04 PM
I thought he'd be one of the easiest to get rid of. Had a decent rep, once considered a top player, and I didn't think we'd be too concerned about a fee as he was a free transfer.

He just won't flush.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ian. on August 31, 2016, 10:09:20 PM
Well let's hope Sherwood rocks up somewhere before January, I'm sure he'll fancy taking his trusted skipper on again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on August 31, 2016, 10:25:55 PM
I thought he'd be one of the easiest to get rid of. Had a decent rep, once considered a top player, and I didn't think we'd be too concerned about a fee as he was a free transfer.

He just won't flush.

Just shows what a reputation he's gained for himself at our expense. Same goes for Gabby.

The two I wanted shot of the most.  Just a couple of parasites.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on August 31, 2016, 10:48:13 PM
I wanted Bacuna gone. Time to get on with the job at hand now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: purpletrousers on September 09, 2016, 07:59:08 AM
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/explained-reasons-aston-villa-blocked-11857885

Explained: The reasons why Aston Villa blocked a move for Micah Richards

Despite interest from the Premier League this summer, Micah Richards remains at Villa
 
Aston Villa blocked a deadline day move for Micah Richards because they see him as a valuable part of their promotion push this season.

The 28-year-old was open to offers after a disappointing debut campaign at the club and would have considered a return back to the Premier League.

Sunderland and Hull City were both keen on Richards and West Ham made a late effort to take the former England international on loan only to see their approach knocked back.

Turkish side Besiktas also registered an interest but the ex-Manchester City man didn’t fancy relocating to Istanbul.

So why were Villa so determined to keep hold of a player who hasn’t played a single minute of Championship football?

Well, contrary to the conclusion that some Villa fans have drawn up, Richards is actually a good character to have around the place.

Last season he was the captain and those leadership qualities are present every day even if he's not featuring.

And with his commuting buddy, Joleon Lescott, leaving this summer alongside fellow defenders Ciaran Clark, Jores Okore and Jose Angel Crespo, boss Roberto Di Matteo didn’t want to leave himself short on numbers.

While his performances last season fell behind his previously-set high standards, Richards remained a vocal presence in the dressing room.

And despite not appearing in the league this season his work ethic has not dropped. His uplifting banter also keeps Bodymoor Heath a happy place.

Granted, he’s no longer a first-choice player.

Tommy Elphick, James Chester and Nathan Baker are all ahead of him in the pecking order at centre-back while competition is also rife on the right-side of defence with Ritchie De Laet, Alan Hutton and Leandro Bacuna all vying for places.

It’s likely that Richards will only feature if injuries or suspensions occur. A serious drop in form from the above could also present him with an opportunity to shine.

Deep down he’ll be hurting and there’s no doubt his pride has been knocked somewhat in recent times.

Eighteen months ago he was playing top-flight football with Fiorentina yet now he can’t get a game in England’s second tier.

If called upon this season he will be there to do a job, though.

And that’s why Di Matteo decided it would be better to keep him around, at least until the next transfer window.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Witton Warrior on September 09, 2016, 08:10:30 AM
"Deep down he'll be hurting" - not as much as we are!
While pragmatism may overcome sentiment here and we need the bodies it is pretty poor that we didn't get someone eels in to cover his position and ship him out
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on September 09, 2016, 08:18:03 AM
He is one of many reasons we are in our current state.  More interested in arguments on the pitch than kicking or heading the ball.  He remains a disgrace
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mister E on September 09, 2016, 08:27:55 AM
"Deep down he'll be hurting" - not as much as we are!
While pragmatism may overcome sentiment here and we need the bodies it is pretty poor that we didn't get someone eels in to cover his position and ship him out
He's too musselcular
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sid1964 on September 09, 2016, 09:19:14 AM
Another one, I will never forgive or forget the way he behaved and acted last season

If I was in charge he would have been gone!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CJ on September 09, 2016, 09:32:44 AM
His performance at Luton hardly reflected an outstanding work ethic, and offering fans out and dividing the dressing room is now known as 'uplifting banter'. Deep down he'll be hurting, like us, because he's still here.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on September 09, 2016, 09:33:01 AM
Can competition be "rife" ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on September 09, 2016, 09:36:42 AM
That looks like it was written either directly by the club or Micah (if the silly fucker could write).
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: pauliewalnuts on September 09, 2016, 12:45:24 PM
The bloke is fucking clueless AND a chancer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on September 09, 2016, 12:49:40 PM
January can't come soon enough to get rid of the clown.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nelly on September 09, 2016, 12:53:04 PM
I see your nicey-nicey propaganda piece and raise you one Santa video, a season of poor performances and arguments with supporters. It's hard to have any faith that he might somehow repent of being a twat.

What sort of reaction is he going to get at Villa Park? Should have let him go. He's the embodiment of everything that went so wrong at Villa last year.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Witton Warrior on September 09, 2016, 12:58:12 PM
"Deep down he'll be hurting" - not as much as we are!
While pragmatism may overcome sentiment here and we need the bodies it is pretty poor that we didn't get someone eels in to cover his position and ship him out
He's too musselcular

;-)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: somec on September 09, 2016, 02:07:34 PM
Uplifting banter?

Do me a favour!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on September 09, 2016, 02:11:00 PM
Uplifting banter?

Do me a favour!

My bantz is top, top drawer and I'm a free agent.

I'm also unquestionably a better right back than him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mattjpa on September 09, 2016, 02:19:57 PM
I cant even be arsed to dislike him anymore. Like Gabby, he has become an irrelevance to Aston Villa, like a bouncer that wont let you in the Holte Pub because you dont have a season ticket despite it being 3/4 empty - Just another person employed by the club I support. I doubt ill ever see him play for us again but if i do and he shows the ability, hunger and desire that got him to the heights of his career I will be prepared to revisit my stance on him. Life is too short to be holding grudges against someone ive never met
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on September 09, 2016, 02:27:17 PM
Who wrote the 2nd half of that article? His Mom?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on September 09, 2016, 06:16:41 PM
"Deep down he'll be hurting" - not as much as we are!
While pragmatism may overcome sentiment here and we need the bodies it is pretty poor that we didn't get someone eels in to cover his position and ship him out

I wonder if the grinning twat was hurting as much as we were when we got dumped out of the PL on 17 points?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: GordonCowansisthegreatest on September 09, 2016, 06:23:50 PM
Hurting all the way to the bank!

Tosser.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: themossman on September 09, 2016, 07:21:35 PM
Read. Noted. I still wish him nothing but ill will.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on September 09, 2016, 08:41:14 PM
The epitome of the 'me, me, me' footballer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Cliftonville Villain on September 09, 2016, 09:09:07 PM
Over here in Belfast I have to take the word of you guys in the Midlands in regards to your local press and radio coverage of the Villa...Jesus, you really were telling the truth.  That article is an absolute disgrace - anyone on the same land mass knows that Richards and his buddies from last season are the new poster boys for greedy, out of touch, modern day parasites.

I'm all for giving players second chances, especially if you're paying them ridiculously exorbitant wages (they could at least try to earn their salaries), and I totally disagree with 'bomb squads', but the sheer manner and ineptitude of the performances last season, coupled with the sneering attitudes towards Villa fans for having the audacity to question those performances, for me, dictate that Richards and Agbonlahor should never be near the side again.

We're on a journey back to the top (hopefully) but what happened last year must never be repeated. I really do feel that Villa missed an opportunity in standing up for the fans and the game itself by getting these clowns out the door with great publicity (who in their right minds would employ them after that) or in Gabby's case sack the f**ker after those antics and let the PFA try to defend the indefensible. Either way, he would have been out the door, instead of hanging around like a bad smell and taking dickheads photos with the new signings. I know this is a Richards topic, but they both represent failure at a ridiculous level.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: The Charmer on September 09, 2016, 10:42:09 PM
So he's a good character to have about the place and keeps spirits raised with his uplifting banter.

Sounds like we've just created the first £50-grand-a-week Club Mascot!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on September 10, 2016, 01:34:22 AM
Are you  allowed to swear on  this  forum?  If so  he is a--e H--e of the highest order.

I just wish he f-----d out of our club.

Money grabbing hasbeen.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on September 10, 2016, 03:16:09 AM
Has anybody mentioned Micah Richards is a useless c**t?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on September 10, 2016, 08:32:38 AM
Has anybody mentioned Micah Richards is a useless c**t?

I think that is the general theme
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on November 27, 2016, 03:13:52 PM
Any news on how Micah's getting on?

Bruce must have the patience of a saint to find it within himself to give Flabs a game. But even bearing this in mind Micah 'top bantz' Richards is nowhere to be seen.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on November 27, 2016, 04:00:27 PM
Hopefully regaining his fitness just in time to piss off in January. I certainly don't want him anywhere near the team. Absolute waster.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: IAmTheOneIanOlney on November 27, 2016, 04:20:46 PM
I think of all the things that could derail Steve Bruce's fine start with us, Micah Richards being back in the team would be top of the list.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on November 27, 2016, 04:23:13 PM
Maybe we should loan him back to Fiorentina and he can earn his wage giving progress reports on how Carlos is doing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: itbrvilla on January 14, 2017, 06:48:15 PM
What is this ****** upto? Stealing a living doing fuck all? Does he even train?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 14, 2017, 06:51:45 PM
What is this c*** upto? Stealing a living doing fuck all? Does he even train?

He's been injured for ages now
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt C on January 14, 2017, 09:17:19 PM
I assumed he'd magically rediscover fitness once the transfer window opened but clearly not. I'd forgotten he existed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: BOB MANSFIELD on January 14, 2017, 09:37:45 PM
Why are we even bothering to continue this thread ? Why am I even bothering to add a comment on it ?
It's because the B is taking money under false pretences and the sooner that is ended, the better.
And we have to vent our collective spleen over this dire mis-management of the club we once had part ownership of. Thanks Randy........for nothing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on January 14, 2017, 09:38:05 PM
If our club had any standards, this charlatan would be released by mutual consent asap.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on January 15, 2017, 04:02:02 AM
If our club had any standards, this charlatan would be released by mutual consent asap.
There is a slight flaw in your thinking, there. The word mutual.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ldavfc4eva on January 21, 2017, 07:29:54 AM
Sunderland are apparently interested in Lescott, be great to shift Micah to them so they can rekindle their awesome partnership at centre back and ensure premier league survival.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on January 21, 2017, 07:56:47 AM
Another weight off Lescott's shoulders.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john2710 on January 21, 2017, 08:12:40 AM
Bruce said he didn't expect to see Richards fit until sometime in February.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oldhill_avfc on January 21, 2017, 08:38:12 AM
Bruce said he didn't expect to see Richards fit until sometime in February.

Did he say which year?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on January 21, 2017, 09:02:58 AM
Every time this gets bumped up, my hopes rise that this leech is going.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Alex77 on January 21, 2017, 09:11:52 AM
Although I truly detest the guy, if SB gets his head right, could he actually do a job for us at right back?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Phil from the upper holte on January 21, 2017, 09:19:22 AM
I forgot we even had him. What's actually wrong with him ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frank black on January 21, 2017, 09:23:49 AM
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Although I truly detest the guy, if SB gets his head right, could he actually do a job for us at right back?

He plays like a rhinoceros with a sack over his head, having just been shot in the arse with a tranquilizer.

Not for me, get rid.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Alex77 on January 21, 2017, 09:31:30 AM
Definitely if a suitable bid comes in then fine, but I'm not sure one will.

What im saying though is if SB manages to remove the sack from the rhinos head, will a rhino be better than a giraffe (Hutton)?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Zouch Villa on January 21, 2017, 09:36:51 AM
Sunderland are apparently interested in Lescott, be great to shift Micah to them so they can rekindle their awesome partnership at centre back and ensure premier league survival.

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Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on January 21, 2017, 09:43:57 AM
Definitely if a suitable bid comes in then fine, but I'm not sure one will.

What im saying though is if SB manages to remove the sack from the rhinos head, will a rhino be better than a giraffe (Hutton)?

The answer to the question is absolutely not.

This guy was an England international at full back and when he played there for us he looked like a two year old being introduced to the concept of football for the first time. He shows no awareness of what he should be doing, his passing is shite, his heading for such a big guy is comical and he shows zero effort. The bloke is a grade A Tw#t and should be got rid.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OzVilla on January 21, 2017, 10:13:05 AM
Every time there's a new post in this thread I pray someone has been stupid enough to take this useless waste if space of our hands.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on January 21, 2017, 02:04:55 PM
On the bench
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bad English on February 19, 2017, 06:41:49 PM
Every time there's a new post in this thread I pray someone has been stupid enough to take this useless waste if space of our hands.

I am only bumping this in order to say "Don't pick him Bruce !"

It's something you'd expect Donald Trump to do, were he our manager.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: themossman on February 19, 2017, 07:00:15 PM
Rush Limbaugh said he's one of the greatest right backs ever. Fake fans not happy!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on February 19, 2017, 08:07:56 PM
Co-incidentally, the latest news. If what is printed is correct then I'm beginning to have serious misgivings about Mr Bruce and his ideas of what being a footballer is all about. (sorry guys, just been on the SB thread and seen it on there)

Steve Bruce has revealed that Micah Richards is back in full training.

Richards has been struggling with a knee problem and was put on a six-week rehabilitation programme at Bodymoor Heath in order to solve the issue which had plagued him for some time.

Bruce delivered the positive update, however, this week that the former England right-back was out on the fields again and looking for a recall to the claret and blue line-up.

He said: “Micah is just back training.

“He has had an ongoing problem with his knee, which is a complicated one. I could do with Micah, certainly around the place he’s terrific and I could do with him on the pitch.

“He’s back out there and has been for the past week. He was on this six-week programme. Hopefully he stays right because his experience cold prove vital.

“Micah is a stick-on if he’s fit – an absolute stick-on. He’s got the right mentality.

"Unfortunately, fitness levels have been a big problem for him over the past few years.”



Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on February 19, 2017, 08:27:54 PM
I hope he means he wants to stick him on the transfer list. Biggest sack of shit ever to play for Villa. If Bruce picks him I want him sacked immediately.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Richard on February 19, 2017, 09:32:03 PM
Didn't he pick him for his first game v Wolves though ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: BOB MANSFIELD on February 19, 2017, 09:43:50 PM
In the games I've seen him play for the Villa - all TV mind you , especially versus Luton (OMG !) he's looked like Agbonlahor on treble steroids and his calves bigger than my wife's waist ! No longer a serious contender surely ? Knackered after 15 minutes of dragging all that around the pitch - always NOT in the right position !
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OCD on February 19, 2017, 10:33:58 PM
Who would he drop to play him? Chester? Bree?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Stinkin_Thinkin on February 19, 2017, 11:02:31 PM
might do a job at centre half if we're still going 3 at the back. I'm feeling it a bit more than Tommy 'Boon' Elphick
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on February 19, 2017, 11:14:38 PM
In the games I've seen him play for the Villa - all TV mind you , especially versus Luton (OMG !) he's looked like Agbonlahor on treble steroids and his calves bigger than my wife's waist ! No longer a serious contender surely ? Knackered after 15 minutes of dragging all that around the pitch - always NOT in the right position !

That's the problem, he looked good as a teenager because he was so mobile but he just seems to, like Gabby, have decided that getting stronger was essential and he's lost half a yard of pace.  The problem with that is that if you've always played knowing you've got that pace and never learned how to be quicker than other people by reading the game without that bit of pace you look out of your depth.  It's why neither of them will ever get back to the levels they were at as 21-22 year olds and why both of them are a massive drain on our resources who we should move on asap.

It concerns me that there are people at the club who don't see this obvious truth, not just Bruce but various coaches, etc who should all be telling him that these guys just aren't going to get fit and be the players they could've become.  Both of them have been ruined by poor decision making and no one with the wits to tell them that strength at the expense of mobility wasn't worth it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on February 19, 2017, 11:47:55 PM
Quote
“Micah is a stick-on if he’s fit – an absolute stick-on. He’s got the right mentality.

"Unfortunately, fitness levels have been a big problem for him over the past few years.”

Blimey.

Those quotes were omitted from the original story but shows you if Richards hadn't of been injured he'd have been playing every week.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: edgysatsuma89 on February 20, 2017, 12:14:32 AM
In the games I've seen him play for the Villa - all TV mind you , especially versus Luton (OMG !) he's looked like Agbonlahor on treble steroids and his calves bigger than my wife's waist ! No longer a serious contender surely ? Knackered after 15 minutes of dragging all that around the pitch - always NOT in the right position !

That's the problem, he looked good as a teenager because he was so mobile but he just seems to, like Gabby, have decided that getting stronger was essential and he's lost half a yard of pace.  The problem with that is that if you've always played knowing you've got that pace and never learned how to be quicker than other people by reading the game without that bit of pace you look out of your depth.  It's why neither of them will ever get back to the levels they were at as 21-22 year olds and why both of them are a massive drain on our resources who we should move on asap.

It concerns me that there are people at the club who don't see this obvious truth, not just Bruce but various coaches, etc who should all be telling him that these guys just aren't going to get fit and be the players they could've become.  Both of them have been ruined by poor decision making and no one with the wits to tell them that strength at the expense of mobility wasn't worth it.

Apparently Richards barely touches the weights at the gym and that his physique is pretty much natural. Hangeland says the same about Zaha and that he is lazy... which will tell you why it didn't work out at Man Utd.

I reckon Richards hasn't played for so long he must be fucking amazing by now. Maldini MK II.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sid1964 on February 20, 2017, 01:17:44 PM
I like the comment from Bruce about Richards, "he is fantastic around the place" if I was being paid as much as Richards, I would be fantastic as well!!

He was absolutely brilliant on the Christmas video when they went to the Children's Hospital the other year!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on February 20, 2017, 01:25:39 PM
The ultimate bad Santa
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villatillidie25 on February 20, 2017, 01:54:42 PM
i've heard a lot of times that he is actually a really good guy around the place so some of the flack he gets is probably undeserved (it really pains me to say that) but the fact that he is paid an extortionate amount of money (particularly given the level we are at and the wage packets we are now able to offer) to play football and he just isn't very good at it should be the bottom line. The sooner we get rid of him and Gabby the better. It'll save £4 or £5m off the wage bill if nothing else!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sid1964 on February 20, 2017, 02:52:28 PM
whenever I hear a manager describe a player as a "great lad" or "fantastic to have around" I always think that is the type of comment that Harry Redknapp makes. These type of comments to me are very old school management.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on February 20, 2017, 04:18:56 PM
We get to Villa Park quite early on match day and park in Villa Village car park.
The players always drive past us to go to the players car park and not once this season have we seen Richards.
He may get to the ground very early of course and that may be why we have not seen him
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ClaretAndBlueBlood on February 20, 2017, 04:29:44 PM
We get to Villa Park quite early on match day and park in Villa Village car park.
The players always drive past us to go to the players car park and not once this season have we seen Richards.
He may get to the ground very early of course and that may be why we have not seen him

maybe he goes in disguised as a footballer
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Havencheese on February 20, 2017, 04:59:22 PM
Much of Bruce's decisions on the pitch of late have been totally indefensible but I have to say his man management skills off it have been better than any manager we've had in donkey's years. If he can get the likes of Gabby and Richards along with McCormack to either shape up or ship out of Villa Park, then he's achieved nothing short of a minor miracle. It contrasts with Lambert's bomb squad.

Let's face it Richards the modern footballer will be happy going nowhere if he's sat on his arse stealing a living at VP. May as well try get him off it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on February 20, 2017, 05:27:23 PM
"Shape up or ship out of Villa Park"?  All three have Villa contracts. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ClaretAndBlueBlood on February 20, 2017, 05:38:43 PM
and as proven by Gabby at the start of the season, you cant ship them out if they don't want to go
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on February 20, 2017, 05:41:40 PM
My point exactly CABB.  Wanting them shipped out and doing it are very different things.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: AlexAlexCropley on February 20, 2017, 05:49:23 PM
I hope I don't see his name in the side tonight.The way Bruce has-been bigging him up though.......
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Havencheese on February 20, 2017, 06:05:13 PM
My point exactly CABB.  Wanting them shipped out and doing it are very different things.

Fair point, I could've worded it a bit better.

I want to hear positives about the wasters but it's a fine line when they should be nowhere near the teamsheet given where their careers are at.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OCD on February 20, 2017, 06:52:12 PM
Looks like he's travelled up to Newcastle with the squad.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on February 20, 2017, 06:59:38 PM
Looks like he's travelled up to Newcastle with the squad.

No more than handing out the oranges, I hope.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy65 on February 20, 2017, 09:06:06 PM
If we dont play him we may as well pay him off the PV of his contract something he would presumbaly prefer anyway. Gets rid of a bad odour from the club
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on March 03, 2017, 10:19:42 PM
I've seen a dreadful rumour that he's going to be on the bench tomorrow.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rigadon on March 03, 2017, 10:26:29 PM
Has anybody as the club said anything about his situation?  He must be on mega money, was signed as our captain, but it's like he has been swept under the carpet.  What gives?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on March 03, 2017, 10:26:41 PM
He's been on then bench already a few times this season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 03, 2017, 10:35:53 PM
If it's a choice between him and Mad Tom on the bench then i'd go for someone from the U12 side.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on March 04, 2017, 02:03:31 AM
Bruce has already admitted he loves him. He's here to stay, whilst Bruce is here and when fat head is fit, he will pick him. We are stuck with the donkey for another year at least.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pete3206 on March 04, 2017, 02:29:36 PM
He's hardly going to admit to the public, that he's a lazy, defeatist, half arsed waste of space.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on March 08, 2017, 05:24:19 PM
Bruce or Mica?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on March 08, 2017, 06:33:07 PM
I'd prefer Micah up front than Gabby, he'd score more goals.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on March 09, 2017, 12:32:39 PM
I'd prefer Micah up front than Gabby, he'd score more goals.

Yeah he just needs to get in the opposition box, and pretend he is defending for the opposition. That should work.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Drummond on March 09, 2017, 12:36:45 PM
I'd prefer Stephen Hawking up front than Gabby, he'd score more goals.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oswald funkletrumpet on March 09, 2017, 12:40:09 PM
I'd prefer Stephen Hawking up front than Gabby, he'd score more goals.

He would have excellent spacial awareness
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Salsa Party Animal on March 09, 2017, 06:28:47 PM
is he still injured ? Not sure what injury
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CJ on March 09, 2017, 06:41:16 PM
He was on the bench on Tuesday so presume he's not injured and looks likely to be on the bench with Mad Tom again on Saturday.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on June 07, 2017, 01:02:30 PM
I'm reliably informed he's either moved or is moving to Harrogate, he's either found out where I live or is signing for Harrogate Town now they've gone full time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on June 07, 2017, 01:13:43 PM
He's from harehills in Leeds originally
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ASHTONVILLA on June 07, 2017, 01:24:02 PM
I'm reliably informed he's either moved or is moving to Harrogate, he's either found out where I live or is signing for Harrogate Town now they've gone full time.

I don't think he is good enough to play at Harrogate's level!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on June 07, 2017, 01:27:17 PM
I'm reliably informed he's either moved or is moving to Harrogate, he's either found out where I live or is signing for Harrogate Town now they've gone full time.

PLEASE let this be true
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on June 07, 2017, 01:41:00 PM
The part about Harrogate Town I hope?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: danno on June 07, 2017, 03:23:20 PM

If he has found out where you live, you have to admire his commitment to giving out autographs.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mister E on June 07, 2017, 03:35:21 PM
I'm reliably informed he's either moved or is moving to Harrogate, he's either found out where I live or is signing for Harrogate Town now they've gone full time.

I don't think he is good enough to play at Harrogate's level!
Oi! Careful - that's a bit close to home!
Mind you, Town's manager, Simon Weaver, seems pretty clueless so maybe you're close to the mark.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on June 07, 2017, 06:08:40 PM
Please, let him move to Leeds while he's at it. Could he be our highest earner? A bigger waste of cash than the Zog which is some achievement.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: IAmTheOneIanOlney on June 07, 2017, 06:47:12 PM
If we did no other business other than sell him this summer, I'd still consider the transfer window an overall success.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Deano's Mullet on June 07, 2017, 10:42:28 PM
He was signing programmes in the players car park before the Brighton game just as Ian Taylor was coming around the corner from the Trinity Road stand. One a fantastic servant to our football club with a cup winners medal (and goal) to his name, the other a complete bellend and this was reflected in how many people wanted to get Tayls autograph compared to Richards. Absolutely stunned he's still here a year on.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: curiousorange on June 07, 2017, 11:20:22 PM
He was signing programmes in the players car park before the Brighton game just as Ian Taylor was coming around the corner from the Trinity Road stand. One a fantastic servant to our football club with a cup winners medal (and goal) to his name, the other a complete bellend and this was reflected in how many people wanted to get Tayls autograph compared to Richards. Absolutely stunned he's still here a year on.

Fairly annoying that his best Villa Park moment was that FA Cup goal for Man City when he was 17.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brentastonb6 on June 07, 2017, 11:35:04 PM
Gutted, just read this thread due to new posts and hoped the tosser had gone. Oh well maybe tomorrow 🙁
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave on June 08, 2017, 07:28:01 AM
For some reason I dreamt last night that he signed for Hull.

I wish I dreamt about more interesting things.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on June 08, 2017, 02:08:55 PM
It is now clear that we bought a crock as well as a crock of shit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on June 08, 2017, 04:51:17 PM
For some reason I dreamt last night that he signed for Hull.

I wish I dreamt about more interesting things.

The Dream Synopsis - "It must be torture when I talk about my dreams". Turner's ballads are top-notch imo.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on June 08, 2017, 07:43:46 PM
For some reason I dreamt last night that he signed for Hull.

I wish I dreamt about more interesting things.

Anybody have a dream book? What does dreaming about Micah Richards mean?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on June 08, 2017, 08:23:43 PM
For some reason I dreamt last night that he signed for Hull.

I wish I dreamt about more interesting things.

If only it were a dream come true.

Hull would be heading for League 1 in no time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on June 10, 2017, 10:29:18 AM
Just seen his stats on AVFC. Last season he played in 3 matches and made 3 tackles so I am not sure we have anything to moan about. That's 100% ;D
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on June 10, 2017, 12:20:22 PM
If his head was right he would have been a hell of a player for us. His appearances have been littered with rants and marks with opponents ala Ashley williams
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Grande Pablo on June 10, 2017, 03:24:31 PM
For some reason I dreamt last night that he signed for Hull.

I wish I dreamt about more interesting things.

London 4 Hull 0
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: peter w on June 10, 2017, 07:38:23 PM
For some reason I dreamt last night that he signed for Hull.

I wish I dreamt about more interesting things.

London 4 Hull 0

London 0 Hull 4
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on June 10, 2017, 09:09:11 PM
London 0 Emu 4
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on June 10, 2017, 11:58:20 PM
Lightening Rod.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sickbeggar on December 17, 2017, 09:56:09 AM
"This topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days"

Sorry to drag this up but it really is starting to bug me about his current whereabouts. I know he's shit but what exactly is the situation with him? Is he suffering from PTSS from the relegation season? The world's most expensive dressing room mascot? Why hasn't he been paid off? Anyone?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on December 17, 2017, 12:38:57 PM
He has retired to the Aston Villa Benefit Society!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villabear on December 17, 2017, 10:07:39 PM
He's still about. He was on my train back from London a couple of weeks ago along with Grealish, Hutton and a couple of others I didn't recognise.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on December 17, 2017, 10:10:51 PM
He's still about. He was on my train back from London a couple of weeks ago along with Grealish, Hutton and a couple of others I didn't recognise.
You own a train and you let him on?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on December 17, 2017, 10:51:12 PM
The thing that really pisses me off, is the fact that he actually a very good player, where apart from John Terry he is potentially our top man.  He has in my opinion awful attitude and for that reason alone I would have 11 Alan Hutton's - someone who has limited talent rather than the likes of Micah Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on December 17, 2017, 11:39:48 PM
The thing that really pisses me off, is the fact that he actually a very good player, where apart from John Terry he is potentially our top man.  He has in my opinion awful attitude and for that reason alone I would have 11 Alan Hutton's - someone who has limited talent rather than the likes of Micah Richards.

Richards really isn't a good player, he was a fantastic athlete and used that, along with a passable amount of ability to function as a decent full back.  He's never looked capable of playing centrally and now that his legs seem to have gone that ability isn't good enough on it's own to carry him because he simply can't read the game at all, his positioning isn't even Sunday league standard.  It gets used a lot on here but I genuinely think he's the worst centre back we've had in the last 20 years
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brentastonb6 on December 18, 2017, 12:10:01 AM
I hate even seeing his name and clicked on the thread hoping the A1 prize tosspot knobhead had been released ( we'll never sell the useless fucker will we ? ) seriously disappointed obviously that nothing's changed .
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 18, 2017, 05:56:28 AM
You have to wonder what kind of conversation he might have had with the likes of a Terry? Someone who is proving himself to be a top pro. You have to think Terry might have had a chat with him suggesting that we could do with him motivated, dedicated and playing. So the fact that this wanker carries on just picking up a cheque every week almost suggests he’s just given up on his career entirely.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on December 19, 2017, 10:10:47 PM
Either that or he has no confidence in his body lasting any length of time playing football. Is it out of the bounds of possibility that Bruce likes his attitude and bantz around the boys and remembers when he was a good, young, English player like Gabby, so cuts him extra slack.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on December 20, 2017, 12:31:32 AM
I think he is crocked. Bruce certainly alluded to that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on December 20, 2017, 01:04:38 AM
I think he is a twat. Everything I've seen certainly alluded to that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on December 20, 2017, 02:57:48 AM
I think he is a twat. Everything I've seen certainly alluded to that.
No doubt and we got taken for a huge ride.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on December 20, 2017, 08:21:12 AM
Tim Sherwood was blinded but not by science, the eejit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on December 20, 2017, 08:58:21 AM
I forgot he was still around
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: junxs on December 20, 2017, 09:08:28 AM
Whes his contract up?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on December 20, 2017, 09:47:13 AM
Whes his contract up?

2019 I think
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Hookeysmith on December 20, 2017, 10:32:40 AM
Whes his contract up?

2019 I think

Jesus - WTF does he do all day but count money

I would imagine he hardly trains due to "injury" and I never see his name on the reserves team sheet

Do you think he ever feels guilty about taking the alleged £60K per week for another 18 months
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on December 20, 2017, 10:50:45 AM
Whes his contract up?

2019 I think

Jesus - WTF does he do all day but count money

I would imagine he hardly trains due to "injury" and I never see his name on the reserves team sheet

Do you think he ever feels guilty about taking the alleged £60K per week for another 18 months
I don't think he gives a shit.  I doubt we'll ever see him play for the first team again and he's right up there with N'Zogbia as far as I'm concerned.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on December 20, 2017, 11:01:38 AM
I think he is crocked. Bruce certainly alluded to that.

Not sure if his instagram is blocked now but he posted a picture of him watching Joe Hart play for Torino last season and a few Villa fans had a pop at him. His response was along the lines of you'd struggle to play too if you had the knees I have.

For whatever reason he obviously can't get fit and I'd imagine he'd struggle to pass a stringent medical anywhere else. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on December 20, 2017, 11:20:16 AM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Hookeysmith on December 20, 2017, 11:31:45 AM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing

As mentioned above

N,Zogbia
Ivo Stas
Bosko Balaban

I am sure all clubs have them
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on December 20, 2017, 11:33:48 AM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing

As mentioned above

N,Zogbia
Ivo Stas
Bosko Balaban

I am sure all clubs have them

Out of those I have a special dislike on N'Zogbia.  He had all the tools but just couldn't give a fuck.  The others were just hopeless footballers.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on December 20, 2017, 11:43:10 AM
Ivo wasn’t hopeless, just injured.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on December 20, 2017, 11:43:59 AM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing

As mentioned above

N,Zogbia
Ivo Stas
Bosko Balaban

I am sure all clubs have them

Out of those I have a special dislike on N'Zogbia.  He had all the tools but just couldn't give a fuck.  The others were just hopeless footballers.

The amount of money we spent on N'Zogbia (fee and wages) was scandalous.  Stas is a bit harsh because of his terrible injuries, but I would add Stephen Ireland to that list. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on December 20, 2017, 11:44:45 AM
I think he is crocked. Bruce certainly alluded to that.

Not sure if his instagram is blocked now but he posted a picture of him watching Joe Hart play for Torino last season and a few Villa fans had a pop at him. His response was along the lines of you'd struggle to play too if you had the knees I have.

For whatever reason he obviously can't get fit and I'd imagine he'd struggle to pass a stringent medical anywhere else. 

How the hell did he pass our medical, he has hardly played so he hasn't worn them out playing for us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on December 20, 2017, 11:59:13 AM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing

As mentioned above

N,Zogbia
Ivo Stas
Bosko Balaban

I am sure all clubs have them

Out of those I have a special dislike on N'Zogbia.  He had all the tools but just couldn't give a fuck.  The others were just hopeless footballers.

The amount of money we spent on N'Zogbia (fee and wages) was scandalous.  Stas is a bit harsh because of his terrible injuries, but I would add Stephen Ireland to that list. 

Stephen Ireland, Player of the Season - 2011/12 you mean? ;)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on December 20, 2017, 12:36:43 PM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing

He was on a free so even with the big wages I thought it was worth the gamble at the time. (I thought he'd be playing at RB though).

Bit worse if we'd signed him for about 8m from City like Ireland.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on December 20, 2017, 12:39:02 PM
I think he is crocked. Bruce certainly alluded to that.

Not sure if his instagram is blocked now but he posted a picture of him watching Joe Hart play for Torino last season and a few Villa fans had a pop at him. His response was along the lines of you'd struggle to play too if you had the knees I have.

For whatever reason he obviously can't get fit and I'd imagine he'd struggle to pass a stringent medical anywhere else. 

How the hell did he pass our medical, he has hardly played so he hasn't worn them out playing for us.

Depends how stringent our medical was. He barely played in Florence the season before so think he was having issues then.

I would imagine the issue is actually training day in day out so he can't get the required fitness to be involved on a match day and the cycle continues through the season.

SB actually did say last season if we could get him fit he'd be in the team!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on December 20, 2017, 12:52:27 PM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing

As mentioned above

N,Zogbia
Ivo Stas
Bosko Balaban

I am sure all clubs have them

Out of those I have a special dislike on N'Zogbia.  He had all the tools but just couldn't give a fuck.  The others were just hopeless footballers.

The amount of money we spent on N'Zogbia (fee and wages) was scandalous.  Stas is a bit harsh because of his terrible injuries, but I would add Stephen Ireland to that list. 

Stephen Ireland, Player of the Season - 2011/12 you mean? ;)

The very same one.  Only played the full 90 minutes on 11 occasions that season, so obviously fully deserved!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on December 20, 2017, 12:53:36 PM
The thing that really pisses me off, is the fact that he actually a very good player

Is he bollocks!  :o
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on December 20, 2017, 12:55:11 PM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing

100%. He's been absolutely awful from day one. WAY over priced even at nothing.

For all the other shit players names bandied about, NOBODY beats this clown to the worst ever. He's been THAT bad.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on December 20, 2017, 02:04:35 PM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing

100%. He's been absolutely awful from day one. WAY over priced even at nothing.

For all the other shit players names bandied about, NOBODY beats this clown to the worst ever. He's been THAT bad.

Got to agree, someone said he was the worst centre back we had signed, he wasn't only that, he was the worst RB we have ever signed and to compound matters as a footballer he has all the positional sense of a leaf in a hurricane. Couple that with the shit attitude and boy o boy didn't we get a shoeing when we signed him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Pat McMahon on December 20, 2017, 02:14:16 PM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing

As mentioned above

N,Zogbia
Ivo Stas
Bosko Balaban

I am sure all clubs have them

Out of those I have a special dislike on N'Zogbia.  He had all the tools but just couldn't give a fuck.  The others were just hopeless footballers.

The amount of money we spent on N'Zogbia (fee and wages) was scandalous.  Stas is a bit harsh because of his terrible injuries, but I would add Stephen Ireland to that list. 

Stephen Ireland, Player of the Season - 2011/12 you mean? ;)

The very same one.  Only played the full 90 minutes on 11 occasions that season, so obviously fully deserved!!

Given that we didn't have a manager at the time I could never understand which eejit sanctioned the transfer. We should have simply got more cash for Milner for the new manager to spend.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on December 20, 2017, 02:43:30 PM
Given that we didn't have a manager at the time I could never understand which eejit sanctioned the transfer. We should have simply got more cash for Milner for the new manager to spend.

I imagine the conversation went something along the lines of:

[Man City]  We'll give you £18m, cash, for Milner.
[Villa]  No chance, he's worth at least £26m.
[Man City]  Sorry guys but we won't go a penny higher.
[Villa]  What about £18m plus Stephen Ireland?
[Man City]  But that's still £18 mill...ok, deal!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on December 20, 2017, 02:50:18 PM
The vast majority on here at the time thought that Ireland was a great signing and that we'd screwed Man City over.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on December 20, 2017, 03:15:50 PM
The vast majority on here at the time thought that Ireland was a great signing and that we'd screwed Man City over.

Not me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on December 20, 2017, 04:19:30 PM
The vast majority on here at the time thought that Ireland was a great signing and that we'd screwed Man City over.

Rapidly became apparent that wasn't the case.  Clearly had talent, but application and desire were pitiful.  Right up there with N'Zogbia in our recent hall of shame.   
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on December 20, 2017, 05:14:27 PM
I never wanted Ireland either, I remember pretty early on pointing out that his entire reputation was based on 3 months of decent performances. He's one of those players where the idea of what he brings is much better than the reality.  I had the same opinion of Fat Ross and Lansbury as well, oh and I firmly believe the only reason we signed nzogbia is because McLeish wanted to 'get his man' after missing out on him at Blues and we paid at least double his value because of it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: stuart445 on December 21, 2017, 09:57:51 AM
Whes his contract up?

2019 I think

Jesus - WTF does he do all day but count money

I would imagine he hardly trains due to "injury" and I never see his name on the reserves team sheet

Do you think he ever feels guilty about taking the alleged £60K per week for another 18 months
I don't think he gives a shit.  I doubt we'll ever see him play for the first team again and he's right up there with N'Zogbia as far as I'm concerned.

N'Zogbia was way better than Richards as at least he had a couple of games where it could be described as him having a good game. Whereas Richards hasn't even had a 10 minute spell for us that could be classed as average let alone good.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mister E on December 21, 2017, 12:04:55 PM
N'Zogbia was way better than Richards as at least he had a couple of games where it could be described as him having a good game. Whereas Richards hasn't even had a 10 minute spell for us that could be classed as average let alone good.
You're comparing shite with manure - both are pretty 'orrible.
N'Zog was a fake footballer. At least Richards doesn't pretend.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on December 21, 2017, 12:16:58 PM
I think he is crocked. Bruce certainly alluded to that.

Not sure if his instagram is blocked now but he posted a picture of him watching Joe Hart play for Torino last season and a few Villa fans had a pop at him. His response was along the lines of you'd struggle to play too if you had the knees I have.

For whatever reason he obviously can't get fit and I'd imagine he'd struggle to pass a stringent medical anywhere else.

If he had any interest in playing he would go on loan. He hasn't had an interest in playing in years, remember him commissioning his own league medal one of the years he was at City.

He had a couple of laughable appearances for us last term, that cup game in RDMs time and I think Bruce's first game. Running around like a dog chasing a car.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on December 21, 2017, 02:06:56 PM
* puppy chasing a balloon
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ColinMac on December 21, 2017, 02:36:08 PM
Worth remembering that he turned down an additional £30k per week on offer from Sunderland so he could sign for Villa.
I really dont think its a case of him not being interested in playing, hes just not physically capable.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Comrade Blitz on December 21, 2017, 02:51:55 PM
Worth remembering that he turned down an additional £30k per week on offer from Sunderland so he could sign for Villa.
I really dont think its a case of him not being interested in playing, hes just not physically capable.

Then he should retire
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cheltenhamlion on December 21, 2017, 05:32:17 PM
The highest paid jester in the land.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on December 21, 2017, 09:24:27 PM
we've roped a few dopes in our time but this fella's got to rank right up there as being our worst ever signing

As mentioned above

N,Zogbia
Ivo Stas
Bosko Balaban

I am sure all clubs have them

Out of those I have a special dislike on N'Zogbia.  He had all the tools but just couldn't give a fuck.  The others were just hopeless footballers.

The amount of money we spent on N'Zogbia (fee and wages) was scandalous.  Stas is a bit harsh because of his terrible injuries, but I would add Stephen Ireland to that list. 

Stephen Ireland, Player of the Season - 2011/12 you mean? ;)

The very same one.  Only played the full 90 minutes on 11 occasions that season, so obviously fully deserved!!

Given that we didn't have a manager at the time I could never understand which eejit sanctioned the transfer. We should have simply got more cash for Milner for the new manager to spend.

McDonald was quite happy to get him on board as they'd walked together at the Republic of Ireland set up before Ireland's premature retirement.

Think we have to remember it was highly likely McDonald was going to get the job permanently before 6-0 at Newcastle happened.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Axl Rose on December 22, 2017, 05:42:48 AM
Worth remembering that he turned down an additional £30k per week on offer from Sunderland so he could sign for Villa.
I really dont think its a case of him not being interested in playing, hes just not physically capable.

Then he should retire

Absofuckinglutely.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on December 22, 2017, 06:54:08 AM
that would be like a turkey voting  for Christmas - no way is this knobhead going to voluntarily give up trousering 30k plus a week.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ColinMac on December 22, 2017, 09:51:19 AM
that would be like a turkey voting  for Christmas - no way is this knobhead going to voluntarily give up trousering 30k plus a week.

Except when he signed for the Villa instead of Sunderland?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on December 23, 2017, 05:11:08 AM
irrelevant - no one is going to five up that sort of wedge regardless of who you are playing for
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on December 23, 2017, 05:58:37 AM
There is an ancient folk legend about the Green Ray.  It is very brief instant of illumination in which the ultimate truth is revealed about that which is illuminated.  It shone on Micah Richards that day when Timmeh played him at centre back in a pre season at Forest.  He was utterly clueless.   The difference between him and flowerpot man is that at least Charlie showed occasional tiny glimpses of ability.  Richards has never even had one remotely sound game.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on December 23, 2017, 08:39:38 AM
I thought he looked pretty decent in the first few games under Sherwood but as soon as Timmy left, he seemed to lose interest. It seemed a good idea at the time.......
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on January 08, 2018, 06:09:50 PM
Insightful piece in the Meaning Evil about Micah.

Richards was included in Villa’s squad for September’s 2-0 Carabao Cup defeat to Middlesbrough and that remains supporters’ only sighting of him this term.

Club officials expect Richards, who remains one of Villa’s biggest earners, to see out the remaining 18 months of his contract with the club.

But the reality is that Bruce’s first game was probably Richards’ final game for Aston Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Axl Rose on January 08, 2018, 06:12:52 PM
Can footballers be sacked?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on January 09, 2018, 02:27:05 AM
Do we insure players these days. If so, and injuries are preventing him getting fit, can't he retire and pick up the insurance.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on January 09, 2018, 03:26:37 AM
Do we insure players these days. If so, and injuries are preventing him getting fit, can't he retire and pick up the insurance.
I wondered that, maybe he was crocked and uninsurable.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on January 09, 2018, 05:52:49 AM
Any reputable insurance company would cover themselves by the inclusion of feigned injury clauses.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on January 09, 2018, 06:31:30 AM
He said sometime ago while trying to defend himself on Twitter that his knees make it impossible for him to play. I'm not sure what he's still doing here and why we haven't had him written off on the insurance.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on January 09, 2018, 07:12:15 AM
We don't seem to do insurance claims.  Perhaps it goes back to Ellis being too much of a skinflint to pay the premiums.  Ivo Stas being the defining example.  Bought off a video complete with irreparable Achilles tendon injury.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on January 09, 2018, 07:26:03 AM
To be fair, if the insurance company paid us his fair market value at the point he got injured we'd be no better off.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on January 09, 2018, 08:25:58 AM
I thought he looked pretty decent in the first few games under Sherwood but as soon as Timmy left, he seemed to lose interest. It seemed a good idea at the time.......

In truth it was a terrible idea, Richards hadn't played consistently in years and had just bombed at a loan spell at Fiorentina. 4 year contract on huge wages, captaincy, centre half position... File along with Balaban at al. Don't buy the argument to hang on to him until end of contract or his positive influence on younger players. Should have come to a settlement with him ages ago.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on January 09, 2018, 08:29:15 AM
What we need is to be able to get out of his contract. If he had insurance it would cover this. I do wonder whether we stopped insuring players due to cost v value. Why we ever signed him in his condition. We were mugged.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on January 09, 2018, 08:44:04 AM
Sherwood moaning about the young France-based contingent on whom we've ended-up breaking even if not realising a profit while he pissed away millions on his old British reliables Lescott and Richards. Nice going, Tim.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JUAN PABLO on January 09, 2018, 09:03:59 AM
Sherwood moaning about the young France-based contingent on whom we've ended-up breaking even if not realising a profit while he pissed away millions on his old British reliables Lescott and Richards. Nice going, Tim.

he wanted adebayor as well remember
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on January 09, 2018, 09:50:25 AM
Sherwood moaning about the young France-based contingent on whom we've ended-up breaking even if not realising a profit while he pissed away millions on his old British reliables Lescott and Richards. Nice going, Tim.

he wanted adebayor as well remember

That was at least one bullet well dodged.  And thank god we didn’t have to see them saluting each other *pukes*.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave P on January 09, 2018, 09:57:07 AM
We don't seem to do insurance claims.  Perhaps it goes back to Ellis being too much of a skinflint to pay the premiums.  Ivo Stas being the defining example.  Bought off a video complete with irreparable Achilles tendon injury.

Didn't we claim on insurance against John Fashanu?  Seem to remember hearing something along those lines at the time?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on January 09, 2018, 10:10:53 AM
2 years ago today ( my Facebook timeline kindly reminded me this morning) we were at Wycombe watching Richards being confronted by our own fans. And he's still drawing a wage from us?

Wycombe, what a farce that was - a town with the slowest serving Chip Shop I've ever been to. It was a good job I was pissed and starving or I'd have walked out
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eddiemunster on January 09, 2018, 10:18:11 AM
2 years ago today ( my Facebook timeline kindly reminded me this morning) we were at Wycombe watching Richards being confronted by our own fans. And he's still drawing a wage from us?

Wycombe, what a farce that was - a town with the slowest serving Chip Shop I've ever been to. It was a good job I was pissed and starving or I'd have walked out

Do you mean the game or the chip shop??? 8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on January 09, 2018, 10:28:57 AM
I think most of us were pleased when he signed for us on a 'free' transfer, unfortunately he has turned out to be a first rate tosser!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on January 09, 2018, 03:08:49 PM
2 years ago today ( my Facebook timeline kindly reminded me this morning) we were at Wycombe watching Richards being confronted by our own fans. And he's still drawing a wage from us?

Wycombe, what a farce that was - a town with the slowest serving Chip Shop I've ever been to. It was a good job I was pissed and starving or I'd have walked out

This photo always comes to mind when that game is mentioned.

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03545/remi-garde2_3545459b.jpg)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mossie Hennebry on January 09, 2018, 03:52:47 PM
When we got relegated, I argued that the best money we could have spent was paying up both Micah's and Gabby's contracts. The counter-argument being that no business writes of assets just like that. Given time, I'm not convinced that I was wrong. I still believe that we wasted a good crisis at that time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithe on January 09, 2018, 04:05:02 PM
2 years ago today ( my Facebook timeline kindly reminded me this morning) we were at Wycombe watching Richards being confronted by our own fans. And he's still drawing a wage from us?

Wycombe, what a farce that was - a town with the slowest serving Chip Shop I've ever been to. It was a good job I was pissed and starving or I'd have walked out

We had a great day, largely down to the pub we found afterward.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on January 30, 2018, 01:40:20 PM
This waster wasn't mentioned by Bruce yesterday as being long term injured (like Kodjia), or on his way back (like Gabby, samba), so what is he doing? Today it's reported he's quite happy to see out the remaining 18months of his contract. Villa fans need to make an example of this cnut. He's quite happy to keep a low profile whilst picking up his wages. Villa fans should put him in the public eye and show him up for what he is. He's f-cking sh-t, he's f-cking sh-t, Micah Richards is f-cking sh-t!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Countryside Villain on January 30, 2018, 01:45:00 PM
I'm not sure a mass public bullying campaign is really the solution.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on January 30, 2018, 01:49:37 PM
We offered him a 4 year deal and he signed it. If we want to break the contract, we must pay the necessary damages.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Smirker on January 30, 2018, 01:55:27 PM
We offered him a 4 year deal and he signed it. If we want to break the contract, we must pay the necessary damages.

This.

I don't like it, but the club offered the deal.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ktvillan on January 30, 2018, 02:59:16 PM
An old friend of mine is/was a WBA shareholder (not sure about now, since the Chinese have taken over) and was telling me a few months ago they (Albion) have one of the best medical facilities in football and they are extremely thorough with their checks on players.  He said it's why they were quite happy to sell Fletcher to Stoke as they believed he was on his last legs, and more pertinently they knew Lescott was a goner and were more than happy to offload him to us.  Richards and Lescott indicate that our medical checks and facilities are somewhat lacking by comparison, to say the least.  I sometimes wonder if they even check for a pulse.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on January 30, 2018, 03:03:07 PM
An old friend of mine is/was a WBA shareholder (not sure about now, since the Chinese have taken over) and was telling me a few months ago they (Albion) have one of the best medical facilities in football and they are extremely thorough with their checks on players.  He said it's why they were quite happy to sell Fletcher to Stoke as they believed he was on his last legs, and more pertinently they knew Lescott was a goner and were more than happy to offload him to us.  Richards and Lescott indicate that our medical checks and facilities are somewhat lacking by comparison, to say the least.  I sometimes wonder if they even check for a pulse.

Albion supporter in 'We do it better dan da Villa' shock.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 30, 2018, 03:03:39 PM
An old friend of mine is/was a WBA shareholder (not sure about now, since the Chinese have taken over) and was telling me a few months ago they (Albion) have one of the best medical facilities in football and they are extremely thorough with their checks on players.  He said it's why they were quite happy to sell Fletcher to Stoke as they believed he was on his last legs, and more pertinently they knew Lescott was a goner and were more than happy to offload him to us.  Richards and Lescott indicate that our medical checks and facilities are somewhat lacking by comparison, to say the least.  I sometimes wonder if they even check for a pulse.

but how about all of the other players that have come into the club and have been just fine?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ktvillan on January 30, 2018, 03:15:10 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 30, 2018, 03:22:27 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.

I'll believe they have some sort of miracle system and medical department if Sturridge plays in every game the rest of the season. If not, they are like all the other clubs where most of the time players are diagnosed correctly and go on to have injury free careers and in some cases they miss things or the player gets injured and it becomes an ongoing issue.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Lsvilla on January 30, 2018, 03:28:33 PM
I saw this thread occupying all the Recent Posts and thought we’d somehow miraculously got rid - but alas no.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on January 30, 2018, 03:33:46 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.

Given that Lescott played more than thirty games for us in his first season then I can.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on January 30, 2018, 05:09:32 PM
His legs have just given up on him - happens to  all of us at some stage usually early 30's - you  suddenly just can't  run as fast as you could.

For for our subject - I would keep  him on tendering to the  pitch, collecting  rubbish and serving us the fans before and half time in the kiosks around the ground.  He needs to start earning his crust.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brentastonb6 on January 30, 2018, 05:51:41 PM
I saw this thread occupying all the Recent Posts and thought we’d somehow miraculously got rid - but alas no.
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Ditto. Extremely disappointed but not surprised .At least Tommy Elphick wants to try and earn his salary.
Richards stinks our club out, please just fuck him off out the place .
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on January 30, 2018, 08:16:02 PM
We offered him a 4 year deal and he signed it.

Persumably that contract did actually specify that he had to occasionally play the odd bit of football for us as well!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on January 30, 2018, 08:21:36 PM
Before we get carried away with the Boggies being able to spot a dud let's remember they signed Rondon.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 30, 2018, 08:29:15 PM
Before we get carried away with the Boggies being able to spot a dud let's remember they signed Rondon.

And the bag of shite that went before him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy65 on January 30, 2018, 10:10:06 PM
An old friend of mine is/was a WBA shareholder (not sure about now, since the Chinese have taken over) and was telling me a few months ago they (Albion) have one of the best medical facilities in football and they are extremely thorough with their checks on players.  He said it's why they were quite happy to sell Fletcher to Stoke as they believed he was on his last legs, and more pertinently they knew Lescott was a goner and were more than happy to offload him to us.  Richards and Lescott indicate that our medical checks and facilities are somewhat lacking by comparison, to say the least.  I sometimes wonder if they even check for a pulse.

Suspect Richards problems are his attitude not his fitness. Seem to recall him looking fit enough when he first arrived. It was after Sherwood left that he gave up
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on January 30, 2018, 10:44:26 PM
I personally don't think Richards would pass a medical anywhere else, that's why he's still here as even the worst players can find new clubs e.g. Sunderland signing many of them.

He knows it, we know it and that's why he's seemingly being airbrushed out of things.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: olaftab on January 30, 2018, 10:46:57 PM
Before we get carried away with the Boggies being able to spot a dud let's remember they signed Rondon.

And the bag of shite that went before him.
I can only think of such greats as Lambert and Robson Kanu.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy65 on January 30, 2018, 10:48:13 PM
I personally don't think Richards would pass a medical anywhere else, that's why he's still here as even the worst players can find new clubs e.g. Sunderland signing many of them.

He knows it, we know it and that's why he's seemingly being airbrushed out of things.

I think his attitude would put most off plus his wages. He is happy just rotting away but being paid handsomely.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villa in Denmark on January 31, 2018, 11:43:23 AM
Before we get carried away with the Boggies being able to spot a dud let's remember they signed Rondon.

And the bag of shite that went before him.
I can only  think of such greats as Lambert and Robson Kanu.

Brown Ideye (Or Bad Idea as I think he was dubbed)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheTimVilla on January 31, 2018, 12:03:21 PM
I personally don't think Richards would pass a medical anywhere else, that's why he's still here as even the worst players can find new clubs e.g. Sunderland signing many of them.

He knows it, we know it and that's why he's seemingly being airbrushed out of things.

So he needs to retire and we can claim the money back? If not, then just pay him off. Under any other circumstances, I would be against that, as he would then be free to join another club and potentially do well. Not going to happen with him though, is it?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on January 31, 2018, 12:52:56 PM
Just wish some journo would ask Bruce about Micah to get some clarification!
It seems like the one (two with McCormack)  topic that nobody can mention!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on January 31, 2018, 01:42:41 PM
I guess 50k a week ameliorates a lot of what might have beens, but for his sake, I hope he's got a good accountant as the gravy train is slowly running out of track.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Canadian Villa on February 01, 2018, 07:21:45 PM
I personally don't think Richards would pass a medical anywhere else, that's why he's still here as even the worst players can find new clubs e.g. Sunderland signing many of them.

He knows it, we know it and that's why he's seemingly being airbrushed out of things.

So he needs to retire and we can claim the money back? If not, then just pay him off. Under any other circumstances, I would be against that, as he would then be free to join another club and potentially do well. Not going to happen with him though, is it?

He likely is entitled to the money for the rest of the contract and it wouldn't make sense to pay up all of that. The other option would be to pay a portion of the remainder and his new club pay him whatever and we release him. But there needs to be a club that wants him and will pay the balance. Otherwise he isn't going anywhere
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: clash city rocker on February 01, 2018, 07:28:43 PM
Does he train with the first team squad ?,
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: West Derby Villan on February 01, 2018, 07:32:10 PM
Does he train with the first team squad ?,

Looking at him, does he train with any squad ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on February 01, 2018, 07:57:11 PM
Before we get carried away with the Boggies being able to spot a dud let's remember they signed Rondon.

Brown Ideye was much worse.

Remember that sitter he missed in the cup?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on February 01, 2018, 07:58:06 PM
Just wish some journo would ask Bruce about Micah to get some clarification!
It seems like the one (two with McCormack)  topic that nobody can mention!

He was asked about Richards last season and actually said he'd be in the team if he could ever get fit!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on February 01, 2018, 08:43:02 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.

Given that Lescott played more than thirty games for us in his first season then I can.

I could have told you Lescott was gone on the evidence of the games we played against them the season before at Villa Park.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Karl Bridges on February 14, 2018, 10:49:20 AM
If Micah is in denial that his days as a pro are over then we need to give him a dose of reality and start rinsing the bejesus out of him. Play him in every game outside of the first team. U23s, friendlies everything until he's so broken the only option is to retire. He's banked over £10m for 26 games of which he's probably only finished 5/6. Otherwise it's another £2m+ paid out next season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brentastonb6 on February 14, 2018, 08:23:38 PM
If Micah is in denial that his days as a pro are over then we need to give him a dose of reality and start rinsing the bejesus out of him. Play him in every game outside of the first team. U23s, friendlies everything until he's so broken the only option is to retire. He's banked over £10m for 26 games of which he's probably only finished 5/6. Otherwise it's another £2m+ paid out next season.

I like the sentiment Karl unfortunately I think if you put him on any pitch in any shirt you couldn’t physically make him move around , tackle or anything else so he’d just drag that team down too the toss pot .
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on February 14, 2018, 08:28:08 PM
Just wish some journo would ask Bruce about Micah to get some clarification!
It seems like the one (two with McCormack)  topic that nobody can mention!

He was asked about Richards last season and actually said he'd be in the team if he could ever get fit!
I took that to mean he is seriously crocked, surprised he has not retired.
My bet is that he was uninsurable when we bought him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on February 14, 2018, 08:37:00 PM
I ageee about uninsurable when bought   Clubs should never take risks like that these days

As for the greedy git I would have him glass collecting in the social on match days plus he could help out selling them 50/50 tickets at half time
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheTimVilla on February 14, 2018, 08:44:44 PM
If Micah is in denial that his days as a pro are over then we need to give him a dose of reality and start rinsing the bejesus out of him. Play him in every game outside of the first team. U23s, friendlies everything until he's so broken the only option is to retire. He's banked over £10m for 26 games of which he's probably only finished 5/6. Otherwise it's another £2m+ paid out next season.

He would just say he was injured.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave P on February 14, 2018, 08:56:54 PM
As for the greedy git I would have him glass collecting in the social on match days plus he could help out selling them 50/50 tickets at half time

And take the job away from somebody who may need it?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Canadian Villa on February 14, 2018, 09:50:24 PM
Has he played in any reserve or under 23 games recently? or this season? When was his last game?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on February 14, 2018, 09:59:50 PM
We seem to be paying for him being a vanity signing of Tim Sherwood's. Presumably Micah passes over Tim 10% every month.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gareth on February 14, 2018, 10:00:24 PM
If Micah is in denial that his days as a pro are over then we need to give him a dose of reality and start rinsing the bejesus out of him. Play him in every game outside of the first team. U23s, friendlies everything until he's so broken the only option is to retire. He's banked over £10m for 26 games of which he's probably only finished 5/6. Otherwise it's another £2m+ paid out next season.

I think the whole point was if his contract was paid off it would have shown as a lump sum against FFP but continuing to pay him monthly that 3m or whatever it is is not one big hit.  I would suspect that if we get promoted he will be paid off fairly quickly.

He was given that contract by idiots and there is no way that he is going to walk away without his cash.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cheltenhamlion on February 15, 2018, 05:31:40 PM
We knew Richards knees were fucked when we signed him. Unfortunately, he was foisted upon Sherwood. Not. He moaned like fuck about wanting him for his experience and in the end the board gave in.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villatillidie25 on February 15, 2018, 08:21:01 PM
Just to throw it out there. Is he the worst signing we’ve ever made? Got him on a free but for big wages and with the context of relegation, his lack of knees and general inability to play football, he’s got to be up there?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brentastonb6 on February 15, 2018, 08:46:57 PM
Just to throw it out there. Is he the worst signing we’ve ever made? Got him on a free but for big wages and with the context of relegation, his lack of knees and general inability to play football, he’s got to be up there?
Yep, at least Charles N’Zogbia scored the occasional goal for us as did Gabby.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on February 15, 2018, 08:58:16 PM
Bosco esqe? Terrible signing particularly in light of the current finances. Him and Agbonlahor are raping the club of money.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: OCD on February 15, 2018, 11:13:41 PM
Looks like we've got him for another year unless we pay off his contract. 2 more years of McCormack and 4 more months of Gabby.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on February 16, 2018, 08:10:17 AM
Every time this thread is resurrected, I keep thinking that some miracle has happened and we've got rid of this clown. Hard to believe just a couple of short seasons ago, him and Lescott were in the "heart" of our defence .
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nigel on February 16, 2018, 08:14:39 AM
Was talking about Gabby the other day, and was told the amount of work he does behind the scenes (promoting the club and visits like the Acorns) is massive.
I think he'll stay on in a similar roll as Ian Taylor as an ambassador of the club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villatillidie25 on February 16, 2018, 08:23:47 AM
here was me thinking he was as much use as a chocolate tea pot!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on February 16, 2018, 08:58:05 AM
A total fucking leech.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oldtimernow on February 16, 2018, 09:02:55 AM
Was talking about Gabby the other day, and was told the amount of work he does behind the scenes (promoting the club and visits like the Acorns) is massive.
I think he'll stay on in a similar roll as Ian Taylor as an ambassador of the club.


I think that someone who can string a coherent sentence is more likely to be an appropriate ambassador?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on February 16, 2018, 11:33:14 AM
Was talking about Gabby the other day, and was told the amount of work he does behind the scenes (promoting the club and visits like the Acorns) is massive.
I think he'll stay on in a similar roll as Ian Taylor as an ambassador of the club.

It doesn't surprise me. Didn't he give Acorns £200,000 a couple of years back? He's been the Club's Acorn Ambassador for 7 or 8 years now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on February 16, 2018, 12:39:30 PM
Was talking about Gabby the other day, and was told the amount of work he does behind the scenes (promoting the club and visits like the Acorns) is massive.
I think he'll stay on in a similar roll as Ian Taylor as an ambassador of the club.


I think that someone who can string a coherent sentence is more likely to be an appropriate ambassador?

Was thinking the same myself
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on February 16, 2018, 12:43:40 PM
I am sure you can see Micah of the training video that was released this week.
He is obviously still involved in training with the squad, unless he was there just to collect bibs and balls.   
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on February 16, 2018, 12:50:50 PM
Was talking about Gabby the other day, and was told the amount of work he does behind the scenes (promoting the club and visits like the Acorns) is massive.
I think he'll stay on in a similar roll as Ian Taylor as an ambassador of the club.


That's good. Nice that he does something to justify the £60k or whatever it is he trousers every week.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ktvillan on February 16, 2018, 03:10:26 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.

Given that Lescott played more than thirty games for us in his first season then I can.

Depends on what you mean by "played".  Sure he showed up but he played like a lummox.  Do you really think he looked even half the player he'd been at Everton or City, or even as effective as when at Albion for that matter?   
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Damo70 on February 16, 2018, 03:27:45 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.

Given that Lescott played more than thirty games for us in his first season then I can.

Depends on what you mean by "played".  Sure he showed up but he played like a lummox.  Do you really think he looked even half the player he'd been at Everton or City, or even as effective as when at Albion for that matter?

I thought he was a good signing when Albion got him but his performances for them proved me wrong. Then we went and bought him when for me he had clearly shown with them that he was past his best.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villa `cross the mersey on February 23, 2018, 08:39:27 PM
We knew Richards knees were fucked when we signed him. Unfortunately, he was foisted upon Sherwood. Not. He moaned like fuck about wanting him for his experience and in the end the board gave in.
if this is true it goes someway to supporting my opinion that signing Richards was at best a flawed decision and one of the worst signings ( with the benefit of hindsight) I can recall in the past decade
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on February 23, 2018, 09:37:21 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.

Given that Lescott played more than thirty games for us in his first season then I can.

Depends on what you mean by "played".  Sure he showed up but he played like a lummox.  Do you really think he looked even half the player he'd been at Everton or City, or even as effective as when at Albion for that matter?   

Was he not their player of the season?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy65 on February 24, 2018, 04:24:05 PM
Was talking about Gabby the other day, and was told the amount of work he does behind the scenes (promoting the club and visits like the Acorns) is massive.
I think he'll stay on in a similar roll as Ian Taylor as an ambassador of the club.

Doubt that
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nigel on February 24, 2018, 04:52:07 PM
Was talking about Gabby the other day, and was told the amount of work he does behind the scenes (promoting the club and visits like the Acorns) is massive.
I think he'll stay on in a similar roll as Ian Taylor as an ambassador of the club.

Doubt that

Why?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tayls_7 on February 24, 2018, 05:06:18 PM
Was talking about Gabby the other day, and was told the amount of work he does behind the scenes (promoting the club and visits like the Acorns) is massive.
I think he'll stay on in a similar roll as Ian Taylor as an ambassador of the club.

Doubt that

Why?

It's fairly simple Nige. Taylor gave 100% for the club he loves. I could go on but is there any need? If you are under 12 I'll understand.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tom_Mc9? on February 24, 2018, 05:26:22 PM
I was speaking to another fan in the Holte Suite after the Blues game and he was of the opinion that Gabby would never leave Villa. He'll always have some role. As depressing as the thought is, I'm tempted to agree.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on February 24, 2018, 06:56:27 PM
His contract runs out in the summer and he isn't getting a new one so he's just going to retire and get a job behind the scenes?! I don't think so.

I don't think the owner is a big fan of him so think the club ambassador role won't be happening.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on February 24, 2018, 07:19:43 PM
If he does leave it will be quite interesting to see where he ends up and what kind of clubs show an interest.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: supertom on February 24, 2018, 07:35:43 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.

Given that Lescott played more than thirty games for us in his first season then I can.

Depends on what you mean by "played".  Sure he showed up but he played like a lummox.  Do you really think he looked even half the player he'd been at Everton or City, or even as effective as when at Albion for that matter?   

Was he not their player of the season?
He was but sort of in the same way that Stephen Ireland was our player of the season under McLeish. Any time I saw Lescott for West Brom he looked past it and pretty dreadful. Their fans would probably largely agree. For us he was even worse still. We've had some absolute doozies in the worst signings ever categories. Lescott could easily make a 'shockers 18' if you had to name a team and subs of dreadful signings we've made in the Prem.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Canadian Villa on February 28, 2018, 08:32:10 PM
Gabby will try to stay, and we'll likely wheel him out now and again, but as an Ambassador? No chance. Do you really think that just because he played for us all of his career that he is suited for an ambassador role? They are very different roles that require different qualities. Gabby doesn't have either these days
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LeeB on February 28, 2018, 08:54:10 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.

Given that Lescott played more than thirty games for us in his first season then I can.

Depends on what you mean by "played".  Sure he showed up but he played like a lummox.  Do you really think he looked even half the player he'd been at Everton or City, or even as effective as when at Albion for that matter?   

Was he not their player of the season?
He was but sort of in the same way that Stephen Ireland was our player of the season under McLeish. Any time I saw Lescott for West Brom he looked past it and pretty dreadful. Their fans would probably largely agree. For us he was even worse still. We've had some absolute doozies in the worst signings ever categories. Lescott could easily make a 'shockers 18' if you had to name a team and subs of dreadful signings we've made in the Prem.


To be fair, outside of his ignorance and unprofessional behaviour, I actually remember him being one of our 'better' performers, admittedly that being something of a tallest dwarf award.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Damo70 on February 28, 2018, 09:41:06 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.

Given that Lescott played more than thirty games for us in his first season then I can.

Depends on what you mean by "played".  Sure he showed up but he played like a lummox.  Do you really think he looked even half the player he'd been at Everton or City, or even as effective as when at Albion for that matter?   

Was he not their player of the season?
He was but sort of in the same way that Stephen Ireland was our player of the season under McLeish. Any time I saw Lescott for West Brom he looked past it and pretty dreadful. Their fans would probably largely agree. For us he was even worse still. We've had some absolute doozies in the worst signings ever categories. Lescott could easily make a 'shockers 18' if you had to name a team and subs of dreadful signings we've made in the Prem.


I always thought the worst deal Villa ever did was to not offer Ken McNaught an acceptable contract offer and laeting him go to Albion for £125,000. When Brendan Ormsby didn't cut it as a replacement we spent twice as much as we got for McNaught on Brighton's Steve Foster. Then after playing about a dozen games for us Foster was flogged to Luton for less than half of what we paid for him. This wonderful period of business for the club was topped off with us replacing Foster by spending five or six times the money Luton had paid us for him to buy Paul Elliott, the bloke who was at that point being kept out of the Luton side by Foster!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on February 28, 2018, 11:57:41 PM
Most players are fine, but you should be able to spot the duds.  And Dave, he's not like that, and anyway you cant really deny he's right about Lescott.

Given that Lescott played more than thirty games for us in his first season then I can.

Depends on what you mean by "played".  Sure he showed up but he played like a lummox.  Do you really think he looked even half the player he'd been at Everton or City, or even as effective as when at Albion for that matter?   

Was he not their player of the season?
He was but sort of in the same way that Stephen Ireland was our player of the season under McLeish. Any time I saw Lescott for West Brom he looked past it and pretty dreadful. Their fans would probably largely agree. For us he was even worse still. We've had some absolute doozies in the worst signings ever categories. Lescott could easily make a 'shockers 18' if you had to name a team and subs of dreadful signings we've made in the Prem.

He was utterly abysmal in that cup tie at Villa Park under Sherwood. Stuck to the ground and looked completely finished.

We signed Nicky Shorey a few months after Ashley Young destroyed him.

We signed Stephen Warnock a few months after James Milner destroyed him.

Strange signings all
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: KevinGage on March 01, 2018, 12:13:02 AM
The day I see Micah Richards GONE or Micah Richards GLUE atop this thread will be a joyous day indeed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on March 01, 2018, 02:30:36 AM
According to an article on Richards in the Daily Mail, Di Matteo blocked a loan move to West Ham. He’s “celebrating” 500 days without a game.

Fucking Waster article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5446945/Aston-Villa-defender-Richards-500-days-without-game.html)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 01, 2018, 02:49:24 AM
I don't want him in the squad and it will be a good day when he leaves the club, but assuming that article is true it's a tad harsh to call him a waster if he's fit enough to play but isn't being picked.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on March 01, 2018, 03:21:51 AM
I don't want him in the squad and it will be a good day when he leaves the club, but assuming that article is true it's a tad harsh to call him a waster if he's fit enough to play but isn't being picked.

That’s only if you believe the article represents everything about him and his time at the club. I find it hard to believe given how many injuries we have that he would still be disregarded entirely. I do not believe all this, he’s the club joker so we keep him around stuff. He’s on £35k a week. That’s a lot of money to pay someone to keep smiles on faces. Winning does that and creates a positive environment and it appears he’s not worthy of being a part of the winning that is taking place.

Look, I was happy when we got him because I genuinely believed he would somehow rediscover the form he had at Man City. Especially given his age and time in front of him. But the game isn’t important enough to him. It’s a crying shame because at one point he was going to something special in the game. And while he’s had injuries, and the club have been enablers in how they used him and rewarded him as they did with Gabby, for the most part he’s only got himself to blame.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 01, 2018, 03:54:13 AM
If Bruce doesn't want him in the team then it's no different to the bomb squad. And I agree with Bruce over not wanting to play him as I haven't seen anything in his appearances for us that suggests he offers anything on the pitch. But I don't see how not wanting to pick a player makes the player a waster as there's sod all Richards can do apart from turn up to training and see the manager, which is apparently what he does.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheTimVilla on March 01, 2018, 08:33:24 AM
And his salary doubles if we go up! Fuuuuuuuuuck!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on March 01, 2018, 08:53:12 AM
I don't want him in the squad and it will be a good day when he leaves the club, but assuming that article is true it's a tad harsh to call him a waster if he's fit enough to play but isn't being picked.

Agreed.

Amazing to think fifty-one players have played for us since his last appearance. Barry Fry would be proud of that number!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on March 01, 2018, 08:54:17 AM
I don't want him in the squad and it will be a good day when he leaves the club, but assuming that article is true it's a tad harsh to call him a waster if he's fit enough to play but isn't being picked.

That’s only if you believe the article represents everything about him and his time at the club. I find it hard to believe given how many injuries we have that he would still be disregarded entirely. I do not believe all this, he’s the club joker so we keep him around stuff. He’s on £35k a week. That’s a lot of money to pay someone to keep smiles on faces. Winning does that and creates a positive environment and it appears he’s not worthy of being a part of the winning that is taking place.

Look, I was happy when we got him because I genuinely believed he would somehow rediscover the form he had at Man City. Especially given his age and time in front of him. But the game isn’t important enough to him. It’s a crying shame because at one point he was going to something special in the game. And while he’s had injuries, and the club have been enablers in how they used him and rewarded him as they did with Gabby, for the most part he’s only got himself to blame.

Maybe we need to kit him out with one of those pointy hats with bells on (claret and blue of course) and a stick with a balloon on the end.
He can then skip around the training ground singing ‘hey nonny nonny’ while telling jokes and playing little tricks on the players, like shouting boo! when they come out of the showers, or putting ice from the ice bath down their backs.

That’s got to be worth £35k of  anyone’s money.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: AsTallAsLions on March 01, 2018, 09:43:40 AM
According to an article on Richards in the Daily Mail, Di Matteo blocked a loan move to West Ham. He’s “celebrating” 500 days without a game.

Fucking Waster article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5446945/Aston-Villa-defender-Richards-500-days-without-game.html)


Fuck. Sake.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on March 01, 2018, 09:58:55 AM
Why didn't he go out on loan in January then, if he is fit?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on March 01, 2018, 10:06:35 AM
Why didn't he go out on loan in January then, if he is fit?

he's good for players moral around the dressing room

he's like the clown you bring in for a children's party to make them laugh and feel happy about themselves, just gets payed a tad more
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on March 01, 2018, 10:35:18 AM
Why didn't he go out on loan in January then, if he is fit?

Or the window before that....or the window before that

Micah Richards gave up the game mentally years ago. He played 19 league games in the three seasons before he signed for us, which should have sent alarm bells ringing loud and clear...
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on March 01, 2018, 10:57:25 AM
He must seriously be our worst signing ever, or getting very close to it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on March 01, 2018, 11:00:36 AM
He must seriously be our worst signing ever, or getting very close to it.

I think McCormack is going to run him very close (is he still on his break from football)?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on March 01, 2018, 11:03:48 AM
Long standing meniscus issue with his right knee (so would struggle to pass a medical at another club).

SB thinks he'd break down as soon as he'd play him so dosen't.

Pretty much the crux of it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on March 01, 2018, 11:24:06 AM
Long standing meniscus issue with his right knee (so would struggle to pass a medical at another club).

SB thinks he'd break down as soon as he'd play him so dosen't.

Pretty much the crux of it.

Why don't we just pay him off then or claim on the insurance, it doesn't make any sense?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on March 01, 2018, 12:11:43 PM
Long standing meniscus issue with his right knee (so would struggle to pass a medical at another club).

SB thinks he'd break down as soon as he'd play him so dosen't.

Pretty much the crux of it.

Why don't we just pay him off then or claim on the insurance, it doesn't make any sense?
then there is the assumption that this is insured, if we knew this was known when we signed him then I doubt it is covered.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on March 01, 2018, 12:13:25 PM
Long standing meniscus issue with his right knee (so would struggle to pass a medical at another club).

SB thinks he'd break down as soon as he'd play him so dosen't.

Pretty much the crux of it.

Why don't we just pay him off then or claim on the insurance, it doesn't make any sense?
then there is the assumption that this is insured, if we knew this was known when we signed him then I doubt it is covered.


You can't sign a player without insurance.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Hookeysmith on March 01, 2018, 01:26:15 PM
I doubt very much that his agent would allow his "asset" to be insured off as that would seriously hamper any opportunity to find another mug to take him

McGrath he aint
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gareth on March 01, 2018, 02:15:12 PM
Long standing meniscus issue with his right knee (so would struggle to pass a medical at another club).

SB thinks he'd break down as soon as he'd play him so dosen't.

Pretty much the crux of it.

Why don't we just pay him off then or claim on the insurance, it doesn't make any sense?

To claim on insurance the player has to accept his professional career is over is the long and short of it (see P.McGrath esq!) he’ll still only be 30/31 when his contract ends & if he still thinks he can play he maybe has 5/6 years playing.

As for paying him off if the 35k a week is accurate it would still cost between 2-2.5m to do it now....would have been 4m+ last summer which was more than we spent on fees in that window & would have added to ffp nightmare as a one off cost
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Comrade Blitz on March 01, 2018, 04:13:03 PM
If his professionalism is so admirable why doesn't he take a pay cut so that he can move to another club?

Or just stop living in the past/in denial and retire. ******.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on March 01, 2018, 04:28:04 PM
He feels he can still play. Why would he retire?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on March 01, 2018, 05:40:24 PM
Long standing meniscus issue with his right knee (so would struggle to pass a medical at another club).

SB thinks he'd break down as soon as he'd play him so dosen't.

Pretty much the crux of it.

Why don't we just pay him off then or claim on the insurance, it doesn't make any sense?
then there is the assumption that this is insured, if we knew this was known when we signed him then I doubt it is covered.


You can't sign a player without insurance.

True, but surely the insurance company can exclude known problems from the list of things they’d pay out on. I’ve got issues with my back, so my income protection insurance won’t pay out if I’m off work with a bad back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dicedlam on March 01, 2018, 06:04:19 PM
Long standing meniscus issue with his right knee (so would struggle to pass a medical at another club).

SB thinks he'd break down as soon as he'd play him so dosen't.

Pretty much the crux of it.

Why don't we just pay him off then or claim on the insurance, it doesn't make any sense?

To claim on insurance the player has to accept his professional career is over is the long and short of it (see P.McGrath esq!) he’ll still only be 30/31 when his contract ends & if he still thinks he can play he maybe has 5/6 years playing.

As for paying him off if the 35k a week is accurate it would still cost between 2-2.5m to do it now....would have been 4m+ last summer which was more than we spent on fees in that window & would have added to ffp nightmare as a one off cost

So we insure him and he gets to decide whether we make a claim for him being crocked. Surely it is the club who would come to that decision?

Also, I reckon we should drop down a couple of more divisions, then we might only have to pay him fifty bob a week!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on March 01, 2018, 06:20:53 PM
I think it will be the case we'll get to six months left and both parties will mutually consent the deal. Think we did that with Habib Beye.

Might even happen in the summer if we have premier league income again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 01, 2018, 06:30:45 PM
Threads like this always show how blinkered we as fans are. Player we don't want doesn't leave and take a pay cut when we want them to, unprofessional ******. Player we like and want says he wants to leave, ungrateful ******.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: KevinGage on March 01, 2018, 09:06:14 PM
Seeing as Snodgrass looks like the new Minister for Mirth and Merriment there is even less reason to keep this clown around.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Canadian Villa on March 01, 2018, 09:51:23 PM
Would you take a pay cut and leave your current work?? No, so let's get off that topic.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Damo70 on March 01, 2018, 10:10:29 PM
I think the way it works is that if he quits playing we pay up his contract and claim it back on the insurance. I also think that if he comes out of retirement to play again his new club has to pay back the insurance payout. I'm sure I can recall examples in the past but the specific names of the players escape me. I think Gary Waddock was one and he retired with injury from QPR, got back to fitness in non league and then signed for Millwall who had to pay money to the insurers.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Lastfootstamper on March 01, 2018, 10:33:19 PM
I think it happened with Ian Olney. He was playing for Kidderminster when they did/didn't get promoted to the league, but he couldn't have played for them at that level cos of his payout.

Well, so said my mate who worked with him at an insurance company back when.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on March 02, 2018, 09:17:20 PM
Can someone ask what the hell is happening with Micah Richards at the next fan representation meeting (or whatever it is called), please?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on March 02, 2018, 09:43:01 PM
They won't discuss playing matters. Nor should they.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sickbeggar on March 02, 2018, 09:55:45 PM
I'm not sure asking about Richards qualifies as discussing playing matters. ::)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sickbeggar on March 02, 2018, 10:07:36 PM
Threads like this always show how blinkered we as fans are. Player we don't want doesn't leave and take a pay cut when we want them to, unprofessional c***. Player we like and want says he wants to leave, ungrateful c***.

mebbe, the club (fools that they were) offered him a contract - our fault all told, BUT what do you get out of it coming into work when you're not ill, but just incapable of doing the job? the Money i guess but i'd feel a bit of a sham doing it. Walking around doing nothing.........just a mascot all told. i'd get him coaching the youth if he's not doing it already because it's about self respect isn't it? If he's not going to take a pay-off most of us could never dream of because he wants to top up his pension fund then fine, but do something, anything.......
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Harte on March 02, 2018, 10:45:05 PM
They won't discuss playing matters. Nor should they.
Recent evidence suggests this is a non-playing matter. ;)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on March 03, 2018, 12:21:37 AM
He can't move to another club if none have been in for him. He can't take a pay off if we don't offer him one. We may not have made an offer due to FFP for all we know. And if even we do he may not accept it as it could affect his chances of finding a new club and ultimately i doubt many of us would write off a shit load of money we don't have to even if we were loaded. I want him gone from the club as much as anyone but I don't blame him for still being with us. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on March 03, 2018, 11:10:44 AM
all very well but Bruce has said he won't play him because he isn't fit enough - in which case why can't we sack the sack him off and claim on the insurance?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nigel on March 04, 2018, 03:31:32 PM
Micah Richards salary, £35,000 per week, could double if Aston Villa are promoted back to the Premier League. [birmigham mail] #avfc
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SteveN on March 04, 2018, 03:41:11 PM
all very well but Bruce has said he won't play him because he isn't fit enough - in which case why can't we sack the sack him off and claim on the insurance?
Isn't fit because he's overweight, lazy and won't put in the effort?  Or isn't fit because he has knackered knee/s?  Do we know or have I just missed it?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on March 04, 2018, 04:38:44 PM
remember the other fat lazy fucker we had called Richard Dunne

spent a whole season injured picking up his masive ??k per week then the minute his contract ran out he was running around for QPR

wankers the lot of em
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: London Villan on March 04, 2018, 04:44:17 PM
I remember bumping into dunne, collins and another one whose name escapes me now, tucking into a serving of profiteroles in malmaison the night before a game. Finely tuned athletes...

We have had some terrible dealings with man city over the last few years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sickbeggar on March 04, 2018, 04:46:01 PM
Micah Richards salary, £35,000 per week, could double if Aston Villa are promoted back to the Premier League. [birmigham mail] #avfc


Heheheh. The mystery why he's still here is solved. If i was Richards and had that much money riding on promotion i'd be spending all my time in the dressing room absent mindedly stroking the point of a large blade while fixing certain players with a 1000yard stare, muttering "£35,000 a week" under my breath. Gotta be worth an extra man on the pitch motivation wise
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on March 04, 2018, 06:55:01 PM
Sherwood and his fucking penchant for British bulldogs, a crocked defensive pair of this clown and Lescott. The much-maligned Ligue Une players (chosen by Paddy thingy) were actually his good signings.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on March 04, 2018, 07:35:57 PM
all very well but Bruce has said he won't play him because he isn't fit enough - in which case why can't we sack the sack him off and claim on the insurance?
Isn't fit because he's overweight, lazy and won't put in the effort?  Or isn't fit because he has knackered knee/s?  Do we know or have I just missed it?

He has knackered knees because he's overweight and lazy because he has knackered knees because he's overweight and lazy etc
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on March 04, 2018, 08:54:36 PM
remember the other fat lazy fucker we had called Richard Dunne

spent a whole season injured picking up his masive ??k per week then the minute his contract ran out he was running around for QPR

wankers the lot of em

There was another season he got picked in the premier league team of the year playing for us...
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on March 05, 2018, 12:21:29 PM
remember the other fat lazy fucker we had called Richard Dunne

spent a whole season injured picking up his masive ??k per week then the minute his contract ran out he was running around for QPR

wankers the lot of em

There was another season he got picked in the premier league team of the year playing for us...

And the last one he took the piss out the club, the fat waste of skin.

I shattered my shoulder into 3 pieces. It didn't keep me out for 9 months, the massive fucking fanny.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on March 05, 2018, 06:11:24 PM
I’m tempted to put this on Micah’s twitter:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43293449

That’s what a proper captain looks like.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on March 05, 2018, 11:37:05 PM
It’s just so tough when you lose someone close very suddenly. It’s happened to me and you miss the most banal stuff. That’s a very touching piece.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on March 06, 2018, 12:04:12 AM
I’m tempted to put this on Micah’s twitter:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43293449

That’s what a proper captain looks like.

Irony is Davide Astori managed to miss out on meeting Micah Richards at Fiorentina by two months though I'm sure he heard all about him.

Really sad news about Davide Astori though. Sounded like both a great player, captain and man.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on March 06, 2018, 12:13:36 AM
I thought of Stan Petrov when I read that. It's what players would say about him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: KevinGage on March 06, 2018, 12:30:33 AM
remember the other fat lazy fucker we had called Richard Dunne

spent a whole season injured picking up his masive ??k per week then the minute his contract ran out he was running around for QPR

wankers the lot of em

There was another season he got picked in the premier league team of the year playing for us...

That's been our problem for as long as I can remember.

A player can have one decent season for us and dine out on it for 3-4 years.

In the case of Dunne, he looked like he was dining out on it every day for 3-4 years.

It's not even out-and-out pisstakers like him.  We probably kept JPA for two seasons too long and Dion Dublin well past the point of effectiveness. Though in the latter's case that is partly understandable after Sheff Wed in 1999.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on March 06, 2018, 12:58:15 AM
I’m tempted to put this on Micah’s twitter:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43293449

That’s what a proper captain looks like.

Beautifully done.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on March 06, 2018, 11:57:06 AM
Dunney was great in 09/10. We barely missed Laursen that year.

Him and Collins lost interest when MON left though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Damo70 on March 06, 2018, 12:00:45 PM
Dunney was great in 09/10. We barely missed Laursen that year.

Him and Collins lost interest when MON left though.


Am I right in saying Dunne, Collins and Warnock all made their debuts at the sty after signing on deadline day? There was one fantastic moment when we were under the cosh, Small Heath had a shot and all three of them threw themselves in the way to block it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Comrade Blitz on March 06, 2018, 12:03:23 PM
Would you take a pay cut and leave your current work?? No, so let's get off that topic.

I quit a job that I hated and found one that I loved - my pay dropped by about 7K.


If Richards hates sitting on the bench and not playing HE should do something about it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on March 06, 2018, 12:03:32 PM
Probably the best back 4 as a unit I've seen play for us since the mid 90s.

We must've kept 20 + clean sheets that season. This was with a 4-4-2 system with two touchline hugging wingers remember.

Milner was very important in this of course.

Edit: in 07/08 we had likes of Mellberg, Laursen and Bouma at the back but due to our open style still conceded 50 + goals.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on March 06, 2018, 12:08:51 PM
Probably the best back 4 as a unit I've seen play for us since the mid 90s.

We must've kept 20 + clean sheets that season. This was with a 4-4-2 system with two touchline hugging wingers remember.

Milner was very important in this of course.

Edit: in 07/08 we had likes of Mellberg, Laursen and Bouma at the back but due to our open style still conceded 50 + goals.

But scored 72!

It has taken 10 years and will be an extra 8 games to surpass that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Jameson on March 06, 2018, 12:09:03 PM
I’m tempted to put this on Micah’s twitter:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43293449

That’s what a proper captain looks like.

That's very moving. Evidently the club are honouring the four year contract he was due to sign and paying his wages directly to his family.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Axl Rose on March 06, 2018, 12:09:38 PM
I’m tempted to put this on Micah’s twitter:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43293449

That’s what a proper captain looks like.

Beautifully done.

That is lovely. Very emotional.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on March 06, 2018, 12:11:29 PM
Probably the best back 4 as a unit I've seen play for us since the mid 90s.

We must've kept 20 + clean sheets that season. This was with a 4-4-2 system with two touchline hugging wingers remember.

Milner was very important in this of course.

Edit: in 07/08 we had likes of Mellberg, Laursen and Bouma at the back but due to our open style still conceded 50 + goals.

But scored 72!

It has taken 10 years and will be an extra 8 games to surpass that.

It was a very fun season, so many classics in there particularly away from home. 4-4s at Chelsea and Spurs and the 5-1 of course.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on March 06, 2018, 12:11:35 PM
I’m tempted to put this on Micah’s twitter:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43293449

That’s what a proper captain looks like.

That's very moving. Evidently the club are honouring the four year contract he was due to sign and paying his wages directly to his family.

A hoax, apparently.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on March 06, 2018, 12:14:39 PM
The run of 4-0 against Bolton, 6-0 against Derby and 5-1 against the Noses was great.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on March 06, 2018, 06:41:42 PM
Dunney was great in 09/10. We barely missed Laursen that year.

Him and Collins lost interest when MON left though.

Correct, Dunne came back the size of a whale after that pre-season MON walked out during. Recall him being very solid under McLeish, and even Gary Mac, until injury intervened. Was never the same player again for club and country. Don't recall him playing much for Ireland post the Euro 2012 disaster.

Lambert made a very poor call effectively replacing Collins with "concrete" Ron. Suffice to say all at their worst were still miles better than Micah Richards in a Villa shirt.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on March 07, 2018, 08:58:14 AM
Did Ron ever recover after he left us?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on March 07, 2018, 09:03:34 AM
Micah is a turd wrapped in a shite.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eddiemunster on March 07, 2018, 07:48:12 PM
Every time I see this subject with todays/the latest date attached, I think thank fuck, we've finally got rid of the waste of space, only to be bitterly disappointed when I look at the most up to date posts, and find that the fraud is still a Villa player!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on March 08, 2018, 07:22:26 AM
well, not a player, exactly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on March 09, 2018, 01:05:50 AM
A hustler?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on March 09, 2018, 12:11:58 PM
No, he's no Paul Newman is he?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nigel on April 01, 2018, 10:26:45 AM
ignore
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy65 on April 01, 2018, 10:37:22 AM
ignore

Link won’t open?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nigel on April 01, 2018, 10:40:42 AM
ignore

Link won’t open?

I was trying to be clever with an April Fool link but I failed miserably, sorry  :-[
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy65 on April 01, 2018, 10:50:54 AM
ignore

Link won’t open?

I was trying to be clever with an April Fool link but I failed miserably, sorry  :-[

Cruel😀
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on April 01, 2018, 10:57:32 AM
I thought you had insider knowledge that it's Micah who has been sabotaging our automatic promotion chances by putting itching powder in Grealish's shorts, swapping one of Adomah's boots so that he wears two left ones on matchday etc.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on April 01, 2018, 12:20:03 PM
Did Ron ever recover after he left us?

He's a regular for AZ who are a top 6 team in Holland. Played v Dundalk last year in the europa league.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Damo70 on April 01, 2018, 02:08:31 PM
Did Ron ever recover after he left us?

He's a regular for AZ who are a top 6 team in Holland. Played v Dundalk last year in the europa league.

I think if you look a at his appearances since he left us his injury problems haven't magically disappeared. His whole career has been blighted by them, before during and after his spell with us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on April 09, 2018, 11:35:26 AM
Big month for Micah, we need the court jester in his best form.

Gee up the troops.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on April 09, 2018, 01:07:29 PM
sadly the music's died.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on April 09, 2018, 01:13:28 PM
In the same vein, is Mr McCormack still on holiday (or still behind locked gates)?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on April 09, 2018, 01:28:30 PM
Did Ron ever recover after he left us?

He's a regular for AZ who are a top 6 team in Holland. Played v Dundalk last year in the europa league.

I think if you look a at his appearances since he left us his injury problems haven't magically disappeared. His whole career has been blighted by them, before during and after his spell with us.

Vlaars played 48 league games since he left us, nearly 3 years ago.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eddiemunster on April 10, 2018, 08:48:05 PM
Can we close this subject until the fucking leech has gone and took the other waste of space McCormack with him? Whenever I see this has a new post, I think to myself thank god, we've got rid of the moneysponge.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on April 11, 2018, 10:05:55 AM
totally agree
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave P on June 17, 2018, 08:22:12 PM
This image just posed by Collymore. Appears to be our Micah doing the Zulu sign? Is this real?


(https://thumb.ibb.co/j8n2FJ/00_DECFFF_E500_4095_8196_FCD43_FD0729_E.jpg) (https://ibb.co/j8n2FJ)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VinnieChase84 on June 17, 2018, 08:23:23 PM
Yes it is. On holiday in Marbella as we speak with a blues fan. Same blues fan who posted it had a photo from 7 years ago in which the ‘Z’ symbol was used.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on June 17, 2018, 08:27:18 PM
I do think the word "******" is entirely acceptable when talking about Micah Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: somec on June 17, 2018, 08:38:48 PM
This image just posed by Collymore. Appears to be our Micah doing the Zulu sign? Is this real?


(https://thumb.ibb.co/j8n2FJ/00_DECFFF_E500_4095_8196_FCD43_FD0729_E.jpg) (https://ibb.co/j8n2FJ)

They've actually got a Zulu sign?!?! Are there some dance moves to go with it?!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on June 17, 2018, 08:46:15 PM
Just thinking the same.

"We were only 6 handed and there was a big mob of Germans around the pool. Big youth element, with Bamse and Captain T Club crew all there, but we could tell their older heads meant business. Their towels had been down since before the breakfast buffet had opened. Big Micah made our sign; Z for Zulu and it was on. We werent going to lose face in the Aqua Aerobics".

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 17, 2018, 08:47:15 PM
No wonder we never drink in the city center, they have hand signs!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bad English on June 17, 2018, 08:47:48 PM
Is it true that we're still paying this waster?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on June 17, 2018, 08:50:43 PM
No wonder we never drink in the city center, they have hand signs!

You can't get into Sam Wellers without the sign PWS.

Honestly, Senor Chang's popular (if infantile) meme is well deserved in response to this.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villa `cross the mersey on June 17, 2018, 08:55:09 PM
Not enough fingers to be a blue nose
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 17, 2018, 08:55:13 PM
In fairness to them, when done with their extra fingers it probably does look more like a Z.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on June 17, 2018, 09:02:52 PM
He clearly dosen't give a stuff now, retired in all but name.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on June 17, 2018, 09:03:48 PM
I fucking detest this fat, idle, piss taking bastard.
He knows full well what he is doing in that photo....the actual twitter post is accompanied with the phrase, ‘fuck the villa’.

Can’t we sack the ****** for gross misconduct or bringing the club into disrepute?
Whatever happened to that charge?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 17, 2018, 09:08:55 PM
He could have been asked to do it for any reason, I very much doubt the sad twat that asked him to do it said "hey Micah, do the zulu sign please". And let's be honest, how many of us knew they were so sad and pathetic that they had a sign before now?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 17, 2018, 09:11:59 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Df6z2lnW0AAbItC.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Richard E on June 17, 2018, 09:17:31 PM
He should be sacked instantly just for " I've give."
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Sexual Ealing on June 17, 2018, 09:18:35 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Df6z2lnW0AAbItC.jpg:large)

He certainly writes like a bluenose.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Lastfootstamper on June 17, 2018, 09:27:13 PM
Why do they even need a sign? I thought anyone with a brummie accent is instantly identified as a nose, what with all us being from the shires.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 17, 2018, 09:31:58 PM
He needs to see a maths teacher pronto. His version of 100% and mine are very different. And look at the fucking timber he’s carrying. Fuck me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andrew08 on June 17, 2018, 09:33:06 PM
I have a sign which I use when I see a b’lose fan. Conveniently it’s also the first letter in ‘Villa’.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 17, 2018, 09:57:37 PM
What a useless thick tosser.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on June 17, 2018, 10:06:22 PM
Moron poses for twitter picture and gets made to look an idiot. Nothing to see here.

The fact he's robbing us blind takes the piss though. He and his fellow chuckle brother Gabby should have been bombed out two years ago.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on June 17, 2018, 10:21:27 PM
I said a couple of weeks ago that the press have given Richards a very easy ride, so I am glad to see that there is something else on Newsnow again about him tonight.  I hope that this continues and he sees the lack of effort he makes for the club that will have given him several million pounds for doing fuck all.  It's theft.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JJ-AV on June 17, 2018, 10:28:18 PM
Can we create enough faux outrage to justify sacking him?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on June 17, 2018, 10:32:59 PM
But it’s not faux outrage is it?
Most are ‘really’ outraged abound the way this bloke is ripping the piss out the club and the supporters and there is fuck all anyone can do about it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 17, 2018, 10:34:15 PM
He's honouring the contract the club was stupid enough to give him. Obviously I use the word "honouring" in the loosest sense of the term.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: AsTallAsLions on June 17, 2018, 10:51:19 PM
Not excusing Micah for being an idiot at best (again), but Collymore has some cheek to even think about calling someone else's allegiance into question. The plastic prick.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on June 17, 2018, 11:33:42 PM
He's honouring the contract the club was stupid enough to give him. Obviously I use the word "honouring" in the loosest sense of the term.

Think 'milking' May be more appropriate than 'honouring' in this case PWS.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on June 18, 2018, 08:31:33 AM
Joleon Lescott and Ross McCormack breathing a sigh of relief this morning, as their excuses look almost believable compared to Micah's.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on June 18, 2018, 10:05:57 AM
Joleon Lescott and Ross McCormack breathing a sigh of relief this morning, as their excuses look almost believable compared to Micah's.

To be fair, it's possible he didn't know what the sign was for. I didn't even know they had a Zulu sign to be honest. That said, I can't believe he's still here.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JUAN PABLO on June 18, 2018, 10:08:42 AM
Not excusing Micah for being an idiot at best (again), but Collymore has some cheek to even think about calling someone else's allegiance into question. The plastic prick.

Collymore thinks he is so important on twitter .

Wish he would STFU
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ROBBO on June 18, 2018, 11:16:07 AM
The Richards situation sums up the absolute stupidity of the people in charge, it wasn't just him though was it? I can't think of any other club who would give five year contracts out to so many players who in the best light are deemed to be very average. Grealish maybe yes but players like Gabby and Richards you have to ask yourself why, it's not as if they were hot property.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on June 18, 2018, 11:26:13 AM
Not excusing Micah for being an idiot at best (again), but Collymore has some cheek to even think about calling someone else's allegiance into question. The plastic prick.

Collymore thinks he is so important on twitter .

Wish he would STFU

You could always unfollow him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: saunders_heroes on June 18, 2018, 11:27:43 AM
It’s all trivial schoolyard stuff and nothing worth getting all in a tizz over. I think the club has got more important things to worry about.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: The Edge on June 18, 2018, 11:30:15 AM
He clearly dosen't give a stuff now, retired in all but name.
And monthly income.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: The Edge on June 18, 2018, 11:39:20 AM
Can we create enough faux outrage to justify sacking him?
It's not faux outrage with me though. I'm genuinely sickened to the core with cnuts like him who routinely milk our club dry. There should be a way out of the contract of any player who clearly isn't capable of fulfilling the contract he signed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on June 18, 2018, 12:15:08 PM
Interesting that he mentions trying his best at Villa. Whether that means trying hard to get fit, representing the club with community work or mentoring the younger players - whichever; he's clearly standing by it and doesn't feel he's the pisstaker we do.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on June 18, 2018, 12:49:45 PM
Can we create enough faux outrage to justify sacking him?
It's not faux outrage with me though. I'm genuinely sickened to the core with cnuts like him who routinely milk our club dry. There should be a way out of the contract of any player who clearly isn't capable of fulfilling the contract he signed.
This is what I can't understand.  If his knees have genuinely gone, then why do we have to keep paying him?  Shouldn''t the insurance cover this?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on June 18, 2018, 01:06:05 PM


The hand sign means nothing to me as i didn't even know it existed. And now i do it's just made me laugh more at the arseholes

What does annoy me is that fucking buffoon claiming he's doing a good job
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Eiresvillan on June 18, 2018, 01:21:41 PM
If he is fit, then he has been badly managed. Inside there is a good footballer either at RB, CD or a DM. We invested in this player and we should be managing him correctly to get the best out of that investment. If he is injured, then I agree with poster above, in that surely insurance covers the costs.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Walmley_Villa on June 18, 2018, 02:18:05 PM
I'm assuming this hand gesture is a bit like joining the Masons?

Tbh I've never heard of it before and my brother-in-law is a nose?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 18, 2018, 02:22:41 PM
If he is fit, then he has been badly managed. Inside there is a good footballer either at RB, CD or a DM. We invested in this player and we should be managing him correctly to get the best out of that investment. If he is injured, then I agree with poster above, in that surely insurance covers the costs.

Sorry but there's not a good central defender in there, he hasn't got the positional sense or discipline to be effective there. I'm not sure he's good enough on the ball to play midfield either.  So do we need yet another right back?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on June 18, 2018, 03:16:34 PM
The day we get rid of this c**t is the day to celebrate (and I wanted to sign him)!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on June 18, 2018, 03:22:02 PM
If he is fit, then he has been badly managed. Inside there is a good footballer either at RB, CD or a DM. We invested in this player and we should be managing him correctly to get the best out of that investment. If he is injured, then I agree with poster above, in that surely insurance covers the costs.

Not sure if serious ?  :o
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Eiresvillan on June 18, 2018, 03:33:38 PM
The day we get rid of this c**t is the day to celebrate (and I wanted to sign him)!

Why did you want to sign him? (Because there is decent player in there).

Anyone saying he has no positional sense, maybe needs to recheck what this player can do when on form and fit.

I believe he could be a very good DM, when CB(he did have the odd decent game) he would drive forward from CB and be more a ball playing centre back.

At the end of the day we are forking out 50k a week for this player under contract - yet we allow him to sit and rot picking up the wages. Which for me is shocking man management. Big Ron and Ron Saunders would have got him playing and shoved a rocket up his ass.

We have wasted far too much money on players in positions where we already had adequate cover. DM, FB, are prime examples where we have wasted funds. Do we really need BB, Whelan and Jedinak?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on June 18, 2018, 04:21:21 PM


When we signed him on a free i assumed he was still that player Man City had a few years before. How wrong I was. I think Fiorentina clearly saw he was a busted flush and couldn't wait to send him back to City.

I don't recall any good games at centre back, I recall games where he got some praise for charging out of our box with the ball and then ultimately losing it further up the pitch (ala Hutton) and leaving us ridiculously exposed in defence. And his efforts at right back were equally shocking.

He's not fit to even be called a footballer (literally).

Who's fault is that? Can't he motivate himself to get off his lazy fucking arse and be the athlete he's supposed to be (even has athlete as his twitter profile, JFC)

Nobody at the club other than the bloke himself needs to do anything to turn this appalling situation around. He's the ****** that's wasted three years here pocketing about 5-6m in the process. In all my time of watching the Villa (since a kid in '82) I can't think of a player i despise more than him.

And that's including players that have spat at fans, said shit after leaving, turned snake etc etc.

All of them at the very least did something in the shirt before it all went sour. This ****** has done precisely fuck all expect steal a fucking living from us

Utter ******. The only way i could ever have any respect for him now would be for him to end his contract and fuck right off into the abyss.



Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rigadon on June 18, 2018, 04:24:09 PM
Good rant.  I can't get worked up about him personally, but he really has been an utter waste of money.   
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on June 18, 2018, 06:12:21 PM
I saw him play for us once when I was at home on a trip, it was the season we got relegated and it was against Watford. (My birthday as it happened) He played centre half and I lost count of the number of times that prick Deeney had him beat.  Richards at centre half is cack.  His best position always was full back.

IIRC, didn't he dictate that one of the conditions of him signing was that he would only play centre half.  I could be wrong. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on June 18, 2018, 06:36:46 PM
We can't we start looking to offer this clown cash to just leave us. 3 months salary up front to piss off. We are happy to take cash early from Burnley for a discount but continue to let this charlatan prick around at the training ground.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on June 18, 2018, 06:37:51 PM
I saw him play for us once when I was at home on a trip, it was the season we got relegated and it was against Watford. (My birthday as it happened) He played centre half and I lost count of the number of times that prick Deeney had him beat.  Richards at centre half is cack.  His best position always was full back.

IIRC, didn't he dictate that one of the conditions of him signing was that he would only play centre half.  I could be wrong.

That was certainly the rumour. But when he did play right back he was as gash as he was at centre back. Complete waste of space
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on June 18, 2018, 06:48:21 PM
We can't we start looking to offer this clown cash to just leave us. 3 months salary up front to piss off. We are happy to take cash early from Burnley for a discount but continue to let this charlatan prick around at the training ground.
But why would he take it?  He won't get a gig elsewhere so will hang round for every last penny.

I wouldn't mind as much if he was busting a gut to get fit and contribute, going on loans for games even if we were paying the wages.  But he's not.  And if he can't even do that it is frustrating we cant cancel the contract and get the insurance to pay him off.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on June 19, 2018, 12:21:23 AM
I saw him play for us once when I was at home on a trip, it was the season we got relegated and it was against Watford. (My birthday as it happened) He played centre half and I lost count of the number of times that prick Deeney had him beat.  Richards at centre half is cack.  His best position always was full back.

IIRC, didn't he dictate that one of the conditions of him signing was that he would only play centre half.  I could be wrong.

Wouldn't surprise me if the Richards signing came up in some inquiry in future years. He was effectively semi retired before we bought him. Next thing he rocks up at Villa as captain and centre half on a crazy contract, think we pipped Sunderland to get his signature! Couple of games in Gary Neville was calling out his lack of positional sense as a huge problem.

I'm not sure Balaban could even compare to his last couple of performances in a Villa shirt. Bruce's first game v Wolves and there was a cup game in which he embarrassed himself.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on June 19, 2018, 12:49:52 AM
Luton away under Di Matteo, wasn't it?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 19, 2018, 01:06:07 AM
Micah Richards is a case study in how you can toss away a potentially excellent career. He was such a highly rated full back at Man City with everything in front of him. I realize injuries have played a part in his decline but so very much is on him and his attitude. When you throw in our incompetence as a club agreeing to sign him on such a long term deal it is the most unpleasant looking Venn diagram of terrible decisions and circumstances all colliding.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TopDeck113 on June 19, 2018, 06:05:16 AM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: aj2k77 on June 19, 2018, 07:50:00 AM
He's just thick, monumentally thick.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on June 19, 2018, 08:57:26 AM
But not as stupid as the clowns who offered him a deal that has contributed significantly to our bankruptcy.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on June 19, 2018, 09:10:57 AM
Micah Richards is a case study in how you can toss away a potentially excellent career. He was such a highly rated full back at Man City with everything in front of him. I realize injuries have played a part in his decline but so very much is on him and his attitude. When you throw in our incompetence as a club agreeing to sign him on such a long term deal it is the most unpleasant looking Venn diagram of terrible decisions and circumstances all colliding.

How many of those kind of decisions have there been in our recent history as well?  Richards, Lescott, N'Zogbia, Ireland, McCormack, new contract for Agbonlahor - just think of the money we have wasted on those six alone.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 09:41:03 AM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 19, 2018, 01:20:24 PM
We can't we start looking to offer this clown cash to just leave us. 3 months salary up front to piss off. We are happy to take cash early from Burnley for a discount but continue to let this charlatan prick around at the training ground.

So you are called into your Manager's office and they say, we aren't making you redundant, so you can stay and get paid for another 12 months if you like, but, as an alternatively we will offer you a quarter of that to leave instead without any assurances about your future employment, what do you say?

And that even assumes we have £400k kicking around doing nothing which I seriously doubt.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on June 19, 2018, 03:24:08 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably


Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Nastylee on June 19, 2018, 07:52:34 PM
I've never seen the gesture, ever!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 08:51:33 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably

I didn't say that he knew what he was doing and quite frankly, I don't care whether he did or didn't.  I said he (now) know's what he has done.

As a Villa fan, I take great offence that one of our players demonstrates anything publicly that appears to associate with our fiercest rivals.  That it came from the parasite that is Richards, makes it even worse.

Thinking of Birmingham City makes my stomach turn.  I absolutely hate the horrible, scummy, low life b%stards.  If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on June 19, 2018, 08:52:45 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably

I didn't say that he knew what he was doing and quite frankly, I don't care whether he did or didn't.  I said he (now) know's what he has done.

As a Villa fan, I take great offence that one of our players demonstrates anything publicly that appears to associate with our fiercest rivals.  That it came from the parasite that is Richards, makes it even worse.

Thinking of Birmingham City makes my stomach turn.  I absolutely hate the horrible, scummy, low life b%stards.  If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

I'd get a sense of proportion if I were you.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 19, 2018, 09:00:09 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably

I didn't say that he knew what he was doing and quite frankly, I don't care whether he did or didn't.  I said he (now) know's what he has done.

As a Villa fan, I take great offence that one of our players demonstrates anything publicly that appears to associate with our fiercest rivals.  That it came from the parasite that is Richards, makes it even worse.

Thinking of Birmingham City makes my stomach turn.  I absolutely hate the horrible, scummy, low life b%stards.  If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

How about if if was Chester and Grealish doing it, would you want them sacked as well?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Gareth on June 19, 2018, 09:08:37 PM
How many people on here had a clue that signal existed? Never heard of it, never seen it done personally
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on June 19, 2018, 09:10:33 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably

I didn't say that he knew what he was doing and quite frankly, I don't care whether he did or didn't.  I said he (now) know's what he has done.

As a Villa fan, I take great offence that one of our players demonstrates anything publicly that appears to associate with our fiercest rivals.  That it came from the parasite that is Richards, makes it even worse.

Thinking of Birmingham City makes my stomach turn.  I absolutely hate the horrible, scummy, low life b%stards.  If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

What about regardless of employment law?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 09:16:15 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably

I didn't say that he knew what he was doing and quite frankly, I don't care whether he did or didn't.  I said he (now) know's what he has done.

As a Villa fan, I take great offence that one of our players demonstrates anything publicly that appears to associate with our fiercest rivals.  That it came from the parasite that is Richards, makes it even worse.

Thinking of Birmingham City makes my stomach turn.  I absolutely hate the horrible, scummy, low life b%stards.  If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

I'd get a sense of proportion if I were you.

Each to their own eh Dave?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 09:17:07 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably

I didn't say that he knew what he was doing and quite frankly, I don't care whether he did or didn't.  I said he (now) know's what he has done.

As a Villa fan, I take great offence that one of our players demonstrates anything publicly that appears to associate with our fiercest rivals.  That it came from the parasite that is Richards, makes it even worse.

Thinking of Birmingham City makes my stomach turn.  I absolutely hate the horrible, scummy, low life b%stards.  If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

What about regardless of employment law?

What do you think?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 09:19:57 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably

I didn't say that he knew what he was doing and quite frankly, I don't care whether he did or didn't.  I said he (now) know's what he has done.

As a Villa fan, I take great offence that one of our players demonstrates anything publicly that appears to associate with our fiercest rivals.  That it came from the parasite that is Richards, makes it even worse.

Thinking of Birmingham City makes my stomach turn.  I absolutely hate the horrible, scummy, low life b%stards.  If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

How about if if was Chester and Grealish doing it, would you want them sacked as well?

Grealish would never have done it.  If Chester had done it, I would want something done about it.  Whether I'd want him sacked or not is debatable.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on June 19, 2018, 09:21:00 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably

I didn't say that he knew what he was doing and quite frankly, I don't care whether he did or didn't.  I said he (now) know's what he has done.

As a Villa fan, I take great offence that one of our players demonstrates anything publicly that appears to associate with our fiercest rivals.  That it came from the parasite that is Richards, makes it even worse.

Thinking of Birmingham City makes my stomach turn.  I absolutely hate the horrible, scummy, low life b%stards.  If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

What about regardless of employment law?

What do you think?

Oh, I think you're being a massive drama queen over something that doesn't at all matter in the scheme of things.

But I was asking you.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 09:23:03 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably

I didn't say that he knew what he was doing and quite frankly, I don't care whether he did or didn't.  I said he (now) know's what he has done.

As a Villa fan, I take great offence that one of our players demonstrates anything publicly that appears to associate with our fiercest rivals.  That it came from the parasite that is Richards, makes it even worse.

Thinking of Birmingham City makes my stomach turn.  I absolutely hate the horrible, scummy, low life b%stards.  If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

What about regardless of employment law?

What do you think?

Oh, I think you're being a massive drama queen over something that doesn't at all matter in the scheme of things.

But I was asking you.

Well if you bothered to read my previous comment, you wouldn't have needed to ask.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 09:27:29 PM
Well if you bothered to read my previous comment, you wouldn't have needed to ask.

If I hadn't bothered to read your previous comment, how would I have know you'd commented and replied to it? Come on fella, think it through.

So what part of "the club will take action if possible"  did you not understand?

Now who needs to think it through?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on June 19, 2018, 09:30:37 PM
Well if you bothered to read my previous comment, you wouldn't have needed to ask.

If I hadn't bothered to read your previous comment, how would I have know you'd commented and replied to it? Come on fella, think it through.

So what part of "the club will take action if possible"  did you not understand?

Now who needs to think it through?

Well, clearly still you. Because that was talking about the real world "he knows the club will take action if possible".

Whereas the comment I replied to started "If I had my way...." and so was talking about what you would do. For example, you said for you it didn't matter whether he knew what he was doing or not, which clearly wouldn't be acceptable in employment law.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 09:32:45 PM
Well if you bothered to read my previous comment, you wouldn't have needed to ask.

If I hadn't bothered to read your previous comment, how would I have know you'd commented and replied to it? Come on fella, think it through.

So what part of "the club will take action if possible"  did you not understand?

Now who needs to think it through?

Well, clearly still you. Because that was talking about the real world "he knows the club will take action if possible".

Whereas the comment I replied to started "If I had my way...." and so was talking about what you would do.

Seriously mate, haven't you got anything better to do than post this pedantic drivel?

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on June 19, 2018, 09:33:52 PM
Well if you bothered to read my previous comment, you wouldn't have needed to ask.

If I hadn't bothered to read your previous comment, how would I have know you'd commented and replied to it? Come on fella, think it through.

So what part of "the club will take action if possible"  did you not understand?

Now who needs to think it through?

Well, clearly still you. Because that was talking about the real world "he knows the club will take action if possible".

Whereas the comment I replied to started "If I had my way...." and so was talking about what you would do.

Seriously mate, haven't you got anything better to do than post this pedantic drivel?

Says the man who's ranting on an internet forum over a bloke making a hand signal.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 19, 2018, 09:35:58 PM
How about if if was Chester and Grealish doing it, would you want them sacked as well?

Grealish would never have done it.  If Chester had done it, I would want something done about it.  Whether I'd want him sacked or not is debatable.

So no then. Which means, as I expected, you want the club to use this as an excuse to get rid of a player you don't like and completely bypass all forms of contract and employment law.  Why not say that rather than pretending to be offended by something you didn't even know existed 2 days ago.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 09:41:10 PM
How about if if was Chester and Grealish doing it, would you want them sacked as well?

Grealish would never have done it.  If Chester had done it, I would want something done about it.  Whether I'd want him sacked or not is debatable.

So no then. Which means, as I expected, you want the club to use this as an excuse to get rid of a player you don't like and completely bypass all forms of contract and employment law.  Why not say that rather than pretending to be offended by something you didn't even know existed 2 days ago.

BECAUSE I DID NOT SAY I WANTED TO BYPASS EMPLOYMENT LAW.

I said if possible and if I had my way.  I don't know how I can make it any clearer.

Think about it:

Club in dire straights - Player on mega money but not part of the squad - Possible opportunity to get rid.

Durrrrrr - That's a tough one.  What shall we do.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on June 19, 2018, 09:58:28 PM
Tell him if he is going to play shadow puppets, try the rabbit or duck, it gets you into less trouble.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave.woodhall on June 19, 2018, 09:59:02 PM
I actually think it's sweetly naive that he feels the need to get all defensive and apologetic on social media as if most Villa fans are going to be more incensed about some bizarre hand gesture than, amongst other things, his total lack of application in the job for which he is paid millions.

I think it's more to do with the potential of repercussions from the club.

He knows what he has done is inflammatory and he knows the club will take action if possible.

I think he's just covering his own arse (or more specifically, his own pay packet).

You say that, but i nor any supporter i know had a clue what that hand sign was. Not one clue. So to assume that buffoon did seems odd to me.

He's many many things, but i'm 100% he had no idea what that poxy sign meant like the majority of people outside of a pub in Small Heath probably

I didn't say that he knew what he was doing and quite frankly, I don't care whether he did or didn't.  I said he (now) know's what he has done.

As a Villa fan, I take great offence that one of our players demonstrates anything publicly that appears to associate with our fiercest rivals.  That it came from the parasite that is Richards, makes it even worse.

Thinking of Birmingham City makes my stomach turn.  I absolutely hate the horrible, scummy, low life b%stards.  If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

I'd get a sense of proportion if I were you.

Each to their own eh Dave?

Actually, no. I'm ultimately responsible for everything that's said on here and I do not want to be associated with this sort of comment. If you want to make it, do so somewhere else.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on June 19, 2018, 10:00:56 PM
How about if if was Chester and Grealish doing it, would you want them sacked as well?

Grealish would never have done it.  If Chester had done it, I would want something done about it.  Whether I'd want him sacked or not is debatable.

So no then. Which means, as I expected, you want the club to use this as an excuse to get rid of a player you don't like and completely bypass all forms of contract and employment law.  Why not say that rather than pretending to be offended by something you didn't even know existed 2 days ago.
I must admit whether I am personally offended by the gesture or not (I'm not) if there was an opportunity to use it to get rid then I'd absolutely take it without any feeling of guilt.

Of course it's hypothetical as I think we all know it would never stand up as a sackable offence.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 10:10:46 PM
How about if if was Chester and Grealish doing it, would you want them sacked as well?

Grealish would never have done it.  If Chester had done it, I would want something done about it.  Whether I'd want him sacked or not is debatable.

So no then. Which means, as I expected, you want the club to use this as an excuse to get rid of a player you don't like and completely bypass all forms of contract and employment law.  Why not say that rather than pretending to be offended by something you didn't even know existed 2 days ago.
I must admit whether I am personally offended by the gesture or not (I'm not) if there was an opportunity to use it to get rid then I'd absolutely take it without any feeling of guilt.

Of course it's hypothetical as I think we all know it would never stand up as a sackable offence.

It's possibly inappropriate behaviour that could cost him 2 weeks wages - That's most likely the reason behind his public posts.  The second one actually appears to contradict the first.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 19, 2018, 10:20:09 PM
How about if if was Chester and Grealish doing it, would you want them sacked as well?

Grealish would never have done it.  If Chester had done it, I would want something done about it.  Whether I'd want him sacked or not is debatable.

So no then. Which means, as I expected, you want the club to use this as an excuse to get rid of a player you don't like and completely bypass all forms of contract and employment law.  Why not say that rather than pretending to be offended by something you didn't even know existed 2 days ago.

BECAUSE I DID NOT SAY I WANTED TO BYPASS EMPLOYMENT LAW.

I said if possible and if I had my way.  I don't know how I can make it any clearer.

Think about it:

Club in dire straights - Player on mega money but not part of the squad - Possible opportunity to get rid.

Durrrrrr - That's a tough one.  What shall we do.

There is nothing we can do, so it's pointless, but I guess that's a tough thing for you to understand, maybe I should put it in caps.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 10:24:33 PM
How about if if was Chester and Grealish doing it, would you want them sacked as well?

Grealish would never have done it.  If Chester had done it, I would want something done about it.  Whether I'd want him sacked or not is debatable.

So no then. Which means, as I expected, you want the club to use this as an excuse to get rid of a player you don't like and completely bypass all forms of contract and employment law.  Why not say that rather than pretending to be offended by something you didn't even know existed 2 days ago.

BECAUSE I DID NOT SAY I WANTED TO BYPASS EMPLOYMENT LAW.

I said if possible and if I had my way.  I don't know how I can make it any clearer.

Think about it:

Club in dire straights - Player on mega money but not part of the squad - Possible opportunity to get rid.

Durrrrrr - That's a tough one.  What shall we do.

There is nothing we can do, so it's pointless, but I guess that's a tough thing for you to understand, maybe I should put it in caps.

Out of interest, how many threads on here actually incorporate the ability for us to do something?  The Grealish transfer saga perhaps?  Summer transfers?

The clue is in the title of the forum: "Heroes Discussion".  It is a facility to discuss all things Villa and I posted an opinion about Richards.  Putting this in caps will likely not help for it to sink in with you but maybe if you go away and think about it for half an hour or so?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 19, 2018, 10:27:15 PM
How about if if was Chester and Grealish doing it, would you want them sacked as well?

Grealish would never have done it.  If Chester had done it, I would want something done about it.  Whether I'd want him sacked or not is debatable.

So no then. Which means, as I expected, you want the club to use this as an excuse to get rid of a player you don't like and completely bypass all forms of contract and employment law.  Why not say that rather than pretending to be offended by something you didn't even know existed 2 days ago.

BECAUSE I DID NOT SAY I WANTED TO BYPASS EMPLOYMENT LAW.

I said if possible and if I had my way.  I don't know how I can make it any clearer.

Think about it:

Club in dire straights - Player on mega money but not part of the squad - Possible opportunity to get rid.

Durrrrrr - That's a tough one.  What shall we do.

There is nothing we can do, so it's pointless, but I guess that's a tough thing for you to understand, maybe I should put it in caps.

Out of interest, how many threads on here actually incorporate the ability for us to do something?  The Grealish transfer saga perhaps?  Summer transfers?

The clue is in the title of the forum: "Heroes Discussion".  It is a facility to discuss all things Villa and I posted an opinion about Richards.  Putting this in caps will likely not help for it to sink in with you but maybe if you go away and think about it for half an hour or so?

Not many of the threads involve the level of nonsense you've posted on here in the last hour or so though.  It's quite cute that you're trying to be condescending though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 10:29:57 PM
Perhaps i should have suggested we give Richards a pay rise?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 19, 2018, 10:39:28 PM
That's not quite as stupid as suggesting we sack him because of a picture of him making a sign you didn't know existed that you've decided to now be offended by.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 19, 2018, 11:01:17 PM
That's not quite as stupid as suggesting we sack him because of a picture of him making a sign you didn't know existed that you've decided to now be offended by.

Regrettably, it is you who is being stupid or at best silly.

I did not suggest we sack him nor do you know what I knew before the picture was publicised.  You just added those two claims to your posts to try to add value to them.

I'm personally offended by the mere mention of Mich Richards or Birmingham City.  Please make sure you know that I don't need to decide that I'm offended.  The two coupled together make a deadly cocktail in my mind.  I know not everyone else feels as I do and quite honestly, I don't really care.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on June 20, 2018, 01:15:48 PM
That's not quite as stupid as suggesting we sack him because of a picture of him making a sign you didn't know existed that you've decided to now be offended by.

Regrettably, it is you who is being stupid or at best silly.

I did not suggest we sack him nor do you know what I knew before the picture was publicised.  You just added those two claims to your posts to try to add value to them.

I'm personally offended by the mere mention of Mich Richards or Birmingham City.  Please make sure you know that I don't need to decide that I'm offended.  The two coupled together make a deadly cocktail in my mind.  I know not everyone else feels as I do and quite honestly, I don't really care.

If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

Tell me again how you didn't suggest we sack him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 20, 2018, 01:26:37 PM
That's not quite as stupid as suggesting we sack him because of a picture of him making a sign you didn't know existed that you've decided to now be offended by.

Regrettably, it is you who is being stupid or at best silly.

I did not suggest we sack him nor do you know what I knew before the picture was publicised.  You just added those two claims to your posts to try to add value to them.

I'm personally offended by the mere mention of Mich Richards or Birmingham City.  Please make sure you know that I don't need to decide that I'm offended.  The two coupled together make a deadly cocktail in my mind.  I know not everyone else feels as I do and quite honestly, I don't really care.

If I had my way, Richards would be sacked on the spot for that, regardless of whether he knew what he was doing or not.

Tell me again how you didn't suggest we sack him.

It's pointless because despite me being concise and clear in my posts, you still appear to be hopelessly unable to differentiate between someone stating what they would do "if they had their way" and someone suggesting a specific course of action.

It is extremely unlikely that you will ever venture away from your one dimensional reading (and misconceiving) of other people's posts.  Therefore, I will politely bid you good day sir and move on.  I've now said my piece on Richards, I've got it out of my system and have drawn a line under it.  I certainly don't want to continue pedantic spats with argumentative members of an internet forum.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 20, 2018, 01:30:15 PM
Give it a rest the pair of you.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Eiresvillan on June 20, 2018, 02:24:17 PM
He turns up and puts 100% into training, he is willing to play etc - so he cant be sacked. If the club have no desire to play him, then they just waste 50k per week - or they can buy out his contract to release him. However, reports I read are that he is great with the squad, offers advice, pumps them up etc. I would like to see him play(without all fans expecting a champions league player performance). I've seen Hutton have a nightmare game(more than once), yet he still gets picked. We are just cutting off our nose to spite our face. And yes, Richards will play at RB if picked - he already has. Why we bought Emo and D'laet is beyond me(just more wasted wages/trans fees on an area where we have decent enough players at this level). I understand the signing of Bree - young future talent.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 20, 2018, 02:30:24 PM
Who is Mich Richards?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 20, 2018, 02:39:32 PM
He turns up and puts 100% into training, he is willing to play etc - so he cant be sacked. If the club have no desire to play him, then they just waste 50k per week - or they can buy out his contract to release him. However, reports I read are that he is great with the squad, offers advice, pumps them up etc. I would like to see him play(without all fans expecting a champions league player performance). I've seen Hutton have a nightmare game(more than once), yet he still gets picked. We are just cutting off our nose to spite our face. And yes, Richards will play at RB if picked - he already has. Why we bought Emo and D'laet is beyond me(just more wasted wages/trans fees on an area where we have decent enough players at this level). I understand the signing of Bree - young future talent.

Richards wouldn't last 30 minutes at RB mate.  He is grossly overweight.  Hence his request/demand to play in the centre of defence where he doesn't have to run as much.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on June 20, 2018, 02:44:02 PM
He turns up and puts 100% into training, he is willing to play etc - so he cant be sacked. If the club have no desire to play him, then they just waste 50k per week - or they can buy out his contract to release him. However, reports I read are that he is great with the squad, offers advice, pumps them up etc. I would like to see him play(without all fans expecting a champions league player performance). I've seen Hutton have a nightmare game(more than once), yet he still gets picked. We are just cutting off our nose to spite our face. And yes, Richards will play at RB if picked - he already has. Why we bought Emo and D'laet is beyond me(just more wasted wages/trans fees on an area where we have decent enough players at this level). I understand the signing of Bree - young future talent.

So he's basically a £2.5m a year version of Bez in the Happy Mondays then.  Great.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on June 20, 2018, 02:47:46 PM
Why we bought Emo and D'laet is beyond me(just more wasted wages/trans fees on an area where we have decent enough players at this level). I understand the signing of Bree - young future talent.

well the fact they're both ten times the play Richards is probably explains why
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VILLA MOLE on June 20, 2018, 02:50:34 PM
He turns up and puts 100% into training, he is willing to play etc - so he cant be sacked. If the club have no desire to play him, then they just waste 50k per week - or they can buy out his contract to release him. However, reports I read are that he is great with the squad, offers advice, pumps them up etc. I would like to see him play(without all fans expecting a champions league player performance). I've seen Hutton have a nightmare game(more than once), yet he still gets picked. We are just cutting off our nose to spite our face. And yes, Richards will play at RB if picked - he already has. Why we bought Emo and D'laet is beyond me(just more wasted wages/trans fees on an area where we have decent enough players at this level). I understand the signing of Bree - young future talent.

Richards wouldn't last 30 minutes at RB mate.  He is grossly overweight.  Hence his request/demand to play in the centre of defence where he doesn't have to run as much.


Surely then we can prove he is not fit to do his job and we can sack him and cancel his contract ??
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on June 20, 2018, 02:53:48 PM
He turns up and puts 100% into training, he is willing to play etc - so he cant be sacked. If the club have no desire to play him, then they just waste 50k per week - or they can buy out his contract to release him. However, reports I read are that he is great with the squad, offers advice, pumps them up etc.

Sounds like he'd make a great manager! (Runs off sniggering)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Brassneck on June 20, 2018, 02:55:42 PM
He turns up and puts 100% into training, he is willing to play etc - so he cant be sacked. If the club have no desire to play him, then they just waste 50k per week - or they can buy out his contract to release him. However, reports I read are that he is great with the squad, offers advice, pumps them up etc. I would like to see him play(without all fans expecting a champions league player performance). I've seen Hutton have a nightmare game(more than once), yet he still gets picked. We are just cutting off our nose to spite our face. And yes, Richards will play at RB if picked - he already has. Why we bought Emo and D'laet is beyond me(just more wasted wages/trans fees on an area where we have decent enough players at this level). I understand the signing of Bree - young future talent.

Richards wouldn't last 30 minutes at RB mate.  He is grossly overweight.  Hence his request/demand to play in the centre of defence where he doesn't have to run as much.


Surely then we can prove he is not fit to do his job and we can sack him and cancel his contract ??

No - We signed him and we would have conducted tests including a medical.  We also agreed that he could play CB.  As stated, he turns up to training and makes himself available for selection (when free from injury).
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cannock villa on June 20, 2018, 03:19:41 PM
He turns up and puts 100% into training, he is willing to play etc - so he cant be sacked. If the club have no desire to play him, then they just waste 50k per week - or they can buy out his contract to release him. However, reports I read are that he is great with the squad, offers advice, pumps them up etc. I would like to see him play(without all fans expecting a champions league player performance). I've seen Hutton have a nightmare game(more than once), yet he still gets picked. We are just cutting off our nose to spite our face. And yes, Richards will play at RB if picked - he already has. Why we bought Emo and D'laet is beyond me(just more wasted wages/trans fees on an area where we have decent enough players at this level). I understand the signing of Bree - young future talent.

So he's basically a £2.5m a year version of Bez in the Happy Mondays then.  Great.
Post of the week
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sickbeggar on June 23, 2018, 11:09:38 AM
He's obviously crocked. you don't go over a year not playing in a side where gabby can get a game. He'd be on loan at least. there's some major fuck up here, that no-one at the club wants to admit to. i.e. we signed a player with a pre-existing problem diagnosed at his medical and we can't pay him off because the insurance won't cover it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rigadon on June 23, 2018, 11:53:53 AM
He's obviously crocked. you don't go over a year not playing in a side where gabby can get a game. He'd be on loan at least. there's some major fuck up here, that no-one at the club wants to admit to. i.e. we signed a player with a pre-existing problem diagnosed at his medical and we can't pay him off because the insurance won't cover it.


That sounds about right to me
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on June 23, 2018, 12:00:45 PM
He's obviously crocked. you don't go over a year not playing in a side where gabby can get a game. He'd be on loan at least. there's some major fuck up here, that no-one at the club wants to admit to. i.e. we signed a player with a pre-existing problem diagnosed at his medical and we can't pay him off because the insurance won't cover it.

If you didn't know better, you would think it was a financial scam.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on June 23, 2018, 01:19:28 PM
He's obviously crocked. you don't go over a year not playing in a side where gabby can get a game. He'd be on loan at least. there's some major fuck up here, that no-one at the club wants to admit to. i.e. we signed a player with a pre-existing problem diagnosed at his medical and we can't pay him off because the insurance won't cover it.

If you didn't know better, you would think it was a financial scam.
Like spending £10 mil + on Hogan.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on June 26, 2018, 01:15:17 PM
He's obviously crocked. you don't go over a year not playing in a side where gabby can get a game. He'd be on loan at least. there's some major fuck up here, that no-one at the club wants to admit to. i.e. we signed a player with a pre-existing problem diagnosed at his medical and we can't pay him off because the insurance won't cover it.

If you didn't know better, you would think it was a financial scam.

Who signed him as a matter of interest?
If Richards had a pre-defined medical problem (which does seem likely now) somebody other than the manager must have given the okay for it!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on June 26, 2018, 03:37:59 PM
TSM 2 signed him didn't he? Regardless, one of the all time great claret and blue clusterfucks
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 26, 2018, 03:52:34 PM
Sherwood signed him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on June 26, 2018, 05:38:26 PM
Sherwood signed him.

I remember thinking it was a decent signing at the time. Oh dear....
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on June 26, 2018, 11:54:28 PM
Sherwood signed him.

I remember thinking it was a decent signing at the time. Oh dear....

Me too.

There again I also thought Darren Byfield would be a worldbeater, that Danny Cadamarteri would have a better career than Michael Owen and that Stephen Ireland was a clever piece of business so I don't have the greatest track record in judging players.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SirSteveUK on June 27, 2018, 02:54:06 AM
Sherwood signed him.

I remember thinking it was a decent signing at the time. Oh dear....

Me too.

There again I also thought Darren Byfield would be a worldbeater, that Danny Cadamarteri would have a better career than Michael Owen and that Stephen Ireland was a clever piece of business so I don't have the greatest track record in judging players.
My God - that is appalling. Don't you have any examples of where you got it right - just for redemption sake?

:) :)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on June 27, 2018, 12:48:46 PM
Sherwood signed him.

I remember thinking it was a decent signing at the time. Oh dear....

You were not alone, so did I, now I can't wait to see the bloodsucking parasite gone!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on June 27, 2018, 01:09:30 PM
Sherwood signed him.

I remember thinking it was a decent signing at the time. Oh dear....

There were also concerns around the time he signed weren't there?  If I recall correctly, he hadn't played that much in Italy or during the couple of seasons before that because of injuries.  I remember seeing him at a pre season friendly at Walsall just after he had signed and he was literally head and shoulders above anyone else on the pitch, but he has been an absolutely disastrous signing.  To then think that there have been a fair few signings that have been just as bad or even worse says it all about how the club has been ran.   
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Hookeysmith on June 27, 2018, 01:38:32 PM

Quote
Danny Cadamarteri
My god is he another one who made a big deal young and then decided not to play football again and retire?

Actually just checked - has had more clubs than Tiger Woods

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on June 27, 2018, 02:28:08 PM
Sherwood signed him.

I remember thinking it was a decent signing at the time. Oh dear....

Me too.

There again I also thought Darren Byfield would be a worldbeater, that Danny Cadamarteri would have a better career than Michael Owen and that Stephen Ireland was a clever piece of business so I don't have the greatest track record in judging players.
My God - that is appalling. Don't you have any examples of where you got it right - just for redemption sake?

:) :)

He always believed in Freddie Rincon and it paid off in the end.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on June 27, 2018, 04:53:38 PM
I thought he had some decent games when he first joined

didn’t he ?   or is that just my mind playing tricks
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clampy on June 27, 2018, 04:54:41 PM
I thought he had some decent games when he first joined

didn’t he ?   or is that just my mind playing tricks

I thought he did as well, up until Sherwood left anyway.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on June 27, 2018, 04:58:21 PM
I thought he had some decent games when he first joined

didn’t he ?   or is that just my mind playing tricks

I thought he did as well, up until Sherwood left anyway.

dare i say it looked a bit of a leader on the pitch as well
just shows how things can change
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on June 27, 2018, 05:24:28 PM


The so called 'good games' from memory were based on people praising him for bursting out of defence with the ball and charging up the pitch

He then lost the ball of course and left us all at sea at the back (ala Hutton) but that didn't seem to bother some folks

He's a fraud
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: oldham_villa on July 05, 2018, 10:14:49 PM
That “header” he attempted vs Luton in the cup should demonstrate the Calibre of that individual

I never want to see him play for us again
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brentastonb6 on July 05, 2018, 10:23:41 PM
That “header” he attempted vs Luton in the cup should demonstrate the Calibre of that individual

I never want to see him play for us again
Bastard! Every time I see a new post on this thread I hope  in all stupidity that someone has taken the useless fucking lump of steaming dog turd off our hands. Alas yet again no.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: berneboy on July 05, 2018, 10:35:00 PM

Quote
Danny Cadamarteri
My god is he another one who made a big deal young and then decided not to play football again and retire?

Actually just checked - has had more clubs than Tiger Woods


My twin sons played against him a couple of times and he seemed pretty ordinary.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on July 05, 2018, 11:03:18 PM
Any sign of the big man coming back to training this week? He might be thinking he can get fit and get us promoted...
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brentastonb6 on July 05, 2018, 11:49:27 PM
Any sign of the big man coming back to training this week? He might be thinking he can get fit and get us promoted...
He’s on the club official pictures smiling as he returns for pre season training
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on July 06, 2018, 08:08:40 AM
Why the fuck is he still here?
If he ‘can’t play’ then retire him and claim on the insurance.

If he ‘can play’ sack him for misconduct, misrepresentation or something.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on July 06, 2018, 10:12:03 AM
Why the fuck is he still here?
If he ‘can’t play’ then retire him and claim on the insurance.

If he ‘can play’ sack him for misconduct, misrepresentation or something.

You don't fancy him leading us to promotion glory then...
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Comrade Blitz on July 26, 2018, 12:14:19 PM
Here's his photo on the current first team squad page on the OS:


(https://thumb.ibb.co/krwcdo/Capture.png) (https://ibb.co/krwcdo)

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Holy Trinity on July 26, 2018, 12:18:38 PM
Here's his photo on the current first team squad page on the OS:


(https://thumb.ibb.co/krwcdo/Capture.png) (https://ibb.co/krwcdo)



Well he is the invisible man!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on July 26, 2018, 12:57:45 PM
Why the fuck is he still here?
If he ‘can’t play’ then retire him and claim on the insurance.

If he ‘can play’ sack him for misconduct, misrepresentation or something.

You can't sack him Andy if he presents himself as fit and ready to play (not saying he does/is) and then the manager has nothing to do with him.  I would like him gone as well btw.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VILLA MOLE on July 26, 2018, 01:01:15 PM
Here's his photo on the current first team squad page on the OS:


(https://thumb.ibb.co/krwcdo/Capture.png) (https://ibb.co/krwcdo)



Well he is the invisible man!

looks fit to play
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: garyshawsknee on July 26, 2018, 01:09:12 PM
He's lost weight.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Drummond on July 26, 2018, 01:11:08 PM
He's a shadow of his former self though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VILLA MOLE on July 26, 2018, 01:13:27 PM
He's a shadow of his former self though.
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I hear he tried to tackle him
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on July 26, 2018, 01:14:45 PM
With his knees it's hard to turn up for a photo shoot.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on July 26, 2018, 02:29:56 PM
What I remember of him is that he would be more interested in picking a fight with the opposition rather than play the game. Wish he would just disappear
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dcdavecollett on July 31, 2018, 04:54:33 PM
He will -in a year's time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Jon Crofts on July 31, 2018, 05:23:02 PM
Here's his photo on the current first team squad page on the OS:


(https://thumb.ibb.co/krwcdo/Capture.png) (https://ibb.co/krwcdo)



I hope this is some not too cryptic message to the fat fucker that nobody cares about him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on July 31, 2018, 05:23:51 PM
every time this thread gets updated I think something positive is coming - but it never does.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brentastonb6 on August 01, 2018, 12:10:51 AM
every time this thread gets updated I think something positive is coming - but it never does.

It does- we are always at least one day closer to his contract end date.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on August 01, 2018, 08:23:30 AM
All we shall remember about him is his untiring efforts to persuade Delph to go to Citeh.  That and the diving header to keep a Villa shot from entering the opposition goal forever in the Holte End History of The Impossible.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 01, 2018, 08:46:01 AM
in the pantheon of Villa nutsacks. this guy's at the very top.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on August 01, 2018, 09:03:41 AM
Absolutely.  And it is not as though it has crept up on us.  I remember Tactics Tim playing him as centre back against Forest in a pre season warm up.  He was like bowling ball in a skittle alley.  Then got progressively worse over time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on August 01, 2018, 09:15:07 AM
in the pantheon of Villa nutsacks. this guy's at the very top.
I'm not sure about that.  I don't like him but I'm sure I heard he turns up week in week out and is willing to play, subject to he knees being ok.

For me N'Zogbia was just about the worst.  All the talent in the world and he just couldn't be arsed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mister E on August 01, 2018, 09:29:41 AM
in the pantheon of Villa nutsacks. this guy's at the very top.
I'm not sure about that.  I don't like him but I'm sure I heard he turns up week in week out and is willing to play, subject to he knees being ok.

For me N'Zogbia was just about the worst.  All the talent in the world and he just couldn't be arsed.
Charles is definitely up there, although us oldies will always refer to Steve Hodge (not forgetting Charlton's Andy Gray and David Unsworth).
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Oscar Arce on August 01, 2018, 09:38:25 AM
in the pantheon of Villa nutsacks. this guy's at the very top.
I'm not sure about that.  I don't like him but I'm sure I heard he turns up week in week out and is willing to play, subject to he knees being ok.

For me N'Zogbia was just about the worst.  All the talent in the world and he just couldn't be arsed.
Charles is definitely up there, although us oldies will always refer to Steve Hodge (not forgetting Charlton's Andy Gray and David Unsworth).

Sasa Curcic is the ultimate nutjob.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheTimVilla on August 01, 2018, 09:56:36 AM
in the pantheon of Villa nutsacks. this guy's at the very top.
I'm not sure about that.  I don't like him but I'm sure I heard he turns up week in week out and is willing to play, subject to he knees being ok.

For me N'Zogbia was just about the worst.  All the talent in the world and he just couldn't be arsed.
Charles is definitely up there, although us oldies will always refer to Steve Hodge (not forgetting Charlton's Andy Gray and David Unsworth).

Andy Gray?! A bit harsh. Did you mean Paul Mortimer? Andy Gray was good for us in our promotion season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Hookeysmith on August 01, 2018, 01:54:37 PM
Just WTF do him and McCormack actually do each day?

I have not seen a single image of either of them training at any point since April time last year

Do they really just sit at home and count their absurd wages?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on August 01, 2018, 01:57:29 PM
Every time this thread is refreshed I look in hope that someone has been fool enough to take him off our hands.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 01, 2018, 02:14:11 PM
i think we all do the same. But as someone said earlier each passing day brings him closer to the fire.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ozzjim on August 01, 2018, 02:16:30 PM
Which twat gave him such a long contract. Useless. Utterly useless.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 01, 2018, 03:29:35 PM
TSM 2?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave P on August 01, 2018, 03:38:53 PM
Tactics Tim was manager but I suspect the Moneyball dickheads, O'Reilly and Fox, were the culprits for the contract.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on August 01, 2018, 03:57:08 PM
Tactics Tim was manager but I suspect the Moneyball dickheads, O'Reilly and Fox, were the culprits for the contract.

Why's that?  He's a long way from the type of player they were focusing on bringing in.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on August 01, 2018, 04:15:47 PM
Tactics Tim was manager but I suspect the Moneyball dickheads, O'Reilly and Fox, were the culprits for the contract.

Why's that?  He's a long way from the type of player they were focusing on bringing in.

Definitely a Dim Tim solo run. Our guys needed a "character" to gee them up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 01, 2018, 04:19:33 PM
in the pantheon of Villa nutsacks. this guy's at the very top.
I'm not sure about that.  I don't like him but I'm sure I heard he turns up week in week out and is willing to play, subject to he knees being ok.

For me N'Zogbia was just about the worst.  All the talent in the world and he just couldn't be arsed.
Charles is definitely up there, although us oldies will always refer to Steve Hodge (not forgetting Charlton's Andy Gray and David Unsworth).

Andy Gray?! A bit harsh. Did you mean Paul Mortimer? Andy Gray was good for us in our promotion season.

Yeah. Don't get that at all. That Andy Gray was always something of a fan favourite, as I recall. I didn't want him to leave.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 01, 2018, 04:21:12 PM
Tactics Tim was manager but I suspect the Moneyball dickheads, O'Reilly and Fox, were the culprits for the contract.

You mean the ones that never used Moneyball, but used sabermetrics like every other club?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Clark W Griswold on August 01, 2018, 04:31:54 PM
I think he means Mortimer who was a twat. I think N Zogbia has to be up there although Lescott was a proper fuck up too. Basically any of those that created the toxic atmosphere in 2015-16 which was a big contributor to the relegation. Gabby, Richards, Lescott, Guzan etc
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 01, 2018, 04:51:55 PM
Zog and Ireland are probably the mains ones for me as they both had the talent to do so much for us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 01, 2018, 04:55:40 PM
At least N'Zogbia tried... occasionally. You always got the impression with Ireland that he considered Villa to be beneath him. He looked pissed off when he signed. He never gave the slightest indication that he gave much of a shit when he played for us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on August 01, 2018, 05:01:22 PM
At least N'Zogbia tried... occasionally. You always got the impression with Ireland that he considered Villa to be beneath him. He looked pissed off when he signed. He never gave the slightest indication that he gave much of a shit when he played for us.
Yep, he was a thundercunt too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 01, 2018, 05:08:26 PM
Ireland seemed to at first, well a few games at least. I remember his first home game and he was making forward passes that we had no one smart enough to be anticipating. And since then he's pretty much spent over 7 years pretending to be a professional footballer. The signs were there of what was important to him when he wanted the club he cared so much about to give him a couple of million to leave. He really is a massive massive twat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: adrenachrome on August 01, 2018, 05:13:00 PM
At least N'Zogbia tried... occasionally. You always got the impression with Ireland that he considered Villa to be beneath him. He looked pissed off when he signed. He never gave the slightest indication that he gave much of a shit when he played for us.
Yep, he was a thundercunt too.

As well as a turd fondler, a fellator of mandrills and a dubious fuckpig of multiplicities.

Good goal at home to QPR, though, which we badly needed as we were up shit creek without a paddle.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mister E on August 01, 2018, 06:02:17 PM
in the pantheon of Villa nutsacks. this guy's at the very top.
I'm not sure about that.  I don't like him but I'm sure I heard he turns up week in week out and is willing to play, subject to he knees being ok.

For me N'Zogbia was just about the worst.  All the talent in the world and he just couldn't be arsed.
Charles is definitely up there, although us oldies will always refer to Steve Hodge (not forgetting Charlton's Andy Gray and David Unsworth).

Andy Gray?! A bit harsh. Did you mean Paul Mortimer? Andy Gray was good for us in our promotion season.
You're right - It's coz I'm an oldie!
Gray only actually played for us 37 times over two seasons and showed glimpses of being really good. Mortimer never really 'landed' and played only 11 times for us; he was hankering after Laaaandon almost as soon as he joined us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Small Rodent on August 01, 2018, 06:18:29 PM
At least N'Zogbia tried... occasionally. You always got the impression with Ireland that he considered Villa to be beneath him. He looked pissed off when he signed. He never gave the slightest indication that he gave much of a shit when he played for us.
Yep, he was a thundercunt too.

As well as a turd fondler, a fellator of mandrills and a dubious fuckpig of multiplicities.

Good goal at home to QPR, though, which we badly needed as we were up shit creek without a paddle.

A sausage wrangler of the most intricate weave.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Hookeysmith on August 01, 2018, 06:24:04 PM
And don't be surprised to see Ireland turning out cor Stoke as he was still on thier books last season and I doubt anyone has bought him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 01, 2018, 06:49:00 PM
i must admit I'd expunged Ireland's memory completely when talking about Richards. Mr I ison reflection right up there with the very worst. A total tool. And that fucking pink Range Rover!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: nigel on August 02, 2018, 07:44:48 AM
If he could actually been bothered he'd probably have been perfect in this 3 5 2 that Bruce seems to like
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on August 02, 2018, 09:59:46 AM
And don't be surprised to see Ireland turning out cor Stoke as he was still on thier books last season and I doubt anyone has bought him.

They finally released him last season. Been training at Bolton so not sure if they've offered him a contract.

I agree Ireland never really wanted to play for us and didn't want to leave City. I do think first few months we did play him out of position. IIRC he play CM alongside Petrov for some reason when anyone could see he was similar to Grealish but guess we had Young for that role.

I would say in terms of value McCormack has been our worst in recent times. I imagine we can still sell Hogan for 3-4m.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on August 02, 2018, 12:32:23 PM
I'm probably one of the few that would be inclined to hang on to Hogan, mainly in the hope that within the next six months we may have a manager that can, and will know how to use him to the utmost of his ability.  Something we are not seeing now due to the present manager.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JD on August 03, 2018, 07:31:42 AM
I'm with you Dave. I believe there is a decent goal scorer in Hogan, we just need a decent game plan to utilise him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chris Smith on August 03, 2018, 07:44:22 AM
I'm with you Dave. I believe there is a decent goal scorer in Hogan, we just need a decent game plan to utilise him.

Is he that good that we base our whole game around his perceived strengths though?

To my mind, good players adapt to the team they are playing in. With Grealish and Hourihane we have good passers of the ball and we have wide men who put in crosses, Grabban benefitted from that and Hogan should be able to do the same.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on August 03, 2018, 08:04:59 AM
Players of Hogan's size and physique can make excellent goal poachers but all the best ones have pace especially over ten or twenty strides.  Balls pumped in the air to him are obviously a waste of possession but even on the fewer occasions that Hogan gets the ball delivered to him on the ground he lacks the burst of speed to turn the pass into a shot on goal.  Ron Wylie was the same.  Excellent football brain, a thinking, creative inside forward who never accumulated the goals he could have due to the lack of a burst of speed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Jon Crofts on August 03, 2018, 08:16:29 AM
Ireland seemed to at first, well a few games at least. I remember his first home game and he was making forward passes that we had no one smart enough to be anticipating. And since then he's pretty much spent over 7 years pretending to be a professional footballer. The signs were there of what was important to him when he wanted the club he cared so much about to give him a couple of million to leave. He really is a massive massive twat.

He had 20 minutes in his Villa career where he shone, Chelsea away, ran the show and scored one. Next day he was all over the papers pictured smoking a shisha pipe.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 03, 2018, 08:41:04 AM
Ireland as, is, and always will be, a total cock.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JD on August 03, 2018, 08:41:52 AM
I'm with you Dave. I believe there is a decent goal scorer in Hogan, we just need a decent game plan to utilise him.

Is he that good that we base our whole game around his perceived strengths though?

To my mind, good players adapt to the team they are playing in. With Grealish and Hourihane we have good passers of the ball and we have wide men who put in crosses, Grabban benefitted from that and Hogan should be able to do the same.

I didn't say that Chris. I just think there is a decent player there somewhere. He looked good in patches but when Grabban signed Hogan became a bit player anyway and only played sporadically. I think given a run in the team and a few goals he will regain his confidence.

Or I could be totally wrong, but he's still at Villa, so deserves a chance.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 03, 2018, 11:39:52 AM
trouble is we've been saying something similar since he joined 20 months ago
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on August 03, 2018, 02:06:09 PM
I can't believe that anyone who signed a guy that had claimed to have had three grannies die, would have thought that it was going to end well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on August 03, 2018, 02:09:45 PM
I'd like to open this thread one day to find someone has posted that Richards has been turned into dog food.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Fasth56 on August 03, 2018, 02:16:56 PM
I'd like to open this thread one day to find someone has posted that Richards has been turned into dog food.

and glue, just so none of him is wasted.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on August 03, 2018, 02:24:11 PM
I'm with you Dave. I believe there is a decent goal scorer in Hogan, we just need a decent game plan to utilise him.

Is he that good that we base our whole game around his perceived strengths though?

To my mind, good players adapt to the team they are playing in. With Grealish and Hourihane we have good passers of the ball and we have wide men who put in crosses, Grabban benefitted from that and Hogan should be able to do the same.

I didn't say that Chris. I just think there is a decent player there somewhere. He looked good in patches but when Grabban signed Hogan became a bit player anyway and only played sporadically. I think given a run in the team and a few goals he will regain his confidence.

Or I could be totally wrong, but he's still at Villa, so deserves a chance.

Grabban is a very good footballer though, who could do most elements of centre forward play well.  He could lead the line, play out wide, beat a man and stick it away when the chance arose.  Hogan seemingly is nothing more than a goal poacher, who you are almost forced to base the entire team around.  Sorry, but that might be OK for a small team like Brentford, but it won't work at Villa.  I don't remember seeing another player at Villa who was involved so little in general play, with the possible exception of Darren Bent.  Hogan offers nothing in running off the ball, hold up play, passing or creating space.  Pass the ball in to him in space in the area, then he has a chance, but even Fat Ross could probably manage that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Drummond on August 03, 2018, 02:47:38 PM
Why would you need to base a whole team around a goal-poacher? Surely if the team creates enough chances and he's in the middle somewhere he'll score.

However, our lump it forward, hope for a header, approach is hardly going to do him any favours.

Hi best patch was when he was being fed by Grealish and we actually played football.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Risso on August 03, 2018, 03:42:03 PM
Why would you need to base a whole team around a goal-poacher? Surely if the team creates enough chances and he's in the middle somewhere he'll score.

However, our lump it forward, hope for a header, approach is hardly going to do him any favours.

Hi best patch was when he was being fed by Grealish and we actually played football.



His so-called best patch when he scored 5 in 5 games was when all his goal were from crosses.

Goal 1 - cross from Adomah, scored with a header against Bristol.
Goal 2 - cross from Snodgrass, scored with a header v Forest.
Goals 3 and 4 v Barnsley - both from crosses from Snodgrass, one a shot, one a header.
Goal 5 v - tap in from a cross from Adomah.

For completeness, his goal later in the season against Reading was when he pounced on the Reading keeper error.

So all his goals in that period from crosses from either Adomah or Snodgrass, which is something we did practically all season.  The only difference was that in a small number of games, Hogan actually managed to get on the end of some of the crosses.  Grealish had no direct involvement in any of them, and certainly didn't feed Hogan once.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on August 03, 2018, 03:45:23 PM
how do people remember all this shit

I can hardly remember what he even looks like
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on August 03, 2018, 03:50:48 PM
65k a week? :o
On a free, so bigger personal package

Still, that's way too much for a player like him. Is MON back in charge of our transfer policy?

Is there anything you couldn't see the black side of?

Why do you care? Not everyone has to be positive all the time.

If Richards stays fit, he'll be a good signing, but Man City would've kept him for their homegrown quota, so does that suggest there's something bigger? My main worry is that we'll give him a 3/4/5 year deal on 65k a week and end up getting about 10 appearances in return.

looks like Bosco called it right from page 2 on here

spot on in the fella was
where did he get to ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Leicester_Villian on August 03, 2018, 05:28:16 PM
Looks like we continue to pay The Invisable Man as he also has no squad number
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 03, 2018, 05:30:57 PM
Good calll by Bosko, but it didn't really need that much mystic meg prescience to realize that it was going to end in tears from the owners he's not played under, and the fans who in some small way, throw coin into his bowl every week. The only happy guy here is Mica, literally collecting money for nothing. I hope he's been taking a few astute evening classes though, for the day the gravy train keeps smoking down the tracks and doesn't stop at B6 anymore.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on August 03, 2018, 05:31:47 PM
Yep, nor McCormack. We'll struggle to give them away.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on August 03, 2018, 07:09:32 PM
Good calll by Bosko, but it didn't really need that much mystic meg prescience to realize that it was going to end in tears from the owners he's not played under, and the fans who in some small way, throw coin into his bowl every week. The only happy guy here is Mica, literally collecting money for nothing. I hope he's been taking a few astute evening classes though, for the day the gravy train keeps smoking down the tracks and doesn't stop at B6 anymore.

he's getting no end of stick for being so neg about Micha from the good and the great on here, so I don't think it was that obvious
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 03, 2018, 07:18:18 PM
everything about him had Avoid writ large
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on August 03, 2018, 07:20:05 PM
everything about him had Avoid writ large

just read the first few pages of this thread
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eddiemunster on August 03, 2018, 07:29:12 PM
Please can we have this topic locked, until the waste of space/money/etc has exited the club??
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VILLA MOLE on August 03, 2018, 07:30:14 PM
I cant believe this thread has 137 pages !! went back to the first page he nearly went to sunderland dam it  >:(
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Lastfootstamper on August 03, 2018, 08:07:30 PM
everything about him had Avoid writ large

just read the first few pages of this thread

Ah, optimism! Them was the days.

Quote from: BoskoDjembaSalifou
My main worry is that we'll give him a 3/4/5 year deal on 65k a week and end up getting about 10 appearances in return.
Burn the witch!

Quote from: Risso
The huge new TV deal says hello!
Yep, said hello, poured cinzano in the punch bowl, fucked off again.

I think the general mood was that it was a no-lose signing, in that if he rediscovered his best form, brilliant; if not, no real biggy, telly's got us covered.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on August 03, 2018, 08:24:11 PM
and look how that played out.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on August 04, 2018, 10:49:32 AM
Which makes a thread retitle apt at this stage. Resigned To Richards maybe.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheMalandro on August 13, 2018, 05:44:41 PM
Thanks for your service, all the best for the future.

Cock.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VILLA MOLE on August 13, 2018, 05:54:37 PM
so we just pay him off ??
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Percy McCarthy on August 13, 2018, 06:36:35 PM
I hear he’s been paid.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 13, 2018, 06:39:06 PM
It's all just rumours on Twitter etc based on one Villa page saying he's gone. I'm hoping he has but there's currently no evidence of it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Percy McCarthy on August 13, 2018, 07:10:13 PM
It's all just rumours on Twitter etc based on one Villa page saying he's gone. I'm hoping he has but there's currently no evidence of it.

Oh, okay. I just got a text.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: yammers on August 13, 2018, 07:36:50 PM
It's all just rumours on Twitter etc based on one Villa page saying he's gone. I'm hoping he has but there's currently no evidence of it.

Oh, okay. I just got a text.

2 new hotties coming to the Villa?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: VWBelgian on August 15, 2018, 08:03:15 AM
In belgian newspaper i've read also that he's been released....
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: GarTomas on August 17, 2018, 01:06:38 PM
He now has a photo on the website in the new strip. So unlikely he’s been paid off.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on August 17, 2018, 01:11:36 PM
He now has a photo on the website in the new strip. So unlikely he’s been paid off.

Does that mean he can actually do what he has been paid (astronomically) to do for the last 3 seasons and actually play a game of football?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: robbo1874 on August 17, 2018, 01:19:53 PM
For every 1 Jack Grealish there’s dozens of leaches of this lazy twat’s ilk. Be gone
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on August 17, 2018, 03:33:01 PM
He now has a photo on the website in the new strip. So unlikely he’s been paid off.

Takes the term ‘shirt stretching’ to a whole new level.
Title: Micah Richards
Post by: N'ZMAV on October 11, 2018, 04:37:56 PM
I wonder if Micah Richards will be bought back into the fold?
is he even fit?
we need a defender....

 :-[
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: kieron on October 11, 2018, 05:34:56 PM
We need a defender. Not Micah Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: CT on October 11, 2018, 05:39:31 PM
I thought he already had his own thread.

When I saw this, I thought this is it! He's been fired out of Bodymoor in a cannon!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards
Post by: Behind Bluenose Lines on October 11, 2018, 05:41:48 PM
I thought he already had his own thread.

When I saw this, I thought this is it! He's been fired out of Bodymoor in a cannon!!

And people say this club has turned into a circus!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Bad English on October 11, 2018, 05:48:57 PM
Has he gone yet?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cdbearsfan on October 12, 2018, 07:58:48 AM
I don't think he was named in our squad, so we can't pick him until at least the New Year even if we wanted to.

Just need to hope that Chester plus one of Tuanzebe or Bree can do well and stay fit until at least January. A 4-2-3-1 with someone like Jedinak or Whelan offering extra protection as one of the two should help sure things up. Hopefully.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on October 12, 2018, 08:28:14 AM
I don't think he was named in our squad, so we can't pick him until at least the New Year even if we wanted to.

Just need to hope that Chester plus one of Tuanzebe or Bree can do well and stay fit until at least January. A 4-2-3-1 with someone like Jedinak or Whelan offering extra protection as one of the two should help sure things up. Hopefully.

I think we have got to give Tuanzebe a run of games at centre half and see how he goes.  If we are able to spend some money in January then I hope Dean Smith will go back to Brentford for Chris Mepham as he will be ideal.   
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on October 12, 2018, 08:33:40 AM
I don't think he was named in our squad, so we can't pick him until at least the New Year even if we wanted to.

Just need to hope that Chester plus one of Tuanzebe or Bree can do well and stay fit until at least January. A 4-2-3-1 with someone like Jedinak or Whelan offering extra protection as one of the two should help sure things up. Hopefully.

I think we have got to give Tuanzebe a run of games at centre half and see how he goes.  If we are able to spend some money in January then I hope Dean Smith will go back to Brentford for Chris Mepham as he will be ideal.   

Bournemouth had a 12m bid rejected for him in the summer.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: chrisw1 on October 12, 2018, 08:34:15 AM
I don't think he was named in our squad, so we can't pick him until at least the New Year even if we wanted to.

Just need to hope that Chester plus one of Tuanzebe or Bree can do well and stay fit until at least January. A 4-2-3-1 with someone like Jedinak or Whelan offering extra protection as one of the two should help sure things up. Hopefully.
I've no idea if this is right or wrong, but it's really odd that we can add a non contracted player to our squad if we want (Terry, Colins etc) but not one we own.  Not that I would want this twat anywhere near our squad again mind you.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on October 12, 2018, 10:07:05 AM
I don't think you have to name a squad in the championship.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eddiemunster on October 12, 2018, 05:14:28 PM
Has he gone yet?

THIS !!!!!

Now can we lock any further posts about this GIGANTIC  MONEYSPONGING TURD, Until he has FUCKED OFF ???
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: clash city rocker on October 12, 2018, 05:20:27 PM
Has he gone yet?

THIS !!!!!

Now can we lock any further posts about this GIGANTIC  MONEYSPONGING TURD, Until he has FUCKED OFF ???

Now that's what you call plain English.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on December 31, 2018, 12:40:23 PM
He hasn’t played for 807 days.  Happy New Year.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Iamkmkm on December 31, 2018, 12:56:29 PM
How can this guy look himself in the mirror? A joke of a human being!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on December 31, 2018, 01:01:18 PM
How can this guy look himself in the mirror? A joke of a human being!
Bank balance, mirror, bank balance mirror, bank balance bank balance bank balance. Ad infinitum.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sickbeggar on December 31, 2018, 01:08:04 PM
He hasn’t played for 807 days.  Happy New Year.

That must be some sort of record surely? Most consecutive games missed through being crap?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villa `cross the mersey on December 31, 2018, 01:39:24 PM
Thread bumped again.......half expected to read that he is playing in goal against QPR
We've "employed" some wasters in our time - this guy is certainly in the all time top ten 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JUAN PABLO on December 31, 2018, 01:46:11 PM
Thread bumped again.......half expected to read that he is playing in goal against QPR
We've "employed" some wasters in our time - this guy is certainly in the all time top ten 

probably No1 to be fair .. least some of the crap played even if they played crap ..he beats nzogbia for starters now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on December 31, 2018, 01:51:21 PM
Thread bumped again.......half expected to read that he is playing in goal against QPR
We've "employed" some wasters in our time - this guy is certainly in the all time top ten 

probably No1 to be fair .. least some of the crap played even if they played crap ..he beats nzogbia for starters now.

its a close run thing with N'zog but your probably right

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave P on December 31, 2018, 01:53:01 PM
July 12th would have been the 1000 day mark but he’ll be gone by then. Thank god!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on December 31, 2018, 01:54:55 PM
But we will still be paying him until the end of July.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave P on December 31, 2018, 01:56:53 PM
Thread bumped again.......half expected to read that he is playing in goal against QPR
We've "employed" some wasters in our time - this guy is certainly in the all time top ten 

probably No1 to be fair .. least some of the crap played even if they played crap ..he beats nzogbia for starters now.

its a close run thing with N'zog but your probably right



I’d put Ireland above N’Zogbia in terms of a waster. Richards is the overall winner by far.

Imagine making a documentary about us this decade!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JUAN PABLO on December 31, 2018, 01:59:59 PM
Thread bumped again.......half expected to read that he is playing in goal against QPR
We've "employed" some wasters in our time - this guy is certainly in the all time top ten 

probably No1 to be fair .. least some of the crap played even if they played crap ..he beats nzogbia for starters now.

its a close run thing with N'zog but your probably right



I’d put Ireland above N’Zogbia in terms of a waster. Richards is the overall winner by far.

Imagine making a documentary about us this decade!

Id forgot about Ireland which proves your point
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Dave P on December 31, 2018, 02:00:54 PM
But we will still be paying him until the end of July.

Until July 1st isn’t it?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on December 31, 2018, 02:09:50 PM
No when players leave unatttached I think we have to pay them the extra month of the close season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on December 31, 2018, 02:19:28 PM
Thread bumped again.......half expected to read that he is playing in goal against QPR
We've "employed" some wasters in our time - this guy is certainly in the all time top ten 

probably No1 to be fair .. least some of the crap played even if they played crap ..he beats nzogbia for starters now.

its a close run thing with N'zog but your probably right



I’d put Ireland above N’Zogbia in terms of a waster. Richards is the overall winner by far.

Imagine making a documentary about us this decade!

thing is with N'zobia is that he didn't even try and hide it
he just kept rubbing our faces in it with pictures of him dressed up in ridiculous clothes on social media, just ripping the piss

in a way you have to admire the sheer brass neck of it whereas with Micah hes just a mystery no one talks about
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: themossman on December 31, 2018, 02:28:02 PM
Ireland and zog are piss takers for sure but they both gave us decent games/performances/runs. Richards hasn’t had one single good game for us and therefore wins hands down in the waste of money stakes.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villa `cross the mersey on December 31, 2018, 02:29:00 PM
I've watched some poor players in the claret and blue over so many years but at least the majority of them put in their best efforts and earned their money. Is Richards symptomatic of the modern game/ greedy world we live in?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on December 31, 2018, 02:30:54 PM
I've watched some poor players in the claret and blue over so many years but at least the majority of them put in their best efforts and earned their money. Is Richards symptomatic of the modern game/ greedy world we live in?


Yes
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on December 31, 2018, 02:35:47 PM
If he is terminally Crocked and uninsured, which I believe is the case.
Then his choice is to walk away with nothing or sit and watch his contract run down.
The club has no choice in this matter except to pay his contract off which would have FFP implications.
There used to be a tax adavantage to paying down a contract early but that loop hole does not exist now.
Ask your selves, what would you do in Richards situation and I bet most would sit it out and take the money.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: stan drew2 on December 31, 2018, 02:37:02 PM
Thread bumped again.......half expected to read that he is playing in goal against QPR
We've "employed" some wasters in our time - this guy is certainly in the all time top ten 

probably No1 to be fair .. least some of the crap played even if they played crap ..he beats nzogbia for starters now.

its a close run thing with N'zog but your probably right



I’d put Ireland above N’Zogbia in terms of a waster. Richards is the overall winner by far.

Imagine making a documentary about us this decade!

thing is with N'zobia is that he didn't even try and hide it
he just kept rubbing our faces in it with pictures of him dressed up in ridiculous clothes on social media, just ripping the piss

in a way you have to admire the sheer brass neck of it whereas with Micah hes just a mystery no one talks about

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5994787/How-Brazilian-fraudster-pulled-20-year-career-professional-footballer.html

Now this is a real piss taker.

Happy New Year
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mossie Hennebry on December 31, 2018, 03:38:55 PM
To be fair, it's not his fault that he was given such a lucrative and lengthy contract. The blame lies squarely with the club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on December 31, 2018, 03:41:42 PM
Thread bumped again.......half expected to read that he is playing in goal against QPR
We've "employed" some wasters in our time - this guy is certainly in the all time top ten 

probably No1 to be fair .. least some of the crap played even if they played crap ..he beats nzogbia for starters now.

its a close run thing with N'zog but your probably right



I’d put Ireland above N’Zogbia in terms of a waster. Richards is the overall winner by far.

Imagine making a documentary about us this decade!

thing is with N'zobia is that he didn't even try and hide it
he just kept rubbing our faces in it with pictures of him dressed up in ridiculous clothes on social media, just ripping the piss

in a way you have to admire the sheer brass neck of it whereas with Micah hes just a mystery no one talks about

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5994787/How-Brazilian-fraudster-pulled-20-year-career-professional-footballer.html

Now this is a real piss taker.

Happy New Year

ha ha, very surprised we missed out on this one he'd have been right up our street
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 31, 2018, 03:45:05 PM
I don't blame any player for seeing out the contract they were offered and signed. I don't like Richards. He's a wanker of the highest order. But like Stephen Ireland before or watching Sunderland Till I Die recently, they have Jack Rodwell, why should they walk away from a deal nobody else will ever give them?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on December 31, 2018, 03:53:06 PM
Because the money is all that matters to them?  The game, their pride, their self respect, their reputation are as nothing compared with the heap of money that will inevitably be wasted one way or another.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on December 31, 2018, 03:53:34 PM
but we don't know if he is injured

if he was why don't they say he'l not play again,
 that would surely take some of the heat of him as it would be the reason for his long term no show

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: GarTomas on December 31, 2018, 03:59:02 PM
For all the other faults, the players signed in our final season by the club rather than Sherwood reveal him to be the inept fool he was.

Richards easily the worst of those that year.

Still not sure why we haven't paid his contract off in full with a clause that if he gets another contract he has to return part of the cash. I assume as he knows no one will sign him now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on December 31, 2018, 04:04:12 PM
For all the other faults, the players signed in our final season by the club rather than Sherwood reveal him to be the inept fool he was.

Richards easily the worst of those that year.

Still not sure why we haven't paid his contract off in full with a clause that if he gets another contract he has to return part of the cash. I assume as he knows no one will sign him now.
FFP.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: GarTomas on December 31, 2018, 04:06:32 PM
For all the other faults, the players signed in our final season by the club rather than Sherwood reveal him to be the inept fool he was.

Richards easily the worst of those that year.

Still not sure why we haven't paid his contract off in full with a clause that if he gets another contract he has to return part of the cash. I assume as he knows no one will sign him now.
FFP.

Yeah, but I don't get why they haven't sacked him like a manager gets sacked and placed on gardening leave. So continue to pay him weekly or monthly or whatever but physically remove him from the premises.  Would at least deprive him of the use of our facilities!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on December 31, 2018, 04:11:35 PM
For all the other faults, the players signed in our final season by the club rather than Sherwood reveal him to be the inept fool he was.

Richards easily the worst of those that year.

Still not sure why we haven't paid his contract off in full with a clause that if he gets another contract he has to return part of the cash. I assume as he knows no one will sign him now.
FFP.

Yeah, but I don't get why they haven't sacked him like a manager gets sacked and placed on gardening leave. So continue to pay him weekly or monthly or whatever but physically remove him from the premises.  Would at least deprive him of the use of our facilities!!
It’s a strange one, but I guess they can’t write his contract off in one go because that would recognize the loss in that financial period.
If they did not provide an opportunity for him to train or take part then they could face a constructive dismissal claim which would cost them more money.
I can’t see any other explanation.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mossie Hennebry on December 31, 2018, 04:12:18 PM
For all the other faults, the players signed in our final season by the club rather than Sherwood reveal him to be the inept fool he was.

Richards easily the worst of those that year.

Still not sure why we haven't paid his contract off in full with a clause that if he gets another contract he has to return part of the cash. I assume as he knows no one will sign him now.
FFP.

Yeah, but I don't get why they haven't sacked him like a manager gets sacked and placed on gardening leave. So continue to pay him weekly or monthly or whatever but physically remove him from the premises.  Would at least deprive him of the use of our facilities!!
I suppose that amounts to constructive dismissal?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on December 31, 2018, 04:30:31 PM
Because the money is all that matters to them?  The game, their pride, their self respect, their reputation are as nothing compared with the heap of money that will inevitably be wasted one way or another.

Exactly, I just couldn't envisage myself taking the piss like this!

Is it 4 years that he has done absolutely sod all, not even got his coaching badges to help the youngsters, he has done absolutely nothing except be a blood sucking parasite on the club!

A player that I hope eventually he gets his just rewards in life!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sickbeggar on December 31, 2018, 04:39:01 PM
It's always been deliciously intriguing why the club has operated such a news blackout on him, The most I've heard Bruce comment was that he wasn't fit enough to play which is a sort of nothing statement. If someone at the club did sign him up after he failed a medical so we couldn't insure him, then surely those responsible are long gone and any embarrassment factor null and voided? Then you've got the media blackout, and considering it all went tits up for us last summer surely some journo would have run the Richards story under the financial mismanagement angle but not a dickie-bird. Very odd.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 31, 2018, 04:44:45 PM
Because the money is all that matters to them?  The game, their pride, their self respect, their reputation are as nothing compared with the heap of money that will inevitably be wasted one way or another.

Exactly, I just couldn't envisage myself taking the piss like this!

Is it 4 years that he has done absolutely sod all, not even got his coaching badges to help the youngsters, he has done absolutely nothing except be a blood sucking parasite on the club!

A player that I hope eventually he gets his just rewards in life!

You’re not in his shoes though where he’s getting paid as much in a week as many get paid in a year.

If he can’t play again then no other club will want him. If the club offers him a “deal” to leave it’s hardly going to be what they are paying him now. So from Richards’ standpoint he is well within his right to use the facility his employer has contractually allowed him access to. And the PFA will back him fully so the club seemingly can’t do anything about it. Which given how long it has now been appears very much to be the case.

We fucked up. We should never have made this deal and certainly not for as long. I hope we never commit ourselves to contracts like this again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Border villan on December 31, 2018, 04:55:38 PM
but we don't know if he is injured

if he was why don't they say he'l not play again,
 that would surely take some of the heat of him as it would be the reason for his long term no show
v
Ivo Stas, always injured.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on December 31, 2018, 04:59:24 PM
I hope Mica has been given some prudent financial counsel  because one thing is unequivocal - he isn't going to earn a bean from professional football ever again once his contract with us expires.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on December 31, 2018, 05:08:57 PM
I hope Mica has been given some prudent financial counsel  because one thing is unequivocal - he isn't going to earn a bean from professional football ever again once his contract with us expires.

He could do indirectly as a pundit. Regardless of any ability to form sentences. If he's got a tight shiny shirt he's got a place on MOTD2 for life, if he wants it. TalkSport would hire a chaffinch if it had once kicked a ball. He'd have his own show on there within a couple of weeks. He really won't struggle for cash.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: LukeJames on December 31, 2018, 05:10:50 PM
He could forge a career as a Championship referee with little effort aswell.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on December 31, 2018, 05:10:59 PM
Because the money is all that matters to them?  The game, their pride, their self respect, their reputation are as nothing compared with the heap of money that will inevitably be wasted one way or another.

Exactly, I just couldn't envisage myself taking the piss like this!

Is it 4 years that he has done absolutely sod all, not even got his coaching badges to help the youngsters, he has done absolutely nothing except be a blood sucking parasite on the club!

A player that I hope eventually he gets his just rewards in life!

You’re not in his shoes though where he’s getting paid as much in a week as many get paid in a year.

If he can’t play again then no other club will want him. If the club offers him a “deal” to leave it’s hardly going to be what they are paying him now. So from Richards’ standpoint he is well within his right to use the facility his employer has contractually allowed him access to. And the PFA will back him fully so the club seemingly can’t do anything about it. Which given how long it has now been appears very much to be the case.

We fucked up. We should never have made this deal and certainly not for as long. I hope we never commit ourselves to contracts like this again.

You are absolutely right I am not in his shoes but I have more integrity in my little finger than he has in his whole body!

Would I feel guilty doing what he has done for the last few years, YES I f**king well would and I wouldn't feel happy about it at all, so I would offer my services in some other capacity even if it was just cutting the bloody grass!

Of course he is well within his 'rights' to just sit on his arse at home counting his millions, but it still doesn't make it right or set any sort of example to people who look up to football players!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on December 31, 2018, 05:13:53 PM
He could forge a career as a Championship referee with little effort aswell.

I didn't realise he was blind.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: john e on December 31, 2018, 05:35:04 PM
Because the money is all that matters to them?  The game, their pride, their self respect, their reputation are as nothing compared with the heap of money that will inevitably be wasted one way or another.

Exactly, I just couldn't envisage myself taking the piss like this!

Is it 4 years that he has done absolutely sod all, not even got his coaching badges to help the youngsters, he has done absolutely nothing except be a blood sucking parasite on the club!

A player that I hope eventually he gets his just rewards in life!

You’re not in his shoes though where he’s getting paid as much in a week as many get paid in a year.

If he can’t play again then no other club will want him. If the club offers him a “deal” to leave it’s hardly going to be what they are paying him now. So from Richards’ standpoint he is well within his right to use the facility his employer has contractually allowed him access to. And the PFA will back him fully so the club seemingly can’t do anything about it. Which given how long it has now been appears very much to be the case.

We fucked up. We should never have made this deal and certainly not for as long. I hope we never commit ourselves to contracts like this again.

if it was as simple as a long term injury ruling him out of never playing again they would just say we would all understand that these things happen

there is something else going on I’ve no idea what it is but it’s just not that simple imo
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on December 31, 2018, 08:48:28 PM
Because the money is all that matters to them?  The game, their pride, their self respect, their reputation are as nothing compared with the heap of money that will inevitably be wasted one way or another.

Exactly, I just couldn't envisage myself taking the piss like this!

Is it 4 years that he has done absolutely sod all, not even got his coaching badges to help the youngsters, he has done absolutely nothing except be a blood sucking parasite on the club!

A player that I hope eventually he gets his just rewards in life!

You’re not in his shoes though where he’s getting paid as much in a week as many get paid in a year.

If he can’t play again then no other club will want him. If the club offers him a “deal” to leave it’s hardly going to be what they are paying him now. So from Richards’ standpoint he is well within his right to use the facility his employer has contractually allowed him access to. And the PFA will back him fully so the club seemingly can’t do anything about it. Which given how long it has now been appears very much to be the case.

We fucked up. We should never have made this deal and certainly not for as long. I hope we never commit ourselves to contracts like this again.

if it was as simple as a long term injury ruling him out of never playing again they would just say we would all understand that these things happen

there is something else going on I’ve no idea what it is but it’s just not that simple imo

He's not injured at all, so I'm told by a reliable source.  The knee thing is a load of bollocks. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 31, 2018, 09:04:38 PM
I wish I had a reliable source
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: XXVilla on December 31, 2018, 09:08:03 PM
He’s sitting out his contract because he’s not fit enough/no one else will pay his wages. Simple really
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SoccerHQ on December 31, 2018, 09:32:19 PM
It's always been deliciously intriguing why the club has operated such a news blackout on him, The most I've heard Bruce comment was that he wasn't fit enough to play which is a sort of nothing statement. If someone at the club did sign him up after he failed a medical so we couldn't insure him, then surely those responsible are long gone and any embarrassment factor null and voided? Then you've got the media blackout, and considering it all went tits up for us last summer surely some journo would have run the Richards story under the financial mismanagement angle but not a dickie-bird. Very odd.

Wasn't their a story on him a few months ago? Apparently he still comes in to Bodymoor to train as his contract states he has to but he dosen't even train with the first team group now.

I just assume his knee is totally gone hence he wouldn't pass a medical so no interest in him from any club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on December 31, 2018, 09:36:08 PM
but we don't know if he is injured

if he was why don't they say he'l not play again,
 that would surely take some of the heat of him as it would be the reason for his long term no show



That we have played three right backs at centre half for the last three games, together with recalling a third choice centre half from a loan would suggest he’s not in the most stellar of football health.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CT on December 31, 2018, 09:39:07 PM
He's got to be up there in the top five worst signings the club has ever made.

Absolute leech.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on December 31, 2018, 10:05:46 PM
Guy on the other site reckons he's spent 18 months trying to prove his body wrong, but unfortunately for him he's done and won't play professional football again.

Supposedly very well liked etc. I have a sympathy of a degree, where regardless of what he's earnt, and he will leave the game a rich man, he's physically incapable of doing the job he loves and apparently has been since October 2012. That's a tough thing to deal with when you think you're in your prime years.

It's a tough business to crack and he's certainly drained us all of enough coin that is for certain, but none of us played football in our back gardens as children and dreamt about daft hair cuts and AMG Blacks.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 31, 2018, 10:10:54 PM
I do wonder if all that working out and becoming very un-football player like fucked him up along with the other serious injuries he’s had in his career? All that extra muscle can’t help with flexibility. There is no doubt he was an excellent prospect at Man City and for a while looked like he could be the England RB or CB for a while to come.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Lastfootstamper on December 31, 2018, 10:12:26 PM
but we don't know if he is injured

if he was why don't they say he'l not play again,
 that would surely take some of the heat of him as it would be the reason for his long term no show



That we have played three right backs at centre half for the last three games, together with recalling a third choice centre half from a loan would suggest he’s not in the most stellar of football health.

Smith when he first arrived, in BirminghamLive (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-defender-micah-richards-15291716.amp)
Quote
Dean Smith will monitor the fitness of Micah Richards in the coming months but admits he’s still some way off the pace at this stage.

...and will not be considered by Smith in the near future.

Richards has serious problems with his knee which is why former boss Steve Bruce chose not to select him.

Smith agrees that he’s also not at the level required to feature in the Championship.

I've come round to thinking that we took a huge gamble on him not being an irreparable crock, and we lost.

Four year contract. Jeez, what the hell were they thinking?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on December 31, 2018, 10:26:34 PM
Can only surmise that Sherwood pushed for his signing and as long as he got his "top, British professionals", in Richards and Lescott, he would put-up with the bevvy of Ligue 1 lads we decided to buy that summer.
Sherwood came out recently saying he didn't have a clue about any of the French players, he couldn't even remember/didn't know Henrik Almstad's surname. I blame him more than Micah for the transfer and a large part of our relegation can be put down to Tim the Twat.

Richards is able to talk to clubs from tomorrow, no doubt he'll be fighting them off with a shitty stick.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on December 31, 2018, 11:31:50 PM
Can only surmise that Sherwood pushed for his signing and as long as he got his "top, British professionals", in Richards and Lescott, he would put-up with the bevvy of Ligue 1 lads we decided to buy that summer.
Sherwood came out recently saying he didn't have a clue about any of the French players, he couldn't even remember/didn't know Henrik Almstad's surname. I blame him more than Micah for the transfer and a large part of our relegation can be put down to Tim the Twat.

Richards is able to talk to clubs from tomorrow, no doubt he'll be fighting them off with a shitty stick.

Remember reading that tripe from Sherwood recently. Fucking laughable. Likes of Amavi, Gueye, Traore and Veretout have all done ok post Villa. It was his buddies Lescott and Richards who used it as a pension fund.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Matt Collins on January 01, 2019, 09:02:58 AM
I wish someone would challenge sherwood on this

All those "data boys" signings have gone on to better things

Gestede, lescott, Richards were all rubbish
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: wittonwarrior on January 01, 2019, 09:06:09 AM
Is there anything born in Leeds that has never let us down?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Lastfootstamper on January 01, 2019, 09:45:12 AM
One broke our hearts.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Rudy65 on January 01, 2019, 01:21:06 PM
It's always been deliciously intriguing why the club has operated such a news blackout on him, The most I've heard Bruce comment was that he wasn't fit enough to play which is a sort of nothing statement. If someone at the club did sign him up after he failed a medical so we couldn't insure him, then surely those responsible are long gone and any embarrassment factor null and voided? Then you've got the media blackout, and considering it all went tits up for us last summer surely some journo would have run the Richards story under the financial mismanagement angle but not a dickie-bird. Very odd.

Wasn't their a story on him a few months ago? Apparently he still comes in to Bodymoor to train as his contract states he has to but he dosen't even train with the first team group now.

I just assume his knee is totally gone hence he wouldn't pass a medical so no interest in him from any club.

That can’t be the case. If he was finished because of his knee, it would be announced by the club and we would claim on the insurance. Unless his knee was uninsurable at the time we signed him
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mister E on January 01, 2019, 02:20:16 PM
It's always been deliciously intriguing why the club has operated such a news blackout on him, The most I've heard Bruce comment was that he wasn't fit enough to play which is a sort of nothing statement. If someone at the club did sign him up after he failed a medical so we couldn't insure him, then surely those responsible are long gone and any embarrassment factor null and voided? Then you've got the media blackout, and considering it all went tits up for us last summer surely some journo would have run the Richards story under the financial mismanagement angle but not a dickie-bird. Very odd.

Wasn't their a story on him a few months ago? Apparently he still comes in to Bodymoor to train as his contract states he has to but he dosen't even train with the first team group now.

I just assume his knee is totally gone hence he wouldn't pass a medical so no interest in him from any club.

That can’t be the case. If he was finished because of his knee, it would be announced by the club and we would claim on the insurance. Unless his knee was uninsurable at the time we signed him
I think that is point that several above have made: that DimTim bought a lemon knowing that it would put the club at risk.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: villasjf on January 15, 2019, 12:16:48 PM
Celtic being linked with him in The Birmingham mail how ridiculas is that wish it was true 
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on January 15, 2019, 12:22:04 PM
Please let it be true
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: manic-road on January 15, 2019, 01:39:25 PM
I just hope that no one from Celtic are looking at this thread and seeing what a world class talent and England international Micah Richards is or they will be putting in an offer over a fiver which may tempt the board to letting this huge talent leave.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on January 15, 2019, 01:41:08 PM
Unless Celtic are booking Santa early this year for thier Christmas party I think we can safely ignore.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on January 15, 2019, 01:50:45 PM
Sums up the Birmingham Mail, all for click bait!

He bloody well wouldn't know what a football is anymore!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Damo70 on January 15, 2019, 02:31:10 PM
It's always been deliciously intriguing why the club has operated such a news blackout on him, The most I've heard Bruce comment was that he wasn't fit enough to play which is a sort of nothing statement. If someone at the club did sign him up after he failed a medical so we couldn't insure him, then surely those responsible are long gone and any embarrassment factor null and voided? Then you've got the media blackout, and considering it all went tits up for us last summer surely some journo would have run the Richards story under the financial mismanagement angle but not a dickie-bird. Very odd.

Wasn't their a story on him a few months ago? Apparently he still comes in to Bodymoor to train as his contract states he has to but he dosen't even train with the first team group now.

I just assume his knee is totally gone hence he wouldn't pass a medical so no interest in him from any club.

That can’t be the case. If he was finished because of his knee, it would be announced by the club and we would claim on the insurance. Unless his knee was uninsurable at the time we signed him


I'm pretty sure we can't force him to quit and claim insurance on him unless he agrees to quit. I'm also pretty sure at least one doctor wrote Paul McGrath off and Ferguson was happy to take the insurance but McGrath wouldn't go along with it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: footyskillz on January 29, 2019, 11:05:46 PM
So it's a persistent knee injury that has prevented him from both playing or being moved on.

The report states "Richards has a persistent meniscus problem in his right knee - it can swell through exercise "  and "he is expected to reluctantly bring an end to his efforts once his Villa deal runs out in June".

He likely to stop altogether end of season according to report .

He's that chronic injured hes due to retirement

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6641229/Aston-Villas-Micah-Richards-heading-retirement-football.html
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheTimVilla on January 29, 2019, 11:19:46 PM
RIP Micha, he’s skeepin’ wiv da angles now XX
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villan For Life on January 29, 2019, 11:21:36 PM
So why doesn’t he retire now, get a payout and we can presumably claim on whatever player insurance we have?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on January 29, 2019, 11:35:12 PM
Club haven't binned him as it affects insurance it seems.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Duncan Shaw on January 30, 2019, 07:11:54 AM
Interesting article, presumably written from a Micah perspective, but the insight into us not wanting to let him go until the end of the contract is key - it would appear we can then do a claim maybe?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on January 30, 2019, 07:29:31 AM
Retiring at the end of the season? What a joke he retired as soon as he joined Villa. Waste of space comes easily to mind. His negative influence in the changing room in our relegation season and since should never be under-estimated. The sooner this d-ckhead is off our books the better.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on January 30, 2019, 08:35:30 AM
We better brace ourselves for him being  trollied out as a Villa *strangled laughter* ex player pundit on televised Villa games.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frank black on February 10, 2019, 01:44:57 PM
He’s a proper soldier, bless him.

Thanks for the nice words but I’m fully satisfied with how my career worked out,” Richards tweeted , in response to a Manchester City supporter.

“Injuries stopped me hitting more heights but how can I grumble at winning the Prem, playing in a different league and a tough mental challenge at Villa! I give 100% in everything I do! That’s enough.”
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on February 10, 2019, 01:50:48 PM
I hate Mica, but I hate Sherwood more for recruiting him. Coonts the pair of them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Steve67 on February 10, 2019, 05:40:07 PM
He’s a proper soldier, bless him.

Thanks for the nice words but I’m fully satisfied with how my career worked out,” Richards tweeted , in response to a Manchester City supporter.

“Injuries stopped me hitting more heights but how can I grumble at winning the Prem, playing in a different league and a tough mental challenge at Villa! I give 100% in everything I do! That’s enough.”

There are a couple of zeroes too many on that tweet I believe.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: CJ on February 10, 2019, 06:24:31 PM
Yeah, must be a real tough mental challenge at Villa, trying to keep a straight face while collecting his next weekly wedge and struggling to work out how much he's screwed out of us. Real tough life for him
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mcgrath_85 on February 10, 2019, 06:31:17 PM
Yeah, must be a real tough mental challenge at Villa, trying to keep a straight face while collecting his next weekly wedge and struggling to work out how much he's screwed out of us. Real tough life for him

Excellent.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: London Villan on February 10, 2019, 06:48:37 PM
Easily £3m, probably more like £5m.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: JJ-AV on February 10, 2019, 06:53:21 PM
Maybe it is his knee and he's just not been fit enough. He started off OK. I don't hate him at all, I had a perception he couldn't be arsed but if the lad is retiring then there must be something in it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: frank black on February 10, 2019, 07:01:32 PM
Maybe it is his knee and he's just not been fit enough. He started off OK. I don't hate him at all, I had a perception he couldn't be arsed but if the lad is retiring then there must be something in it.

😂
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: London Villan on February 10, 2019, 07:40:53 PM
Another charlatan who has rinsed the club over the last few years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on February 10, 2019, 09:07:17 PM
I don't like him, thought he was a poor choice as a centre back and would've loved us to have been able to cancel his contract when we came down but I don't think charlatan is fair. I think he'd like to play, there's been a number of comments that have suggested as much, but he's just incapable of it.

I have much more of an issue with the guy who decided to make him centre back and captain.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: tomd2103 on February 10, 2019, 10:43:29 PM
I don't like him, thought he was a poor choice as a centre back and would've loved us to have been able to cancel his contract when we came down but I don't think charlatan is fair. I think he'd like to play, there's been a number of comments that have suggested as much, but he's just incapable of it.

I have much more of an issue with the guy who decided to make him centre back and captain.

Not for me Paul.  Belongs firmly in the Hall of Shame alongside N'Zogbia, Ireland, McCormack and a number of others over the past few years.  Bet they cannot believe their luck.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brentastonb6 on February 11, 2019, 01:28:42 AM
I don't like him, thought he was a poor choice as a centre back and would've loved us to have been able to cancel his contract when we came down but I don't think charlatan is fair. I think he'd like to play, there's been a number of comments that have suggested as much, but he's just incapable of it.

I have much more of an issue with the guy who decided to make him centre back and captain.

Not for me Paul.  Belongs firmly in the Hall of Shame alongside N'Zogbia, Ireland, McCormack and a number of others over the past few years.  Bet they cannot believe their luck.
This.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on February 11, 2019, 02:30:21 AM
The difference between them is Richards isn't a waste of space by choice, that's all I mean.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Iamkmkm on February 11, 2019, 02:27:13 PM
A joke of a human being, should be sent to a labour camp in siberia.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on February 11, 2019, 06:02:33 PM
A joke of a human being, should be sent to a labour camp in siberia.

A bit extreme.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Hookeysmith on February 11, 2019, 07:06:40 PM
Was a piss poor decision by the club.
I don't think he has ever been fit enough to either play well or at all.
As for collecting his inflated salary as unpalatable as it is how many of us would give it up due to morally issues with taking it.

It's a shit deal all over and the sooner it end for everyone the better
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: cheltenhamlion on February 11, 2019, 07:12:34 PM
We knew he was fucked when we signed him but Sherwood was determined we needed that Premier League experience. He would also have done the entire transfer budget on wages for Aaron Lennon and silly money to sign Andros Townsend but that is another story.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: old man villa fan on February 11, 2019, 09:19:53 PM
We knew he was fucked when we signed him but Sherwood was determined we needed that Premier League experience. He would also have done the entire transfer budget on wages for Aaron Lennon and silly money to sign Andros Townsend but that is another story.

Don't forget Emmanuel as well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Jon Crofts on May 06, 2019, 10:02:56 PM
When is this useless barrel of monkey spunk actually off the payroll?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Mossie Hennebry on May 06, 2019, 10:50:13 PM
30th June next. Can you believe that he's only 30?!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: sid1964 on May 07, 2019, 06:44:42 AM
i bet Micah and McCormack are looking forward to their bonus IF we get promoted! - I should imagine that if we do get promoted that McCormack will get a pay rise for the final year of his contract?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brian green on May 07, 2019, 08:20:21 AM
I venture to suggest that if we had had a manager of Dean Smith's calibre to manage Richard's and McCormack neither of them would have turned out to be the total write offs that Richard's is and McCormack seems destined to become.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: eamonn on May 07, 2019, 08:34:30 AM
Did Micah make the lap of honour on Sunday?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on May 07, 2019, 08:45:31 AM
yes in a bullet proof car
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: UK Redsox on May 07, 2019, 08:45:58 AM
I venture to suggest that if we had had a manager of Dean Smith's calibre to manage Richard's and McCormack neither of them would have turned out to be the total write offs that Richard's is and McCormack seems destined to become.

I'll give you McCormack but I thought that Richards was injured.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on May 07, 2019, 08:49:29 AM

impossible to get a tune out of either for different reasons, although both were  damaged goods and we should never have gone after either of them. A fool and his money and all that?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: The Edge on May 07, 2019, 09:36:59 AM
I venture to suggest that if we had had a manager of Dean Smith's calibre to manage Richard's and McCormack neither of them would have turned out to be the total write offs that Richard's is and McCormack seems destined to become.

I'll give you McCormack but I thought that Richards was injured.
Compare this pair of clowns to Alan Hutton. Not the most talented but his attitude and professionalism really shows up these shitholes for the useless sacks of lard they are. Hutton has battled back numerous times after being written off. He even came back for one last game at Villa Park. Total respect to him. Zero respect to the other pair of tossers.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mike on May 07, 2019, 09:41:29 AM
If Richards genuinely has an injury, that is fair enough. If I had a three year contract of employment with no hope of ever getting another, I would sit it out too. If he hasn't then he's an absolute [insert chosen expletive].
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: brontebilly on May 07, 2019, 10:10:03 AM
If Richards genuinely has an injury, that is fair enough. If I had a three year contract of employment with no hope of ever getting another, I would sit it out too. If he hasn't then he's an absolute [insert chosen expletive].

Richards was damaged goods before we bought him. He barely played for City for a few years and bombed on loan at Fiorentina. Utterly useless. Cheers Tim.

McCormack was proven at our level ala Gayle or Grabban. However any sort of research before the transfer concluded should have identified his off field issues. Showing up to his medical fat as a fool should have seen us pull the plug there and then.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on May 07, 2019, 10:18:24 AM
When is this useless barrel of monkey spunk actually off the payroll?
.

End of June. So that's just a quarter of a million quid that we still owe him - mind boggling.

Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: paul_e on May 07, 2019, 10:30:09 AM
Richards is a waste of space but I don't blame him, he should never have been given sucha  big contract when there were clearly fitness issues.

McCormack is very different, I never wanted him because a player with his record having absolutely no interest from the premier league was a huge red flag (and we had Ayew and Grealish to play the same role). Looking at views on him from previous clubs as well I reckon everything that's happened since was fairly predictable, he was seemingly always 1 bad spell away from turning into the mess we have now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on May 28, 2019, 11:12:39 PM
2 more days.

I wish they'd do a proper send off for him down at Villa Park - you know, so we can all flick him the V's as he scuttles off to find his next "host"!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on May 29, 2019, 11:02:15 AM
2 more days.

I wish they'd do a proper send off for him down at Villa Park - you know, so we can all flick him the V's as he scuttles off to find his next "host"!

2 more days until what?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ads on May 29, 2019, 11:06:07 AM
He's going to be contracted until July.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on May 29, 2019, 12:26:44 PM
2 more days.

I wish they'd do a proper send off for him down at Villa Park - you know, so we can all flick him the V's as he scuttles off to find his next "host"!

2 more days until what?

Bugger!  You're right!  I'm willing a month away.

Okay, 32 more days...I still think we should have him in stocks outside the ground for us to throw rotten veg at though!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Oscar Arce on May 29, 2019, 03:26:12 PM
Anybody else notice the bloke jumping on Jack Grealish's back in the trophy celebration photos...?
Yes it was Michah Richards!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Axl Rose on May 29, 2019, 03:28:46 PM
Anybody else notice the bloke jumping on Jack Grealish's back in the trophy celebration photos...?
Yes it was Michah Richards!!

Haha. I noticed that, too. What a fucker.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: andyh on May 29, 2019, 03:30:46 PM
He must be being kept as the court jester
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PaulWinch again on May 29, 2019, 05:36:44 PM
If he’s genuinely injured I don’t blame him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: in exile on May 30, 2019, 08:26:06 AM
2 more days.

I wish they'd do a proper send off for him down at Villa Park - you know, so we can all flick him the V's as he scuttles off to find his next "host"!

2 more days until what?

Bugger!  You're right!  I'm willing a month away.

Okay, 32 more days...I still think we should have him in stocks outside the ground for us to throw rotten veg at though!

You silly billy!
I thought you had inside information for a while
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on May 30, 2019, 08:28:36 PM
I wish!

I'd love to see the useless, human money leech off the payroll a month early!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Des Little on May 30, 2019, 08:30:35 PM
‘Great in the dressing room’ apparently.

I’d be fookin amazing in there if I was getting £50k a week to do absolutely zero.

Roll on July.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: TheTimVilla on May 30, 2019, 10:03:06 PM
Like Bez, only a lazy fat wanker then
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: rob_bridge on May 30, 2019, 10:31:12 PM
He's a Leeds lad so ahould go back there.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on May 31, 2019, 11:19:26 AM
has he officially vacated the building yet? He's probably doing a Teresa May at BH clinging on to a door frame for dear life.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: richtheholtender on May 31, 2019, 11:38:52 AM
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20190630T00&p0=776&msg=Micah+Richards+Comes+Off+AVFC+Payroll&font=sanserif
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on May 31, 2019, 11:52:10 AM
has he officially vacated the building yet? He's probably doing a Teresa May at BH clinging on to a door frame for dear life.

Fucking leech!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on May 31, 2019, 11:55:36 AM
I'm amazed that the club couldn't have retired him early as he's clearly not been fit for the last 3 years. If he's not fit for the job he's paid for? I don't get it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: dave shelley on May 31, 2019, 12:24:41 PM
Perhaps some of the vitriol aimed at Richards on here might possibly be directed to some or all of the following:

a) The idiot that scouted him.

b) The idiot that signed him

c) The medicos that passed him fit for purpose.

d) The idiot that handed him that length of contract and the salary to accompany it

e) Add your own reason

It isn't all Richards' fault.  Put yourselves in his shoes, what would you do? *


*I have no love or liking for Richards one way or another, I'm just trying to look at it from both sides and I too will be glad when he's gone.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: SheffieldVillain on May 31, 2019, 12:32:57 PM
I'm all in favour of aiming some vitriol at Tim Sherwood. The twat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: danno on May 31, 2019, 12:40:10 PM
Perhaps some of the vitriol aimed at Richards on here might possibly be directed to some or all of the following:

a) The idiot that scouted him.

b) The idiot that signed him

c) The medicos that passed him fit for purpose.

d) The idiot that handed him that length of contract and the salary to accompany it

e) Add your own reason

It isn't all Richards' fault.  Put yourselves in his shoes, what would you do? *

*I have no love or liking for Richards one way or another, I'm just trying to look at it from both sides and I too will be glad when he's gone.

e) Di Matteo for blocking his move to West Ham. 😡 Arghh!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Damo70 on May 31, 2019, 12:40:56 PM
I see he played 26 games for us. Still more than Mike Pejic, Ivo Stas and David Unsworth put together to be fair ;)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on May 31, 2019, 12:46:01 PM
I see he played 26 games for us. Still more than Mike Pejic, Ivo Stas and David Unsworth put together to be fair ;)

They weren't on the equivalent of £60,000 per week then!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Somniloquism on May 31, 2019, 12:51:09 PM
I see he played 26 games for us. Still more than Mike Pejic, Ivo Stas and David Unsworth put together to be fair ;)

They weren't on the equivalent of £60,000 per week then!

Be surprised if all three combined were on that.  And "played" is also an exaggeration. He might have appeared on the pitch but actually games he tried and played might be half that at most.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on May 31, 2019, 12:54:12 PM
But at what point does your self-respect kick in and begin to see yourself as the useless, fat, lazy, waste of space piece of shite that everyone else sees. Yes there are others to blame but he's the one who's been running down the clock these last three years. Literally laughing all the way to the bank. The living embodiment of stealing a living.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: AV82EC on May 31, 2019, 12:58:04 PM
I'm all in favour of aiming some vitriol at Tim Sherwood. The twat.

Hear hear.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: mr underhill on May 31, 2019, 03:19:25 PM
Mica's cost per game must be up there with Andy Carroll's - about ten mill per game. Un-fucking-believable.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Somniloquism on May 31, 2019, 04:06:12 PM
I suspect if we had a documentary like the Sunderland one in the dark days, it would have shown a scene where the man in charge swears/runs into another room and smashes some furniture, then a caption pops up stating Micah Richards has decided to stay at the club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Tokyo Sexwhale on May 31, 2019, 04:08:29 PM
I'm amazed that the club couldn't have retired him early as he's clearly not been fit for the last 3 years. If he's not fit for the job he's paid for? I don't get it.

That's what surprises me - if he's genuinely injured and cannot play, then surely that is what insurance is for.

Do we not have insurance for players with career-ending injuries?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on May 31, 2019, 05:30:01 PM
I'm amazed that the club couldn't have retired him early as he's clearly not been fit for the last 3 years. If he's not fit for the job he's paid for? I don't get it.

That's what surprises me - if he's genuinely injured and cannot play, then surely that is what insurance is for.

Do we not have insurance for players with career-ending injuries?

We never insured him because no insurance company would accept the policy with his injuries at the time, basically we bought a crock and as others have suggested serious questions have to be asked as to why we carried on with the purchase?
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 01, 2019, 03:30:56 PM
Change the thread title to MICAH RICHARDS GONE

More celebrations this week. Will it never end
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: AsTallAsLions on June 01, 2019, 03:34:15 PM
Amen. FTF
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: ChicagoLion on June 01, 2019, 03:36:34 PM
I'm amazed that the club couldn't have retired him early as he's clearly not been fit for the last 3 years. If he's not fit for the job he's paid for? I don't get it.

That's what surprises me - if he's genuinely injured and cannot play, then surely that is what insurance is for.

Do we not have insurance for players with career-ending injuries?

We never insured him because no insurance company would accept the policy with his injuries at the time, basically we bought a crock and as others have suggested serious questions have to be asked as to why we carried on with the purchase?
Some still can not accept we bought a player without insurance, but that is exactly what we did.
This signing represents everything about how this club was being run.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Villafirst on June 01, 2019, 04:04:18 PM
A big fuck off Micah! Thanks for fleecing the club for 3 years!
£60k per week can be put to far better use!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: clash city rocker on June 01, 2019, 04:04:38 PM
The money we have spunked up the wall in the last 10 years is unbelievable.  If we had saved it we could probably have used it to tempt Messi to play for us for a season. Unbelievable bad management that nearly sent us under.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on June 01, 2019, 04:06:08 PM
FOMR!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: manic-road on June 01, 2019, 04:14:13 PM
I hope the days of signing injury plagued players are over with this manager and owners, can't believe how many millions have been wasted on the likes of MR.
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: Ad@m on June 01, 2019, 04:31:59 PM
2 more days.

I wish they'd do a proper send off for him down at Villa Park - you know, so we can all flick him the V's as he scuttles off to find his next "host"!

2 more days until what?

Bugger!  You're right!  I'm willing a month away.

Okay, 32 more days...I still think we should have him in stocks outside the ground for us to throw rotten veg at though!

Turns out I was right after all!!!  ;)
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: achilles on June 01, 2019, 04:46:03 PM
The nightmare of Micah Richards is finally over, amen to that!

I don't understand why the club should actually thank him for his services though, as he has blatantly taken the piss!
Title: Re: Micah Richards signed
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 01, 2019, 04:58:11 PM
Unless someone signs him I think we have to pay him for June as well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: achilles on June 01, 2019, 05:12:44 PM
Unless someone signs him I think we have to pay him for June as well.

Probably, he will need that extra month to stop himself from going homeless! (FOMR)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Smirker on June 01, 2019, 05:31:57 PM
Goodbye Micah. Thanks for the... erm... thanks!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: phantom limb on June 01, 2019, 05:35:24 PM
The end of an era.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Clark W Griswold on June 01, 2019, 05:37:35 PM
Joint worst signing I can ever remember with N Zogbia, Balaban not far behind.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Hinckley Dave on June 01, 2019, 06:24:12 PM
I've never agreed with the people who've said if they were the same as him and on a long contract, they'd see it out too, he was doing nothing wrong. He's got more money than any of us could ever dream of and if the bloke had one ounce of decency, respect, pride, once he'd realised he was not going to play again he would have offered to have his contract terminated. I would feel ashamed and embarrassed to ask a customer of mine for money for work I wasn't doing. The bloke is a stain thankfully now wiped away.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: London Villan on June 01, 2019, 06:27:01 PM
3 appearances in 3 years.  £6m - £7m in wages and a promotion bonus no doubt.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ian. on June 01, 2019, 06:35:26 PM
Thank fuck
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 01, 2019, 06:42:28 PM
I blame the idiots that thought a 4 year contract and big wages for a bloke that had hardly played for the previous 3 seasons was a good idea, especially if we couldn't insure him. I don't blame him for taking the money, especially if he knows he'll never play again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ian. on June 01, 2019, 06:44:24 PM
Yep your quite right PWS, however thankfully he’s off the books. What a bonkers period of time we’ve been through.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 01, 2019, 06:44:59 PM
Yep. Why on earth would he walk away as some have suggested he should have done? Fuck that. I wouldn't have. He's the embodiment of how poorly we were being run not just that summer but for a number of years. Total fucking chaos. Micah Richards probably couldn't believe his luck that some mugs came along and gave him this deal. And you had Tim Nice but Dim pushing for it and other "English lads". As a club we got just what we deserved.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: achilles on June 01, 2019, 06:54:13 PM
3 appearances in 3 years.  £6m - £7m in wages and a promotion bonus no doubt.

Just don't rub it in!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Hinckley Dave on June 01, 2019, 07:18:16 PM
Yep. Why on earth would he walk away as some have suggested he should have done? Fuck that. I wouldn't have. He's the embodiment of how poorly we were being run not just that summer but for a number of years. Total fucking chaos. Micah Richards probably couldn't believe his luck that some mugs came along and gave him this deal. And you had Tim Nice but Dim pushing for it and other "English lads". As a club we got just what we deserved.

I totally agree, the idiots who offered him that contract were just as bad. But, i'd still like to think if I had multi millions in the bank and set up for life, never had to worry about money again, i'd have the self pride and decency to turn round and say i'm obviously not going to be fit to see out this contract so im happy to end it a couple of years early. I just wouldn't feel right...but then that's perhaps one of the reasons why I've not got two shillings to rub together!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: AV82EC on June 01, 2019, 07:19:36 PM
We can thank Sherwood for this masterstroke. The gigantic twat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: old man villa fan on June 01, 2019, 08:13:12 PM
The end of an era.

Surely, end of an error!  A massive one.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Richard E on June 01, 2019, 08:40:58 PM
We should have an open top bus parade to celebrate this.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Pete3206 on June 01, 2019, 08:59:44 PM
115 professional appearances in the last 10 years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on June 01, 2019, 09:16:15 PM
When will the Testimonial date be announced?.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: adrenachrome on June 01, 2019, 09:22:20 PM
We can thank Sherwood for this masterstroke. The gigantic twat.

That seems to be the case, and I believe it to be so, but we may never know for sure.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: tomd2103 on June 01, 2019, 09:25:06 PM
We should have an open top bus parade to celebrate this.

The good news just keeps on coming at the moment.  McCormack next hopefully.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on June 01, 2019, 10:33:19 PM
I'm hoping that he visits this site once in a while in between counting his money. I've seen some bad'uns at Villa Park over the last 40 years but this guy has been the worst signing bar none. You have stained our jersey Micah ever since you signed that contract. A disgrace of a human being.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Des Little on June 01, 2019, 10:39:42 PM
By far our worst ever signing. A horror story.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on June 01, 2019, 11:18:05 PM
I'm hoping that he visits this site once in a while in between counting his money. I've seen some bad'uns at Villa Park over the last 40 years but this guy has been the worst signing bar none. You have stained our jersey Micah ever since you signed that contract. A disgrace of a human being.

He got paid a lot of money, hardly played and was shit when he did.Burn him at the stake!  And put out an APB on Habib Beye.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on June 01, 2019, 11:23:46 PM
Apologies Danno. I'm a postman.  A hard, physical proper job. And I would've given anything to just once pull on the jersey of Aston Villa. I have to work 2 years to equal what this f**ker makes in a week. So forgive me If I take offence at a clown taking the piss out of my team.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on June 02, 2019, 12:02:20 AM
Apologies Danno. I'm a postman.  A hard, physical proper job. And I would've given anything to just once pull on the jersey of Aston Villa. I have to work 2 years to equal what this f**ker makes in a week. So forgive me If I take offence at a clown taking the piss out of my team.

I'm not certain what offers he will have turned down to come here, but that's the crux of it. He will have come here ahead of everywhere else because we agreed to pay him 60k a week for 4 years.  We knew about his injuries, knew we couldn't insure him, and went ahead and made the deal anyway.

We can't realistically expect him to tear it up because our gamble didn't come off. Especially not after we block a move to West Ham.

His only crime as I see it is holding us to a contract we agreed to pay and having a cracking agent.

He's gone now though. So Hooray!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 02, 2019, 12:08:40 AM
Sunderland supposedly offered him more but he chose us. Yay us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: shirley_villan on June 02, 2019, 12:13:58 AM
Fuck me, I've just watched that Bad Santa video again just to anger myself at this ****** one last time. Painful.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: tony scott on June 02, 2019, 12:19:13 AM
Interesting theory that we couldn’t get him insured ,why wasn’t his contracted based upon the amount of appearances he made? just a thought
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SheffieldVillain on June 02, 2019, 12:21:10 AM
Interesting theory that we couldn’t get him insured ,why wasn’t his contracted based upon the amount of appearances he made? just a thought

Because we had an incompetent CEO and a halfwit as manager.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Lastfootstamper on June 02, 2019, 12:23:54 AM
Interesting theory that we couldn’t get him insured ,why wasn’t his contracted based upon the amount of appearances he made? just a thought

Because we had an incompetent CEO and a halfwit as manager.


I was going to say something much more sweary, but I'll go with yours.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT on June 02, 2019, 07:53:20 AM
I guess my overriding memory of him will be arguing with our fans at Wycombe while Guzan and Lescott fucked about on the bench.

...and missing an open goal at VP.

So thankful those horror days are over.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on June 02, 2019, 08:16:08 AM
That missed goal has to be his epitaph.  The ball was three quarters over the line but somehow, I do not know how, he defied the laws of the universe by hurling himself at it and putting  it out for a goal kick.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: OzVilla on June 02, 2019, 09:12:50 AM
Sunderland supposedly offered him more but he chose us. Yay us.

In fairness had Sunderland been lumbered with him I think it'd sent some of the mackems off the harbour wall.  Only bit of luck they've had in years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Dave on June 02, 2019, 09:29:47 AM
Interesting theory that we couldn’t get him insured ,why wasn’t his contracted based upon the amount of appearances he made? just a thought

Because had we offered that he would have said no and gone elsewhere.

Which would obviously have been a good thing, but not in the eyes of the halfwits who wanted to persuade him to sign for us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: colin69 on June 02, 2019, 01:33:31 PM
Terrible signing, I bet the club are glad to see the back of him. I know I am.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: hilts_coolerking on June 02, 2019, 01:36:08 PM
It was a terrible signing.  I'm sure he's not a terrible person.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: UK Redsox on June 02, 2019, 01:44:11 PM
It was a terrible signing.  I'm sure he's not a terrible person.

I agree. Apart from the Wycombe events, I don't recall Richards doing/saying anything out of place.

The bloke got injured and couldn't play. It's not his fault that Villa offered him a daft contract and, apparently, couldn't get him insured.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Hinckley Dave on June 02, 2019, 03:01:44 PM
Do we know he was injured, or just not fit to play? There's a difference. You could say that Chester was both, injured and unfit to play but he has a different character obviously.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 02, 2019, 03:11:01 PM
His injury is something I think I can relate to. The reason I came to the US initially before Canada is I played football (ours that is) and for a scholarship out here. Things were going along just fine until I suffered a meniscus tear in my left knee. Not your bog standard clean up job which most of them tend to be either. It was a clean tear where the cartilage essentially snapped to the back of my knee. I had 3 surgery’s in total but in the end the surgeon told me there is no way to recover what was lost. So essentially I now have bone on bone contact at the front and sides of my knee. I get a gel injection to help cushion the blow but competitive sports where there is a lot of running and twisting is completely out of the question.

Now I don’t know if that’s what Micah has. But his injury is a meniscus condition and it’s one that generally won’t heal with time or treatment. So it could be that he can’t fix it and he can’t get fit and he’s on a fucking massive contract that both sides can’t just walk away from. He’ll retire after this I imagine.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithe on June 02, 2019, 03:15:36 PM
A monumental waste of money but for a short initial spell, he did very well at centre half.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Hinckley Dave on June 02, 2019, 03:18:00 PM
That sounds nasty Toronto, hope it's not too bad for you. If he has genuinely got a serious injury like that then ok, I wouldn't be too hard on him. I was just under the impression he was just generally unfit and not really trying too hard to actually get fit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on June 02, 2019, 03:19:47 PM
Do we know he was injured, or just not fit to play? There's a difference. You could say that Chester was both, injured and unfit to play but he has a different character obviously.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6641229/Aston-Villas-Micah-Richards-heading-retirement-football.html

"Richards has a persistent meniscus problem in his right knee - it can swell through exercise - and while he has been determined to return to action he is expected to reluctantly bring an end to his efforts once his Villa deal runs out in June."

"On medical advice Smith has continued Bruce's policy of omitting Richards, who has not been named in a Villa squad for 16 months."

"It is understood talks last year to allow Richards to become a free agent were undermined because insurance premiums would not cover Villa, who were therefore happy to keep him on the books for the duration of his contract."



Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 02, 2019, 03:22:03 PM
That sounds nasty Toronto, hope it's not too bad for you. If he has genuinely got a serious injury like that then ok, I wouldn't be too hard on him. I was just under the impression he was just generally unfit and not really trying too hard to actually get fit.

Cheers Dave. Just means today I don’t play anymore and have to manage my exercise to that which limits impact on my knee. Golf is as much as I muster now :)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: john2710 on June 02, 2019, 03:40:38 PM
We've only got ourselves to blame if we signed a crock. You can't blame Richards if we signed him knowing the problems he had.

McCormack is a different story, he's just not interested in playing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on June 02, 2019, 04:50:22 PM
Jelly and ice cream.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on June 02, 2019, 04:56:08 PM
With hundreds and thousands sprinkles.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Kimaster1976 on June 02, 2019, 07:24:12 PM
Not a single one of us who got injured in our jobs and couldnt work for the last 3 years of our contracts but would get paid anyway would walk away. Richards just sums up the ridiculous way the club was run in those last dying days of our last Premier League tenure.

McCormack seemed very interested and motivated to play football in Austrailia and Scotland in the last year. Its just the minute he's within 10 metres of Villa Park he becomes a different person. Which is bizarre considering the riches and glory for him would be far greater here. He really seemed to start hating this club a month or 2 after arriving and id love to know why.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Tokyo Sexwhale on June 02, 2019, 08:47:34 PM
It was a terrible signing.  I'm sure he's not a terrible person.

I agree. Apart from the Wycombe events, I don't recall Richards doing/saying anything out of place.

The bloke got injured and couldn't play. It's not his fault that Villa offered him a daft contract and, apparently, couldn't get him insured.

He was photographed doing a "Zulu" sign with a Blues fan - though it's possible he was tricked into it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on June 02, 2019, 08:53:39 PM
Just reading Brian Little's book at the mo. He was forced to retire from football due to a knee injury. He took a payout from Villa and started working behind the scenes eg in the commercial dpt; in the ticket office; selling Villa lottery tkts in clubs. Little is a legend for a number of reasons!
Sure nice but dim and the Villa board at the time have a lot to answer for where MR is concerned, but what has he done in the last 3 years besides not playing football? What community work has he done? Has he gone into schools? How has he impacted on youngsters coming through at BMH? I'd like to think I keep up to date on all Villa news and I've heard nothing about MR! In my view he is a waste and I'll be so glad when he's gone; the last of the despicable 7 from our relegation season.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT Villan on June 02, 2019, 08:55:23 PM
Cheers Dave. Just means today I don’t play anymore and have to manage my exercise to that which limits impact on my knee. Golf is as much as I muster now :)

I seem to remember you charging around all over the pitch when we played the Columbus Crew employee team in the good old days :) Though I am getting old, so flatulence and memory-loss are on the increase.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 02, 2019, 09:22:39 PM
Haha that was a brilliant time wasn’t it? Are you going to Minnesota?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: themossman on June 02, 2019, 10:38:06 PM
I didn’t realise there was a proper statement on the players released, and it’s great that the list is clearly in descending order of importance.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KRS on June 02, 2019, 10:41:46 PM
Good riddance. Another waste of financial resource off the payroll.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT Villan on June 03, 2019, 01:11:32 AM
Haha that was a brilliant time wasn’t it? Are you going to Minnesota?

It was a great time indeed !

I would like to go to Minnesota, but haven't seen any details so I'm not entirely certain yet.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 03, 2019, 01:20:24 AM
Haha that was a brilliant time wasn’t it? Are you going to Minnesota?

It was a great time indeed !

I would like to go to Minnesota, but haven't seen any details so I'm not entirely certain yet.
Haha that was a brilliant time wasn’t it? Are you going to Minnesota?

It was a great time indeed !

I would like to go to Minnesota, but haven't seen any details so I'm not entirely certain yet.

I’m going to be hanging out with the Chicago gang. You might remember Simon (Chicago Villa I think - he’s not been on here in a good while) who helped me organize the game. My ticket says Gate NE, Section 108 Row 20. Of you go Stubhub or even the Minnesota website you should be able to find info. I thought the club were also doing something so we could stay at the hotel with the players or be involved in events. I won’t be getting there until early afternoon on the 17th and flying back home the following morning.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT Villan on June 03, 2019, 02:17:52 AM
Cheers mate ! Unfortunately I think we are away then, but will check. In the meantime here's a golden oldie (apologies for diluting the original topic)...


(https://i.ibb.co/8PLcQtc/villaal8.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8PLcQtc)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 03, 2019, 02:22:16 AM
Superb. Man have the years flown. If you are able to make it over PM me. It would be great to catch up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: olaftab on June 03, 2019, 02:23:27 AM
After Andy Ruiz victory there is still lot of hope for you guys.:)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on June 03, 2019, 02:24:58 AM
All of us built like Tyrone Olly. Not sure what you’re on about.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: UK Redsox on June 03, 2019, 11:34:17 AM
Cheers mate ! Unfortunately I think we are away then, but will check. In the meantime here's a golden oldie (apologies for diluting the original topic)...


(https://i.ibb.co/8PLcQtc/villaal8.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8PLcQtc)


Classic team photo. Players looking in various directions and one bloke looking completely the wrong way :)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: usav on June 03, 2019, 12:23:55 PM
Cheers mate ! Unfortunately I think we are away then, but will check. In the meantime here's a golden oldie (apologies for diluting the original topic)...


(https://i.ibb.co/8PLcQtc/villaal8.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8PLcQtc)


That was a great day!   I have no idea what the score was, it didn't matter.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: four fornicholl on June 03, 2019, 07:14:38 PM
Cheers mate ! Unfortunately I think we are away then, but will check. In the meantime here's a golden oldie (apologies for diluting the original topic)...


(https://i.ibb.co/8PLcQtc/villaal8.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8PLcQtc)


Classic team photo. Players looking in various directions and one bloke looking completely the wrong way :)
Andy Gray springs to mind.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Jon Crofts on June 09, 2019, 08:17:23 PM
Thanks for everything Micah. 
(https://i.ibb.co/4f2DwmZ/76244-ECB-3341-4-C52-99-ED-12-BDC7-DD33-F8.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4f2DwmZ)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ads on June 09, 2019, 08:52:48 PM
A packet of biscuits appears to have caught his eye in that photo.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Dazvillain on June 09, 2019, 09:47:45 PM
Thanks for everything Micah. 
(https://i.ibb.co/4f2DwmZ/76244-ECB-3341-4-C52-99-ED-12-BDC7-DD33-F8.jpg) (https://ibb.co/4f2DwmZ)


Captains armband ! I missed that one
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: hilts_coolerking on June 09, 2019, 10:07:19 PM
A packet of biscuits appears to have caught his eye in that photo.
He's running away from some salad.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 30, 2019, 07:06:57 PM
And today is, as far as I know, the last day that we pay him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on June 30, 2019, 07:09:06 PM
I hope they remembered to get a card.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: aev on June 30, 2019, 07:09:29 PM
That explains why he didn’t play. What was he in for?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 30, 2019, 07:12:46 PM
I hope they remembered to get a card.

Nope, a cake.

(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/0e/c6/ff/0ec6ff6451ceddaefeeb0194d8f30048--cake-stuff-my-dad.jpg)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on June 30, 2019, 07:50:47 PM
F.O.M.R!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Border villan on July 01, 2019, 11:19:25 AM
Today will be forever remembered as “Free from Micah and his wages” day.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 01, 2019, 12:26:31 PM
We haven't won a game since he left! Come back, Micah!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Villafirst on July 01, 2019, 07:32:38 PM
Mods please lock this thread! Or erase it completely, I don't want to be reminded of this useless waste of space again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on July 01, 2019, 07:40:46 PM
You probably shouldn't have bumped it back up the page then  :P
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: JUAN PABLO on July 26, 2019, 01:39:27 PM
well hes retired  so probably wont hear much of him again.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Russ aka Big Nose on July 26, 2019, 01:45:41 PM
well hes retired  so probably wont hear much of him again.



The final ignominy will be Sky or BT Sport wheeling him out to be the Villa-related pundit for televised matches.  >:(
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Tuscans on July 26, 2019, 01:46:12 PM
Micah Richards has called time on his playing career.

The City fan favourite and Premier League winner announced his decision after losing a lengthy battle with an injured knee.

His football journey, that took him from Oldham to City, abroad to Italy and back to Aston Villa, ends at the age of 31.

He will now concentrate on his business interests and will be back working with the Premier League champions in an ad hoc off-the-field role.

“Once a blue, always a blue,” he declared today with the trademark grin that made him so popular with peers and supporters alike.

“City has always been my spiritual home and where I enjoyed my best years as a player. Being part of the side that ended the long wait for silverware - in 2011 and 2012 - was very special. It kick-started this new era and the club has never looked back. What has happened since has been amazing.

“I feel lucky to have been asked back to help spread the City message and can’t wait to get going. I know it will be fun because City fans are incredible and always have been.”

Richards, who made his England debut in 2006 as an 18-year-old, hasn’t pulled on a football shirt in anger since 2016. A persistent knee problem just wouldn’t play ball and he admitted it has been hugely frustrating.
He was, however, at Wembley earlier this year to celebrate promotion with his Villa team-mates.

“I’m a footballer and I want to play football, but the knee would swell up to the point where I couldn’t even train properly,” he reflected. “I would have liked to have given Aston Villa more on the pitch, but it just wasn’t to be.

“Villa is a fantastic club, a very big club in all senses of the word and a great source of pride to the supporters. They looked after me very well and I have nothing but positive words to say about boss Dean Smith who was very positive and inclusive.

“It was great to be back at Wembley for the play-off final and celebrate with the team. It didn’t look great at one point earlier in the campaign, but everyone came together to produce the best end possible to the season. I wish everyone all the best for the return to the Premier League.”     

The Leeds-raised Richards joined City at 14-years-old. Spotted playing for Oldham, he elected to join the then Platt Lane revolution because of City’s reputation for nurturing raw talent.

His power and physique meant he stood out among his intake from an early age and despite being the heart and soul of the 2005/06 Under-18 team seemingly headed for FA Youth Cup glory but, pipped at the post, he was fast-tracked into the first team by former manager Stuart Pearce.
Richards made his first-team debut at Highbury as a substitute during a 1-0 defeat to Arsenal – the team he supported as a kid - in October 2005.

Aged just 17, he was one of the youngest debutants in the club’s history and later that season he scored his first goal, a dramatic last-second header, ironically against Aston Villa, in an FA Cup fifth-round tie in the Midlands.

The unscripted, unfettered post-match interview that followed was the stuff of legend, landing him in hot-water and garnering affection in equal measure.

Richards never looked back at City. His debut for England Under-21s came against Moldova In August 2006, and a full England cap came in a 1-1 draw with Holland not long after, when at just 18-years-old, he became the youngest defender to represent the Three Lions, taking that record off cross-town rival Rio Ferdinand.

Injuries and the form of Pablo Zabaleta eventually meant Richards spent a year on loan at Fiorentina in Italy’s Serie A and he moved to Aston Villa in June 2015 after nearly 250 appearances in a City shirt.
Injury sidelined him for much of his stay in the Midlands and he managed only 31 starts in the past four seasons.

“It’s not the ideal way to finish a career for sure,” concluded the defender. “I’d much rather have said goodbye in the way Vinny (Kompany) did in his last few games for City but it wasn’t to be.

“It has been an unequal battle with injury ever since I left City and – being honest - for a good while during my last season at the Etihad.

“I finish my playing days happy that I reached the level that I did. I won the Premier League and the FA Cup, played for England and represented Great Britain at an Olympic games. I consider myself blessed and I am looking forward to renewing my many friendships at City. It is a special place that looks after its own.

“Whether I eventually take coaching badges and stay on that side of the game may be a decision for another time.”

 City fans will get the chance to see Micah one more time in sky blue on the pitch when he returns to the Etihad in September for Vincent Kompany’s testimonial.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Villan For Life on July 26, 2019, 01:47:20 PM
Thought he retired years ago.....
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT Villan on July 26, 2019, 01:55:11 PM
Micah Richards, the 'man' that made Darren Anderton look like an ever-present.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on July 26, 2019, 03:08:45 PM
Winston Bogarde had nothing on this guy. When I think back on the horrendous last 7-8 years we have endured, this guy is the poster boy for it. A disgrace of a person, signed by a disgrace of a manager, bankrolled by morons. As a new season is about to begin, a personal plea to Dean to please ensure we never return to those days, and we never sign the like of Micah Richards again. I also hope you're reading this fat boy, sitting in your City shirt. But I doubt it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 26, 2019, 03:20:05 PM
He signed a contract offered to him. He saw out a contract that the club offered him. That we had idiots in charge at the time that gave him that contract wasn’t his fault. He shouldn’t have walked away from it. He got injured. Something that if the club did their due diligence on would almost have been deemed inevitable. A disgrace is a player who disrespects the club and fans. To the best of my knowledge Richards never did that publicly. You can question whether he was committed when he did play or if his character was a detriment or not. By all accounts he was a positive influence most of the time.

The bottom line is we should never have signed him. But I don’t begrudge him a penny of a ludicrous contract that was offered to him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Dave P on July 26, 2019, 03:44:20 PM
Winston Bogarde had nothing on this guy. When I think back on the horrendous last 7-8 years we have endured, this guy is the poster boy for it.

Tragically, there is stiff competition for this accolade. Ireland, N’Zogbia, Lescott, McCormack. Richards does take some beating though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: john e on July 26, 2019, 04:00:31 PM
Winston Bogarde had nothing on this guy. When I think back on the horrendous last 7-8 years we have endured, this guy is the poster boy for it.

Tragically, there is stiff competition for this accolade. Ireland, N’Zogbia, Lescott, McCormack. Richards does take some beating though.

Nzogbia for me because he wasn’t injured just couldn’t be arsed
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: hilts_coolerking on July 26, 2019, 04:06:40 PM
I agree with TV: Richards didn't do much, if anything, wrong.  He should never have been signed in the first place.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: not3bad on July 26, 2019, 04:27:53 PM
A disgrace is a player who disrespects the club and fans.

Like tweeting a picture of your new motor just after you've been beaten 6-0. Or was it 6-1? Anyway around that score.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Reuben on July 26, 2019, 04:30:29 PM
the trademark grin that made him so popular with peers and supporters alike.



What?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Smirker on July 26, 2019, 04:33:58 PM
A disgrace is a player who disrespects the club and fans.

Like tweeting a picture of your new motor just after you've been beaten 6-0. Or was it 6-1? Anyway around that score.

That was Lescott tbf.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 26, 2019, 04:34:55 PM
Micah the Magnificent.

We shall not see his like again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dave shelley on July 26, 2019, 04:35:37 PM
He signed a contract offered to him. He saw out a contract that the club offered him. That we had idiots in charge at the time that gave him that contract wasn’t his fault. He shouldn’t have walked away from it. He got injured. Something that if the club did their due diligence on would almost have been deemed inevitable. A disgrace is a player who disrespects the club and fans. To the best of my knowledge Richards never did that publicly. You can question whether he was committed when he did play or if his character was a detriment or not. By all accounts he was a positive influence most of the time.

The bottom line is we should never have signed him. But I don’t begrudge him a penny of a ludicrous contract that was offered to him.

Definitely my thinking on this.  It was offered and he accepted.  He would have been as mad as those that offered it to him if he'd turned it down.  He's made for life; something most of us can only dream of, more fool Aston Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Smirker on July 26, 2019, 04:35:45 PM
Winston Bogarde had nothing on this guy. When I think back on the horrendous last 7-8 years we have endured, this guy is the poster boy for it. A disgrace of a person, signed by a disgrace of a manager, bankrolled by morons. As a new season is about to begin, a personal plea to Dean to please ensure we never return to those days, and we never sign the like of Micah Richards again. I also hope you're reading this fat boy, sitting in your City shirt. But I doubt it.

 ;D

Tbh I agree with TV and Hilts. I'm annoyed at the signing not the player or the man.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: not3bad on July 26, 2019, 04:46:00 PM
A disgrace is a player who disrespects the club and fans.

Like tweeting a picture of your new motor just after you've been beaten 6-0. Or was it 6-1? Anyway around that score.

That was Lescott tbf.

Yes I know. I used that example because I don't think Richards was the worst of the bunch.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on July 26, 2019, 04:50:03 PM
He was shit. Thank McGrath he was injured or we'd have felt compelled to pick him.

My only crumb of comfort was we didn't pay a transfer fee.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Smirker on July 26, 2019, 04:56:59 PM
A disgrace is a player who disrespects the club and fans.

Like tweeting a picture of your new motor just after you've been beaten 6-0. Or was it 6-1? Anyway around that score.

That was Lescott tbf.

Yes I know. I used that example because I don't think Richards was the worst of the bunch.

Sorry, my mistake.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: papa lazarou on July 26, 2019, 05:05:30 PM
“Villa is a fantastic club, a very big club in all senses of the word and a great source of pride to the supporters. They looked after me very well......."

They certainly did.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on July 26, 2019, 05:26:02 PM
Waste of space. I'm glad he's no longer associated with our great club! IMO he's one of the worst players ever to play and captain Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on July 26, 2019, 05:30:01 PM
Not sure how you can hate the guy. The club should have done its due diligence before signing a player who couldn’t play anymore. I don’t blame him for signing the contract, he likely signed in hope that he could have an injury free period and contribute. Whether he was motivated enough may well come down to the fact that he continually struggled with injury.

Disappointing signing, but struggling to summon much bile towards Micah.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on July 26, 2019, 05:59:50 PM
What would most people do in his position?
Return the wages?
Of course they wouldn’t.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: john e on July 26, 2019, 06:23:56 PM
I sometimes have a problem with younger players who choose to sit on the sidelines rather than move for less money and play football
It’s their career you only get one and to sit it out and rather collect money than play football is a waste

However in Micah’s case anyone thinking he should have just walked away into nothingness and not get paid for the last two seasons whilst injured knowing he’s going to be finished when it’s over is a nutter
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Pat McMahon on July 26, 2019, 06:37:35 PM
I agree with TV: Richards didn't do much, if anything, wrong.  He should never have been signed in the first place.

My take on this too.

Can't blame him for seeing out his contract and taking what was due to him. All the club's fault here.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 26, 2019, 06:48:24 PM
I agree with TV: Richards didn't do much, if anything, wrong.  He should never have been signed in the first place.

My take on this too.

Can't blame him for seeing out his contract and taking what was due to him. All the club's fault here.

And as John points out anyone who thinks he should have done the “honourable” thing and walked away is bonkers. None of us would just forgo a fraction of what he’s on. Fuck that. Pay up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Russ aka Big Nose on July 26, 2019, 08:47:25 PM
What would most people do in his position?
Return the wages?
Of course they wouldn’t.


The club will, I assume, have made a number of offers to pay him off and bearing in mind he was already very wealthy he could have moved on rather than take every penny.

Or maybe he is a lovely fella who liked the canteen food and didn't want to pay for his own gym membership.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: richtheholtender on July 26, 2019, 08:51:41 PM
I know it didn’t  work out but if an English centre back/right back, recently won the league, has played at a high level for England and available on a free came available again, I still think it’s worth the gamble.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: richtheholtender on July 26, 2019, 08:52:29 PM
In his prime at 26 as well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: rob_bridge on July 26, 2019, 08:54:01 PM
Richards can fuck off and if I never hear his name again I will be happy.

That said it wasn't the lazy underperforming turd's fault he was given a huge contract by an even bigger load of turds
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Villan For Life on July 26, 2019, 09:00:19 PM
So who is worse? A player who struggled with injury who with hindsight we shouldn’t have signed or his former teammate who struggled with Twitter and treated the club with contempt?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: rob_bridge on July 26, 2019, 09:05:18 PM
So who is worse? A player who struggled with injury who with hindsight we shouldn’t have signed or his former teammate who struggled with Twitter and treated the club with contempt?

I am not on twitter and there are several others who treated the club with contempt.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Lastfootstamper on July 26, 2019, 09:06:47 PM
What would most people do in his position?
Return the wages?
Of course they wouldn’t.


The club will, I assume, have made a number of offers to pay him off and bearing in mind he was already very wealthy he could have moved on rather than take every penny.

You could assume that, but you'd be wrong.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Villan For Life on July 26, 2019, 09:07:24 PM
So who is worse? A player who struggled with injury who with hindsight we shouldn’t have signed or his former teammate who struggled with Twitter and treated the club with contempt?

I am not on twitter and there are several others who treated the club with contempt.

See Lescott, J
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: rob_bridge on July 26, 2019, 09:10:43 PM
So who is worse? A player who struggled with injury who with hindsight we shouldn’t have signed or his former teammate who struggled with Twitter and treated the club with contempt?

I am not on twitter and there are several others who treated the club with contempt.

See Lescott, J

Lescott behaviour didn't cost as much is the only saving grace. A few others to add to the list Steven Fucking Ireland, Gabby post 2014/15.... and all the dullards who paid these wasters 40-60k per week often over several years.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on July 26, 2019, 10:41:58 PM
What would most people do in his position?
Return the wages?
Of course they wouldn’t.


The club will, I assume, have made a number of offers to pay him off and bearing in mind he was already very wealthy he could have moved on rather than take every penny.

You could assume that, but you'd be wrong.
We could not afford to take the contract hit so it was necessary to run down his contract.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: robbo1874 on July 26, 2019, 10:55:26 PM
Reading the last few pages of this thread has changed my thinking a bit. He’s admitted he was injured in his last year or so at City. Fine, take a gamble on him coming good, but surely only a one year deal, two maximum. The club were bonkers to do that deal. Ah well, he’s gone now, to spread the message of his beloved Arsenal, erm I mean City. Jesus.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ColinMac on July 26, 2019, 11:49:19 PM
Remember watching him and Ishmael Miller playing for Man City reserve against Villa at Bescot , both of them were head and shoulders above anyone on the pitch, Richards looked a world beater at 18, was excited when he signed as thought he could still be a decent player for us, injuries caught up with him,I wish him well with his post football career.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brend'Watkins on July 27, 2019, 12:19:56 AM
He knew he was way past his best when he signed. He knew he was still feeling the effects of injury and knew all this as he laughed his head off in disbelief doing his secret Santa. The only positive thing I could say about him is that he was marginally more effective for us than Ivo Stass. I wish him nothing with the rest of his career which is as much as he’s given us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ColinMac on July 27, 2019, 12:22:31 AM
Was he supposed to sit around and be a miserable fucker?
He tried he couldn’t do it, he wanted to do it and couldn’t, Villa could have paid him off any time in the last 3 years and didn’t which suggest some pretty major fuck ups in our due diligence when we signed him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: aj2k77 on July 27, 2019, 01:54:36 AM
Massive fucking prick. He can do one. Don't give a fuck about the injury, contract, sob stories. He was useless.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on July 27, 2019, 05:56:17 AM
Massive fucking prick. He can do one. Don't give a fuck about the injury, contract, sob stories. He was useless.

I completely agree.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KRS on July 27, 2019, 07:14:33 AM
It’s the clubs fault for signing him in full knowledge of his injury record, but this pretty much sums up Micah fuckin Richards:

parasite
/ˈparəsʌɪt/
noun: parasite; plural noun: parasites

1.
an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.
"the parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes"

2.
DEROGATORY
a person who habitually relies on or exploits others and gives nothing in return.
"the capitalist is really a parasite on the workers"

3.
disapproving
a person who is lazy and lives by other people working, giving them money, etc.:
“Financial speculators are parasites on the national economy.”

4.
Wanker. Fuck right off.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: mr underhill on July 27, 2019, 07:19:16 AM
Kelly and crew were talking about this last night on Talkshite. Needless to say they were talking shite.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: old man villa fan on July 27, 2019, 09:02:36 AM
Was he supposed to sit around and be a miserable fucker?
He tried he couldn’t do it, he wanted to do it and couldn’t, Villa could have paid him off any time in the last 3 years and didn’t which suggest some pretty major fuck ups in our due diligence when we signed him.

Can't disagree about the mistakes we made when we signed him.  As we saw how close we were to the financial cliff-edge, we couldn't afford to take the single financial hit and had to defer the contractual payments as long as possible.

I don't think any of us know how hard he actually tried to get fit. He seemed to be carrying a lot of weight when he was playing for us compared with when he left Man City. Attitude plays a big part and, again, I do not know how he reacted to medical advice/fitness regime.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 27, 2019, 01:31:45 PM
Micah on TS apologizing for his time at the club

https://twitter.com/talksport/status/1155090059097456640?s=12
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: D.boy on July 27, 2019, 07:22:08 PM
The people that offered him that contract have gone, Richards has gone, close that negative chapter and lets focus on the positivity of moving forwards with the current squad and owners. I don't think those sort of mistakes will be repeated.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: The Edge on July 28, 2019, 08:20:42 AM
The people that offered him that contract have gone, Richards has gone, close that negative chapter and lets focus on the positivity of moving forwards with the current squad and owners. I don't think those sort of mistakes will be repeated.
Well said. Onwards and upwards for AVFC.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brassneck on July 28, 2019, 08:34:08 AM
The people that offered him that contract have gone, Richards has gone, close that negative chapter and lets focus on the positivity of moving forwards with the current squad and owners. I don't think those sort of mistakes will be repeated.
Well said. Onwards and upwards for AVFC.

Couldn't agree more.  You win some and you lose some and looking at the positive side, for every Richards, there's a SJM.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Clark W Griswold on July 28, 2019, 08:56:12 AM
I've worked with worse. Very rarely, but i have. One or two that fit the parasite description very nicely.

The main problem is that shit regime giving him a contract. He alienated most Villa supporters that saw that secret santa video of him laughing hysterically and sounding like a parrot being murdered. This when we were already pretty much already relegated at that point.

Since then he's really just been in the background and we don't know the goings on and his day to day attitude so a lot of it is assumptions. I think if Mings for example had a brilliant season this season and contributed greatly to us finishing mid table on top of contributing greatly to us going up, and then having 2 years afterwards on full pay whilst injured i don't think many would be moaning.
It's the fact that Richards has hardly played for us, been shite when he has, and seemed to be one of the couldn't give a toss we're going down brigade in that season before sitting it out for 3 years thereafter.
But as pointed out, it's not effected us too much, we're on the up now and look the strongest we have since 5 years before he even came.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithe on July 28, 2019, 08:58:55 AM
He was actually pretty good when he first came here for a period, not so good after that.

*English understatement*
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Clark W Griswold on July 28, 2019, 09:04:33 AM
I seem to remember him looking good in the pre-season game at the Wolves that we drew 2-2 (playing centre back), although we did let 2 in against a championship Wolves, and then he looked shite against Man Utd in the PL a few weeks later. I can't honestly say i remember being impressed with any performances from him thereafter, be it at centre back or right back.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Lastfootstamper on July 28, 2019, 09:30:26 AM
All I remember was something akin to a dog being let of its lead up the park. A Brett Holman of defenders.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Clampy on July 28, 2019, 09:32:31 AM
I thought he looked pretty decent at centre half in his first few games.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: john e on July 28, 2019, 09:34:23 AM
do did I but didn’t have the nerve to admit it on here
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Steve67 on July 28, 2019, 09:43:08 AM
He was quick and strong but read the game like a three year old reading a Charles Dickens book. 

He took every penny he could from the club so has been financially remunerated appropriately.  Do I feel sorry for him?  Not a fucking chance, he's 31 and has the financial ability to retrain and go one to perform another role just like the rest of us mere mortals have to.  He's a very privileged man.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Clark W Griswold on July 28, 2019, 03:06:23 PM
He was quick and strong but read the game like a three year old reading a Charles Dickens book. 

He was like another Paul McGrath. After a lobotomy.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on July 28, 2019, 03:19:17 PM
I've worked with worse. Very rarely, but i have. One or two that fit the parasite description very nicely.

The main problem is that shit regime giving him a contract. He alienated most Villa supporters that saw that secret santa video of him laughing hysterically and sounding like a parrot being murdered. This when we were already pretty much already relegated at that point.

Since then he's really just been in the background and we don't know the goings on and his day to day attitude so a lot of it is assumptions. I think if Mings for example had a brilliant season this season and contributed greatly to us finishing mid table on top of contributing greatly to us going up, and then having 2 years afterwards on full pay whilst injured i don't think many would be moaning.
It's the fact that Richards has hardly played for us, been shite when he has, and seemed to be one of the couldn't give a toss we're going down brigade in that season before sitting it out for 3 years thereafter.
But as pointed out, it's not effected us too much, we're on the up now and look the strongest we have since 5 years before he even came.

The laughing Santa did it for me. Him, Agbonlahor and Guzan came across as utter tosspieces in that video. Fuck the three of them. Utter parasites.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: rob_bridge on July 28, 2019, 10:14:09 PM


Well we had had one win in the league by Christmas so some Big Laughs led by Senior Players was just the fill we needed to stride on and avoid relegation.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on July 28, 2019, 10:28:49 PM


Well we had had one win in the league by Christmas so some Big Laughs led by Senior Players was just the fill we needed to stride on and avoid relegation.





god that is chilling
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: itmustbe_it is! on July 28, 2019, 10:31:41 PM
I just remember him playing in preseason at Shrewsbury 2 y ago and being fatter than me.
He can stick his apology up his arse .
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on July 28, 2019, 10:46:03 PM


Well we had had one win in the league by Christmas so some Big Laughs led by Senior Players was just the fill we needed to stride on and avoid relegation.





god that is chilling

Oh no. Possibly my least favourite Villa moment. Agbonlahor with some remark that they had to hide. Maybe he just swore. Awful. I'd like to know what he said. Richards shrieking away. A monumental prick.

Anyway, thank god only Jack remains with us from that cast.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on July 28, 2019, 10:56:56 PM
what the fuck were they thinking putting this out ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on July 28, 2019, 11:28:10 PM
My lasting memory of Richards was arguing with the fans who were having a go at Guzan and Lescott for having a chewing gum spitting competition away at Wycombe.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: purpletrousers on July 29, 2019, 12:26:20 AM
what the fuck were they thinking putting this out ?
Indeed. Never watched it before. Did anyone get fired?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Steve67 on July 29, 2019, 12:36:12 AM
what the fuck were they thinking putting this out ?
Indeed. Never watched it before. Did anyone get fired?

A complete clusterfuck of a football club, being run by idiots, who were paying non-caring, couldn't be bothered lazy knobhead so called footballers back then.  Bruce helped to sort it, Dean Smith has total respect. Those days have now been paid for but will remain a stain in the history of this great club. Thank God Grealish decided to grow up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SoccerHQ on July 29, 2019, 12:41:31 AM


Well we had had one win in the league by Christmas so some Big Laughs led by Senior Players was just the fill we needed to stride on and avoid relegation.





god that is chilling

Oh no. Possibly my least favourite Villa moment. Agbonlahor with some remark that they had to hide. Maybe he just swore. Awful. I'd like to know what he said. Richards shrieking away. A monumental prick.

Anyway, thank god only Jack remains with us from that cast.

Giving Gardner a Villa calendar. *chuckle.*
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SoccerHQ on July 29, 2019, 12:42:20 AM
what the fuck were they thinking putting this out ?
Indeed. Never watched it before. Did anyone get fired?

Doubt it, apparently it was played on the big screen by a home game due to popular demand!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on July 29, 2019, 02:45:40 AM


Well we had had one win in the league by Christmas so some Big Laughs led by Senior Players was just the fill we needed to stride on and avoid relegation.





god that is chilling

Oh no. Possibly my least favourite Villa moment. Agbonlahor with some remark that they had to hide. Maybe he just swore. Awful. I'd like to know what he said. Richards shrieking away. A monumental prick.

Anyway, thank god only Jack remains with us from that cast.

Giving Gardner a Villa calendar. *chuckle.*

Haha. I think it was a duvet set, but it's the thought that counts at Christmas. Haha.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Dave P on July 29, 2019, 06:14:21 AM
My lasting memory of Richards was arguing with the fans who were having a go at Guzan and Lescott for having a chewing gum spitting competition away at Wycombe.

Mine is him laughing dressed as Santa. Not really enough in 4 years for £50k a week!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on July 29, 2019, 06:39:28 AM
what the fuck were they thinking putting this out ?
Indeed. Never watched it before. Did anyone get fired?

Doubt it, apparently it was played on the big screen by a home game due to popular demand!

I even think the Guardian wrote an article about how great it was...
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on July 29, 2019, 07:14:15 AM
The absolute nastiness of that horrible episode is that it was shot within a day or two of our wonderful native born players having a Christmas party but excluding all the recently arrived French players.  Ho Ho Ho.  No wonder we plummeted.  That video says it all.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on July 29, 2019, 10:50:45 AM
The absolute nastiness of that horrible episode is that it was shot within a day or two of our wonderful native born players having a Christmas party but excluding all the recently arrived French players.  Ho Ho Ho.  No wonder we plummeted.  That video says it all.

What an awful load of fuckers.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: not3bad on July 29, 2019, 02:01:46 PM
The absolute nastiness of that horrible episode is that it was shot within a day or two of our wonderful native born players having a Christmas party but excluding all the recently arrived French players.  Ho Ho Ho.  No wonder we plummeted.  That video says it all.

What an awful load of fuckers.

Team spirit in the dressing room must have been epic.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: London Villan on August 01, 2019, 09:43:14 PM
See the parasite has rocked up at Man City and is all over Sky tonight talking about how great Man City are...  no doubt being paid for it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 01, 2019, 10:06:13 PM
Why wouldn't he be getting paid? Because a bloke has been unable to do his job due to injury he should never take a wage again?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on August 02, 2019, 01:43:38 AM
I still don't get the hate for him. We stupidly bought a crocked player and gave him a massive contract. He saw it out and retired. Now in his early thirties he wants to work again. I don't blame him one bit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on August 02, 2019, 07:15:55 AM
In a spirit of friendship TV my response to that is that anybody who respects Micah Richard's for his time with us is setting the bar of earned respectfullness pretty low.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Clampy on August 02, 2019, 07:21:14 AM
I wouldn't say I respect the bloke  but I don't dislike him either.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on August 02, 2019, 08:09:38 AM
Liking or disliking him as a person does not enter into it.  I prefer to extend respect to the many Villa players who have put something back into the club in recognition of what they have received from it.  Richards was at the very centre of the dressing room snake pit (see Secret Santa above) that played such a part in our horrendous collapse.  For that alone his reputation as a club player (player not person) can be questioned.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on August 02, 2019, 08:54:38 AM
He signs a contract knowing he's crocked but hoping nobody will notice (nobody did) and hoping to wing it. It didn't take long for everybody to know about his injury. What did he do to ensure he gave something back to the club? Besides make a dodgy xmas video nothing! What did he meaningfully contribute to the youngsters within the club? What did he do for the local community? Did he do any good gesture acts to highlight local issues (see Gestede). To my knowledge he did nothing and sat on a fat contract (on the pretence of being a professional footballer), running it down without doing anything redeeming. Someone may highlight something positive about the guy but until then I have little respect for him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Drummond on August 06, 2019, 09:28:46 AM
We'll see more of him this season than we have in all the time he was with us. He's signed for MOTD.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 06, 2019, 10:29:56 AM
Be good to have a club legend fighting our corner.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on August 06, 2019, 10:43:58 AM
Oh no. Fucking moron. Thankfully I don't watch much BBC here. Let's hope his knee doesn't swell up on air.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Mister E on August 06, 2019, 10:46:05 AM
Be good to have a club legend fighting our corner.
He should be very well disposed toward us, given that wehave funded his lifestlye for so long.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Big Dick Edwards on August 06, 2019, 11:48:56 AM
We'll see more of him this season than we have in all the time he was with us. He's signed for MOTD.

Jesus! What are the BBC thinking? His first post match tv appearance as a player saw him swear on air, and he's done absolutely nothing of note in football for five years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on August 06, 2019, 11:53:11 AM
We'll see more of him this season than we have in all the time he was with us. He's signed for MOTD.

Jesus! What are the BBC thinking? His first post match tv appearance as a player saw him swear on air, and he's done absolutely nothing of note in football for five years.

I'm particularly looking forward to him critising bad or lazy defending with a straight face.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: themossman on August 06, 2019, 12:05:59 PM
That video is an uncomfortable watch. Bunch of thick, braying bully boys.

I wish him no good will whatsoever, nor fat fuck Agbonlahor. Not because of their lack of contribution on the pitch but because they were colossal twats who contributed to the behind the scenes rot that saw us relegated and almost sent us into the abyss. No wonder players like Clark jumped ship as soon as they had the chance, let alone the French lads.

Thankfully, we now have a squad of players who are the real deal - talented, hard working, out for each other. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on August 06, 2019, 12:23:52 PM
That video is an uncomfortable watch. Bunch of thick, braying bully boys.

I wish him no good will whatsoever, nor fat fuck Agbonlahor. Not because of their lack of contribution on the pitch but because they were colossal twats who contributed to the behind the scenes rot that saw us relegated and almost sent us into the abyss. No wonder players like Clark jumped ship as soon as they had the chance, let alone the French lads.

Thankfully, we now have a squad of players who are the real deal - talented, hard working, out for each other. 

Spot on, mate.

People like Richards and Agbonlahor should be fired straight into the sun. I despise the pair of them.

Although I'd pity the sun.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on August 06, 2019, 12:24:44 PM
We'll see more of him this season than we have in all the time he was with us. He's signed for MOTD.

Jesus! What are the BBC thinking? His first post match tv appearance as a player saw him swear on air, and he's done absolutely nothing of note in football for five years.
He’s a “ character “ that’s what they want so the viewers can “ relate” to them. It’s just more dumbing down by the BBC that has built its organization on it the idea that personality is more important than content.
Wankers
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Mister E on August 06, 2019, 01:11:19 PM
We'll see more of him this season than we have in all the time he was with us. He's signed for MOTD.

Jesus! What are the BBC thinking? His first post match tv appearance as a player saw him swear on air, and he's done absolutely nothing of note in football for five years.
Given that Richards has been out of the game so long, I'm amazed that the Beeb and its viewers would find his comments either interesting or valid.
I really hope they don't position him as a "Villa stalwart" when they're reviewing one of our games: that would be bile-producing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Fasth56 on August 06, 2019, 06:16:38 PM
That video is an uncomfortable watch. Bunch of thick, braying bully boys.

I wish him no good will whatsoever, nor fat fuck Agbonlahor. Not because of their lack of contribution on the pitch but because they were colossal twats who contributed to the behind the scenes rot that saw us relegated and almost sent us into the abyss. No wonder players like Clark jumped ship as soon as they had the chance, let alone the French lads.

Thankfully, we now have a squad of players who are the real deal - talented, hard working, out for each other. 

It was my understanding that Clark was part of the bullying crew
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KRS on August 06, 2019, 06:24:55 PM
Richards doesn’t strike me as being the most intelligent or articulate so struggling to see why the BBC would think he’d make a good MOTD pundit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on August 06, 2019, 06:47:08 PM
Shearer and this twat on the same show? Jesus.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: themossman on August 06, 2019, 06:51:33 PM
Actually forgot how annoying the MOTD punditry is. Suspect a lot of strings twanged and mates tapped for those jobs.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 06, 2019, 07:19:23 PM
I'll just tape it and fast forward to the actual match like I used to.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Nii Lamptey on August 06, 2019, 07:27:26 PM
Hopefully this goes ahead and I never have to stomach the 'old boys' club on MOTD ever again!
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/uk-sport-news/sky-sports-set-show-premier-3133878
 (https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/uk-sport-news/sky-sports-set-show-premier-3133878)
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Sky Sports are considering a controversial move that could impact the viewing figures of the BBC's Match of the Day programme.

According to a report in the Mail, the hierarchy at Sky are considering making Premier League highlights available in the immediate aftermath of games concluding.

The broadcaster are believed to be giving serious thought to broadcasting three-minute clips of key moments from games on YouTube in a controversial move which would see fans given the chance to watch highlights before the BBC show airs on a Saturday and Sunday night.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on August 06, 2019, 07:29:23 PM
Bloody Hell, three minutes! That's more time than our season's highlights on Quest.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Nii Lamptey on August 06, 2019, 07:40:33 PM
Always bugged me how poor the match editing is on MOTD too. Whenever I've watched a Villa game on MOTD after being at Villa Park for the match, I've lost count how many times they've portrayed a completely different game in their edited highlights (especially if it's one of the 'Sky 6').

3 minutes solid rammed full of Villa goals will do for me!  ;)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: themossman on August 06, 2019, 07:46:01 PM
Used to love MOTD and go out of my way to avoid seeing spoilers before it was on. I wonder at what point it became so annoying. It’s funny because I quite like lineker, it’s just the rest of them.

Also funny because you’d have though it’s quite hard to find anyone more annoying than ‘Lawro’ but incredibly it’s gone downhill since he left.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on August 06, 2019, 09:43:34 PM
Lineker isn't actually that bad. But what was once essential viewing is now pretty meh. Totally agree with Mr Lamptey above in regards to the ridiculous editing at certain Villa matches the past. But its the absolute banality of the pundits they wheel on every week to dispense totally safe, conforming gibberish. Dion Dublin aside, they're awful. Hopefully after a few appearances Richards will be found out for the idiot he is and he'll be gone.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: charlatan on August 06, 2019, 10:05:07 PM
Far too much punditry and not enough action. We already saw the goals replayed at least twice, so we don't need numpties telling us it was a good finish or the boy got a bit lucky there.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on August 10, 2019, 12:05:16 PM
Now on Footy Focus. His agent is a class act.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Border villan on August 10, 2019, 12:43:34 PM
Talking about the two Arsenal players not travelling today and worries about security at home when you have an away match. He must have a fantastic memory.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Pat McMahon on August 10, 2019, 12:48:22 PM
Now on Footy Focus. His agent is a class act.
He’s on 5Live all afternoon too!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on August 10, 2019, 12:53:54 PM
Used to love MOTD and go out of my way to avoid seeing spoilers before it was on. I wonder at what point it became so annoying. It’s funny because I quite like lineker, it’s just the rest of them.

Also funny because you’d have though it’s quite hard to find anyone more annoying than ‘Lawro’ but incredibly it’s gone downhill since he left.

Can't abide Linekarse.

He think's he's Dave Allen or summat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: London Villan on August 10, 2019, 12:55:56 PM
Very different attitude to Birkir...
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on August 10, 2019, 01:03:51 PM
I think he explained his career at Villa pretty well. Including the different approaches of different managers.

He said Sherwood brought him in and things started quite well. Another manager (I assume Bruce trained him in such a way that his knee injury wasn’t managed. Dean came in and decided Micah's Body wasn’t up to the task and that was where his career finished.

I can’t really see what I would blame Micah for there.

Bruce’s approach to football is probably something along the lines of Bob Mortimer’s ‘Burnley Way.’ https://mobile.twitter.com/athleticomince/status/1145680555943575553?lang=en
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: rob_bridge on August 10, 2019, 02:23:18 PM
Except the barefaced lie about starting well. Big comedy Christmas gig. Panto awaits.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on August 10, 2019, 02:59:39 PM
I think he explained his career at Villa pretty well. Including the different approaches of different managers.

He said Sherwood brought him in and things started quite well. Another manager (I assume Bruce trained him in such a way that his knee injury wasn’t managed. Dean came in and decided Micah's Body wasn’t up to the task and that was where his career finished.

I can’t really see what I would blame Micah for there.

Bruce’s approach to football is probably something along the lines of Bob Mortimer’s ‘Burnley Way.’ https://mobile.twitter.com/athleticomince/status/1145680555943575553?lang=en
If Bruce had managed Mcgrath we would not have seen one of the best Villa players ever.
This confirms that we bought Rivhards with an injury that needed to be managed, unfortunately we then hired a Manager that is a thick as pig shit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on August 10, 2019, 03:25:05 PM
Except the barefaced lie about starting well. Big comedy Christmas gig. Panto awaits.

The few games I saw (and it was a while ago) he looked like a good player coming back from a long lay off. Positionally not amazing but quick enough decision making, speed and strength to recover.

I don’t want to overdo it because it was an awful signing, but I don’t think MR is pretending it was a success.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Pete3206 on August 10, 2019, 04:32:20 PM
In the cold light of day, Richards' explanation looks plausible and heartfelt. I wish him all the best in his media career.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: not3bad on August 12, 2019, 04:27:54 PM
Except the barefaced lie about starting well. Big comedy Christmas gig. Panto awaits.

The few games I saw (and it was a while ago) he looked like a good player coming back from a long lay off. Positionally not amazing but quick enough decision making, speed and strength to recover.

I don’t want to overdo it because it was an awful signing, but I don’t think MR is pretending it was a success.

The first few games I saw Richards play in the 2015/2016 season he seemed quick and skilful for a centre back but tended to hold on to the ball for too long when he played it out of defence. By no means a disaster though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: leylandalbion on August 16, 2019, 09:32:53 PM
He was on 5 live tonight, only said positive things about the club and was particularly positive about deano.  Also pointed out that the club blocked potential moves to spam, blunderland and an mls side, as the club believed he was a positive influence.  Knee couldn't cope with Remis training regime when he came in
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: andyh on August 16, 2019, 09:38:24 PM
There seems a bit of bollox in that interview and I’m not sure where from.
So, villa blocked moves to West Ham (signed and sealed apparently),  Sunderland and Orlando.
Yet, he ended up retiring because his knee couldn’t stand the vigour of playing?

Something smells a bit shitty.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithe on August 16, 2019, 09:53:29 PM
Yup, I don’t doubt he was popular but £70k a week is a fuckload of money for a cheerleader.

I smell bullshit
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Border villan on August 16, 2019, 10:11:37 PM
Yup, I don’t doubt he was popular but £70k a week is a fuckload of money for a cheerleader.

I smell bullshit
I hope he paid for his own Pom poms.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on August 16, 2019, 10:36:26 PM
RDM blocked the West Ham move so that was before the injury was stopping him playing. Dunno about the others though as haven't listened to the interview but remember the West Ham stuff.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: leylandalbion on August 16, 2019, 10:39:24 PM
RDM blocked the West Ham move so that was before the injury was stopping him playing. Dunno about the others though as haven't listened to the interview but remember the West Ham stuff.
I had blocked rdm from my memory
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SoccerHQ on August 16, 2019, 11:52:26 PM
There seems a bit of bollox in that interview and I’m not sure where from.
So, villa blocked moves to West Ham (signed and sealed apparently),  Sunderland and Orlando.
Yet, he ended up retiring because his knee couldn’t stand the vigour of playing?

Something smells a bit shitty.

Sunderland were in for him deadline day 2016 IIRC, when Big Sam was their manager. In hindsight we should've drove him up there but think he was still in the team at the time.

Can't remember the other two links but would guess summer after relegation as he barely played after that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SoccerHQ on August 16, 2019, 11:53:25 PM
I think he explained his career at Villa pretty well. Including the different approaches of different managers.

He said Sherwood brought him in and things started quite well. Another manager (I assume Bruce trained him in such a way that his knee injury wasn’t managed. Dean came in and decided Micah's Body wasn’t up to the task and that was where his career finished.

I can’t really see what I would blame Micah for there.

Bruce’s approach to football is probably something along the lines of Bob Mortimer’s ‘Burnley Way.’ https://mobile.twitter.com/athleticomince/status/1145680555943575553?lang=en

Correct answer is Remi Garde.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on August 17, 2019, 03:33:13 AM
Again I don’t want to come out as an apologist for Micah Richards. Like I’ve said I don’t blame him at all if an offer never came in for him and he stayed and played out a contract that was offered to him. But why would he lie about clubs offering him a chance to play and we blocked his moves? Now maybe he would have failed the medicals or maybe he could have played in a limited fashion. But one thing that is absolutely true is pre Dean Smith, certainly from the relegation season to the start of last season the club was a fucking disaster. It’s truly a miracle how fast it has turned around.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on August 17, 2019, 07:32:10 AM
I would.be interested to know who was going to pay his wages or  what percentage of it
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: UK Redsox on September 27, 2019, 09:21:09 AM
Haunted by the ghost of Micah Richards

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49845993

 ::)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Drummond on September 27, 2019, 09:25:06 AM
It's an interesting article that.

Someone at the club should have done what Dean Smith did. Be honest and tell him he was done.

As for asking a fee to get shot, how stupid was that?!

I'm surprised that the club doc didn't tell him he was shot and for us to claim on the insurance...
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: UK Redsox on September 27, 2019, 09:46:04 AM
I thought that one of the problems was that Villa were unable to get insurance for a pre-existing injury, or is that just a rumour ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Dogtanian on September 27, 2019, 10:07:36 AM
Haunted by the ghost of Micah Richards

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49845993

 ::)

Very interesting article.

I've heard before that it is awful for footballers who are out injured long-term because they can effectively get isolated from the rest of the team and as people who spend their lives in a tight group this can be really tough on them.

I don't have a problem with Micah Richards.  I liked him as a player, I liked how when he had the ball in defence and nobody was moving or wanted it from him he would just take it up the field himself, big and powerful.  I've no doubt that had he been able to continue playing he could have been a Villa hero.

Because he is a footballer, and because we love the club, we hold him to a higher standard.  If anyone here has ever been ill or injured and worried about whether or not they will be able to carry on doing their job then you'll know how horrible those thoughts are and how it can often be easier to hide what you are going through rather than facing it and getting help.  It's almost like if nobody tells you the bad news then it isn't going to be true.  I don't think he's done anything that the average person wouldn't do, it's human nature.

As for paying his wages and keeping him on the books, well that's Villa's failing pure and simple.  Strong management would have been sitting down with him to find a resolution.  They didn't and it enabled him to keep the self-delusion going that he was still a professional footballer.  How many of us would give up that dream if no-one was pushing us to face reality?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: hilts_coolerking on September 27, 2019, 10:23:10 AM
Well, at least in his dotage Richards will be able to claim 'Eric Black liked my attitude'.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Dogtanian on September 27, 2019, 10:25:12 AM
Well, at least in his dotage Richards will be able to claim 'Eric Black liked my attitude'.

Yep, I'm sure he will put that as pride of place above his Premier League medal, FA Cup winners medal, and England caps!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on September 27, 2019, 10:50:54 AM
No, he's the bad Santa and that's enough for me. Moron.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on September 27, 2019, 11:00:28 AM
Richards would never have been a "Villa hero"
Putting everything to oneside except his footballing ability, the guy had no positional sense whatsoever whether he was at right back or centre back. This was part of the reason he went off on mazy runs that he couldn't recover from, not some thought that he didn't have someone to pass to. The guy was a defensive liability and if he had played long enough he would have been found out. Villa heroes are McGrath, Melberg, Laursen, etc. It's probably best not to confuse Richards with these guys.
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Post by: Dogtanian on September 27, 2019, 11:15:40 AM
Ah sorry, I forgot in football everyone's only ever as good as their last season.  It's completely sensible to discard his entire career and achievements because he had one poor season in our shit car-crash of a club at the time.   ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: mallo on September 27, 2019, 12:39:59 PM
Interesting article - the unanswered question for me is whether he was part of alienating the new signings in the relegation season. He can't be blamed for the contract he was offered - that part was the idiots in charge at the time. Wish him well but he's going to have to get a lot better than his debut on the championship show.
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Post by: brontebilly on September 27, 2019, 01:49:08 PM
Ah sorry, I forgot in football everyone's only ever as good as their last season.  It's completely sensible to discard his entire career and achievements because he had one poor season in our shit car-crash of a club at the time.   ;D ;D ;D

He had hardly played for a few years before coming to us. A failed loan spell at Fiorentina included. He was practically semi retired before Sherwood decided to bring him in as captain in a position he had not played in several years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on September 27, 2019, 02:09:22 PM
I thought he was a good right back, but I'd seen him playing at centre back with the likes of De Jong and Toure playing in front of him and had been very unimpressed.

Although at the time, I just kind of shrugged my shoulders and thought at least he's on a free...

I was disappointed (but not shocked) the move didn't work out, but I place no blame on Micah Richards, just that mug Sherwood.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: TaxDodger on September 27, 2019, 02:12:06 PM
Call me Mr Cynical, and I appreciate the whole mess was mainly Sherwood's fault rather than his, but quite frankly I couldn't care less if he came into training with a smile on his face. He was shit when he played and was a huge drain on the club's resources for many, many seasons. At best I'm indifferent to how successful his career is from this point. In fact, I hope it goes very badly so I don't have to hear his name again. Anyway, I'm off to kick a puppy.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on September 27, 2019, 02:32:29 PM
No need to apologise dogtanian. You're entitled to your opinion as indeed I'm entitled to mine. Enjoy the game tomorrow and I'm sure we're both willing a Villa win! UTV!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Dogtanian on September 27, 2019, 02:44:19 PM
No need to apologise dogtanian. You're entitled to your opinion as indeed I'm entitled to mine. Enjoy the game tomorrow and I'm sure we're both willing a Villa win! UTV!

I hardly think this is an appropriate time for maturity.   ::)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on September 27, 2019, 03:51:14 PM
Us wanting a fee for him as late as into the 2017/18 season looks so wrong-headed even in hindsight. Xia probably justifying the spends on Championship mediocrity with the notion that he could still recoup money from sales.

Also, he doesn't mention any psychological evaluation or such help at Villa after spending long periods training alone and Bruce saying he was worried about him. I'm not saying he should have been molly-coddled but it's two decades since Collymore was "too rich to be depressed" as John Gregarious saw it. Richards was an expensive asset, we should have handled him better.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on September 27, 2019, 04:03:44 PM
His self-delusion is stratospheric. It's as if he actually believes this shit. The only player I have ever seen sulk on a pitch. And dont get me started on Bad Santa. Moron doesn't cover it. Stealing 50k a week does.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on September 27, 2019, 04:17:31 PM
The blame is solely with the club and people that thought signing a player they couldn't insure to a lengthy and expensive contract was a good idea.
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Post by: West Derby Villan on September 27, 2019, 04:56:55 PM
The blame is solely with the club and people that thought signing a player they couldn't insure to a lengthy and expensive contract was a good idea.

110%
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Post by: cdbearsfan on September 27, 2019, 09:04:44 PM
Haunted by the ghost of Micah Richards

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49845993

 ::)

Very interesting article.

I've heard before that it is awful for footballers who are out injured long-term because they can effectively get isolated from the rest of the team and as people who spend their lives in a tight group this can be really tough on them.

I don't have a problem with Micah Richards.  I liked him as a player, I liked how when he had the ball in defence and nobody was moving or wanted it from him he would just take it up the field himself, big and powerful.  I've no doubt that had he been able to continue playing he could have been a Villa hero.

Because he is a footballer, and because we love the club, we hold him to a higher standard.  If anyone here has ever been ill or injured and worried about whether or not they will be able to carry on doing their job then you'll know how horrible those thoughts are and how it can often be easier to hide what you are going through rather than facing it and getting help.  It's almost like if nobody tells you the bad news then it isn't going to be true.  I don't think he's done anything that the average person wouldn't do, it's human nature.

As for paying his wages and keeping him on the books, well that's Villa's failing pure and simple.  Strong management would have been sitting down with him to find a resolution.  They didn't and it enabled him to keep the self-delusion going that he was still a professional footballer.  How many of us would give up that dream if no-one was pushing us to face reality?


I don't think he could have been a "Villa legend" . I think he was an above average player in his prime, who had such pace he could easily cover for most mistakes caused by his positional sense. When the injuries piled up and his pace went, he was never the same player.

I don't disagree with anything else you've said, though. I never really got the hatred that some have for him on here. He wanted to play, but couldn't because he was injured. He didn't walk away from a massive contract, nor would I have. I've never refused to accept sick pay.

I've no ill will against him at all, and the more people are willing to talk about issues like loneliness and isolation, the better clubs will get at dealing with said problems.

It wasn't his fault we were shit.

Good luck to him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: purpletrousers on September 28, 2019, 11:13:52 AM
Well said.
It certainly smells like had someone been up front with him he might have been more willing to cut his losses, though as others said why should he.

Also agreed re: the mental health* angle, with a work/lived experience hat on I think he spoke thoughtfully & respectfully acknowledging that there are others had it far worse, but he’s insightful around his own self deception that went unchallenged by the club.

The bad Santa stuff was appalling, again club failure around releasing it and likely setting it up.

It doesn’t mean he didn’t screw up in places/wasn’t terrible signing for the club, but I’m appreciating at least a bit more unpacking of this diasterous story.

Let’s hope as said, never again an uninsurable long expensive deal, what a freebie eh?

*mental health does not mean necessarily ill health
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Villatillidie1982 on September 28, 2019, 06:13:49 PM
Why were the fans not told the truth from the start? There would not have been the hatred that the fans felt because they did not know the full facts.
I don't really blame the player for any of this now that I know the truth (unless it is yet another bit of fake news). The club has to take all of the blame
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on October 05, 2019, 02:09:47 PM
I heard Micah Richards pretending to be a pundit on 5Live earlier. Dim as a ten watt bulb and clearly being groomed as the go-to man for when Jenas is off and the bleeding obvious is required.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on October 05, 2019, 02:13:45 PM
I heard Micah Richards pretending to be a pundit on 5Live earlier. Dim as a ten watt bulb and clearly being groomed as the go-to man for when Jenas is off and the bleeding obvious is required.

Is he worse than Joleon "yeah of course" Lescott ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Chinchilla Bathhouse on October 05, 2019, 02:29:24 PM
I heard Micah Richards pretending to be a pundit on 5Live earlier. Dim as a ten watt bulb and clearly being groomed as the go-to man for when Jenas is off and the bleeding obvious is required.

Is he worse than Joleon "yeah of course" Lescott ?

Yes, I'd say he's a serious rival. He seemed to pause at the start of each answer as his brain searched frantically for the obvious reply, but I'm sure with experience he'll iron that out and he'll be straight in there with effortlessly pointless guff.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on October 05, 2019, 02:34:14 PM
I heard Micah Richards pretending to be a pundit on 5Live earlier. Dim as a ten watt bulb and clearly being groomed as the go-to man for when Jenas is off and the bleeding obvious is required.

Is he worse than Joleon "yeah of course" Lescott ?

Yes, I'd say he's a serious rival. He seemed to pause at the start of each answer as his brain searched frantically for the obvious reply, but I'm sure with experience he'll iron that out and he'll be straight in there with effortlessly pointless guff.

Savage is quite good at live commentaries, he often can't think of anything to say quick enough so stays silent. Probably why they've got him answering the phones.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Goldie.7 on January 10, 2020, 08:15:01 PM
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Mossie Hennebry on January 10, 2020, 09:27:37 PM
I got as far as Sutton's intro and stopped. They're a pair of dicks.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: paul_e on January 10, 2020, 09:35:35 PM
The biggest problem I have with that article is the fact that he tries to throw blame at Garde. As a professional sportsman you have to know your own body better than that. If you don't think you're able to do the training the manager is suggesting you have to back out of it. It might mean you don't get into the team but you don't end your career. Pull out of the run, see the club doctor and get him and the manager to talk to you about the options.

You see too many players who struggle with injuries who blame other people for them but they have to accept responsibility as well. Kodjia is another example of a player who tried to do something he shouldn't have and has damaged his career as a result.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: TheMalandro on January 10, 2020, 09:36:21 PM
Warning.... Please only watch if you have a tv that needs replacing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: AsTallAsLions on January 10, 2020, 09:38:05 PM
Can't be bothered listening to anything that Bluenose twunt has to say.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: BC Villain on January 10, 2020, 10:26:46 PM
100% agree.  Hopefully the days of charlatans like this gracing the payroll are gone
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 10, 2020, 10:30:06 PM
How was he a charlatan? We signed him, we couldn't insure him, he got injured, he saw out his contract. Which part of that is his fault and which part is the fault of the club that signed a player we couldn't insure to a lengthy and expensive contract and also turned down 3 approaches for him from other clubs?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on January 10, 2020, 10:33:05 PM
How was he a charlatan? We signed him, we couldn't insure him, he got injured, he saw out his contract. Which part of that is his fault and which part is the fault of the club that signed a player we couldn't insure to a lengthy and expensive contract and also turned down 3 approaches for him from other clubs?

Some good questions there, PWS.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on January 10, 2020, 10:39:20 PM
How was he a charlatan? We signed him, we couldn't insure him, he got injured, he saw out his contract. Which part of that is his fault and which part is the fault of the club that signed a player we couldn't insure to a lengthy and expensive contract and also turned down 3 approaches for him from other clubs?

Add Paul's post regarding injury and you've summed him up perfectly. Saying that, Richards thinks very highly of himself. Even when fully fit for us, he was neither a half decent centre half or right back.

Interesting point on Delph. I guess we only see half the story and if only to hear what went on in the background, it's worth a watch.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on January 11, 2020, 09:28:42 AM
On Benteke I'm sure the club didn't want to sell him but it was the second time he had acted-up looking to leave so I'm not sure what they could have done (apart from replace him better than with Ayew and Justhead).

Galling that Richards says we had ample opportunity to offload him elsewhere (West Ham, Sunderland, MLS) but as has been stated before we did actually keep him for his "bantz".
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rudy65 on January 11, 2020, 09:58:24 AM
I think he is going for the sympathy vote.

Anyone else who has to give up work for ill health would likely be on benefits. He was on £65k per week which softens the blow somewhat. He would be better to just keep quiet.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on January 11, 2020, 10:41:41 AM
Please close this thread now. He shouldn't have been near the club to begin with.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Edvard Remberg on January 11, 2020, 02:39:54 PM
Interesting (if true) - and like in most scenarios,  the public does not know what really goes on behind the scenes. Delph part was shocking if true.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 11, 2020, 02:42:01 PM
Chelts has posted before about the Delph scenario, I thought most knew his heart wanted to stay but his head, and wife, said to go.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on January 11, 2020, 02:44:23 PM
if Delph had really wanted to stay then I'm sure it could have been done.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 11, 2020, 02:44:50 PM
We didn't push Delph out at all. The time line from when the contract talks were on that winter are important.

His agent advised against him signing a new deal. I don't blame him. At the time we were suffering the worst of Lambert, looking in a relegation scrap and he could have done a fortune in signing on fee if he went on a free.

Delph took his captaincy responsibilities seriously and didn't want to screw us over after standing by him through his injuries. It was Delph who insisted on signing against his agents wishes and who suggested a buyout clause of what we paid for him. His agent was flabbergasted that he signed the contract.

As things had been all bad news the club suggested that maybe he does an announcement they could play on the big screens to bring a feelgood factor back. Unfortunately he went a bit over the top with his comments (he talks too much).

When the Cited bid came in he was conflicted on whether to take the move. Again, unfortunately, he started talking before definitively making a decision.

He started off thinking it was the right move. Then felt bad at leaving his teammates in the lurch. And was constantly kept aware of the big changes we were making via the transfer window. So he changed his mind. And started talking about it again.

Citeh triggered his buyout clause again and offered more money. By now he was thinking he had made a mistake so changed his mind again. It is why he looked so thoroughly miserable when he signed for them.

The club didn't begrudge his move given what he did in the January but the real piss take was when he couldn't make our trip to Portugal whilst having these doubts because his wife was due to give birth (remember the Brummie daughter comments) yet was able to fuck off to Australia on their pre season tour before said child had exited the womb.

He isn't all bad and did some things he didn't have to in our favour. He was genuinely conflicted about the move. But it wouldn't have been half as bad if he had kept his trap shut.

Suggestions we pushed him out of the door are a load of nonsense though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on January 11, 2020, 02:54:55 PM
I don't blame any player for leaving us for a Champions League club, considering how bad we've been for ten years.  The circumstances in which they do so are everything though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on January 11, 2020, 03:00:25 PM
micah yaaawwwnnn richards yaaawwwnnn.
Time to close this thread I think.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 11, 2020, 03:06:40 PM
micah yaaawwwnnn richards yaaawwwnnn.
Time to close this thread I think.

If you don't want to read about Micah Richards, looking at a thread with 'Micah Richards' in the title probably isn't the best thing to do  :P
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: AsTallAsLions on January 11, 2020, 03:10:09 PM
How was he a charlatan? We signed him, we couldn't insure him, he got injured, he saw out his contract. Which part of that is his fault and which part is the fault of the club that signed a player we couldn't insure to a lengthy and expensive contract and also turned down 3 approaches for him from other clubs?

He may not be a charlatan but he's an utter twat all the same. I suppose you'll say that's not his fault either though.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 11, 2020, 03:11:02 PM
How was he a charlatan? We signed him, we couldn't insure him, he got injured, he saw out his contract. Which part of that is his fault and which part is the fault of the club that signed a player we couldn't insure to a lengthy and expensive contract and also turned down 3 approaches for him from other clubs?

He may not be a charlatan but he's an utter twat all the same. I suppose you'll say that's not his fault either though.

Which of those things are his fault as you seem to think i'm making excuses for him?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: AsTallAsLions on January 11, 2020, 03:12:40 PM
How was he a charlatan? We signed him, we couldn't insure him, he got injured, he saw out his contract. Which part of that is his fault and which part is the fault of the club that signed a player we couldn't insure to a lengthy and expensive contract and also turned down 3 approaches for him from other clubs?

He may not be a charlatan but he's an utter twat all the same. I suppose you'll say that's not his fault either though.

Which of those things are his fault as you seem to think i'm making excuses for him?

You're clearly looking for a fight on this subject from all and sundry. I never said those things were his fault. I said he was a twat, whilst acknowledging you're right that he's not a charlatan. Stop being obtuse.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 11, 2020, 03:15:19 PM
Yes, it was me looking for a fight

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I suppose you'll say that's not his fault either though
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Lastfootstamper on January 11, 2020, 03:17:09 PM
I've never understood the reasoning behind what has often been quite vitriolic animosity. What makes him a twat?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithesShin on January 11, 2020, 03:18:19 PM
I've never understood the reasoning behind what has often been quite vitriolic animosity. What makes him a twat?

I think it's mainly that Bad Santa video, which is a total car crash and i'll never understand why the club thought it was a good idea to publish it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on January 11, 2020, 03:20:56 PM
He comes across as a really nice bloke in his media work (in my opinion).
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on January 11, 2020, 03:25:52 PM
He comes across as a really nice bloke in his media work (in my opinion).


I am sure he is fine , but unfortunately him and lescott Is what I associate with as  bad about our club at the time
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on January 11, 2020, 04:14:51 PM
I've never understood the reasoning behind what has often been quite vitriolic animosity. What makes him a twat?

Don't really get it either. Seems to be any player who is less than brilliant and doesn't give back his wages or insist on being tarred and feathered in the centre circle must be a twat.

I'm sure Richards would much rather have played two hundred games and been regarded as our best defender since Paul McGrath while we won trophy after trophy. It didn't happen, not sure why he's a twat because he was less than brilliant and, mostly, injured.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 11, 2020, 04:38:44 PM
It was just a really bad time for the club and his big fucking smile while not playing just got under a lot of people’s skin. In truth there were many worse than him. A bunch of fucking charlatans who could actually play and didn’t have a career ending injury who took the royal piss. And I’ve said before. Why on earth wouldn’t he stay until the end of his contract? We were mugs for signing him to it. It was beyond ludicrous. But what is more ludicrous is the suggestion by some that HE should have walked away. Fuck that. I wouldn’t have.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on January 11, 2020, 05:08:51 PM
Yes, it was me looking for a fight
well that's a bit silly :)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: nigel on January 11, 2020, 07:04:12 PM
He comes across as a really nice bloke in his media work (in my opinion).


I am sure he is fine , but unfortunately him and lescott Is what I associate with as  bad about our club at the time

Lescott's on another level.
I thought Richards came across pretty well, to be fair.
If his injury was as he says then there wasn't much he could do.
Lescott, on the other hand, is a complete cock
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 11, 2020, 07:12:31 PM
Lescott was a prize bell end. Gabby too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dave shelley on January 11, 2020, 07:14:22 PM
Lescott was a prize bell end. Gabby too.

Don't forget N'Zogbia.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on January 11, 2020, 07:34:18 PM
Lescott was a prize bell end. Gabby too.

Don't forget N'Zogbia.

N’Zogbia wasn’t very good. I wouldn’t ever put him in the same group as Gabby and Lescott. That’s a special place.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on January 11, 2020, 08:28:18 PM
I suppose it is me but I always suspected that there was something very odd about Micah Richards when he gave an "at home" interview while he lived in Italy before we signed him.  The view from his picture window was like a Renaissance masterpiece.  When congratulated by the interviewer he said "oh that.  I have never really noticed."
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Mister E on January 11, 2020, 09:17:45 PM
Lescott was a prize bell end. Gabby too.

Don't forget N'Zogbia.

N’Zogbia wasn’t very good. I wouldn’t ever put him in the same group as Gabby and Lescott. That’s a special place.
No, no. He should be in that group  ... really.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: charlatan on January 11, 2020, 11:19:05 PM
100% agree.  Hopefully the days of charlatans like this gracing the payroll are gone

that's what they all say but i've got to make a living somehow
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: TheMalandro on January 11, 2020, 11:40:22 PM
I might have judged him unfairly, but I thought he was a disruptive, buffoon, crock, charlatan and
 sub standard footballer.

After watching that interview. Man child too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Smithy on January 12, 2020, 08:35:34 AM
Like most of you, I wanted him out of the club once it was clear he wouldn't be contributing on the pitch. My perception was that he was sat there on a nice contract, happy picking up his wages into retirement - and to be clear, there's nothing wrong with that. We signed the contract, he's entitled to it - but I genuinely felt we were at least TRYING to get rid of him, and it was him who was preventing it (being on such a good contract with us).   That interview implies we had not one, but THREE opportunities to get rid of him, and we stopped it every time? If that's true (and I'm not convinced it is), then I'm happy to admit the club has to take it's fair share of blame in how it all worked out.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: JJ-AV on January 12, 2020, 09:00:30 AM
I have no ill feeling toward Richards really. Just because he earned a lot of money it doesn't mean I feel sorry for him that his career ended. He's always spoke well of the club (which I suppose he would on £3.5m a year).
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on January 12, 2020, 10:22:22 AM
100% agree.  Hopefully the days of charlatans like this gracing the payroll are gone

that's what they all say but i've got to make a living somehow

Take a bow son.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Damo70 on February 02, 2020, 10:56:44 PM
Micah Richards briefly mentioning on MOTD about the cliques, divides, selfishness and blame games the year Villa went down. He is convinced they would have had a chance of staying up under Sherwood and that Garde never had an respect or control of the dressing room. Obviously we will never know but on the day Sherwood got the boot I thought it he deserved a bit more time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SheffieldVillain on February 02, 2020, 11:15:11 PM
Micah Richards briefly mentioning on MOTD about the cliques, divides, selfishness and blame games the year Villa went down. He is convinced they would have had a chance of staying up under Sherwood and that Garde never had an respect or control of the dressing room. Obviously we will never know but on the day Sherwood got the boot I thought it he deserved a bit more time.

We'd have had a sight better chance of staying up if our senior pros of the time weren't wankers like Gabby and Richards.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SoccerHQ on February 02, 2020, 11:29:58 PM
Chelts has posted before about the Delph scenario, I thought most knew his heart wanted to stay but his head, and wife, said to go.

I didn't have a problem with him going, it was just changing his mind a hundred times in a week that was the issue. As we saw when Gerrard was going to Chelsea years back and then did a u-turn it messes with people's minds too much and going by Richards said really impacted on morale at the club.

Ironically Gana was a pretty good replacement, had a very good career since leaving us so like a few we signed that summer, right player but very much wrong time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SoccerHQ on February 02, 2020, 11:37:43 PM
Micah Richards briefly mentioning on MOTD about the cliques, divides, selfishness and blame games the year Villa went down. He is convinced they would have had a chance of staying up under Sherwood and that Garde never had an respect or control of the dressing room. Obviously we will never know but on the day Sherwood got the boot I thought it he deserved a bit more time.

Zero chance of staying up, Sherwood wasted most of our winnable home fixtures.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SheffieldVillain on February 02, 2020, 11:45:09 PM
Micah Richards briefly mentioning on MOTD about the cliques, divides, selfishness and blame games the year Villa went down. He is convinced they would have had a chance of staying up under Sherwood and that Garde never had an respect or control of the dressing room. Obviously we will never know but on the day Sherwood got the boot I thought it he deserved a bit more time.

Zero chance of staying up, Sherwood wasted most of our winnable home fixtures.

I said it at the time, if a side has wasters as their senior pros for the younger ones to look up to, they are in trouble. We had Lescott, Gabby, Richards, N'Zogbia. Never a hope in hell. The reason Richards doesn't like Garde is because he tried to call out people like his mate Gabby on their shit behaviour.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: David_Nab on February 02, 2020, 11:48:12 PM
Looking at what they have done since leaving us its fair to say both Sherwood and Garde were both just equally as useless and out of their Depth.

The downward spiral started with Sherwood from the Southampton match where we got battered , followed by the cup final.No chance he hell he had any more chance of rescuing the situation than Garde did ..
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dcdavecollett on February 04, 2020, 01:00:11 AM
Sherwood lost his last six games in charge -how did he deserve even more time?

Oh, and that split in the dressing room -how was that helped by the manager saying he didn't want all those useless forrin players -you know the ones, all now playing at PL or CL level.

Twat!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: aj2k77 on February 04, 2020, 10:11:36 AM
I hate seeing this dickheads name on our forum. I realise I've just bumped it to the very top but I just needed to get that off my chest before letting him fade into obscurity.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brend'Watkins on February 04, 2020, 10:34:44 AM
I'm with you on that aj2. I had the misfortune of listening to him on radio 5 the other night.  How he's landed a position on the BBC I'll never know.  He makes Savage seem quite intelligent.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on February 04, 2020, 01:44:08 PM
Thick as pigshit footballers getting pundit jobs is now the norm.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on February 04, 2020, 01:58:49 PM
Sherwood lost his last six games in charge -how did he deserve even more time?

Oh, and that split in the dressing room -how was that helped by the manager saying he didn't want all those useless forrin players -you know the ones, all now playing at PL or CL level.

Twat!!

Thankfully Sherwood has gone on since to prove Villa were wrong to let him go......absolute spoofer as is his captain fantastic Micah.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Legion on May 23, 2020, 05:53:24 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znqqmfr
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on May 23, 2020, 06:59:51 PM
Sherwood was a tactical genius.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Legion on May 23, 2020, 07:03:34 PM
Our Sliding Doors game. You could just see it coming.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on May 23, 2020, 07:09:54 PM
Our Sliding Doors game. You could just see it coming.

The game that changed everything for both teams.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PaulWinch again on May 23, 2020, 07:12:57 PM
You do look back at some of the players we recruited and think decent coaches, with enough time, would have had the basis of a good team. Adama, Veretout, Gana all jump to mind.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dave.woodhall on May 25, 2020, 11:21:17 PM
You do look back at some of the players we recruited and think decent coaches, with enough time, would have had the basis of a good team. Adama, Veretout, Gana all jump to mind.

I have a nagging feeling that we'll be saying the same in five years time about Luiz, Konsa, Engels, Wesley, Trezeguet....
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on May 26, 2020, 12:53:13 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znqqmfr

I always thinks he seems to be a really decent bloke.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Mister E on May 26, 2020, 08:53:42 AM

I have a nagging feeling that we'll be saying the same in five years time about Luiz, Konsa, Engels, Wesley, Trezeguet....
Agreed. Given the speed with which these guys have been introduced to the Premier League, it is bound to take time to bring out their true potential.
For me, what has been questionable in their deployment is the team's gameplay and the instructions given to individuals about how to play ... although, obviously, that's me speculating rather than having any inside knowledge.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PaulWinch again on May 26, 2020, 09:44:30 AM
You do look back at some of the players we recruited and think decent coaches, with enough time, would have had the basis of a good team. Adama, Veretout, Gana all jump to mind.

I have a nagging feeling that we'll be saying the same in five years time about Luiz, Konsa, Engels, Wesley, Trezeguet....

Yes in particular Luiz.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Villan82 on May 26, 2020, 01:09:38 PM
Our Sliding Doors game. You could just see it coming.

The game that changed everything for both teams.

There was something about that defeat. It really cut deep. I knew our luck had run out and we would likely be relegated.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ads on May 26, 2020, 01:26:10 PM
That's what made that season so bad, was how far in the distance you could see relegation. I remember in Januady at Chelsea under Houllier 5 years before being terrified at the prospect. Half a decade of rubbish later and by the time we were relgated at Old Trafford, we were just numb to it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on May 26, 2020, 02:48:39 PM
I think the Watford game at home where we actually played okay and still managed to lose 3-2 was when I knew for certain we were down.

Until then I kept telling myself "we string two wins in a row together and you never know". That's when I gave up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Damo70 on May 26, 2020, 04:04:07 PM
I often wonder if instead of appointing Garde a Pulis/Allardyce type would have kept us up. A lot of people talk about how good some of the players were on paper and went on to be elsewhere. But they didn't do it for us that season. It reminds me a bit of 1985-1987. I always thought that on paper the squad that finished bottom in 1987 was better than the squad that finished 16th and stayed up in 1986.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dave shelley on May 26, 2020, 05:52:23 PM
I think the Watford game at home where we actually played okay and still managed to lose 3-2 was when I knew for certain we were down.

Until then I kept telling myself "we string two wins in a row together and you never know". That's when I gave up.

I was at that game, my birthday and you're correct we didn't play too badly and it was looking good for us until their goalkeeper Gomes got injured and he was down for a very long time.  We never got our momentum back afterwards.  It was then I knew we'd had it and iirc, I mentioned it to Cheltenham Lion in a conversation we had later.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on May 28, 2020, 10:10:39 AM
Sorry to bump this but I've seen the Leicester defeat mentioned a few times as a crucial turning point for both sides and I just think it's completely bogus.

They ended the previous season as the form team in the division 7 wins 1 draw 1 defeat from their last nine league games.  As for the game against us they won 1 of their next 4 league games.

It was definitely a crucial point in our season, but I doubt you'll find many Leicester fans who share that view.

And I really scoff at the idea that a team with a spine of Schmeichael Huth Kante and Vardy would have tailspinned if we'd won that game.

Or that a team with a centre back pairing of Lescott and Richards wouldn't have eventually found itself 15th or lower.

Get in a time machine bribe the referee, we were still going down that season because individually collectively (all the lees!) that team was utter garbage.

Sorry rant over.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Footy-Vill on June 17, 2020, 11:41:25 PM
To be fair to Micah  he was speaking well today on Football and society matters on sky sports
Fair play to him on his comments today I say
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: villabear on December 21, 2020, 08:37:30 PM
Listening to the cleverly named ‘Monday Night Club’ on 5 Live tonight. Micah Richards saying we’ve probably played better this season because of the lack of crowds as we normally show our frustration as a crowd if things aren’t going well after the first 20 minutes.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dave.woodhall on December 21, 2020, 08:41:27 PM
Listening to the cleverly named ‘Monday Night Club’ on 5 Live tonight. Micah Richards saying we’ve probably played better this season because of the lack of crowds as we normally show our frustration as a crowd if things aren’t going well after the first 20 minutes.

Would that be based on our scintillating recent home form?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: mcgrath_85 on December 21, 2020, 08:45:06 PM
Listening to the cleverly named ‘Monday Night Club’ on 5 Live tonight. Micah Richards saying we’ve probably played better this season because of the lack of crowds as we normally show our frustration as a crowd if things aren’t going well after the first 20 minutes.

Would that be based on our scintillating recent home form?

He’s a terrible pundit. Can barely articulate a sentence. That said, he’s everywhere, Sky, MOTD and 5 live. He’s also writing articles for the BBC. Take a break Micah son.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ian. on December 21, 2020, 08:55:52 PM
Last night they were praising Justin and Albrighton and he turned the conversation around to how it reminded him of himself and Milner. Talk about inflating your own ego.

We’ve been shit for years, it’s no wonder the crowd have been a bit impatient and he was not exactly a rock in our defence was he?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on December 21, 2020, 09:18:26 PM
Dion was too much of a gentleman to ask him "What fucking planet are you on?".
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on December 21, 2020, 09:25:22 PM
Maybe against the grain here but I actually think he comes across very well as a pundit. He has a likeable personality and a lovely beaming smile.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: mcgrath_85 on December 21, 2020, 09:34:16 PM
Maybe against the grain here but I actually think he comes across very well as a pundit. He has a likeable personality and a lovely beaming smile.

He comes across as a decent happy go lucky chap. Doesn’t make him a good pundit, football commentator though. His levels of analysis and articulation are fucking awful.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Dante Lavelli on December 21, 2020, 09:37:07 PM
Maybe against the grain here but I actually think he comes across very well as a pundit. He has a likeable personality and a lovely beaming smile.

I think he’s decent too.  Jenus and Mcmanaman are the ones that grind my gears.  And Murphy.  Maybe Micah just seems good compared to them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Percy McCarthy on December 21, 2020, 09:37:23 PM
Maybe against the grain here but I actually think he comes across very well as a pundit. He has a likeable personality and a lovely beaming smile.

Definitely. Better than loads of them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on December 21, 2020, 09:37:53 PM
Maybe against the grain here but I actually think he comes across very well as a pundit. He has a likeable personality and a lovely beaming smile.

He comes across as a decent happy go lucky chap. Doesn’t make him a good pundit, football commentator though. His levels of analysis and articulation are fucking awful.



He just laughs a lot
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rudy65 on December 21, 2020, 09:42:17 PM
Listening to the cleverly named ‘Monday Night Club’ on 5 Live tonight. Micah Richards saying we’ve probably played better this season because of the lack of crowds as we normally show our frustration as a crowd if things aren’t going well after the first 20 minutes.

That old cliche

Someone should remind him of his defensive display at Luton
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Flamingo Lane on December 21, 2020, 09:45:00 PM
I absolutely can't stand the bloke.  I hate the way he has kind of been able to get himself instated on TV as a wannabee Manchester City 'legend' when it comes to commenting on their games and, even worse, that he also presents himself to the watching world as having 'played' (I use the word loosely) for Aston Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: OzVilla on December 21, 2020, 09:45:38 PM
Exactly, what Micah Richards fails to mention was he was then the Captain of the most disgraceful season of our 146 year history. Of course the crowd were on their backs and rightly so.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ian. on December 21, 2020, 09:58:29 PM
Maybe against the grain here but I actually think he comes across very well as a pundit. He has a likeable personality and a lovely beaming smile.

I think he’s decent too.  Jenus and Mcmanaman are the ones that grind my gears.  And Murphy.  Maybe Micah just seems good compared to them.
That’s a low bar to get over, Murphy is a bloody idiot and Jenus is just so tame.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on December 21, 2020, 10:01:35 PM
Trying to think who I don’t mind at the moment 🤔
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on December 21, 2020, 10:03:59 PM
Actually Roy Keane is ok
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Mellin on December 21, 2020, 10:41:25 PM
17 points, Micah. Of course we were angry and quick to turn.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on December 21, 2020, 10:44:00 PM
Maybe against the grain here but I actually think he comes across very well as a pundit. He has a likeable personality and a lovely beaming smile.

Me too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: rob_bridge on December 21, 2020, 10:48:12 PM
Maybe against the grain here but I actually think he comes across very well as a pundit. He has a likeable personality and a lovely beaming smile.

He comes across as a decent happy go lucky chap. Doesn’t make him a good pundit, football commentator though. His levels of analysis and articulation are fucking awful.



He just laughs a lot

Yup like.Saint back in the day except St lJohn at east laughed at Greaves puns.

A terrible pundit. And one of the worst leeches and stains on Villa in our history and bearing in mind the competition it is an achievement.

Go and look at Santa Richard's from 5 years ago on YT
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on December 21, 2020, 10:53:29 PM
Well he's certainly more cheerful than that miserable idiot Danny Murphy, but I'm not sure laughing is much of a substitute for actual incisive comment.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SoccerHQ on December 21, 2020, 10:56:14 PM
I know Murphy gets plenty of stick for his Father Stone delivery but he did a wonderful tribute to Houllier last week, well worth a listen.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 21, 2020, 11:15:30 PM
I will always ask this question. What did he actually do wrong in his time with us? He was with us at one of the worst times in our history, on a contract that no professional footballer with a lengthy injury history would have turned down. His contract perfectly embodied our club at the time. Stupid decision after stupid decision. But he never said a bad word about us and still never has about his time with us. In fact the contrary, he is generally very complimentary when asked. But if you want to dislike players from that era, he comes a long way down the list given many of the others who legitimately soiled our proud colours.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on December 21, 2020, 11:17:45 PM
I will always ask this question. What did he actually do wrong in his time with us? He was with us at one of the worst times in our history, on a contract that no professional footballer with a lengthy injury history would have turned down. His contract perfectly embodied our club at the time. Stupid decision after stupid decision. But he never said a bad word about us and still never has about his time with us. In fact the contrary, he is generally very complimentary when asked. But if you want to dislike players from that era, he comes a long way down the list given many of the others who legitimately soiled our proud colours.

Agreed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on December 21, 2020, 11:23:27 PM
I will always ask this question. What did he actually do wrong in his time with us? He was with us at one of the worst times in our history, on a contract that no professional footballer with a lengthy injury history would have turned down. His contract perfectly embodied our club at the time. Stupid decision after stupid decision. But he never said a bad word about us and still never has about his time with us. In fact the contrary, he is generally very complimentary when asked. But if you want to dislike players from that era, he comes a long way down the list given many of the others who legitimately soiled our proud colours.

There was the row with the fans who had taken exception to Guzan having a gum-spitting competition.


edit to expand a bit. That whole season was exceptionally toxic, so perhaps he is guilty by association.  Lescott was the really bad influence in the dressing room, and I think that incident in the match against Wigan when Richards took his side made him look like another wrong 'un, perhaps unfairly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on December 21, 2020, 11:33:04 PM
I will always ask this question. What did he actually do wrong in his time with us? He was with us at one of the worst times in our history, on a contract that no professional footballer with a lengthy injury history would have turned down. His contract perfectly embodied our club at the time. Stupid decision after stupid decision. But he never said a bad word about us and still never has about his time with us. In fact the contrary, he is generally very complimentary when asked. But if you want to dislike players from that era, he comes a long way down the list given many of the others who legitimately soiled our proud colours.

Captain of our worst team in 30 years. An utterly appalling player for us when he did play.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on December 22, 2020, 01:16:15 AM
Listening to the cleverly named ‘Monday Night Club’ on 5 Live tonight. Micah Richards saying we’ve probably played better this season because of the lack of crowds as we normally show our frustration as a crowd if things aren’t going well after the first 20 minutes.

Would that be based on our scintillating recent home form?

He’s a terrible pundit. Can barely articulate a sentence. That said, he’s everywhere, Sky, MOTD and 5 live. He’s also writing articles for the BBC. Take a break Micah son.

Or get a new pack of crayons. Ones that think and speak for him as well, ideally.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 22, 2020, 05:21:38 AM
I will always ask this question. What did he actually do wrong in his time with us? He was with us at one of the worst times in our history, on a contract that no professional footballer with a lengthy injury history would have turned down. His contract perfectly embodied our club at the time. Stupid decision after stupid decision. But he never said a bad word about us and still never has about his time with us. In fact the contrary, he is generally very complimentary when asked. But if you want to dislike players from that era, he comes a long way down the list given many of the others who legitimately soiled our proud colours.

Captain of our worst team in 30 years. An utterly appalling player for us when he did play.

We had lots of shit players in that time. He was no worse than most of them. I would never put him in the same bracket as Collins and Dunne for example and some of the outright shit they pulled. The whole place was a cesspit as we spiralled out of control. Richards gets blasted because he didn’t walk away from a lucrative contract. Fuck that. I wouldn’t have from clowns running a multi million pound business.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: London Villan on December 22, 2020, 06:06:34 AM
He was also a shambles on the pitch when he did play. I think it was luton away when he was all over the place and not it in a good way.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on December 22, 2020, 09:05:29 AM
Was he ever fully fit when he did play for us ? I'd love to know who forced through the move - was it to appease the straight-talking Sherwood ("If I'm supposed to play all these forrin lads from France I ain't 'eard of, you'd better gimme at least a couple of salt of the earff English pros") or if it was our Fantastic Mr "False Narrative" Fox*?

*Hang on, did Tom invent fake news?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on December 22, 2020, 09:13:11 AM
I will always ask this question. What did he actually do wrong in his time with us? He was with us at one of the worst times in our history, on a contract that no professional footballer with a lengthy injury history would have turned down. His contract perfectly embodied our club at the time. Stupid decision after stupid decision. But he never said a bad word about us and still never has about his time with us. In fact the contrary, he is generally very complimentary when asked. But if you want to dislike players from that era, he comes a long way down the list given many of the others who legitimately soiled our proud colours.

Captain of our worst team in 30 years. An utterly appalling player for us when he did play.

We had lots of shit players in that time. He was no worse than most of them. I would never put him in the same bracket as Collins and Dunne for example and some of the outright shit they pulled. The whole place was a cesspit as we spiralled out of control. Richards gets blasted because he didn’t walk away from a lucrative contract. Fuck that. I wouldn’t have from clowns running a multi million pound business.

The same Richard Dunne that made the EPL team of the year while with us? Both Dunne and Collins, , whatever about their off pitch activities, certainly did the business for us on the field. Something Richards never did. He must be the worst high profile centre half to have ever played for us and certainly the worst captain.

Sherwood was looking to bring in "characters" if I recall at the time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ian. on December 22, 2020, 09:18:59 AM
Well I’m not his biggest fan but I understand he was a popular character behind the scenes. Not that it really helped much.

He’s definitely nowhere near the worse pundit on MOD. The main problem with most is they only scratch the surface of the team and like Michael Owen’s comments the other day regarding our last two transfer window’s it’s basically a load of bollocks.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on December 22, 2020, 09:28:16 AM
I will always ask this question. What did he actually do wrong in his time with us? He was with us at one of the worst times in our history, on a contract that no professional footballer with a lengthy injury history would have turned down. His contract perfectly embodied our club at the time. Stupid decision after stupid decision. But he never said a bad word about us and still never has about his time with us. In fact the contrary, he is generally very complimentary when asked. But if you want to dislike players from that era, he comes a long way down the list given many of the others who legitimately soiled our proud colours.

Captain of our worst team in 30 years. An utterly appalling player for us when he did play.

We had lots of shit players in that time. He was no worse than most of them. I would never put him in the same bracket as Collins and Dunne for example and some of the outright shit they pulled. The whole place was a cesspit as we spiralled out of control. Richards gets blasted because he didn’t walk away from a lucrative contract. Fuck that. I wouldn’t have from clowns running a multi million pound business.

The same Richard Dunne that made the EPL team of the year while with us? Both Dunne and Collins, , whatever about their off pitch activities, certainly did the business for us on the field. Something Richards never did. He must be the worst high profile centre half to have ever played for us and certainly the worst captain.

Sherwood was looking to bring in "characters" if I recall at the time.

We've had a number of bad players; none of whom (rightly) receive the level of vitriol that Richards does.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: paul_e on December 22, 2020, 09:59:47 AM
I thought Richards started the season ok for us but after about 6-7 games it was clear that the partnership with Lescott didn't work and that his positioning wasn't good enough to play central. As the season went on he got worse and as captain he should've been part of bringing the squad together whereas he appeared to be a big part of the group that pushed the french players aside. The years that followed are tough because he was clearly never fit enough to play but I don't blame him for seeing out his contract.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on December 22, 2020, 10:34:58 AM
According to an article he did on the Beeb website a year or so back, when he was starting out as a regular pundit, he did ask us to let him go a couple of times when other clubs came in for him (West Ham or Sunderland I think) and we refused which baffled him as he wasn't getting a look-in by then. Brucey also thought he was useful to have in the dressing room.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: aj2k77 on December 22, 2020, 12:05:35 PM
He was supposed to be one of the senior players helping integrate young players in to a new culture and country. Instead he took the piss out of them and helped create the toxic divide.

He can fuck off with his dumb grin.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: London Villan on December 22, 2020, 10:31:33 PM
The hanging around bit isnt the issue it was the clown like performances and attitude that made me dislike him. For three local lads to be the three biggest idiots in that relegation team then they deserve all the stick they get.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 22, 2020, 10:43:20 PM
It’s all good and well being a leader when things are going well as they did for most of the time under MON. But when we needed actual leadership, when things started to erode and ultimately fall apart both Dunne and Collins were prize wankers.

Richards barely played for us and when he did I don’t think he embarrassed himself with his play. He was never going to be the player he was at Man City. We bought damaged goods. And I’m sure Dim Sherwood wanted English content as captain as well with all those foreigners coming in so I imagine that player into why he got the armband.

The whole thing was a shit show.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ian. on December 22, 2020, 11:33:24 PM
There’s not many who have come through the last ten years prior to Bruce arriving with a great deal of credit to be fair. It must be only be a handful. That’s maybe the one area I can give Bruce some praise. He did manage to change the mentality and direction we were heading. When we signed Terry and had Snodgrass on loan it started to feel like we had winners again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Morleys left boot on December 23, 2020, 12:22:31 AM
Ok so he was a real disappointment  but he should never have been here in the first place ,but the club was being run by a right load of shite hawkes
It still amazes me how these players get jobs on t.v telling everyone how it should be done !
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on December 23, 2020, 07:22:37 AM
He strikes me as a nice bloke , and also not an an idiot - would you turn down four years of £60k per week?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: mcgrath_85 on December 23, 2020, 08:54:09 AM
The Dunne and Collins comparison is ridiculous.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on December 23, 2020, 08:56:24 AM
Why?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: mcgrath_85 on December 23, 2020, 09:07:17 AM
Why?

Dunne and Collins were largely our centre half pairing during the most successful period we’ve had in the last twenty years, with those sixth place finishes under MON. They were a solid, but limited pairing: just what O’Neil wanted and likes.
Richards played very few games in comparison, whilst captaining the biggest shower of shite in the history of the club. He was overweight, a liability in the middle of defence and was one of the ‘senior pros’ who clearly wasn’t having any of Remi Garde to the total deferment of the club and us surviving that horrid season.

Dunne and Collins actions that night with Sid sound disgraceful and they’d lost it on the pitch by then also, but to compare their times and performances for the club to that of Micah ‘new pundit sensation’ Richards is ridiculous. That’s why.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on December 23, 2020, 09:58:59 AM
Before Richards played for us, I didn't like him. When he signed for us, I didn't like him (and he was largely shite). Now he's a pundit, I still don't like him, and have no interest in anything he has to say about our club.

Equally, I don't hold a grudge or wish him any particular ill. Life's too short, and he never should have been brought in.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: in exile on December 23, 2020, 10:40:34 AM
Before Richards played for us, I didn't like him. When he signed for us, I didn't like him (and he was largely shite). Now he's a pundit, I still don't like him, and have no interest in anything he has to say about our club.

Equally, I don't hold a grudge or wish him any particular ill. Life's too short, and he never should have been brought in.
My thoughts too Rory.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on December 23, 2020, 11:00:21 AM
Before Richards played for us, I didn't like him. When he signed for us, I didn't like him (and he was largely shite). Now he's a pundit, I still don't like him, and have no interest in anything he has to say about our club.

Equally, I don't hold a grudge or wish him any particular ill. Life's too short, and he never should have been brought in.

I don't think, or certainly hope, anyone here is wishing ill of him. The club offered him a crazy contract, he signed it and he saw it out until the end as he is entitled to.

But let's not get all misty eyed about poor Micah. There's a reason why his name will always invoke a level of vitriol compared to let's say Lansbury. He was the captain of one of the worst teams in the club history, a truly diabolical outfit. He was arguably one of the worst players in that team and did nothing to quell a toxic dressing room.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on December 23, 2020, 11:08:05 AM
Before Richards played for us, I didn't like him. When he signed for us, I didn't like him (and he was largely shite). Now he's a pundit, I still don't like him, and have no interest in anything he has to say about our club.

Equally, I don't hold a grudge or wish him any particular ill. Life's too short, and he never should have been brought in.

I don't think, or certainly hope, anyone here is wishing ill of him. The club offered him a crazy contract, he signed it and he saw it out until the end as he is entitled to.

But let's not get all misty eyed about poor Micah. There's a reason why his name will always invoke a level of vitriol compared to let's say Lansbury. He was the captain of one of the worst teams in the club history, a truly diabolical outfit. He was arguably one of the worst players in that team and did nothing to quell a toxic dressing room.

Agreed, but as I say, I never liked him. I certainly don't feel any sympathy for him, but he didn't surprise me, either. He was just one particularly shit member of the worst and most dislikeable Villa team I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on December 23, 2020, 11:41:55 AM
Before Richards played for us, I didn't like him. When he signed for us, I didn't like him (and he was largely shite). Now he's a pundit, I still don't like him, and have no interest in anything he has to say about our club.

Equally, I don't hold a grudge or wish him any particular ill. Life's too short, and he never should have been brought in.

I don't think, or certainly hope, anyone here is wishing ill of him. The club offered him a crazy contract, he signed it and he saw it out until the end as he is entitled to.

But let's not get all misty eyed about poor Micah. There's a reason why his name will always invoke a level of vitriol compared to let's say Lansbury. He was the captain of one of the worst teams in the club history, a truly diabolical outfit. He was arguably one of the worst players in that team and did nothing to quell a toxic dressing room.

Agreed, but as I say, I never liked him. I certainly don't feel any sympathy for him, but he didn't surprise me, either. He was just one particularly shit member of the worst and most dislikeable Villa team I've ever seen.
I think he is a shit pundit, just like most of the ex-pros they put on the TV.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on December 23, 2020, 12:03:37 PM
Robert Green seems incredibly insightful on 5Live.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on December 23, 2020, 12:18:58 PM
he is a lot of noise , micah that is
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on December 23, 2020, 12:20:14 PM
Robert Green seems incredibly insightful on 5Live.

he seems to be a bit more considered than most
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: olaftab on December 23, 2020, 12:35:55 PM
Micah Richards was totally vacuous and embarrassing last night during the two games last night. Good job the excellent host that is Laura Wood managed to help him along.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: villabear on December 23, 2020, 01:35:41 PM
Liam Rosenior was great as a pundit on Sky before he joined Derby as a coach. Really insightful with great knowledge of the modern game.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on December 23, 2020, 05:00:08 PM
He was. Funny how easier it is to point things out from a studio than the bench.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Allan C on December 23, 2020, 05:18:35 PM
Well I’m not his biggest fan but I understand he was a popular character behind the scenes. Not that it really helped much.

He’s definitely nowhere near the worse pundit on MOD. The main problem with most is they only scratch the surface of the team and like Michael Owen’s comments the other day regarding our last two transfer window’s it’s basically a load of bollocks.
That was the problem I think. Too many then were busy being “popular behind the scenes” but pretty much useless on the pitch. Richards was the focal point of that group of players IMO  just an awful time for the club. He’s a shockingly poor pundit too which comes as no surprise to me
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: West Derby Villan on December 23, 2020, 05:50:16 PM
Liam Rosenior was great as a pundit on Sky before he joined Derby as a coach. Really insightful with great knowledge of the modern game.

Totally agree Villabear great pundit with a great understanding of all the teams in the championship
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Fasth56 on December 23, 2020, 10:26:37 PM

Richards barely played for us and when he did I don’t think he embarrassed himself with his play.


Not sure about that TV, his performance at Luton was probably one of the worst full back performances I've ever seen, including ones from the South Birmingham Sunday League PM Div3
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on December 24, 2020, 02:40:34 AM
I get it, but all players have bad games. That night was a disaster all round. I’m just saying I don’t recall him playing for a lengthy stretch and being hideous. And like I said for me, he’s looked upon unfavourably by most because the era in which he played and the belief by some that he should have just walked away from a contract that was agreed to by the club. I just don’t agree with that.

As for Collins and Dunne of course they were better players. They played more in a better team at a better time. But the incident with Cowans just tells who they really were as people. At that time as this started to degrade we needed our senior players to be leaders. They weren’t.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: mcgrath_85 on December 24, 2020, 08:59:27 AM
Micah Richards was totally vacuous and embarrassing last night during the two games last night. Good job the excellent host that is Laura Wood managed to help him along.

He seems to be on every show going at the moment. Astonishing considering how bad he is.
He’d be better suited on a a show like ‘a league of their own’ or some wank on BT sport comedy thing involving Robbie Savage. 😀
He really shouldn’t be analysing football. Awful.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on December 24, 2020, 10:59:47 AM
He's not the best by a long shot, but have you heard Clinton Morrison on Talksport?  Absolutely bloody dreadful, makes Richards sound like Michael Parkinson by comparison.  In terms of our ex-players, Gabby actually does a decent job, and I quite like Darren Bent too.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on December 24, 2020, 11:55:59 AM
I get it, but all players have bad games. That night was a disaster all round. I’m just saying I don’t recall him playing for a lengthy stretch and being hideous. And like I said for me, he’s looked upon unfavourably by most because the era in which he played and the belief by some that he should have just walked away from a contract that was agreed to by the club. I just don’t agree with that.

As for Collins and Dunne of course they were better players. They played more in a better team at a better time. But the incident with Cowans just tells who they really were as people. At that time as this started to degrade we needed our senior players to be leaders. They weren’t.

Leaders? Richard Dunne was superb under McAllister and McLeish in the later weeks of the season when we pulled clear of relegation. He played on one leg that time under McLeish and arguably ruined his career as a result. James Collins tore up a six month contract Dean Smith offered him after getting injured in the first week.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: rob_bridge on December 24, 2020, 12:06:04 PM
He's not the best by a long shot, but have you heard Clinton Morrison on Talksport?  Absolutely bloody dreadful, makes Richards sound like Michael Parkinson by comparison.  In terms of our ex-players, Gabby actually does a decent job, and I quite like Darren Bent too.

I like Dublin but he genuinely loves us. He also likes United, Cov and Leciester for other reasons.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: mcgrath_85 on December 24, 2020, 12:19:51 PM
He's not the best by a long shot, but have you heard Clinton Morrison on Talksport?  Absolutely bloody dreadful, makes Richards sound like Michael Parkinson by comparison.  In terms of our ex-players, Gabby actually does a decent job, and I quite like Darren Bent too.

Ha ha. Yep, not too keen on Clinton as well. I agree, Darren Bent is very good. He presents a show now for Talk Shite on Sunday evenings and he does it very well.
How about Steven Warnock: awful as well
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on December 24, 2020, 01:21:51 PM
Yeah, Warnock is awful.  I get that not everybody has to be supremely polished like Gary Lineker or Alan Hansen, and that some pundits are employed for their entertainment value like Roy Keane or Souness, but the ability to string a sentence together should be a basic requirement, as should even a passing knowledge of football.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Richard E on December 24, 2020, 01:25:46 PM
Clinton Morrison’s perceptive insight into the Stoke v Spurs game last night when it was 1-1 after about 65 minutes - ‘Stoke are still in this game.’
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brend'Watkins on December 24, 2020, 02:22:13 PM
First time I’ve heard Hansen being described as polished. He wasn’t awful but not great either hence he got dumped. The “can’t win anything with kids” quote aside his knowledge was questionable. Danny Murphy who I don’t like as a pundit much is a better pundit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Monty on December 24, 2020, 02:35:40 PM
First time I’ve heard Hansen being described as polished. He wasn’t awful but not great either hence he got dumped. The “can’t win anything with kids” quote aside his knowledge was questionable. Danny Murphy who I don’t like as a pundit much is a better pundit.

Wasn't the point of that quote that it was proved immediately, hilariously wrong?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on December 24, 2020, 03:59:40 PM
First time I’ve heard Hansen being described as polished. He wasn’t awful but not great either hence he got dumped. The “can’t win anything with kids” quote aside his knowledge was questionable. Danny Murphy who I don’t like as a pundit much is a better pundit.

He did it for over 20 years so can't have been that bad.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: darren woolley on December 24, 2020, 04:08:42 PM
I like listening to Dion Dublin and Jermain Jenas.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on December 24, 2020, 04:18:04 PM
First time I’ve heard Hansen being described as polished. He wasn’t awful but not great either hence he got dumped. The “can’t win anything with kids” quote aside his knowledge was questionable. Danny Murphy who I don’t like as a pundit much is a better pundit.

He did it for over 20 years so can't have been that bad.

On that basis Clive Tyldesley, Alan Green and John Motson wouldn't have been shite.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on December 24, 2020, 09:38:37 PM
Micah Richards grinds my gears because his vocabulary is so limited.  It is not his
fault that he has an uneducated man's grasp of language but he falls into the trap of trying to be a linguistic smart arse and lards all his opinions with cliches, tabloid press buzz words and fashionable quippery.  Lee Hendrie on the other hand accepts and manages his lack of academic experience, using his limiited range of English to convey his generally well grounded opinions.  The result is that Lee Hendrie is mastering his craft while Micah Richards has convinced himself that he already has.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: saunders_heroes on December 24, 2020, 09:48:20 PM
First time I’ve heard Hansen being described as polished. He wasn’t awful but not great either hence he got dumped. The “can’t win anything with kids” quote aside his knowledge was questionable. Danny Murphy who I don’t like as a pundit much is a better pundit.

He did it for over 20 years so can't have been that bad.

He didn’t get dumped either. He retired.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brend'Watkins on December 24, 2020, 11:05:52 PM
First time I’ve heard Hansen being described as polished. He wasn’t awful but not great either hence he got dumped. The “can’t win anything with kids” quote aside his knowledge was questionable. Danny Murphy who I don’t like as a pundit much is a better pundit.

He did it for over 20 years so can't have been that bad.

He didn’t get dumped either. He retired.

Maybe not the right wording. His contract expired and they weren’t going to renew it. He then retired.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Percy McCarthy on December 25, 2020, 12:10:07 AM
I liked Hansen. My favourite MOTD era was him, Brooking and Lynam. Probably because we were usually quite good in those days.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on December 25, 2020, 06:35:13 AM
He was a non-playing captain of the most toxic dressing room ever to stain Villa Park and he alone totally alienated the young French players with that Bad Santa video. As a senior player and captain, his job was to welcome and integrate them. The rare times he did play were comedy gold for the opposition, he visibly sulked on pitch when he couldnt play in his preferred position, and I don't believe for one second that Villa prevented him from leaving when other clubs incredibly came calling. I totally get that Villa were at fault for handing him the contract in the first place, but he contributed absolutely nothing in all his time here whilst raking it in. I just feel he's never been called to account for it and now he's on another big contract doing what he does best - bluffing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on December 25, 2020, 08:26:38 AM
Brilliant post.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Broughty-Villian on December 25, 2020, 09:51:10 AM
Alex Scott is great to listen to, Rob green is excellent, Karen Carney (sp) needs to remember to speak all her words, she seem miss out little words here there, but is ok.

Jenas Murphy and Micah are pap in comparison

Up here we also get on sportscene the scotland ladies manager Kerr, and she is great really very knowledgable, to the shame of some of her fellow pundits.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: mcgrath_85 on December 25, 2020, 11:09:21 AM
He was a non-playing captain of the most toxic dressing room ever to stain Villa Park and he alone totally alienated the young French players with that Bad Santa video. As a senior player and captain, his job was to welcome and integrate them. The rare times he did play were comedy gold for the opposition, he visibly sulked on pitch when he couldnt play in his preferred position, and I don't believe for one second that Villa prevented him from leaving when other clubs incredibly came calling. I totally get that Villa were at fault for handing him the contract in the first place, but he contributed absolutely nothing in all his time here whilst raking it in. I just feel he's never been called to account for it and now he's on another big contract doing what he does best - bluffing.

Bravo
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on December 25, 2020, 11:17:47 AM
Alex Scott is great to listen to, Rob green is excellent, Karen Carney (sp) needs to remember to speak all her words, she seem miss out little words here there, but is ok.

Jenas Murphy and Micah are pap in comparison

Up here we also get on sportscene the scotland ladies manager Kerr, and she is great really very knowledgable, to the shame of some of her fellow pundits.

Scotland Ladies ex-manager. She has just stood down.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on December 25, 2020, 11:32:02 AM
Alex Scott is great to listen to, Rob green is excellent, Karen Carney (sp) needs to remember to speak all her words, she seem miss out little words here there, but is ok.

Jenas Murphy and Micah are pap in comparison

Up here we also get on sportscene the scotland ladies manager Kerr, and she is great really very knowledgable, to the shame of some of her fellow pundits.

Can't stand Alex Scott, she tries way too hard and you can see other studio guests looking at her in complete bemusement at some of the things she says.  Carney is pretty good though I think, and fairly balanced for a Bluenose.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: nigel on December 26, 2020, 06:12:27 PM
Alex Scott is great to listen to, Rob green is excellent, Karen Carney (sp) needs to remember to speak all her words, she seem miss out little words here there, but is ok.

Jenas Murphy and Micah are pap in comparison

Up here we also get on sportscene the scotland ladies manager Kerr, and she is great really very knowledgable, to the shame of some of her fellow pundits.

Jeans seems to be popping up on a few other shows, too. He’s such a boring tw*t
Murphy, for some reason, dislikes us. It seems to choke him to say anything good.

I actually quite like Micah as a pundit

Alex Scott can do no wrong for me 🤤
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: West Derby Villan on December 26, 2020, 07:31:23 PM
Alex Scott is great to listen to, Rob green is excellent, Karen Carney (sp) needs to remember to speak all her words, she seem miss out little words here there, but is ok.

Jenas Murphy and Micah are pap in comparison

Up here we also get on sportscene the scotland ladies manager Kerr, and she is great really very knowledgable, to the shame of some of her fellow pundits.

Jeans seems to be popping up on a few other shows, too. He’s such a boring tw*t
Murphy, for some reason, dislikes us. It seems to choke him to say anything good.

I actually quite like Micah as a pundit

Alex Scott can do no wrong for me 🤤


Seconded
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on December 26, 2020, 07:33:39 PM
Richards seem to use his big booming laugh as cover for when he can't immediately think of something to say. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on February 18, 2021, 04:25:26 PM
Madness

https://twitter.com/luizzz1874/status/1362167839457746953?s=21
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brend'Watkins on February 18, 2021, 05:03:01 PM
I don't believe a word he's saying. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Gerrin on February 18, 2021, 05:22:11 PM
Alex Scott is great to listen to, Rob green is excellent, Karen Carney (sp) needs to remember to speak all her words, she seem miss out little words here there, but is ok.

Jenas Murphy and Micah are pap in comparison

Up here we also get on sportscene the scotland ladies manager Kerr, and she is great really very knowledgable, to the shame of some of her fellow pundits.

Jeans seems to be popping up on a few other shows, too. He’s such a boring tw*t
Murphy, for some reason, dislikes us. It seems to choke him to say anything good.
I actually quite like Micah as a pundit

Alex Scott can do no wrong for me 🤤

I like Micah as a pundit too, obviously Alex Scott is brilliant too. They earn their roles on merit, not some bullshit diversity card.

What Sky have done to Soccer Saturday though is absolutely appalling. Part of the appeal was the interaction between Stelling and the team, the should've got rid of him too, if the wanted to revamp it.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: luke95 on February 18, 2021, 05:22:31 PM
I don't believe a word he's saying. 
Not a case of him lieing but not telling the whole truth for me .

Wonder what the terms were when west ham wanted him ? His terms?
Free transfer ??
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on February 18, 2021, 05:41:04 PM
Unless the West Ham deal is completely made up then WE gave up the chance to move him. That's again on us as it was in paying up the stupidly long and expensive contract we gave him
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on February 18, 2021, 05:56:46 PM
Really weak management by Di Matteo if true. There's a good  1874 podcast interview with Tommy Elphick who goes into some of the bizarre, dysfunctional goings-on at the club at the time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on February 18, 2021, 06:05:51 PM
A year later we had another opportunity to get rid, as Sunderland wanted him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Fasth56 on February 18, 2021, 06:10:15 PM
There are two sides to every story and we are only hearing his. The thing I find interesting is the drip drip of stuff released by this leech. It seems that he wants to stay in the public eye and tell everyone he was the good guy.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on February 18, 2021, 06:32:17 PM
There are two sides to every story and we are only hearing his. The thing I find interesting is the drip drip of stuff released by this leech. It seems that he wants to stay in the public eye and tell everyone he was the good guy.

why is he a leech?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: olaftab on February 18, 2021, 06:42:27 PM
Well said Cliftonville Villain. The bloke is a shyster of highest order. I remember a match against Leyton Orient, I think, in the cup on a very cold night. Richards just decided to stop playing after 15 mins and sat down at the edge of the area till he was subbed. West Ham knowing them probably wanted him only if we kept paying his full wages. His time with us is another shameful chapter in that dreadful period.
And by the way Micah you are are shit pundit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on February 18, 2021, 06:54:40 PM
Given what we know about the club at that time, I see no reason to disbelieve him, and I don't see what's in it for him to make it up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Fasth56 on February 18, 2021, 08:36:33 PM
There are two sides to every story and we are only hearing his. The thing I find interesting is the drip drip of stuff released by this leech. It seems that he wants to stay in the public eye and tell everyone he was the good guy.

why is he a leech?


I can't believe that you go from playing for England to looking like a 5 pint pub player if you are grafting in training. The game at Luton, he was absolutely shite and that was not down to injury. Bearing in mind this was Luton he looked completely out of his depth, no positional sense and lack of awareness but still picked up his £60,000 a week. You can say that's the clubs fault for giving him that contract, but you would expect a professional to look as though he was earning it. Yes and I think he's a shite pundit as well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ian. on February 18, 2021, 08:59:00 PM
I find it quite hard to believe to be honest, but we’ve been through so many strange years since MON flounced off. I wonder if it’s a case of both parties being a bit ridiculous.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT on February 18, 2021, 09:30:02 PM
Two sides to every story with Micah Richards.

It was a toxic time at the club for sure.

I well remember his “discussion” with fans during the abysmal game in the FA Cup at Wycombe where he said the team were all trying and giving their all. This was while Brad Guzan & Lescott flicked gum from the bench and laughed and joked like a pair of idiots.

For me, there’s fault on all sides here, but I’m not buying that Micah is the hard done by hero at all.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: OCD on February 18, 2021, 09:52:46 PM
Players who aren't playing still have a roll to play. What if we had let him go and one or both of Elphick and Baker had got injured? As has been said, the club was a mess so it's too much to ask for planning in advance.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on February 18, 2021, 10:18:59 PM
He got paid
We got promoted
I didn't have to watch him try to be a central defender for two years.
John Terry joined a proper club.
Roy Keane finally got himself a friend

I think all parties should be happy.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: London Villan on February 18, 2021, 10:38:49 PM
He was one of three local born lads that were the ringleaders of the most pathetic and toxic bunch of players we’ve ever had.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on February 18, 2021, 10:45:04 PM
As a pundit he loudly doesn’t say a lot !?

He likes to mention his part in Man Citys premier league win but

Less so on his part in our relegation  🤔
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on February 18, 2021, 11:20:32 PM
Dreadful player and pundit. We had some utter clowns running the club back then so I suspect there may be some truth in the story.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on February 18, 2021, 11:32:22 PM
An awful player, an awful captain and despite his experience an awful mentor to the younger players within the club at that time. Yes the club was rotten from the top down, but he was very much a part of that. It seems he's trying to garner some credibility from his time at Villa where none exists. I don't know what he's like as a pundit because I don't listen to him. Nothing that he has to say about Villa or football in general would mean anything to me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithe on February 19, 2021, 07:42:35 AM
If there is any truth it again shows the financial lunacy of football, WHU were prepared to spunk £60k a week on a player who admits he can’t play? They didn’t make a call to establish that?

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on February 19, 2021, 08:11:04 AM
Richards seem to use his big booming laugh as cover for when he can't immediately think of something to say. 

File with Kriss Akabusi and Willie Carson under silly, annoying trademark laughs. He’ll be doing panto next.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on February 19, 2021, 08:20:34 AM
Never liked or trusted the bloke from the minute he showed his blue nosed colours by swearing on national tv after his equaliser against us back in the day.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on February 19, 2021, 08:50:54 AM
Poor Micah, being asked to stay - you know, to work with the contract he agreed to.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Marlon From Bearwood on February 19, 2021, 09:32:26 AM
Never liked or trusted the bloke from the minute he showed his blue nosed colours by swearing on national tv after his equaliser against us back in the day.

Bluenose? Really? He grew up in Leeds.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on February 19, 2021, 09:42:51 AM
Poor Micah, being asked to stay - you know, to work with the contract he agreed to.

That's about where I am. He's kidding himself if he thinks he wouldn't have been on the West Ham bench within a fortnight.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on February 19, 2021, 09:54:21 AM
Never liked or trusted the bloke from the minute he showed his blue nosed colours by swearing on national tv after his equaliser against us back in the day.

Bluenose? Really? He grew up in Leeds.

Was born in Brum I think.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: richtheholtender on February 19, 2021, 10:01:57 AM
Never liked or trusted the bloke from the minute he showed his blue nosed colours by swearing on national tv after his equaliser against us back in the day.


Very rare I agree with you Kippax but I do on this occasion
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dave shelley on February 19, 2021, 10:18:50 AM
For a player supposedly Mr Popular around the dressing room, I recall the only time I got to see him play at Villa Park was the season we were relegated.  We were playing Watford and were two down when he scored.  IIRC, his goal celebration was to leg it back down the Witton End where he stood isolated looking a very lonesome figure with no team-mates around him.

Now it could be argued that still being a goal down he just wanted to get on with it but I thought his behaviour was odd and said so to my lad who said he was thinking the same.  Mr Popularity my arse.

Strangely enough, I bear him no grudge for sitting on his arse and taking the money however unpalatable that was,the culpability for that, as has been said many times, lies squarely on the shoulders of those running the club at the time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Marlon From Bearwood on February 19, 2021, 10:26:53 AM
Never liked or trusted the bloke from the minute he showed his blue nosed colours by swearing on national tv after his equaliser against us back in the day.

Bluenose? Really? He grew up in Leeds.

Was born in Brum I think.

He was, but if you watch his new Sky documentary on tackling racism all he talks about is growing up in Leeds. He actuality visits the Blues ground to interview some Asian Blues fans yet never makes any mention of having any affinity with them himself. In fact he even laughs at them when the inevitable anti Villa comments slip out.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on February 19, 2021, 10:29:51 AM
He's a Leeds fan but also quite likes Arsenal.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on February 19, 2021, 10:39:03 AM
Never liked or trusted the bloke from the minute he showed his blue nosed colours by swearing on national tv after his equaliser against us back in the day.

Bluenose? Really? He grew up in Leeds.

Was born in Brum I think.

He was, but if you watch his new Sky documentary on tackling racism all he talks about is growing up in Leeds. He actuality visits the Blues ground to interview some Asian Blues fans yet never makes any mention of having any affinity with them himself. In fact he even laughs at them when the inevitable anti Villa comments slip out.

He went to school in Wetherby.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Drummond on February 19, 2021, 12:20:02 PM
Lives in Harrogate now. Or so he said on Tv the other week. (I'm not eastie; I don't know his address or his wife's name)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Mister E on February 19, 2021, 12:36:15 PM
Lives in Harrogate now. Or so he said on Tv the other week. (I'm not eastie; I don't know his address or his wife's name)
Never seen him round these parts. Perhaps he's in hiding, along with Dolly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Drummond on February 19, 2021, 12:40:11 PM
Lives in Harrogate now. Or so he said on Tv the other week. (I'm not eastie; I don't know his address or his wife's name)
Never seen him round these parts. Perhaps he's in hiding, along with Dolly.

Southgate used to live in Nidd, I did see him now and again when I lived up there. I guess Richards probably spends more time everywhere else as a pundit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on February 19, 2021, 12:44:58 PM
I swear it was revealed he was a bluenose somewhere once.  Probably fabricated by that lot because he swore on national tv after scoring a 90th minute equaliser against us and that makes him proper Blues.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Damo70 on February 19, 2021, 01:45:53 PM
I swear it was revealed he was a bluenose somewhere once.  Probably fabricated by that lot because he swore on national tv after scoring a 90th minute equaliser against us and that makes him proper Blues.

I thought Micah Richards grew up in Leeds but was born in Birmingham due to his mother giving birth whilst visiting friends in Brum.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on February 19, 2021, 02:50:51 PM
I swear it was revealed he was a bluenose somewhere once.  Probably fabricated by that lot because he swore on national tv after scoring a 90th minute equaliser against us and that makes him proper Blues.

From memory, he was ambushed by a few of their lot on holiday and was 'tricked' into giving the Zulu sign in a photo.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Allan C on February 19, 2021, 03:40:22 PM
For me he epitomises all that was bad at our club during that period. I remember the first thing he did when arriving was advising Delph to go in the opposite direction. Horrendous purchase by Villa
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: BC Villain on February 20, 2021, 01:56:38 PM
Richards and Keith Wyness having an almighty shouting competition on twitter at the moment.  Basically accusing each other of being liars.

https://twitter.com/retsub12/status/1363067384576290818?s=19
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithe on February 20, 2021, 02:20:26 PM
I dont think anyone comes out of this looking particularly good.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: luke95 on February 20, 2021, 02:26:43 PM
I swear it was revealed he was a bluenose somewhere once.  Probably fabricated by that lot because he swore on national tv after scoring a 90th minute equaliser against us and that makes him proper Blues.

is he not related to the Sturridges in some way , Cousins or other ?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: luke95 on February 20, 2021, 02:36:54 PM
At the end of the day we couldve let him go , but also he couldve said mutually cancel my contract , you owe me nothing, no wages  & let me move on.
But he didnt
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on February 20, 2021, 02:45:41 PM
I know its a game of opinions but some of the replies telling Micah that real Villa fans knew how much he cared and always gave 100% are leaving me questioning my sanity.

I remember him being crap, and thankful when he was no longer named on the bench.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: richtheholtender on February 20, 2021, 02:58:48 PM
In all fairness I am on Micah side here. This all but confirms there was clear interest from West Ham so he should have just been let go. Poor business again from villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on February 20, 2021, 03:02:41 PM
I think Wyness comes out worse.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithe on February 20, 2021, 03:07:33 PM
I think West Ham come out worst of all. Wouldn't you pick the phone up and check that a bloke you are about to spunk millions on can actually play a game?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on February 20, 2021, 03:10:55 PM
But he was a legend in the changing room!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Drummond on February 20, 2021, 03:19:22 PM
If what Richards says is true, then it perfectly sums up the shambles we were.

Why insist on a fee when you aren't playing him?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: BC Villain on February 20, 2021, 03:21:04 PM
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In all fairness I am on Micah side here. This all but confirms there was clear interest from West Ham so he should have just been let go. Poor business again from villa.

100%.  Its no wonder we nearly went bust with jokers like Wyness in the board room
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on February 20, 2021, 03:26:49 PM
That’s why as much as much as I’m no fan of Richards I’m also not going to ever blame him for wanting every penny of his contract. We offered it, he signed it. We had a chance to move him on and get out of the deal and we decided to keep him. Not saying it’s all Wyness or all Xia, or as is likely some part both of them, but whatever it was it was just a fucking mess.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithe on February 20, 2021, 03:30:24 PM
All involved would have been well advised to keep their mouths shut.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on February 20, 2021, 03:34:19 PM
Richards has been trying to get the Villa episode off his back to bolster his image as the ex player integrity pundit.
Wyness has already disputed his story and I don think it will end there. He might be well advised to not take up the past.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: aj2k77 on February 20, 2021, 03:52:17 PM
Richards is a bag of shit player and a bag of shit pundit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on February 20, 2021, 03:55:48 PM
Richards is a bag of shit player and a bag of shit pundit.

This every day of the year.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Dave P on February 20, 2021, 04:05:02 PM
I’m just so glad that neither Richards or Wyness are nothing to do with us any more. They can dig themselves further into the mud while we are well shot of them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT on February 20, 2021, 04:06:18 PM
I’m just so glad that neither Richards or Wyness are nothing to do with us any more. They can dig themselves further into the mud while we are well shot of them.

This. We were an all round circus with frauds like them in our employ.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on February 20, 2021, 07:03:47 PM
Wyness come across like an imbecile, miles out of his depth. He wanted a nominal fee from West Ham but this joker ended up costing us about 3.6m
(35k per week?) for another two seasons in his cheerleading role. Penny rich pound poor comes to mind.

Wyness was a dreadful chief executive and Richards is one of the worst players to have ever played for the club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: London Villan on February 20, 2021, 07:11:01 PM
It’s not the seeing out the contract part that i have an issue with. It was putting in crap, ill-disciplined performances and being a twat, rather than a leader, when it was all going to shit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on February 20, 2021, 07:38:02 PM
most people at the club across those years were imbeciles
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on February 20, 2021, 08:25:18 PM
Wyness come across like an imbecile, miles out of his depth. He wanted a nominal fee from West Ham but this joker ended up costing us about 3.6m
(35k per week?) for another two seasons in his cheerleading role. Penny rich pound poor comes to mind.

Wyness was a dreadful chief executive and Richards is one of the worst players to have ever played for the club.

I said that directly to Wyness on Twitter. We had a player who we got on a free transfer, who was costing us £60K a week but couldn't play because of his knees. He had the chance to go to West Ham, thus getting rid of a £3m per year burden on the wage bill, but we wouldn't let him go because West Ham wouldn't give us a nominal fee? Well, that showed them who was boss! No wonder that whole time was such an utter mess, with a chancer for an owner and a cretin for a CEO.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dave shelley on February 20, 2021, 08:42:27 PM
It's a measure of the two of them that they think it's perfectly normal to discuss the affairs of Aston Villa and all it's dirty washing in the public domain.  They have proved themselves to be totally unfit for purpose for the postitions they held.  Good riddance to the pair of them.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: itmustbe_it is! on February 20, 2021, 09:03:29 PM
Interesting how Richards is saying "Villa knew my knee wouldn't do 2 games a week in the Champ".

My recollection is he didn't even do one game a week. Saw him come on in preseason at Shrewsbury and he was fatter than me. And I'm a fat bastard.

Amazing how people try to rewrite history.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on February 20, 2021, 09:15:41 PM
Interesting how Richards is saying "Villa knew my knee wouldn't do 2 games a week in the Champ".

My recollection is he didn't even do one game a week. Saw him come on in preseason at Shrewsbury and he was fatter than me. And I'm a fat bastard.

Amazing how people try to rewrite history.

I recall two of his games for us at that time. There was a cup game v Luton was it under RDM? Also Steve Bruce's first game at home v Wolves. To say he was dreadful would be an understatement. Pub level and then some.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: algy on February 20, 2021, 10:11:09 PM
It's a measure of the two of them that they think it's perfectly normal to discuss the affairs of Aston Villa and all it's dirty washing in the public domain.  They have proved themselves to be totally unfit for purpose for the postitions they held.  Good riddance to the pair of them.
Yep, agree totally with you there.

Whatever either of them say, they were both at the club during the worst period I can remember (started going regularly in 1988/89) and from what I could tell did very little to displace the idea that they were primarily to blame for that state of affairs.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on February 20, 2021, 11:31:43 PM
I often wonder what it takes for a player to be called out at times.  Micah Richards was not fit probably when we bought him.  We gave him a four year contract.  Both of those are arguably our fault. 

But from then on in he was nothing short of a complete disgrace to the shirt and the club.  His charge sheet is quite long but is headed up by a captain of our club a captain no less choosing to form a clique of largely British players against young, vulnerable yet talented foreign signings thus aiding and abetting a toxic dressing room when we most needed it to be joined up.  Culminating with his totally unfunny not to mention unprofessional performance on the Bad Santa video that’s let not forget finished with Hutton being given a language book or some such. 

He fcuked off to Dubai instead of staying behind, being humble and helping to promote the club from behind the scenes.  And refused to acknowledge supporters anger at two so called professional players choosing to have a chewing gum spitting contest during a near humiliation away at Wycombe.  And he got paid for doing all this don’t forget.  Fcuk him I say. Most players are well able to engineer a move when it suits them.  Amazing he didn’t find his way out of a £50k a week contract until it expired.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on February 21, 2021, 12:22:09 AM
Why should he?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on February 21, 2021, 12:30:30 AM
Respect you SE so I’ll accept that bit.  But the rest I stand by. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: richtheholtender on February 21, 2021, 08:34:11 AM
I often wonder what it takes for a player to be called out at times.  Micah Richards was not fit probably when we bought him.  We gave him a four year contract.  Both of those are arguably our fault. 

But from then on in he was nothing short of a complete disgrace to the shirt and the club.  His charge sheet is quite long but is headed up by a captain of our club a captain no less choosing to form a clique of largely British players against young, vulnerable yet talented foreign signings thus aiding and abetting a toxic dressing room when we most needed it to be joined up.  Culminating with his totally unfunny not to mention unprofessional performance on the Bad Santa video that’s let not forget finished with Hutton being given a language book or some such. 

He fcuked off to Dubai instead of staying behind, being humble and helping to promote the club from behind the scenes.  And refused to acknowledge supporters anger at two so called professional players choosing to have a chewing gum spitting contest during a near humiliation away at Wycombe.  And he got paid for doing all this don’t forget.  Fcuk him I say. Most players are well able to engineer a move when it suits them.  Amazing he didn’t find his way out of a £50k a week contract until it expired.


I think you’re incorrect on the Wycombe point. If I recall it was actually the total opposite and he was the only one to acknowledge the fans during that game.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: AV82EC on February 21, 2021, 08:56:38 AM
If he was such an “influence in the dressing room” then how come we got relegated? Doesn’t sound like the type of influence that created much in the way of a great culture. Like kippax says there’s a long charge sheet against Richards and using his enhanced media profile now to try and rewrite history isn’t going to wash. Like many any others he’ll be remembered as a blot in our history along with far too many others from that period.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on February 21, 2021, 08:57:55 AM
I often wonder what it takes for a player to be called out at times.  Micah Richards was not fit probably when we bought him.  We gave him a four year contract.  Both of those are arguably our fault. 

But from then on in he was nothing short of a complete disgrace to the shirt and the club.  His charge sheet is quite long but is headed up by a captain of our club a captain no less choosing to form a clique of largely British players against young, vulnerable yet talented foreign signings thus aiding and abetting a toxic dressing room when we most needed it to be joined up.  Culminating with his totally unfunny not to mention unprofessional performance on the Bad Santa video that’s let not forget finished with Hutton being given a language book or some such. 

He fcuked off to Dubai instead of staying behind, being humble and helping to promote the club from behind the scenes.  And refused to acknowledge supporters anger at two so called professional players choosing to have a chewing gum spitting contest during a near humiliation away at Wycombe.  And he got paid for doing all this don’t forget.  Fcuk him I say. Most players are well able to engineer a move when it suits them.  Amazing he didn’t find his way out of a £50k a week contract until it expired.


I think you’re incorrect on the Wycombe point. If I recall it was actually the total opposite and he was the only one to acknowledge the fans during that game.

But he was the one who had the row with the fans who'd been having a go at Guzan for having a gum spitting contest.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: BC Villain on February 21, 2021, 09:14:37 AM
Culminating with his totally unfunny not to mention unprofessional performance on the Bad Santa video that’s let not forget finished with Hutton being given a language book or some such. 

It tells me everything I need to know about what a basket case of a club we were at the time that someone thought it was a good idea to produce that video.  And that somebody else saw it and thought it was a good idea to release it, rather than leave it on the cutting room floor to save the embarrassment.

You'd have thought we were top of the league the way one or two of them were acting - not cast adrift at the bottom.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT on February 21, 2021, 09:18:42 AM
I often wonder what it takes for a player to be called out at times.  Micah Richards was not fit probably when we bought him.  We gave him a four year contract.  Both of those are arguably our fault. 

But from then on in he was nothing short of a complete disgrace to the shirt and the club.  His charge sheet is quite long but is headed up by a captain of our club a captain no less choosing to form a clique of largely British players against young, vulnerable yet talented foreign signings thus aiding and abetting a toxic dressing room when we most needed it to be joined up.  Culminating with his totally unfunny not to mention unprofessional performance on the Bad Santa video that’s let not forget finished with Hutton being given a language book or some such. 

He fcuked off to Dubai instead of staying behind, being humble and helping to promote the club from behind the scenes.  And refused to acknowledge supporters anger at two so called professional players choosing to have a chewing gum spitting contest during a near humiliation away at Wycombe.  And he got paid for doing all this don’t forget.  Fcuk him I say. Most players are well able to engineer a move when it suits them.  Amazing he didn’t find his way out of a £50k a week contract until it expired.


I think you’re incorrect on the Wycombe point. If I recall it was actually the total opposite and he was the only one to acknowledge the fans during that game.

But he was the one who had the row with the fans who'd been having a go at Guzan for having a gum spitting contest.

Yep, side of the pitch, trying to convince some of our fans that we trying our best. Whilst Guzan and Lescott were embarrassing themselves in the dugout. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on February 21, 2021, 10:15:15 AM
Bored enough to look through earlier parts of this thread, as early as November in that season he was giving sit down interviews criticising his team mates.

I don't have a problem with him collecting his money, but I do agree that some of his attempts to rewrite history are annoying.

His knee was shagged, but he makes out like he was Ledley King and was actually quite good only playing once a week.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dicedlam on February 21, 2021, 10:26:10 AM
If as reported Richards did influence the snake to change his mind and move to MC then that itself should be remembered what a prick Micah was.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/9916884/richards-persuades-delph-over-city-move

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dcdavecollett on February 23, 2021, 01:56:05 AM
When it sinks in that the two people whose antics are described above were the team captain and club captain, you really get a sense of just how bad things were then.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rudy Can't Fail on February 23, 2021, 01:04:51 PM
If he was such an “influence in the dressing room” then how come we got relegated?

Because he's toxic. He thinks he's a funny man, loves the banter but in reality he's just a disruptive clown. Everything to him was a joke. He was the same at Man City. I remember when we signed him watching 'Micah's Diary' on youtube when marketing at Man City gave him and Lescott video cameras to record a pre-season training camp, it was a sign of things to come.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: paul_e on February 23, 2021, 01:24:04 PM
When it sinks in that the two people whose antics are described above were the team captain and club captain, you really get a sense of just how bad things were then.

and yet if you go on twitter there are plenty of villa fans who tweet at them still about how that video was 'class'.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on February 23, 2021, 01:30:47 PM
When it sinks in that the two people whose antics are described above were the team captain and club captain, you really get a sense of just how bad things were then.

and yet if you go on twitter there are plenty of villa fans who tweet at them still about how that video was 'class'.

That's because the majority of people on Twitter are twats.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: paul_e on February 23, 2021, 02:25:58 PM
When it sinks in that the two people whose antics are described above were the team captain and club captain, you really get a sense of just how bad things were then.

and yet if you go on twitter there are plenty of villa fans who tweet at them still about how that video was 'class'.

That's because the majority of people on Twitter are twats.

True but it does mean that there are people who see nothing wrong with it and when it should show just how fucked the club was that they saw it as a bit of 'quality bantz'. It's probably the most inappropriate thing the club that I can recall, even ignoring the clear "them vs us" aspect I can't be the only person who didn't really want to see the players dicking about like that when we were rooted to the bottom of the table and clearly on our way to an embarrassing relegation.

That Richards is now trying to pin most of the blame for it on Garde does nothing to change my view of him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on February 23, 2021, 02:41:15 PM
And what part did Remi Garde play in the "No Frogs" players Christmas party organized by Richards, Agbonlahor, Guzan and the other francophobes after the Newcastle away game? 



Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on February 23, 2021, 02:53:28 PM
And what part did Remi Garde play in the "No Frogs" players Christmas party organized by Richards, Agbonlahor, Guzan and the other francophobes after the Newcastle away game? 





what a toxic environment that must have been
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT on February 23, 2021, 03:11:23 PM
I had a discussion on Twitter when someone said how crap Remi Garde was. I mentioned how he’d walked into a toxic, basket case of a club and was chucked under the bus by Fox and Lerner.

The reply was “Gabby said he was crap”.

Oh yes, Gabby. That bastion of professionalism. Didn’t like training twice a day did he?

As said before, I’m just thankful the likes of Richards and Wyness are a thing of the past.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on February 23, 2021, 03:23:11 PM
I saw richards play a few times for Fiorentina before he joined us. He played right back. Generally sh-t. He would run down the right side, get knackered and not even bother to run back into position when Fiorentina's attacks would break down. He used to do this at Villa also, including when he played cb. No wonder we'd end up with a gaping hole in defence when he played. He had very little positional sense.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on February 23, 2021, 03:34:02 PM
A labrador chasing a balloon was the description I think Jon Crofts used about his positional play.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on February 23, 2021, 03:34:35 PM
Great at the positional sense as an analyst though. Outstanding even.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on February 23, 2021, 04:41:32 PM
I think the bloke is a shithouse and I don't believe a word he says.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on February 23, 2021, 04:46:36 PM
Great at the positional sense as an analyst though. Outstanding even.

Sat on his arse babbling gibbersih.

Difference is Auntie Beeb are paying him now instead of us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: wittonwarrior on February 23, 2021, 05:40:07 PM
A lot wrong with Micah Richards but I believe him 100% over the West Ham story. Wyness has been caught cold.  Can see the blabber falling off him as we chat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on February 23, 2021, 06:17:16 PM
He is also the scruffiest pundit in the history of punditry.  His clothes are no doubt brand new and expensive but his ability to slump in front of a camera camouflaged as a big bag of shit tied in the middle is pretty much the spor on image of his professional journalistic competence.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on February 23, 2021, 06:20:25 PM
A labrador chasing a balloon was the description I think Jon Crofts used about his positional play.
Perfect!

I couldn't believe how shit he was as a CB from day 1 with us!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: wittonwarrior on February 23, 2021, 08:56:58 PM
He is also the scruffiest pundit in the history of punditry.  His clothes are no doubt brand new and expensive but his ability to slump in front of a camera camouflaged as a big bag of shit tied in the middle is pretty much the spor on image of his professional journalistic competence.

He doesn't look good but surely that Jamie Bullard takes the biscuit dress sense.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: sid1964 on February 24, 2021, 06:45:07 AM
I did not know about the "no frogs" card game organised by the guy who has a programme on Sky about racism etc..
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT on February 24, 2021, 07:22:49 AM
I did not know about the "no frogs" card game organised by the guy who has a programme on Sky about racism etc..

It would be interesting to hear from the french players / players signed from that league, as to how they felt at the time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on February 24, 2021, 04:21:16 PM
Just check which Villa players flew from Newcastle to the players' Christmas party and which ones came back to Villa Park on the team coach.  Not exactly Hercule Poirot levels of deduction.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT on February 24, 2021, 06:33:57 PM
I have no idea, and I’m not Poirot, so do tell.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: paul_e on February 24, 2021, 08:24:57 PM
And what part did Remi Garde play in the "No Frogs" players Christmas party organized by Richards, Agbonlahor, Guzan and the other francophobes after the Newcastle away game? 

Sorry just spotted this, I hope you don't think I was implying that in any way, I was just pointing out the comments from Gabby and Richards in the last year or so basically saying Sherwood was great and sacking him to bring in Garde is why we went down rather than any fault on the part of the senior players who all pretty much downed tools and refused to try to play how Garde wanted.

Garde did poorly for us but I feel sorry for him more than anything, we made a mess of the summer before we arrived, he was screwed over in the January window and his 'leaders' in the dressing room didn't give a fuck that we were going down.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on February 24, 2021, 08:40:06 PM
I still don't understand why the club let gormless Gabby in to VP last season to shoot a video about how much he disliked Garde.

Any manager that wasn't prepared to indulge him and give him a free ride was on his shit list, it seems.

Fair enough.

But the club allowing that sort of thing with VP as a backdrop suggests they endorse or give credence to his complaints in some way.

Whatever shortcomings Garde may have had, as a professional Gabby bears some responsibility for his own fitness. His condition was disgraceful that year, at least a stone or two overweight.  And that was pre Garde.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on February 24, 2021, 09:55:50 PM
A lot of them felt as they didn’t like their boss they thought they would stop working.  I don’t think I could do that in my job.  Treacherous behaviour from Gabby and Co.  still at least he was getting a good seeing to on the day we got relegated.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ad@m on February 24, 2021, 10:18:14 PM
Micah Richards was a shambles of a footballer but I won't shed any tears over Remi Garde - with the exception of one French cup with Lyon he's been pretty disastrous throughout his managerial career.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on February 24, 2021, 10:37:49 PM
You think keeping Lyon in the top four of Ligue Un is disastrous?  Villa's treatment of Remi Garde was shameful.  No amount of rewriting his brief period of managing the club at a time of financial melt down and a dressing room full of shits will ever wipe the record clean.   I have very rarely been ashamed of the Villa but the way we treated Garde is on a par with only a couple of other shameful episodes in my years supporting the club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on February 24, 2021, 11:06:38 PM
Imo Garde was set up to fail, thanks to the sh-ts in the dressing room and the sh-ts in charge of the club at the time. The lack of support he had as a manager was epitomised by the January transfer window. He may have turned out to be a good or bad manager, who knows, but he was badly let down by the decision makers and so-called pro footballers who disgraced AVFC.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Allan C on February 25, 2021, 12:22:06 AM
You think keeping Lyon in the top four of Ligue Un is disastrous?  Villa's treatment of Remi Garde was shameful.  No amount of rewriting his brief period of managing the club at a time of financial melt down and a dressing room full of shits will ever wipe the record clean.   I have very rarely been ashamed of the Villa but the way we treated Garde is on a par with only a couple of other shameful episodes in my years supporting the club.
Bang on Brian. Garde didn’t stand a chance
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on February 25, 2021, 09:37:33 AM
You think keeping Lyon in the top four of Ligue Un is disastrous?  Villa's treatment of Remi Garde was shameful.  No amount of rewriting his brief period of managing the club at a time of financial melt down and a dressing room full of shits will ever wipe the record clean.   I have very rarely been ashamed of the Villa but the way we treated Garde is on a par with only a couple of other shameful episodes in my years supporting the club.
Bang on Brian. Garde didn’t stand a chance
completely agree, the word shameful is right.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: pauliewalnuts on February 25, 2021, 10:11:51 AM
You think keeping Lyon in the top four of Ligue Un is disastrous?  Villa's treatment of Remi Garde was shameful.  No amount of rewriting his brief period of managing the club at a time of financial melt down and a dressing room full of shits will ever wipe the record clean.   I have very rarely been ashamed of the Villa but the way we treated Garde is on a par with only a couple of other shameful episodes in my years supporting the club.
Bang on Brian. Garde didn’t stand a chance
completely agree, the word shameful is right.

I agree too. Well, 'shameful' is perhaps a bit strong but I thought we treated him pretty shabbily.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ads on February 25, 2021, 10:16:59 AM
What wasn't shabby about the club at the time?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: frankmosswasmyuncle on February 25, 2021, 10:32:14 AM
You think keeping Lyon in the top four of Ligue Un is disastrous?  Villa's treatment of Remi Garde was shameful.  No amount of rewriting his brief period of managing the club at a time of financial melt down and a dressing room full of shits will ever wipe the record clean.   I have very rarely been ashamed of the Villa but the way we treated Garde is on a par with only a couple of other shameful episodes in my years supporting the club.
Bang on Brian. Garde didn’t stand a chance
completely agree, the word shameful is right.
Spot on. A bad time for the club but it seems we tried to find someone to blame for it all and Mr Garde fell for it.
He was tricked by AVFC and for that I feel a bit grubby.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ian. on February 25, 2021, 10:32:16 AM
It does sound like he tried to change things too quickly instead of evaluating what he had here. The problem he had was he couldn’t really adapt to our squad and them to him and both were stuck with each other. He wasn’t then allowed to help himself in the transfer market either when it opened so he was pretty screwed really.

I’m pretty sure there was a massive amount of disrespect from the squad towards him, probably not to dissimilar to what Houllier had to put up with from Dunne, Collins and Warnock, however he had the funds to purchase Bent in January.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: BC Villain on February 25, 2021, 06:41:38 PM
Imo Garde was set up to fail, thanks to the sh-ts in the dressing room and the sh-ts in charge of the club at the time. The lack of support he had as a manager was epitomised by the January transfer window. He may have turned out to be a good or bad manager, who knows, but he was badly let down by the decision makers and so-called pro footballers who disgraced AVFC.

Totally agree.  I honestly think if he'd have walked at the end of January then more would have sympathised with him.

He was lied to from the moment he walked through the door
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on February 25, 2021, 07:32:25 PM
The way I have always looked at this episode is imagine we did not engage a new manager but a new groundsman.  The groundsman inherits a pitch that is two acres of mud and standing water.  He/she is expected to sort it out in two or three months of winter weather with no money for grass seed or drainpipes.  In addition the ground staff are lazy, bolshy and work shy.  The job fails.  Everybody's sympathy is with the groundsman.  But if the new club employee is the Team Manager he is expected to turn losses into wins, climb the table and achieve top flight security using kids from the youth team and ageing Roy Race on a free transfer from Melchester.  He fails and is roundly abused as a loser.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: West Derby Villan on February 25, 2021, 11:56:29 PM
Imo Garde was set up to fail, thanks to the sh-ts in the dressing room and the sh-ts in charge of the club at the time. The lack of support he had as a manager was epitomised by the January transfer window. He may have turned out to be a good or bad manager, who knows, but he was badly let down by the decision makers and so-called pro footballers who disgraced AVFC.

Totally agree.  I honestly think if he'd have walked at the end of January then more would have sympathised with him.

He was lied to from the moment he walked through the door

Yeah totally agree about being lied to and can only surmise that he was bought in as the “patsy”
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Villan82 on February 26, 2021, 10:08:22 AM
Garde was the sort of appointment this club was crying out for since about 2002. However, he arrived with us on 4 points after ten games with a toxic squad, disinterested owner and in a period of decline.

I wonder how it would have worked out if Sherwood had been sacked that summer and Garde appointed then?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Allan C on February 26, 2021, 10:42:36 AM
Garde was the sort of appointment this club was crying out for since about 2002. However, he arrived with us on 4 points after ten games with a toxic squad, disinterested owner and in a period of decline.

I wonder how it would have worked out if Sherwood had been sacked that summer and Garde appointed then?
Very similarly unfortunately, the rot had already set in at that stage
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on February 26, 2021, 01:24:41 PM
Garde was the sort of appointment this club was crying out for since about 2002. However, he arrived with us on 4 points after ten games with a toxic squad, disinterested owner and in a period of decline.

I wonder how it would have worked out if Sherwood had been sacked that summer and Garde appointed then?

A judge of Garde's CV post Villa doesn't suggest anything other than relegation. Except with Kalinic in goal for us earlier.

Garde wanted to root out the jokers from early on but he really should have tried to galvanise them first and left the revolution until that summer. He had nothing to lose really, a decent stab at avoiding relegation and he would have been kept on for the following season anyway. He didn't even get the younger talented guys like Gueye and Veretout playing for him really. When we looked doomed the previous season, perhaps with better players, but it's something Sherwood did well. Lambert's last stand away at Hull I think, we looked completely doomed so Sherwood did well to just about rescue us that time.

For a finish, Garde threw the towel in same as the rest of them waiting for his inevitable pay off. Repeated the same mistakes as Houllier as the OP said and doesn't particularly warrant much sympathy for me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: paul_e on February 26, 2021, 02:42:24 PM
Comparing Garde to Sherwood is completely unfair and ignores the circumstances at the club when they were each appointed.

Sherwood came in with Benteke as one of the most dangerous strikers in the league, Delph as a top end box-to-box midfielder and with us in the bottom 3 on goal difference.

Garde came in with Gestede looking wildly out of his depth as the main striker, Lescott and Richards at the back looking like they were both ready for retirement and a squad that was pretty clearly split in 2. On top of that we were already 4 points adrift at the bottom and in need or more than just being 'galvanised'. His only choice was to change the attitude of the squad and get them playing in a way that suited the players we had but the senior players who should've backed him downed tools and let him fail. I don't care what he's done since, very few ex-Villa managers go on to better things, all we can judge him by is what happened whilst he was with us and, in my opinion, he deserves sympathy for being fucked over more than scorn for not being good enough.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ez on February 26, 2021, 03:12:36 PM
Garde inherited the most wretched bunch of losers I've ever seen in over 40 years watching Villa. You could of had Sir Alex, Cloughie or Paisley in charge and the result would have been the same. The towel has long since been thrown in.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Martin Carruthers on February 26, 2021, 03:17:08 PM
I thought that, there isn't a manager alive that would have kept that shower up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: aj2k77 on February 26, 2021, 03:50:22 PM
I despised that Villa side.

Guzan, Lescott, Richards, Agbonlahor, the big clown keeper who was shit and hung around for years (I can't remember his name), grinning Bacuna, Bennett just for being really shit and weak, Nzogbia wage stealing, Westwood sideways crabbing and floaty corners, Ayew looking a right miserable bastard all the time. I hated that squad.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Tayls_7 on February 26, 2021, 04:49:01 PM
I despised that Villa side.

Guzan, Lescott, Richards, Agbonlahor, the big clown keeper who was shit and hung around for years (I can't remember his name), grinning Bacuna, Bennett just for being really shit and weak, Nzogbia wage stealing, Westwood sideways crabbing and floaty corners, Ayew looking a right miserable bastard all the time. I hated that squad.

Beautifully put. Lambert with his mumbling post match bullshite was close to unbearable.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on February 26, 2021, 04:51:16 PM
Comparing Garde to Sherwood is completely unfair and ignores the circumstances at the club when they were each appointed.

Sherwood came in with Benteke as one of the most dangerous strikers in the league, Delph as a top end box-to-box midfielder and with us in the bottom 3 on goal difference.

Garde came in with Gestede looking wildly out of his depth as the main striker, Lescott and Richards at the back looking like they were both ready for retirement and a squad that was pretty clearly split in 2. On top of that we were already 4 points adrift at the bottom and in need or more than just being 'galvanised'. His only choice was to change the attitude of the squad and get them playing in a way that suited the players we had but the senior players who should've backed him downed tools and let him fail. I don't care what he's done since, very few ex-Villa managers go on to better things, all we can judge him by is what happened whilst he was with us and, in my opinion, he deserves sympathy for being fucked over more than scorn for not being good enough.

Benteke and Delph were certainly not playing like top players at the time. We looked a complete and utter rabble and with a broken manager. Likes of Gabby were already in semi retirement. Run through the team (and the bench) that played the cup final, it was a dreadful one with the exception of those two and a very young Jack Grealish. I'm not in any way a fan of the geezer Tim Sherwood by the way but he walked into a complete shit show too.

The season wasn't completely gone by the time Garde started and certainly shouldn't have petered out with a humiliating points total. A number of the players Sherwood mismanaged have gone on to play at a very high level since their Villa days. Garde got little or nothing out of them nor Grealish. Various reasons for that but a manager is there to manage. Garde completely failed to even get the group to put up a fight (well aside from fighting with each other).
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ez on February 26, 2021, 05:44:24 PM
I despised that Villa side.

Guzan, Lescott, Richards, Agbonlahor, the big clown keeper who was shit and hung around for years (I can't remember his name), grinning Bacuna, Bennett just for being really shit and weak, Nzogbia wage stealing, Westwood sideways crabbing and floaty corners, Ayew looking a right miserable bastard all the time. I hated that squad.

Beautifully put. Lambert with his mumbling post match bullshite was close to unbearable.

"I thought we were outstanding" after another humiliation. What planet was he on?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Pete3206 on February 26, 2021, 07:10:33 PM
Remi Garde's managerial career post Villa suggests that he wasn't all that.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: paul_e on February 26, 2021, 07:19:21 PM
Comparing Garde to Sherwood is completely unfair and ignores the circumstances at the club when they were each appointed.

Sherwood came in with Benteke as one of the most dangerous strikers in the league, Delph as a top end box-to-box midfielder and with us in the bottom 3 on goal difference.

Garde came in with Gestede looking wildly out of his depth as the main striker, Lescott and Richards at the back looking like they were both ready for retirement and a squad that was pretty clearly split in 2. On top of that we were already 4 points adrift at the bottom and in need or more than just being 'galvanised'. His only choice was to change the attitude of the squad and get them playing in a way that suited the players we had but the senior players who should've backed him downed tools and let him fail. I don't care what he's done since, very few ex-Villa managers go on to better things, all we can judge him by is what happened whilst he was with us and, in my opinion, he deserves sympathy for being fucked over more than scorn for not being good enough.

Benteke and Delph were certainly not playing like top players at the time. We looked a complete and utter rabble and with a broken manager. Likes of Gabby were already in semi retirement. Run through the team (and the bench) that played the cup final, it was a dreadful one with the exception of those two and a very young Jack Grealish. I'm not in any way a fan of the geezer Tim Sherwood by the way but he walked into a complete shit show too.

The season wasn't completely gone by the time Garde started and certainly shouldn't have petered out with a humiliating points total. A number of the players Sherwood mismanaged have gone on to play at a very high level since their Villa days. Garde got little or nothing out of them nor Grealish. Various reasons for that but a manager is there to manage. Garde completely failed to even get the group to put up a fight (well aside from fighting with each other).

They left to join top 4 teams a few months later, they were top players.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on February 26, 2021, 07:25:24 PM
Nobody, least of all me, has ever claimed that Remi Garde was a brilliant manager.  What is claimed, especially by me, is that he should be treated with respect as anybody in any job is entitled to expect.  Not simply binned off as part of the francophobia that gripped our club.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on February 27, 2021, 12:55:11 AM
Nobody, least of all me, has ever claimed that Remi Garde was a brilliant manager.  What is claimed, especially by me, is that he should be treated with respect as anybody in any job is entitled to expect.  Not simply binned off as part of the francophobia that gripped our club.

Agreed, Brian.

When we just about stayed up, I thought we'd bin Sherwood (who should only ever have been a short term solution) and give a new manager some funds to invest in the squad.

I don't think Garde did a good job once he arrived, but the most incredible thing is that I thought we had a chance in 2015/16. Looking at that squad, it is absolutely one set for relegation.

Every year back then felt like a lesson. We escaped, and I liked to think 'right, this is a chance to regroup and make sure this doesn't happen again'. But every summer we got it wrong, and essentially 2010-18 just felt like one constant dropped bollock.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: aj2k77 on February 27, 2021, 09:57:05 AM
Gabby was running the club. The Manager wasn't backed, the chairman didn't give a fuck and everyone was turning their backs on the whole episode whilst King Agbonlahor did as he pleased and sowed discontent, division and apathy throughout the squad.

In my opinion he should have been removed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: geolex on February 27, 2021, 01:34:29 PM
Great at the positional sense as an analyst though. Outstanding even.

Sat on his arse babbling gibbersih.

Difference is Auntie Beeb are paying him now instead of us.

with licence fee cash so ..damn it  ..we are still  (in a way) paying him ..
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on February 27, 2021, 10:37:45 PM
Watching MOTD just wondering how much Villa paid out on Richards and Jenas in total for absolutely nothing in return. We're enjoying better days now but I still get angry.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on February 27, 2021, 10:56:13 PM
Great at the positional sense as an analyst though. Outstanding even.

Sat on his arse babbling gibbersih.

Difference is Auntie Beeb are paying him now instead of us.

with licence fee cash so ..damn it  ..we are still  (in a way) paying him ..

Yes. Licence payer funded gibberish.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on February 27, 2021, 11:00:05 PM
I know there's the obvious caveat that if it bothers me then don't click on the thread, which is clearly true. However I can't believe we're still talking about this guy. He barely played for us, he was one of lots and lots of people who played a part in taking us down, and there are many more culpable people than he was. Let it go.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: pauliewalnuts on February 27, 2021, 11:23:39 PM
Watching MOTD just wondering how much Villa paid out on Richards and Jenas in total for absolutely nothing in return. We're enjoying better days now but I still get angry.

The problem isn't that we paid those two for next to nothing in return, the problem is we could think of another 20 players from a period of 6 or 7 years who fit in that description.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: London Villan on February 28, 2021, 05:06:36 AM
I think it’s his current omni-presence on the media that is causing the discussion. If it was Guzan or Gabby had the same profile it would be the same.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: wally58 on May 16, 2021, 12:04:02 AM
Just watching MOTD best FA Cup finals and Micah Richards asked Gary Lineker about what were his best attributes as he had never seen him play and I thought well we never seen you for the last 3 years of your time with us and you were on £60,000 a week.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dcdavecollett on May 16, 2021, 12:24:41 AM
Anyone else see Micah, Shearer and Lineker on the subject of the best ten Premier League centre-backs?

Take a wild guess which Irish no.5 didn't even get a mention!!!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on May 16, 2021, 02:02:20 AM
Being a Villa fan can bring with it some shocking lows but Paul McGrath being effortless in a Villa shirt is up there with any of the highs. I don't need the validation of a stain on the trunks of the great man to confirm this. Micah fucking Richards shouldn't even be in the same sentence as Paul McGrath.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: LukeJames on May 16, 2021, 03:20:12 AM
Anyone else see Micah, Shearer and Lineker on the subject of the best ten Premier League centre-backs?

Take a wild guess which Irish no.5 didn't even get a mention!!!

Richard Dunne?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Smirker on May 16, 2021, 06:08:01 AM
Anyone else see Micah, Shearer and Lineker on the subject of the best ten Premier League centre-backs?

Take a wild guess which Irish no.5 didn't even get a mention!!!

Yes I saw that and thought exactly the same.

Richards I can sort of forgive because he is too young to have seen that much from him and he isn't a Villa fan but Shearer and Lineker really ought to know better.

When only three defenders have won the PPOTY, he is one of them and he wasn't included in a top ten, it's just not good enough to be honest.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on May 16, 2021, 07:26:14 AM
Anyone else see Micah, Shearer and Lineker on the subject of the best ten Premier League centre-backs?

Take a wild guess which Irish no.5 didn't even get a mention!!!
anything with Micah Richards in and I'm generally not interested - people say he's a great pundit, but how he (and most of the others) played, and the pathetic effort they put in that season means I'll never forgive him, same with Gabby.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Allan C on May 16, 2021, 07:35:51 AM
Anyone else see Micah, Shearer and Lineker on the subject of the best ten Premier League centre-backs?

Take a wild guess which Irish no.5 didn't even get a mention!!!

Yes I saw that and thought exactly the same.

Richards I can sort of forgive because he is too young to have seen that much from him and he isn't a Villa fan but Shearer and Lineker really ought to know better.

When only three defenders have won the PPOTY, he is one of them and he wasn't included in a top ten, it's just not good enough to be honest.
Paul McGrath was so effortless and excellent in his role which is probably why he didn’t feature. I didn’t watch MOTD so I don’t know who they picked but I’d hazard a guess that it will be the usual “favourites”
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Richard on May 16, 2021, 09:03:31 AM
I think the format of this Top 10 thing is that they are presented with a list of 10 - by who we are never told - and then have to personally rank.....so there was Terry, Desailly, Vidic, Carvalho, Pallister, Adams, Kompany, VVD, Stam, Ferdinand, all of course who played for the so called Big 6. Another example of BBC going the same way as Sky to pander to the armchair glory hunters.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on May 16, 2021, 08:19:38 PM
Vidic would have been Championship standard had he not played for a team who have referees in their pockets.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Villan82 on May 16, 2021, 08:23:30 PM
Anyone else see Micah, Shearer and Lineker on the subject of the best ten Premier League centre-backs?

Take a wild guess which Irish no.5 didn't even get a mention!!!

Absolute disgrace.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ad@m on May 16, 2021, 10:30:04 PM
Anyone else see Micah, Shearer and Lineker on the subject of the best ten Premier League centre-backs?

Take a wild guess which Irish no.5 didn't even get a mention!!!
anything with Micah Richards in and I'm generally not interested - people say he's a great pundit, but how he (and most of the others) played, and the pathetic effort they put in that season means I'll never forgive him, same with Gabby.

He's not even a good pundit, let alone a great pundit.

He's the BBC's court jester, there for the "lolz" and the "bantz". He's this decade's Robbie Savage.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: VILLA MOLE on May 16, 2021, 10:55:46 PM
Anyone else see Micah, Shearer and Lineker on the subject of the best ten Premier League centre-backs?

Take a wild guess which Irish no.5 didn't even get a mention!!!
anything with Micah Richards in and I'm generally not interested - people say he's a great pundit, but how he (and most of the others) played, and the pathetic effort they put in that season means I'll never forgive him, same with Gabby.

He's not even a good pundit, let alone a great pundit.

He's the BBC's court jester, there for the "lolz" and the "bantz". He's this decade's Robbie Savage.


which is a shame because there are good pundits out there. Nedam Onuoha for example is used more sparingly for some reason.  He is far more eloquent and doesn’t cackle all the time
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: paul_e on May 18, 2021, 07:02:01 PM
It's been mentioned elsewhere but in the chat he had with Lineker and Shearer one thing that came up was a discussion of Garde. Richards argument was along the lines of him being useless because when they were training he'd make them work on things like controlling the ball. He tells as if "how dare a manager treat professional footballers that way" but for me it sounds like he was trying to do the right thing and their egos stopped them from even trying.

When everything is wrong the best solution to get confidence back is to go back to something simple get people back in tune with basics and then build from there. If they weren't trying and weren't joining in he probably decided to treat them like kids and just keep doing it. It's those sort of anecdotes that make me side more with Garde than the players every time.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: pauliewalnuts on May 18, 2021, 07:20:02 PM
I feel sorry for Garde. He had no chance coming into that horrible toxic environment.

Let's be honest, for much of the last decade and a bit, our club has been - at varying levels, from top to bottom to one degree or another - utterly toxic.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT on May 18, 2021, 07:25:49 PM
Good laugh though. Good fun in the dressing room. Only surprised we didn’t advertise his job when he’d gone.

Club clown. 50k a week. Big, booming laugh an absolute must.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: WarszaVillan on May 18, 2021, 08:10:19 PM
Good laugh though. Good fun in the dressing room. Only surprised we didn’t advertise his job when he’d gone.

Club clown. 50k a week. Big, booming laugh an absolute must.

I think Lansbury got the job for a few years
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on May 18, 2021, 09:46:28 PM
Can't recall a manager being treated as disgracefully as Remi Garde was by both the owners and that little cabal in the dressing room. I seem to recall a January transfer window where he was promised cash, the reason he signed up for the job, but was left high and dry in full view of everyone with no signings made at all. The thought of Lerner or Krulak even now...*shudder*
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on May 19, 2021, 05:46:34 PM
I feel sorry for Garde. He had no chance coming into that horrible toxic environment.

Let's be honest, for much of the last decade and a bit, our club has been - at varying levels, from top to bottom to one degree or another - utterly toxic.

Gabby was scathing of him in a conversation on TS. Said that Garde was the worst boss he ever had. Apparently he was walking down the hallway laughing at something and Garde asked him "what he was so happy or laughing about?" Now on the surface that might seem like a bit of a dick move by Garde, but one can only imagine that at that time, after yet another humilating loss where the wankers who called themselves football players representing us clearly could not give a fuck, very much including our resident "Villa fan" and longest tenured player, I'm shocked didn't take a fire extinguisher off the wall and smash the grin right off Gabby's face.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on May 19, 2021, 06:32:13 PM
We were linked with Nigel Pearson that pre season after going down.

Think we dodged a bullet there.

But one of the silver linings was the thought of what he might do to Gabby/Gabs/ Flabs on the first day of pre season when he seen that gormless shit-eating grin. Ditto Rent-a-Clown Richards.

What a great example that pair provided to aspiring young pros.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Tayls_7 on May 19, 2021, 06:36:08 PM
I feel sorry for Garde. He had no chance coming into that horrible toxic environment.

Let's be honest, for much of the last decade and a bit, our club has been - at varying levels, from top to bottom to one degree or another - utterly toxic.

Gabby was scathing of him in a conversation on TS. Said that Garde was the worst boss he ever had. Apparently he was walking down the hallway laughing at something and Garde asked him "what he was so happy or laughing about?" Now on the surface that might seem like a bit of a dick move by Garde, but one can only imagine that at that time, after yet another humilating loss where the wankers who called themselves football players representing us clearly could not give a fuck, very much including our resident "Villa fan" and longest tenured player, I'm shocked didn't take a fire extinguisher off the wall and smash the grin right off Gabby's face.

Did Gabby ever explain why as a highly paid professional footballer he presented himself for duty as a massive fat twat?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: saint13 on May 19, 2021, 06:59:56 PM
Did Gabby ever explain why as a highly paid professional footballer he presented himself for duty as a massive fat twat?
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and yet I still hear lots of people tell me what a great servant he was... I for one don't buy it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on May 19, 2021, 07:05:23 PM
I feel sorry for Garde. He had no chance coming into that horrible toxic environment.

Let's be honest, for much of the last decade and a bit, our club has been - at varying levels, from top to bottom to one degree or another - utterly toxic.

Gabby was scathing of him in a conversation on TS. Said that Garde was the worst boss he ever had. Apparently he was walking down the hallway laughing at something and Garde asked him "what he was so happy or laughing about?" Now on the surface that might seem like a bit of a dick move by Garde, but one can only imagine that at that time, after yet another humilating loss where the wankers who called themselves football players representing us clearly could not give a fuck, very much including our resident "Villa fan" and longest tenured player, I'm shocked didn't take a fire extinguisher off the wall and smash the grin right off Gabby's face.

Did Gabby ever explain why as a highly paid professional footballer he presented himself for duty as a massive fat twat?

Why is he never asked that, with a pic of his "conditioning" for that Spurs game used as evidence ...
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: paul_e on May 19, 2021, 07:07:37 PM
Did Gabby ever explain why as a highly paid professional footballer he presented himself for duty as a massive fat twat?

and yet I still hear lots of people tell me what a great servant he was... I for one don't buy it.
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First half of his career he was, once Mon left Gabby got progressively worse until he was fucking disgrace by the time his last contract ended.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: RamboandBruno on May 20, 2021, 06:05:10 AM
Richards for me now is on bloody commission for Man City. That’s bbc and sky sports in the last few days, openly saying Grealish should sign for Man City.
I’m not usually that bothered by these things but can’t abide him, he’s a terrible pundit, unlike some of them obviously can’t be arsed yo do his research before games, bluffs his way through it, all of that with his disgraceful villa history.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: RichardBatchelor on May 20, 2021, 07:39:23 AM
Richards for me now is on bloody commission for Man City. That’s bbc and sky sports in the last few days, openly saying Grealish should sign for Man City.
I’m not usually that bothered by these things but can’t abide him, he’s a terrible pundit, unlike some of them obviously can’t be arsed yo do his research before games, bluffs his way through it, all of that with his disgraceful villa history.

That really riled me too. Admittedly it was probably a slow news day but the greed from a City fan perspective when they already have so many world class players (didn’t he also include Mbappe and Kane?) is beyond staggering - and all this from a guy who was hopeless for us, whatever the extenuating circumstances. Seems like an affable enough chap but that kind of article is infuriating.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: olaftab on May 20, 2021, 07:54:16 AM
No ifs no buts he’s a ******.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Percy McCarthy on May 20, 2021, 09:30:00 AM
Anyone else see Micah, Shearer and Lineker on the subject of the best ten Premier League centre-backs?

Take a wild guess which Irish no.5 didn't even get a mention!!!

Yes I saw that and thought exactly the same.

Richards I can sort of forgive because he is too young to have seen that much from him and he isn't a Villa fan but Shearer and Lineker really ought to know better.

When only three defenders have won the PPOTY, he is one of them and he wasn't included in a top ten, it's just not good enough to be honest.
Paul McGrath was so effortless and excellent in his role which is probably why he didn’t feature. I didn’t watch MOTD so I don’t know who they picked but I’d hazard a guess that it will be the usual “favourites”

My guess is ten players not fit to lace his boots, with the only attributes superior to God being their knees. Maybe.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: LeeB on May 20, 2021, 10:40:44 AM
Anyone else see Micah, Shearer and Lineker on the subject of the best ten Premier League centre-backs?

Take a wild guess which Irish no.5 didn't even get a mention!!!

Yes I saw that and thought exactly the same.

Richards I can sort of forgive because he is too young to have seen that much from him and he isn't a Villa fan but Shearer and Lineker really ought to know better.

When only three defenders have won the PPOTY, he is one of them and he wasn't included in a top ten, it's just not good enough to be honest.
Paul McGrath was so effortless and excellent in his role which is probably why he didn’t feature. I didn’t watch MOTD so I don’t know who they picked but I’d hazard a guess that it will be the usual “favourites”

My guess is ten players not fit to lace his boots, with the only attributes superior to God being their knees. Maybe.

Only Ferdinand, Terry and at a push Van Dijk (he does remind me of the great man to be fair) deserved to be mentioned in the same breath.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on May 20, 2021, 10:49:52 AM
No ifs no buts he’s a ******.
With bells on.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: LeeB on May 20, 2021, 10:53:17 AM
No ifs no buts he’s a ******.
With bells on.


Yeah, I'll remove my bleeding heart liberal cap for this this twat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: AV82EC on May 21, 2021, 12:07:46 PM
The man is a buffoon, you’d hear better opinions and analysis about Football from the regulars at the pub. He strikes me as similar to Ian Wright when he first appeared as a pundit, there for the jokes and the banter but not for serious analysis, can Richards do the same and at least not be seen as a bantering fool?

It’ll take a long time for me to forgive him for his part, along with others, in our relegation despite his protestations.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT on July 02, 2021, 07:50:42 PM
In absolute hysterics watching himself defending for Villa against Everton.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 02, 2021, 08:00:31 PM
Every time I see this thread bumped up I wonder what has that twat said now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on July 02, 2021, 08:48:20 PM
My abiding memory of the fat, bone headed imbecile was that night at Wycombe when he started rucking face to face with travelling fans in defence of our subs on the bench on the touchline playing spit the chewing gum game.  Closely followed by the game at Forest when he refused to play in the position Tactics Tim had told him to play and spent the game perfecting his spaniel chasing a balloon schtick.  Useless waste of space shoehorned into punditry by Political Correctness while far better summarizers like Lee Hendrie feed on media scraps.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: London Villan on July 02, 2021, 09:01:58 PM
Or the xenophobic team building tom-foolery.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on July 02, 2021, 09:06:43 PM
Yes I forgot that.  World's worst ever Santa Claus.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: wittonwarrior on July 02, 2021, 10:22:50 PM
Hope your all good Brian - Richards worst moment for me was when he was rucking on the pitch with Williams at VP against Swansea on the pitch rather than concentrating on the match which we lost.
 He's not one bit funny.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brend'Watkins on July 02, 2021, 11:31:15 PM
I get the feeling that Linaker and Shearer are starting to get a little irritated by him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on July 02, 2021, 11:35:58 PM
Every time I see this thread bumped up I wonder what has that twat said now.

Same! I always get a sinking worry that we've employed him as a coach or something equally dystopian.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on July 03, 2021, 12:10:56 AM
I get the feeling that Linaker and Shearer are starting to get a little irritated by him.


He doesn't have one redeeming feature.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on July 03, 2021, 12:18:33 AM
I get the feeling that Linaker and Shearer are starting to get a little irritated by him.


He doesn't have one redeeming feature.

Oh come on Axl, have you seen his biceps? He has two of those - at least.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 03, 2021, 12:40:15 AM
Same! I always get a sinking worry that we've employed him as a coach or something equally dystopian.

He doesn't have one redeeming feature.

Bit harsh, he'd surely make an excellent laughter yoga instructor.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Axl Rose on July 03, 2021, 12:56:49 AM
Ok chaps, you've both convinced me on those plus points!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on July 03, 2021, 01:10:31 AM
Same! I always get a sinking worry that we've employed him as a coach or something equally dystopian.

He doesn't have one redeeming feature.

Bit harsh, he'd surely make an excellent laughter yoga instructor.

'Laughter yoga'? I know it's been a while since I was over (2013) but clearly Erin has changed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on July 03, 2021, 06:00:55 AM
I get the feeling that Linaker and Shearer are starting to get a little irritated by him.
It’s taken them a while, he is a  buffoon.
Although there is not much insight from the others either.
Let’s have a jokey panel with a pantomime clown.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dave shelley on July 03, 2021, 07:49:35 AM
I get the feeling that Linaker and Shearer are starting to get a little irritated by him.


He doesn't have one redeeming feature.

Oh come on Axl, have you seen his biceps? He has two of those - at least.

He's more than likely to have two brain cells but they ain't rubbing together.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rudy65 on July 03, 2021, 08:00:57 AM
Same! I always get a sinking worry that we've employed him as a coach or something equally dystopian.

He doesn't have one redeeming feature.

Bit harsh, he'd surely make an excellent laughter yoga instructor.

I was thinking more Peleton instructor
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on July 03, 2021, 08:46:58 AM
I am fine wittonwarrior thank you for asking.  I forgot that he also has that incident on his palmares of doom in front of the Holte (against Everton?) when he dived to block a Villa shot when the ball was already 99% over the  goal line.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: FatSam on July 03, 2021, 09:05:23 AM
Useless waste of space shoehorned into punditry by Political Correctness while far better summarizers like Lee Hendrie feed on media scraps.
I agree that he is a waste of space, but think that he is in his position due to balance rather than political correctness - like having Nick Griffin on Question Time maybe?!? I think for spurious reasons the BBC want a range of pundits who represent whoever are the top clubs at the time. Now that Man City are clearly in this group, one of their ex-players needs in the BBC team, but because it is a relatively new situation, there aren’t that many candidates out there.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Flamingo Lane on July 03, 2021, 09:12:42 AM
I can't imagine Shearer was terribly pleased with Richards last night when Richards said he had seen Shearer feigning injury in games!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Tayls_7 on July 03, 2021, 09:24:33 AM
Useless waste of space shoehorned into punditry by Political Correctness while far better summarizers like Lee Hendrie feed on media scraps.
I agree that he is a waste of space, but think that he is in his position due to balance rather than political correctness - like having Nick Griffin on Question Time maybe?!? I think for spurious reasons the BBC want a range of pundits who represent whoever are the top clubs at the time. Now that Man City are clearly in this group, one of their ex-players needs in the BBC team, but because it is a relatively new situation, there aren’t that many candidates out there.

Even if it is political correctness there are several black ex-players doing a good job,  Rio Ferdinand being an excellent example. There's no excuse to have this simpleton on the TV.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on July 03, 2021, 09:50:03 AM
Can't stand most pundits to be honest.
Alex Scott is good. I don't actually mid Roy Keane and Gary Neville.
Really can't stand Danny Murphy.
Richards may be a good pundit - I don't actually know, I can't get over how he played for us to even concentrate on his words.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ad@m on July 03, 2021, 10:02:59 AM
Roy Keane can get to fuck.

Richards and him did a video recently in the style of carpool karaoke but thankfully without the singing. Just talking instead. Keane said he didn't regret anything he'd ever done on a football pitch at which point Richards bright up the Haaland incident and Keane said, "no, not that either".

He also admitted that he went out on the pitch intending to hurt players, before slightly correcting himself by saying he didn't go out to injure them.

The guy's a scumbag.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Clampy on July 03, 2021, 10:04:20 AM
The first few games he played, I thought he was great but then he went to shit. To think we've had players like that and poor old Bacuna said his ambition was to play in the Champions League and he got slaughtered. Some fans are just weird.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on July 03, 2021, 10:05:44 AM
The guy's a scumbag.
that is true.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 03, 2021, 12:20:11 PM
He also admitted that he went out on the pitch intending to hurt players, before slightly correcting himself by saying he didn't go out to injure them.

Nothing wrong with that generally, as a centre-half I went out to hurt players in every game. Big difference between that and trying to injure someone seriously. I believe that what's Keane did with Haaland which was when he overstepped the mark.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 03, 2021, 12:24:12 PM
'Laughter yoga'? I know it's been a while since I was over (2013) but clearly Erin has changed.

Yes, we've been missing the 'craic' since the pubs shut for lockdown.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on July 04, 2021, 12:29:09 AM
'Laughter yoga'? I know it's been a while since I was over (2013) but clearly Erin has changed.

Yes, we've been missing the 'craic' since the pubs shut for lockdown.

I was just browsing the Facebook page of my favourite pub in Sneem. Things look desperate down there since the busloads of morbidly obese Americans stopped showing up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on July 04, 2021, 01:41:37 AM
Punditry is clearly a closed shop but whereas Roy Keane, Shearer, Ferdinand and even Wright, no matter how moronic he comes across, you take them at their word, because they were players who produced at the highest level. Don't know what Danny Murphy's problem has been with Villa over the years, and Richards is just an imbecile who I suspect is now being found out. Alex Scott is the best of them all and is probably on half of what Richards is being paid.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on July 04, 2021, 09:03:11 AM
Emma Hayes has decent  tactical analysis but sadly has the most dreary unlistenable voice.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Fasth56 on July 04, 2021, 10:04:00 AM
Let's not forget his inept performance at Luton where his performance never reached the heights of a "spaniel chasing a balloon". As a useless pundit however Jenas is hot on his heels, whose constant whittering almost ruined last nights game. He felt that every second had to be filled with his constant inane comments.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on July 04, 2021, 10:13:22 AM
Jermaine Jenas is the worst pundit/co-commentator ever.  "It's time to put some respect on Raheem Sterling's name." Oh shut up you colossal twat.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on July 04, 2021, 11:52:55 AM
Agreed.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 04, 2021, 12:33:19 PM
Alex Scott is the best of them all and is probably on half of what Richards is being paid.

I hope not, she earned 600k in 2019 and I imagine it's only gone up with increased appearances as a pundit and her stint on The One Show.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 04, 2021, 12:35:25 PM
Jermaine Jenas is the worst pundit/co-commentator ever.  "It's time to put some respect on Raheem Sterling's name." Oh shut up you colossal twat.

I don't know, Arethraheem Sterling has a ring to it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 04, 2021, 12:40:16 PM
'Laughter yoga'? I know it's been a while since I was over (2013) but clearly Erin has changed.

Yes, we've been missing the 'craic' since the pubs shut for lockdown.

I was just browsing the Facebook page of my favourite pub in Sneem. Things look desperate down there since the busloads of morbidly obese Americans stopped showing up.

Not familiar with it, I've only been to Kerry once and didn't make it to Killarney or Sneem.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brian green on July 04, 2021, 12:52:48 PM
I think the thing the worst pundits have in common is lack of command of language.  Jenas is a typical case in point.  Richards does not even get to the starting line his gabbling buffoonery is so full on.  What they do is assemble a swatch of cliches that they can cobble together as though the contemporaneousness of their utterances makes them insightful.  It does not.  It simply proves that "sick as a parrot" and "over the moon" are the well from which they draw their inspiration.  I like Lee Hendrie as a pundit because he is so devoid of pretence.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Villan82 on July 04, 2021, 01:06:46 PM
Richards would never stay in position for us.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on July 04, 2021, 01:12:19 PM
Lil' Lee is good. 

Rosenior jnr is/ was good n'all but hasn't done much of that sort of thing since coaching at Derby.

The Beeb's coverage looks poor any time they don't have Kilnsmann or Fabregas.  Linekarse's bland and dreary tone needs to be counterbalanced with someone a bit more animated.  Not cartoon buffoon animated like Richards, but like the former two or Desailly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on July 04, 2021, 01:15:58 PM
Lineker is also increasingly looking like a sex tourist with that 'beard.'

I'm seriously considering not paying the licence fee next year just because of his offensive facial fuzz.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ads on July 04, 2021, 01:18:32 PM
He's looking like his brother, which is a bad thing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Pete3206 on July 04, 2021, 01:42:07 PM
During punditry, I turn the sound off, make a drink, go to the loo or scan these pages. Anything to avoid the inane drivel.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on July 04, 2021, 02:04:44 PM
I think the thing the worst pundits have in common is lack of command of language.  Jenas is a typical case in point.  Richards does not even get to the starting line his gabbling buffoonery is so full on.  What they do is assemble a swatch of cliches that they can cobble together as though the contemporaneousness of their utterances makes them insightful.  It does not.  It simply proves that "sick as a parrot" and "over the moon" are the well from which they draw their inspiration.  I like Lee Hendrie as a pundit because he is so devoid of pretence.

Quite right Brian. There's nothing wrong with a regional accent either, so it's not snobbery like that.  But all pundits should have a certain amount of intelligence, offer some valuable insights from their playing days, and just be engaging and able to string a coherent sentence together. People like Jenas and Murphy fall down on all of these criteria.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on July 04, 2021, 02:39:03 PM
On the Radio I quite like Stuart Pearce. He's good, without going too OTT.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: AV82EC on July 04, 2021, 03:17:08 PM
I’ve come to realise that the level of punditry is always going to be skin deep as they have limited time in which to shed any insight so I just ignore it now. And to be honest most of us having just watched the game can see for ourselves what happened.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on July 04, 2021, 06:33:15 PM
If you compare the analysis of football pundits to cricket ones it’s astonishing how much more knowledgable and lucid they are by comparison.  I know they were probably better educated but they have detailed insightful analysis. 

By the way it’s getting worse now.  Jenas is now presenting The One Show.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on July 04, 2021, 07:52:25 PM
If you compare the analysis of football pundits to cricket ones it’s astonishing how much more knowledgable and lucid they are by comparison.  I know they were probably better educated but they have detailed insightful analysis. 

By the way it’s getting worse now.  Jenas is now presenting The One Show.
i wish he would focus on that, then i would not ever have to put up with the twat again.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 04, 2021, 08:08:52 PM
By the way it’s getting worse now.  Jenas is now presenting The One Show.

i wish he would focus on that, then i would not ever have to put up with the twat again.

Just wait till he's presenting MOTD. You'll get more gems like this...

Quote from: JJ
Jermaine Jenas on commentary: “Sancho and Walker have a great understanding from their time together at Manchester City in training.”

Sancho left Manchester City on 31st August 2017. Walker joined 14th July 2017. Must have been one intense 6 weeks together 4 years ago.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on July 04, 2021, 08:34:33 PM
By the way it’s getting worse now.  Jenas is now presenting The One Show.

i wish he would focus on that, then i would not ever have to put up with the twat again.

Just wait till he's presenting MOTD. You'll get more gems like this...

Quote from: JJ
Jermaine Jenas on commentary: “Sancho and Walker have a great understanding from their time together at Manchester City in training.”

Sancho left Manchester City on 31st August 2017. Walker joined 14th July 2017. Must have been one intense 6 weeks together 4 years ago.
Jesus, you are right a shoe in for the MOTD gig.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on July 04, 2021, 08:47:43 PM
Lineker is also increasingly looking like a sex tourist with that 'beard.'

I'm seriously considering not paying the licence fee next year just because of his offensive facial fuzz.

If he slaps his knees once more time before saying something to his panel of pundits that for whatever reason he's not fully confident of, I'm gonna scream. Seriously, watch out for it. It must be some sort of coping-mechanism thing.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brazilian Villain on July 04, 2021, 09:00:12 PM

Just wait till he's presenting MOTD.

Jesus, you are right a shoe in for the MOTD gig.

When they decide to "freshen things up". He's already doing MOTDx and probably why they've been giving him presenting gigs on The One Show similar to readying Alex Scott for Football Focus.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SaddVillan on July 04, 2021, 09:22:01 PM
The numpty who was commentating for ITV on Czech Republic v Denmark was unbearable.
He's obviously got prepared info on each player that he crowbars into the commentary no matter what.

At one point in the 1st half after he'd droned on for a couple of minutes Ally McCoist just said: "Yeh" in a weary and clearly disinterested way as if to say "Wtf? Just shut up you boring arse."

Why do all modern commentators have an irresistible urge to fill every second of play with their words of wisdom.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on July 04, 2021, 10:36:57 PM
My abiding memory of the fat, bone headed imbecile was that night at Wycombe when he started rucking face to face with travelling fans in defence of our subs on the bench on the touchline playing spit the chewing gum game.  Closely followed by the game at Forest when he refused to play in the position Tactics Tim had told him to play and spent the game perfecting his spaniel chasing a balloon schtick.  Useless waste of space shoehorned into punditry by Political Correctness while far better summarizers like Lee Hendrie feed on media scraps.

Lee is quite good on co-commentary and in the studio. Richards is probably the worst.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on July 04, 2021, 11:36:03 PM
Lee has grown-up a fair bit. Would like Mr Woodhall to ghost-write his autobiography for a princely sum.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: saint13 on July 07, 2021, 06:55:41 PM
He has just been on 5 Live saying that he had a key role in the Villa squad after being injured passing on his experience to the youngsters...hmmm.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on July 07, 2021, 07:02:14 PM
Not a chance. Messing with their heads more like it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brend'Watkins on July 07, 2021, 07:07:39 PM
By helping the Youngsters he must mean the  6 year olds I reckon with his stint as Santa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on July 07, 2021, 08:59:42 PM
He has just been on 5 Live saying that he had a key role in the Villa squad after being injured passing on his experience to the youngsters...hmmm.
“watch this lads, this is how you make millions of pounds despite being a useless twat”
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: sid1964 on July 08, 2021, 07:54:41 AM
I still don't understand why we did not sell Richards when we had the chance (although there were so many things wrong with our club for quite a few seasons leading to our relegation and our stay in the Championship)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 08, 2021, 12:31:27 PM
Could we maybe move this pish to Villa Memories please? Never has a player had as ridiculous a replies to contribution ratio on here. And, yes, I acknowledge that I've just contributed to it.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: eamonn on July 08, 2021, 12:59:04 PM
Whenever he laughs on tv now (roughly 33% of his output), those Bad Santa flashbacks are strong. For that reason, I'm out.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brend'Watkins on July 08, 2021, 01:13:34 PM
Could we maybe move this pish to Villa Memories please? Never has a player had as ridiculous a replies to contribution ratio on here. And, yes, I acknowledge that I've just contributed to it.

Well, if he’s continually on a mission to rewrite history then it does need to be called out.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Villa Lew on October 02, 2021, 09:22:39 AM
A sad tale

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10049971/MICAH-RICHARDS-love-play-Aston-Villa-team.html
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dubaivillain on October 02, 2021, 10:03:56 AM
A total and utter prick.  Shame there isn’t a way that the club can legally prevent him from mentioning the Villa
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brazilian Villain on October 02, 2021, 10:08:26 AM
Heartbreaking stuff, maybe if we've clinched a CL spot we could bring him on for a brief cameo against Citeh last game of the season. Sure to get a rapturous response from both sets of fans.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on October 02, 2021, 10:18:53 AM
A sad tale

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10049971/MICAH-RICHARDS-love-play-Aston-Villa-team.html


A sad pr*ck!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: pauliewalnuts on October 02, 2021, 10:57:58 AM
Maybe he's telling the truth.

Just putting it out there.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on October 02, 2021, 11:12:07 AM
Maybe he's telling the truth.

Just putting it out there.
Yeh, but if I was having to chose between someone who is an honest lad who just got unlucky with injuries and toiled and strained to get a game, or a TV pundit who wants to indulge in constructive revisionism to protect his image in the media spotlight
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: LeeB on October 02, 2021, 11:40:57 AM
Maybe he's telling the truth.

Just putting it out there.

He was never ostracised from the club by Bruce or Smith, so he can't have been the complete ****** he's made out be, and I've always felt that the fact we signed a player that was clearly fucked said more about the idiots in charge at the time than the player himself.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Sexual Ealing on October 02, 2021, 12:17:14 PM
Maybe he's telling the truth.

Just putting it out there.

He was never ostracised from the club by Bruce or Smith, so he can't have been the complete ****** he's made out be, and I've always felt that the fact we signed a player that was clearly fucked said more about the idiots in charge at the time than the player himself.

Exactly. He always comes across well to me, and I find the vitriol towards him slightly unhinged.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Ian. on October 02, 2021, 12:57:56 PM
Maybe he's telling the truth.

Just putting it out there.

He was never ostracised from the club by Bruce or Smith, so he can't have been the complete ****** he's made out be, and I've always felt that the fact we signed a player that was clearly fucked said more about the idiots in charge at the time than the player himself.

Exactly. He always comes across well to me, and I find the vitriol towards him slightly unhinged.

He followed a long line of players who really did take the piss, which really didn’t help his cause and maybe wrongly goes against him. The biggest mistake was like Lee has said, was signing him in the first place.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: BC Villain on October 02, 2021, 01:51:10 PM
Maybe he's telling the truth.

Just putting it out there.
Yeh, but if I was having to chose between someone who is an honest lad who just got unlucky with injuries and toiled and strained to get a game, or a TV pundit who wants to indulge in constructive revisionism to protect his image in the media spotlight

Guess it depends if you want to believe Micah Richards or Keith Wyness I guess
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Abbeyfealeavfc on October 02, 2021, 02:45:12 PM
Maybe he's telling the truth.

Just putting it out there.

He was never ostracised from the club by Bruce or Smith, so he can't have been the complete ****** he's made out be, and I've always felt that the fact we signed a player that was clearly fucked said more about the idiots in charge at the time than the player himself.

Exactly. He always comes across well to me, and I find the vitriol towards him slightly unhinged.

A tad over-reactionary and unneccessary to posters having a different opinion to you on a football forum where posters have different opinions on a whole host of issues.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Mister E on October 02, 2021, 02:52:29 PM
I don't really want to open a Daily Heil link nor read any more b****x from another disaffected ex-player.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on October 02, 2021, 02:57:57 PM
I really don’t get why he’s a ‘sad prick.’

We bought an injury prone player and surprise surprise he was injured - a lot.

As far as I can tell, he was a promising young player who couldn’t live up to his potential due to injury. Seems like a nice chap.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: RichardBatchelor on October 02, 2021, 03:20:20 PM
I really don’t get why he’s a ‘sad prick.’

We bought an injury prone player and surprise surprise he was injured - a lot.

As far as I can tell, he was a promising young player who couldn’t live up to his potential due to injury. Seems like a nice chap.

Agreed. I've made my peace with him. Seems an ok bloke. He was unfit through no fault of his own, whereas Agbonlahor brought it on himself by being unprofessional. The idea that he wasn't trying to be fit and just taking the money makes little sense really.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: AV82EC on October 02, 2021, 03:27:02 PM
I hold no major grudge against Richards the main fault lies with those who purchased him (Sherwood, Fox, etc etc) but and the key point here for me is he was part of disruptive element at the club whether he likes it or not under Garde. I’d be more inclined to be supportive of his time at the club if he showed any element of remorse for his part in the relegation but all he continually does it bleat about how misunderstood he is and shows no contrition for his actions. And as for saying it was a mistake To get rid of Sherwood, is he fucking serious?!
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on October 02, 2021, 03:41:32 PM
I'm not a huge fan of the player (for us).  Or the pundit he has become.

But don't see a whole pile wrong with that interview. 

Aye, he says the club were wrong to get rid of Sherwood (I must have slipped into a parallel universe when this good football was played, mind).  But you'd expect that from one of Sherwood's men.

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on October 02, 2021, 03:45:32 PM
just putting it out there that when we was relegated he was breaking his neck for that West Ham move.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on October 02, 2021, 03:54:40 PM
I hold no major grudge against Richards the main fault lies with those who purchased him (Sherwood, Fox, etc etc) but and the key point here for me is he was part of disruptive element at the club whether he likes it or not under Garde. I’d be more inclined to be supportive of his time at the club if he showed any element of remorse for his part in the relegation but all he continually does it bleat about how misunderstood he is and shows no contrition for his actions. And as for saying it was a mistake To get rid of Sherwood, is he fucking serious?!

So I disagree with Micah on whether Sherwood was a good manager. But that’s not a big deal. And I don’t think Garde was the right guy for the job.

Which particular disruptive actions are you referring to?
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: colin69 on October 02, 2021, 05:32:46 PM
My heart bleeds…. Shit player, shit pundit.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on October 02, 2021, 05:37:06 PM
The guy was on loan at Fiorentina moaning about being a scapegoat, joins us and by the end of a November is sitting down with the Torygraph to criticise his team mates for not running enough.

I don't care how much he was paid, I considered every game he missed as good news for us because I thought he was an absolute liability.

I think he's deluded to think he could emulate Ledley King and play once a week in central defence to premier league standard.

We did him a favour, because people rightly remember him as a powerful athletic full back. Had he got his move to West Ham people would remember him as an injury prone out of shape Titus Bramble.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Exeter 77 on October 02, 2021, 05:40:19 PM
Richards was a player we shouldn't have signed and he didn't exactly cover himself in glory while he was with the club either on or off the pitch but I don't hold him in anything like the contempt I reserve for Joelon Lescott.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on October 02, 2021, 05:44:34 PM
Tbf though he was right in that interview way back when. The players weren’t putting a shift in - iirc we were in the relegation zone.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: danno on October 02, 2021, 05:49:11 PM
Tbf though he was right in that interview way back when. The players weren’t putting a shift in - iirc we were in the relegation zone.

He's captain! Surely he has other avenues open to him? Perhaps oh
I don't know... by leading by example? Or setting higher standards in training?

Instead he was washing his hands of any blame before Christmas. Im trying but these foreign lads...

Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: markeeeebeeee2005 on October 02, 2021, 05:53:55 PM
Definitely see your point on it Danno. I think the Telegraph article was ill judged although I can’t now read it to look at what he specifically said. But I don’t think he was bigging himself up particularly - forgive me if I’m wrong on that. 

I just don’t get that wound up by him and actually quite like the guy. I don’t think he could have done that much more performance wise as his knees were shot when we bought him. His knees were shot when he was made captain. I don’t begrudge him accepting either offer that we were daft enough to give him.

Did he make some poor decisions though? Yeah.

Does that make him awful? Not for me.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: brontebilly on October 02, 2021, 06:37:08 PM
He was captain of the pitiful relegation team and arguably the worst 'regular' in that team. Absolutely useless.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Allan C on October 02, 2021, 07:04:06 PM
For me he was a truly dreadful signing when the club were truly dreadful. I didn’t rate him before his injuries and couldn’t believe it we signed him. I don’t think he’s any good as a pundit either but he’s part of our history like several others down the years I wished hadn’t pulled on the shirt. And that’s where I leave him, consigned to history
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: BC Villain on October 02, 2021, 07:15:53 PM
Perhaps better to move this thread.  We've got a lot of positivity and excitement swirling around the club at the moment.  Don't really see the point of raking all these bad memories up again
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: N'ZMAV on October 02, 2021, 07:20:48 PM
he is a skid-mark on the under-pants of a shitty few years.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SoccerHQ on October 02, 2021, 08:44:42 PM
Don't see issue with article.

Credit to DS. Of course Richards was finished by then but DS could've easily been dazzled by a big name and tried to get him out on the pitch like Bruce did for that Wolves game but instead he laid down the law and called it correctly.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SoccerHQ on October 02, 2021, 08:49:24 PM
I'm not a huge fan of the player (for us).  Or the pundit he has become.

But don't see a whole pile wrong with that interview. 

Aye, he says the club were wrong to get rid of Sherwood (I must have slipped into a parallel universe when this good football was played, mind).  But you'd expect that from one of Sherwood's men.



That Leicester game we were brilliant up to 70 minutes. Two cracking finishes from Carles Gil....and errrr....someone else and we should've been 4 or 5 up. Made Leicester look proper bottom 3 side which everyone expected them to be at that stage of the season before they did a bit better than that.

Wonder if there's ever been a more sliding doors type match for two teams early on in a prem season as for us and them that day? Tim did his terrible subs, we lost and the rest is history.

If we'd held on to win we'd probably have had just another Lambert type season. Bobbling around in bottom 6 with odd good result and Sherwood probably sacked around March but possible to stay up.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: CT Villan on October 02, 2021, 10:34:29 PM
A sad tale

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10049971/MICAH-RICHARDS-love-play-Aston-Villa-team.html

As a work of fiction that is right up there with Steve Bruce's award-winning trilogy.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: TaxDodger on October 02, 2021, 11:01:08 PM
Micah Richards was once an Aston Villa player. Tim Sherwood was once Aston Villa manager. Jesus Christ.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: LeeB on October 02, 2021, 11:15:37 PM
Micah Richards was once an Aston Villa player. Tim Sherwood was once Aston Villa manager. Jesus Christ.

No I don't think he played for us, though his Dad did at centre half.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: KevinGage on October 02, 2021, 11:35:40 PM
He's entitled to his own revisionism and POV as regards the merits of the worst Villa team most of us will hopefully ever see.

He was little more that a vastly overpaid court jester during his time with us by the sounds of it.  No argument at all from me on that one.

But it's interesting that he at least seems to feel bad about how it all turned out - and wishes he had a game or two for this current side to show his worth.

Compare and contrast to the likes of Platt, Keown and Ray Houghton.  Who achieved far more in a Villa shirt. But seem to view their time with us as a grind. On the rare occasions they ever speak about us at all.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Matt C on October 03, 2021, 12:50:40 AM
The bit that stands out to me from that interview is Smith coming in and calling it exactly how it is (was).
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: purpletrousers on October 03, 2021, 12:57:13 AM
He's entitled to his own revisionism and POV as regards the merits of the worst Villa team most of us will hopefully ever see.

He was little more that a vastly overpaid court jester during his time with us by the sounds of it.  No argument at all from me on that one.

But it's interesting that he at least seems to feel bad about how it all turned out - and wishes he had a game or two for this current side to show his worth.

Compare and contrast to the likes of Platt, Keown and Ray Houghton.  Who achieved far more in a Villa shirt. But seem to view their time with us as a grind. On the rare occasions they ever speak about us at all.

The cynic in me could think there is media merit in his broadening/deepening/maintaining his connection with us to give him relevance as a pundit, especially now we are on the up.

Yet I’m totally open to taking him at his word that he regrets the utter mess his time was with us, but I don’t begrudge him accepting lucrative deals or status positions (Christ he was Captain, amazing what you block out.)
Terrible decisions were mainly our club’s not his.

The Ledley King comment above is spot on. No doubt he had that precedent in mind, but neglected to notice he wasn’t a centre back. The moving central away at Luton in the cup under DiMatteo did ‘coincide’ from it shifting from feeling like an exhibition match against lower league opposition to getting absolutely mullered by them. He helped make my first night in what later became my adopted home town Luton (at a horrific air BnB My Dad dropped me off at - the landlords first and last attempt) especially miserable.

Yes dim judgement over Tim; should own his mistakes of arguing with fans if he persists in banging on about his time with us.

I’d be more concerned of the revisionism over Garde who was so badly hung out to dry, though acknowledge he hasn’t found his way anywhere since (did Villa break him?).

I forget the narrative that goes against Richards’ innocent bystander shtick; realising I missed this from February


Guess it depends if you want to believe Micah Richards or Keir Wyness I guess


Aplogies for seeing your Daily Heil and raising you an Evening Fail, I’d not read this before. I’m actually getting more sympathy for him
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-transfer-wyness-richards-19880465

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Richards responded with: "What rubbish from your Keith! YOU GOT ME FOR FREE....knew my knee couldn’t do 2 games a week in the champ and had a chance to get me off the wage bill!! Did I or did I not come to office to your office on deadline Day????"

Richards came back again with: "THE POINT IS... I WAS THE SCAPEGOAT AND GOT ACCUSED OF BLEEDING THE CLUB DRY WHEN IN FACT I TRIED TO LEAVE 3 TIMES. HAD ABUSE EVER SINCE WHILST NOBODY AT THE TIME PROTECTED ME."

I’m not convinced West Ham could have been as stupid as we were, but in that spat he comes out of it much better I think.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: purpletrousers on October 03, 2021, 12:57:43 AM
The bit that stands out to me from that interview is Smith coming in and calling it exactly how it is (was).
Absolutely. Very reassuring.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on October 03, 2021, 01:08:23 AM
he is a skid-mark on the under-pants of a shitty few years.

Summed up for me.

The only thing to be gained from those few years were lessons from the mistakes we made - and he was one of those mistakes.

If he was so great for morale, as he claims, the fact that in the two seasons he actually played for us, we were relegated in 2015-16 (22 appearances) and finished 13th in the Championship in 2016-17 (31 appearances) - only to make the PO final the following season (0 appearances) and win the PO final the year after (0 appearances), makes you question the value of whatever 'morale' he was bringing.

I hold no personal grudge against him, but he was a shit signing, a shit player and a shit captain. Let him make a living by laughing boisterously on Match of the Day. I never watch it, and have no interest in anything he has to say.

(Apologies if the figures are incorrect, they're from Wiki - I don't recall him making anything like 31 appearances in the 2016-17 season.)
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on October 03, 2021, 01:18:01 AM
He's entitled to his own revisionism and POV as regards the merits of the worst Villa team most of us will hopefully ever see.

He was little more that a vastly overpaid court jester during his time with us by the sounds of it.  No argument at all from me on that one.

But it's interesting that he at least seems to feel bad about how it all turned out - and wishes he had a game or two for this current side to show his worth.

Compare and contrast to the likes of Platt, Keown and Ray Houghton.  Who achieved far more in a Villa shirt. But seem to view their time with us as a grind. On the rare occasions they ever speak about us at all.

I forget the narrative that goes against Richards’ innocent bystander shtick; realising I missed this from February


Guess it depends if you want to believe Micah Richards or Keir Wyness I guess

Quote
Richards responded with: "What rubbish from your Keir! YOU GOT ME FOR FREE....knew my knee couldn’t do 2 games a week in the champ and had a chance to get me off the wage bill!! Did I or did I not come to office to your office on deadline Day????"

Richards came back again with: "THE POINT IS... I WAS THE SCAPEGOAT AND GOT ACCUSED OF BLEEDING THE CLUB DRY WHEN IN FACT I TRIED TO LEAVE 3 TIMES. HAD ABUSE EVER SINCE WHILST NOBODY AT THE TIME PROTECTED ME."


To think, somebody in the BBC will undoubtedly have seen that and thought 'yep, this is the kind of articulate guy we want'.

Richards, Jenas, Murphy; compare him to our Dion, for example, and they are practically cavemen.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: TonyD on October 03, 2021, 01:54:11 AM
In hindsight he was probably right we should have stuck with Tim.
Remi was without doubt the most ineffectual manager we have ever had.
He hasn’t moved on to prove his worth and fizzled out in Canada ffs.
He wasn’t a good manager that happened to take a tough gig. He was crap.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Cliftonville Villlain on October 03, 2021, 01:55:03 AM
Dion Dublin should be the benchmark for any player to get into punditry. Informative, knowledgeable and total understanding of the game and its players. Denis Mortimer is the benchmark for any aspiring Villa captain  of any era. Richards gets away with both. Close this thread. Please.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on October 03, 2021, 01:59:05 AM
Dion Dublin should be the benchmark for any player to get into punditry. Informative, knowledgeable and total understanding of the game and its players.

Agreed, I love Dion.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: TonyD on October 03, 2021, 02:03:06 AM
I don’t mind him as a pundit.
He isn’t great but it’s time the BBC shake it a bit.
Time for Gary and Alan to move on.  They have bored the shit out of me for years.
We need fresh new presenters.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Rory on October 03, 2021, 02:06:16 AM
I don’t mind him as a pundit.
He isn’t great but it’s time the BBC shake it a bit.
Time for Gary and Alan to move on.  They have bored the shit out me for years.

They all bore me, to be fair.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: TonyD on October 03, 2021, 02:11:12 AM
I don’t mind him as a pundit.
He isn’t great but it’s time the BBC shake it a bit.
Time for Gary and Alan to move on.  They have bored the shit out me for years.


They all bore me, to be fair.
Yep the BBC need more dynamic and refreshing honest presenters that are not moonlighting for PayTv  and the bias that follows.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: john2710 on October 03, 2021, 08:55:58 AM
I couldn't stand watching him play, an absolute liability with none of the attributes required for playing at centre-half in the toughest league in the world. Never in the right place & constantly dragged out of position.

I can't stand watching the bloke on TV either. I just hope he doesn't become the go to pundit for us as we rise over the next few seasons.

He represents nothing that I'd associate with today's Aston Villa.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: dave shelley on October 03, 2021, 09:05:37 AM
Did he not stipulate that he would only play central defender instead of his best position as full-back?  If true, another example of the shit-show we were back then; allowing players to tell the manager where they would or would not play.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: ChicagoLion on October 03, 2021, 10:25:23 AM
Dion Dublin should be the benchmark for any player to get into punditry. Informative, knowledgeable and total understanding of the game and its players.

Agreed, I love Dion.
Top bloke and eloquent, Darius also comes over well.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Gerrin on October 03, 2021, 11:14:07 AM
I don’t mind him as a pundit.
He isn’t great but it’s time the BBC shake it a bit.
Time for Gary and Alan to move on.  They have bored the shit out of me for years.
We need fresh new presenters.

Alex Scott is nailed on to get MOTD when Lineaker goes, which can't be far off. He must be older now than what Jimmy Hill was when Des Lynam replaced him.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Brend'Watkins on October 03, 2021, 11:19:30 AM
I don’t mind him as a pundit.
He isn’t great but it’s time the BBC shake it a bit.
Time for Gary and Alan to move on.  They have bored the shit out of me for years.
We need fresh new presenters.

Alex Scott is nailed on to get MOTD when Lineaker goes, which can't be far off. He must be older now than what Jimmy Hill was when Des Lynam replaced him.

What has age got to do with it?  If he’s doing a good how old or young he is doesn’t come into it. 
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Gerrin on October 03, 2021, 11:27:32 AM
I don’t mind him as a pundit.
He isn’t great but it’s time the BBC shake it a bit.
Time for Gary and Alan to move on.  They have bored the shit out of me for years.
We need fresh new presenters.

Alex Scott is nailed on to get MOTD when Lineaker goes, which can't be far off. He must be older now than what Jimmy Hill was when Des Lynam replaced him.

What has age got to do with it?  If he’s doing a good how old or young he is doesn’t come into it. 

It's got nothing to do with it, I personally like him, it just seems to be how it works. A lot of people are too young to know what a great player he was now.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Risso on October 03, 2021, 11:29:32 AM
I don’t mind him as a pundit.
He isn’t great but it’s time the BBC shake it a bit.
Time for Gary and Alan to move on.  They have bored the shit out of me for years.
We need fresh new presenters.

Alex Scott is nailed on to get MOTD when Lineaker goes, which can't be far off. He must be older now than what Jimmy Hill was when Des Lynam replaced him.

What has age got to do with it?  If he’s doing a good how old or young he is doesn’t come into it. 

It might not be for you, but it certainly seems to be for most TV executives.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: SoccerHQ on October 03, 2021, 11:58:33 AM
Did he not stipulate that he would only play central defender instead of his best position as full-back?  If true, another example of the shit-show we were back then; allowing players to tell the manager where they would or would not play.

I think that's more due to him knowing he couldn't run up and down the line anymore so didn't want to harm the team that way by being liability (given Hutton could still do that role no problem that season and Bacuna was also still around) Of course he did bigger damage playing at CB given his woeful positionial sense.

He hates Garde aswell as didn't Remi do some massive boot camp style running assault course on his first day even though he'd been inform of Richards fitness issues.

Of course it's an insult to compare the two given what they each gave the club but it would've been a bit like on Graham Taylor's first day and him telling McGrath to do something like that rather than his own thing at training to get him up to speed for matchdays.

Just be thankful we're now long gone from that era and the people involved.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: PeterWithe on October 03, 2021, 12:24:54 PM
I've no particular axe to grind with Micah Richards, for the very short time he was fit with us he looked a good player and seemed popular with some of the players.

I just think he's got absolutely zero credibility when commenting on Villa matters, he wasn't fit, didn't seem that bothered about getting fit and seemed one of the divisive squad members when it came to the French fellas in the squad.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: tomd2103 on October 03, 2021, 01:15:42 PM
I don’t mind him as a pundit.
He isn’t great but it’s time the BBC shake it a bit.
Time for Gary and Alan to move on.  They have bored the shit out of me for years.
We need fresh new presenters.

Alex Scott is nailed on to get MOTD when Lineaker goes, which can't be far off. He must be older now than what Jimmy Hill was when Des Lynam replaced him.

What has age got to do with it?  If he’s doing a good how old or young he is doesn’t come into it.

Sue Barker might disagree.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Allan C on October 05, 2021, 03:24:11 PM
Did he not stipulate that he would only play central defender instead of his best position as full-back?  If true, another example of the shit-show we were back then; allowing players to tell the manager where they would or would not play.

I think that's more due to him knowing he couldn't run up and down the line anymore so didn't want to harm the team that way by being liability (given Hutton could still do that role no problem that season and Bacuna was also still around) Of course he did bigger damage playing at CB given his woeful positionial sense.

He hates Garde aswell as didn't Remi do some massive boot camp style running assault course on his first day even though he'd been inform of Richards fitness issues.

Of course it's an insult to compare the two given what they each gave the club but it would've been a bit like on Graham Taylor's first day and him telling McGrath to do something like that rather than his own thing at training to get him up to speed for matchdays.

Just be thankful we're now long gone from that era and the people involved.
If it’s one thing I’ve learnt being a football fan it’s not to trust anything that anyone connected with the game says, particularly players. Our recent history should tell you that. I’ve read everything he has said and I have neither sympathy or empathy with him. He was a very poor signing and he should now be consigned to history
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Martin Carruthers on October 05, 2021, 03:43:22 PM
It's easy in hindsight, and I thought it made sense at the time, but the first few pages of this make interesting reading. So glad we're run properly these days.
Title: Re: Micah Richards - Released
Post by: Footy-Vill on October 26, 2021, 03:25:22 PM
Micah Richards breaks down his career: ‘No-one remembers my bullet header, just what happened after’ - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/59045361
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