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.
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.
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.
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.
Quote from: pbavfckuwait on January 31, 2016, 06:46:51 AMHim 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.
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