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Player Richarlison

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Richi used to be a nuisance that oppo teams struggled to deal with, and I loved that aspect of his game. However, he clearly has physical and mental issues that are affecting his game. He doesn't seem to have the ability to be a hold-up the ball anymore, and his histrionics are quite frankly pathetic. It's a shame, as his passion is without doubt, but he is just too flaky in my opinion. I really want him to succeed, as he stands out as one of the few characters in the Prem'.
Yeah - the reaction to the goal did make me wonder tbh. Like, I'm all for big celebrations and have no issue with him taking his shirt off, but the emotional breakdown at the end was a bit much. He just seems like such an emotionally-led player that you can't really rely on at all. It's a complete lottery as to whether he'll score a bicycle-kick worldie or put in a 2/10 performance (and more often we see the latter).

At this level there has to be some degree of consistency, and Rich's entire game outside of running around and being a general nuisance, feels completely random.
 

History maker, our Richie la'
 
Scoring a routine goal and celebrating like he’d just won the World Cup final, only to get himself booked and add extra time. And what happens? Man U equalise. It’s embarrassing. When you over-celebrate like that, you're asking for it to come back and bite you on the ass. Celebrate when the final whistle blows, not before you’ve actually finished the job.
That says it all about his character.

And unfortunately, he ain't the only one like that in the squad.

Sergio Ramos, Busquets, Roy Keane, Pat Vieira (I know), CR7 to name a few...they were major arseholes, but difference with Richy is, they had the talent to make us all forgive them for their dickness.
 
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When's Scarlett moving to a "Top 4 chasing Premier league side"?

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And Which top 10 club never mind top is Richi wanted by!
Why are fans always shitting on our own players. Scarlet did a great bit of skill the other night beating a player which I’ve never seen Richi do. Ffs give him some minutes at least. If he is here on the bench then surely good opportunity to see what he can do. We know what Richi ‘can do’ after 3 years. Why are we going down the rinse and repeat route.
 
Scoring a routine goal and celebrating like he’d just won the World Cup final, only to get himself booked and add extra time. And what happens? Man U equalise. It’s embarrassing. When you over-celebrate like that, you're asking for it to come back and bite you on the ass. Celebrate when the final whistle blows, not before you’ve actually finished the job.
But he is thick and prbly thinking of his own ‘glory’
 
Celebrating is fine, he was OTT, taking your shirt off as well as being a booking looks particularly silly when they went on to equalise!

he's got previous, the 4-3 at Anfield! no prob with celebrating, but stop taking your fucking shirt off.
It shows sign of not being a serious team . Same v wolves would city , dippers, goons cekebrate like that? They would be embarrassed to have got a last min equaliser v bottom team who lost all 5 previous games. We on the other hand treat it like a cup final victory. The players should have been embarrassed by the whole performance not ground like winning the EC final.
 
He very rarely gets free kicks for his frequent fall upon the floor antics when the ball is played up to him. Refs know he does it constantly because he just can't control the ball. The crowd were booing the Xavi substitution , but I am fairly sure the main reason many were booing was because Richy wasn't the one coming off. Everything about him is awful, it really would have summed his contribution up if he had deflected a goal bound shot away , but at least he got lucky with that.
Sometimes you say with a striker , he just needs one to go in off his backside and it will make all the difference , but I cannot see any way that will happen for him. We have to bin him and send him somewhere commensurate with his talents-Stenhousemuir's reserve team maybe.
Ffs took the pen v Copenhagen and fucked that up as well. Never a quality striker let alone a footballer. I hope in years to come they release the files on our transfer policy and we can see the meeting notes of those who decided we should buy shit players like him.
 
Ohh that’s a bit nasty…I thought you were harmless, clearly I was mistaken. You’re a rather vile, little cunt aren’t you?

I suppose this thread gives you a reason to live because you very obviously don’t have much else.
Seriously he's a nasty weird cunt longest person I've had on block. I wish you would because l only see its content in your answers. I genuinely forget it exsists till then. I dont mind a bit of elbows but this isn't what this is its not someone I will interact with.
 
Most definitely was the replacement to Kane. That's not up for debate.

The bigger problem is why was he even on the scouting list.

I watched him a lot for Watford and Everton. He is the type of player that gets plaudits for a good bit of play on MOTD, but if you saw the full game you'd think he's shit. A lot of the hype was from a good dribble and piece of skill like overhead kick. He did this playing mainly LW for those clubs. After a string of injuries, which should have been a massive warning sign to our scouts, he lost his pace and dribbling ability that made him a nuisance to play against. He's never looked the same and without pace you need a good intelligent head and technical quality which he has always lacked.

I was gutted we signed him. 1 good game every 10 and that was his career at Everton and Watford too.

And also people need to stop using Brazil's number 9 as a reason for him being any good or signing for us. The metrics should have been based on what technical ability he has, injury history, how well he fits into the coaches plans think it was Conte at the time and also how does he fit with the players we had at the time. None of those reasons should have led to a decision for us to sign him. And if Conte gave the green light then he is a bigger fool than people care to admit.

At the same time I think I mentioned in one of the transfer threads that there was a player called Mateta at Mainz that would be worth getting. Look at him now at palace compared to Richarlison. I watched a lot of bundesliga coming out of covid mainly because it was the first league to restart and both Mateta and Cunha who was at Hertha Berlin at the time were options for us. Instead we are still having to suffer from watching Richarlison.
Conte prbly didn’t give a shit who we shined. Think richi was late on in that transfer window and by then he in melt down mode.
 
Most definitely was the replacement to Kane. That's not up for debate.

The bigger problem is why was he even on the scouting list.

I watched him a lot for Watford and Everton. He is the type of player that gets plaudits for a good bit of play on MOTD, but if you saw the full game you'd think he's shit. A lot of the hype was from a good dribble and piece of skill like overhead kick. He did this playing mainly LW for those clubs. After a string of injuries, which should have been a massive warning sign to our scouts, he lost his pace and dribbling ability that made him a nuisance to play against. He's never looked the same and without pace you need a good intelligent head and technical quality which he has always lacked.

I was gutted we signed him. 1 good game every 10 and that was his career at Everton and Watford too.

And also people need to stop using Brazil's number 9 as a reason for him being any good or signing for us. The metrics should have been based on what technical ability he has, injury history, how well he fits into the coaches plans think it was Conte at the time and also how does he fit with the players we had at the time. None of those reasons should have led to a decision for us to sign him. And if Conte gave the green light then he is a bigger fool than people care to admit.

At the same time I think I mentioned in one of the transfer threads that there was a player called Mateta at Mainz that would be worth getting. Look at him now at palace compared to Richarlison. I watched a lot of bundesliga coming out of covid mainly because it was the first league to restart and both Mateta and Cunha who was at Hertha Berlin at the time were options for us. Instead we are still having to suffer from watching Richarlison.
There are dozens of players we could have got for half the price who would offer far more quality. Most champo CFs prbly better than Richi. Delay cost £30M ffs would be more effective. I seriously think lankshear or even Scarlett would do a better job.
 
Must. Be. Cut. In. January.

I'd rather give his minutes to Odobert, Tel...or even bring Veliz back & see how he does given a real chance for 4 or 5 months.
 
We can say he put in an awful performance without criticism of every single aspect of the man. He took his shirt off after scoring what should have been a stoppage time winner. That is exactly the scenario the warrants a celebration like that.

Palhinha scored to draw Wolves at home in stoppage time I didn’t hear a bad word about his celebration.
Complete shit btw. Tons of people mocked Palhinha for that go back and check the thread.
 
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