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Offline manic-road

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #330 on: June 17, 2015, 09:27:37 PM »
Welcome to the Villa Micah, I hope you have a great career in claret and blue.

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #331 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).

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #332 on: June 17, 2015, 09:34:08 PM »
Good shout joe Cole has the set
Senderos hasn't won PL

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #333 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.

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #334 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.

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #335 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.

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #336 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.

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #337 on: June 17, 2015, 10:38:58 PM »
Welcome Micah to our wonderful club.

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #338 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.


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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #339 on: June 17, 2015, 10:53:24 PM »
Great news to get this deal sorted. Welcome to Villa Park Micah! :)

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #340 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

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #341 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.

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #342 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!!

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #343 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.

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Re: Micah Richards signed
« Reply #344 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.

 


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