Sam Allardyce has been quoted by The People giving Ravel Morrison a very public warning about his behaviour.
To me, this was the wrong thing to do. I really think he should let the former Manchester United youngster show what he can do on the pitch and give him the chance to show what he’s made of.
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Big Sam said: “If he refuses to accept the guidance, then the career will never take off”
“Once he gets a chance, he will either take it or he won’t.
“He has to sink or swim. There is no record of Ravel transferring his talent from youth or reserve football into a first team. He’s done well for England’s youth teams but that’s kids’ football – not men’s football.”
“The talent is there – what is in his personality is the key to delivering a career. We can guide him to succeed in his own career but he’s responsible for that.
“Many players with great talent haven’t always delivered what they should. Okay, you can make a living but never fulfil what that talent deserves.
“The talent deserves the big stage, but you have to have the capability psychologically to transform that ability.
“There’s been more interest in him than probably any other player I have had. We will try to improve Ravel in all areas. He’s a great talent.”
Sam Allardyce seems to have been saying more and more in the media recently, and always defends West Ham’s style of play despite the team failing to win since the trip to Cardiff at the beginning of March.
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While I’m quite disappointed that Allardyce felt the need to wax lyrical about Morrison instead of trying to talk privately with the youngster, I’m even more disappointed that he hasn’t given Morrison a chance when our team is failing to win at the moment.
He can’t play any worse than we have been recently, and may well have the flair and creative playing style that we’ve been missing. I say give some youngsters a chance – they’re hungry to prove themselves. We may even be able to stop simply trying to lump it forward and play it along the floor!
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I agree that we need a creative player but not at all costs. I am not Sam’s biggest fan, in fact the opposite but I fail to see what he has done wrong here.
Ravel was given chance after chance at Man utd to change his attitude, he didn’t and they shipped him out. Here Sam has tried to integrate him into the first team but has had this thrown in his Face.
Ravel has missed training a couple of times in the last week, just didn’t turn up. What message would that send to other players if he was then put in the team. He was dropped from the match day squad quite rightly and Sam has decided to publicly tell him he hasn’t ‘made it’ yet and needs to knuckle down and work hard and most importantly change his dreadful attitude or else he can move on.
As much as i moan about Sam – this one he has spot on!
There are two side to this for me, firstly, BFS never has and will use flair players, it is against his ethos and to be honest I think he was signed by Sullivan and not wanted by BFS who was desperate for the money to be spent on winger not players in an area we have enough talent. Secondly, if Morrison is already missing training and not playing the game at Manure who thought the leopard was about to change his spots in East London. The whole signing was a farce for me and was obviously done for someone to pocket a panny or two not enhance the squad let alone the first xi
Ravel hasn’t missed a training session since joining west ham. Why would you make that up?? Nothing better to do than try and find something wrong with ravel when he’s actually put in 100 percent effort and completely changed his attitude
From before. I can prove he hasn’t missed a session. You can’t prove he has because he hasn’t and you’ve made it up. Lads working harder than ever to get into first team and sam’s article is a pointless warning in case ravel stops putting in the effort.
I’M sure Ravel would bring much needed pace and trickery to the forward play, unfortunatly just cannot see Sam playing him.Sam must enjoy seeing us supporters watch our strikers miss, hit the bar/post all game long. Oh well another episode of frustration tonight!May’be just May’be its our time to shine? Forever the optimist. Come on you Irons.