Micah Richards Could Be Coming - Do You Want Him?
Micah Richards is one of the increasing numbers of “bling” players in the Premiership, loving the lifestyle, money and women being a professional football player provides you with.
Earlier this season, Richards was part of a “roasting” scandal which was revealed by the News of the Screws. With a mate, Richards captured on his mobile the pair of them having sex with a teenage girl.
Today, we have been linked with the player again, with a £25 million price tag being slapped on him. He’s extremely talented, no doubt, but is he the kind of player we want at Manchester United?
News of the World:
The film of Richards’ roasting—a sick act which involves one man having sex with a woman from behind while she gives a second oral sex—was passed on to friends’ mobiles by the swaggering pair. In the clip, the Manchester City player, one of England’s brightest young stars, smiles directly at the camera over the girl’s back… Richards is wearing distinctive jewellery including a silver ring, earrings and necklace… The footage is believed to have been shot in Manchester city centre in the last five weeks, near the time England embarrassingly failed to qualify for the European Championships with their defeat to Croatia at Wembley… As the sleazy session ends, one of the players says something that forces the girl to yell an indignant “Hey!”… Our sordid footage reveals the Aston Martin-driving Micah has been drawn into the depraved lifestyle that is tarnishing our national game.
Boys will be boys, of course, but I think we as United fans we have the right to expect more from our players. They can get up to what they want in their own time, but the moment they start dragging our club’s name through the dirt it’s a different matter. Our players’ sexual preferences are no concern of mine, but whatever they want to get up to, I’d like them to have the common sense not to have video evidence of their off the field antics! I’m not entirely sure I’m too keen on signing a player who would regard our disastrous recent Christmas party as a dream come true.
“Myself and Rio get on really well and I’ll get all the info I can off him,” said Richards of Ferdinand, in relation to where he gets his advice from. We’ve seen Rio Ferdinand grow up more recently, the effect of becoming a father certainly making a positive change in him, and despite what the press say, he is still adament he was not the one to organise the shagfest at Christmas. Of course, Richards has to the potential to mature in the same way, with the player coming out and regretting the roasting incident. “Yeah, I was foolish to be in the video and I was devastated when it appeared in the News of the World,” he said. “It was a real wake-up call to the fact I might have been doing things I really shouldn’t have been.”
From a footballing point of view, Micah Richards is a quality player and one we’d certainly welcome at the club based on ability alone. Able to play in the centre as well as right back, he’d certainly help us bulk up our squad. With Dr Death currently looking as though he is set to sack Sven Goran Eriksson, incredibly, a mass exodus of City’s best players is likely to occur. They would be mad to stick around at a club with an owner who clearly has so little knowledge about football but who insists on getting involved in the big decisions. With Liverpool’s owners proving to be a poor advert of what disruptive owners can do to a club, with the dippers finishing 4th this season, again without winning anything, despite having the highest scorer striker in the league in their team. City players would be best rid of the club.
Richards has pimped himself out on a number of occasions, calling himself an Arsenal fan (which makes sense for someone who grew up in Leeds I suppose) and naming Roy Keane as his biggest inspiration, putting the Gunners as our rivals to sign him. However, if reports from today are to be believed, the reason Arsenal’s managing director Keith Edelman left earlier this week was due to a clash with the manager over the spending budget. Despite being named as the third wealthiest club in the World, behind United and Real Madrid, Arsenal do not spend big in the transfer market, and that has certainly cost them. If they had the depth of squad required to win the league, they probably would not have fallen away from the race in February, after leading the table for the majority of the season.
City will be asking for a lot, particularly seeing as though Richards signed a contract extension earlier this season, which might automatically rule out Arsenal’s bid. Wenger is unlikely to be interested in having to 1. pay over the odds and 2. buy an English player. Every season, Arsenal announce Wenger is promised a sum of money, yet every summer, only a fraction of that is spent. Whilst Arsenal fans brag about how cheap their squad is in comparison to United and Chelsea, their bragging rights certainly end when they see that it is United and Chelsea fighting it out for the league title and United and Chelsea in the final of the European Cup. I am more than happy to see Arsenal survive on a shoe string budget, if it brings them the trophies it has done over the past three seasons, and if it sees us beat them to transfer targets.
The News of the Screws has today reported that United are willing to offer £25 million for the player, who is currently earning £45,000 a week at City. The question of whether we can sign him seems to be yes, but do you want him?
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lol this article said everythin that i wanted to say
NO
Would love him to come, but it will never happen.
Chelsea or Arsenal likely to get him.
No i don’t want him at united, this does not mean that i am saying that the lad is not capable of being in the united team because i think he had all the qualties to do so, but i prefer that we give a chance to simpson rather then an outisder and then from our rival city which if thiswill happen it would be a mega price
so why don’t give a chance to our own lad simpson who for me if given the chance he is capable too.
YES! if we are able to break the bank for him, then we should. Lets be honest here…Richards is Englands best prospect since Wazza burst onto the scene a few years ago. At that time, Wayne was reported to be shagging old granny prostitutes on a regular basis. This type of behaviour was certainly not in line with our clubs values…but how many of you out there think we shouldnt have signed him from Everton because of his behaviour? Fergie has been able to reign in his reckless nature,and we now see a much more mature Rooney on and off the pitch. The effect of playing with players of the caliber of Rio Ronnie Wazza, and Scholesy will certainly help his game,but being around superstars who are very mature,will also help him to stay grounded. Fergie has a reputation of settling players down. The boy is 19, english, and already a top class player,with loads more potential. Quick,strong,agile and athletic. I really dont see any reason as to why we shouldnt sign him…
how dare he like money and women? disgraceful if you ask me.
I’d be delighted. He’s a fantastic young player, and Kingpin is correct: he’ll settle down under SAF. What a back four: Evra, Vidic, Ferdinand and Richards.
I think he would be a great singing!
Where would he play? I think Richards is far better at CB than he is at Right Back, but he wouldnt get in the team over Rio or Vida. I guess he could play RB for 3 years or so and then move into the center when Rio moves on. But would he start over a fully fit Gary?
No. We all know that last season United struggled at times because they didn’t play as a cohesive team; how is this character going to help that?
Simpson.
I think he would be an excellent signing…
Lets be honest here, even if the great gary neville is fully fit next season i think he will be used sparingly and be around the squad more for motivational purposes rather than playing every game. challenging for 3 trophies means we are playing wed/sat every week for the last few months of the season and I think we need to find a suitable replacement for the great gary.
while wes has done well this season i dont see him in the same class as rio/vidic/evra who can all claim to be among the best in europe in their positions… We need a new right back for next season…
An explosively quick player whos also strong in the tackle & who loves to get forward (a right footed evra basically!!). I can certainly see Richards filling that role… and can even fill in at cb if rio/vidic injured (and if not then i guess we’ll have 2 settle for Alves!) Brap brap brap
PS.
Bosingwa for £20mil ????
Iv seen him play a few times this season and he looks pretty good, but £20mil THATS SILLY MONEY!! I think its a mistake paying that much 4him… wud much rather see an ENGLISH player: RICHARDS.
No thank you. Speaking as a female fan, one round of the Xmas shagfest is enough. To have a character like him around? I’ll pass.
Give Simpson more time on pitch.
he’ll develop for sure.
fu@k any city player with their sh@tbag Dunn
we need speedy attacking defenders on the wings. we got brown and o’shea if something will happen.
huntelaar FOR UNITED
come on gys get real as a player he is quality can play at cb, right back and even midfield
will be no problem re lanugage, climate or adjusting to the pace of the english game
wed all take him in second
so what if he videos himself shagging some sort??
but the citeh wont sell to us so we may as well forget him
Hang on a minute guys- have I missed a trick somewhere along the line?? He is a quality player that can play at both CB and RB?? Just because he is fast and gets himself about the pitch does not make him as good as everyone is making him out to be and Kingpin- he’s the best prospect since Wazza???? Huh?? No? As in seriously no. Walcott takes that distinction. And Simpson deserves a chance. And I don’t see Fergie siging a billy big-timer like him. And I’ve always known it’s a waste of money paying for the TV License but it suck even more when the beeb pay Micah Richards for an online column. My 5 year old nephew has more worthwhile commentary on football than he has. What’s the world coming to???? Sheesh. MICAH RICHARDS is not UNITED quality, and being England Quality is not one of the qualifying factors to be a successful player at United so you can forget that and all.
I don’t really care about whether he’sa model citizen. He’s hard and strong, but he’ll never ba the kind of marauding accurate crosser Gaz Neville was. I see him more as a centre-back in the future. I think we should bid some ridiculous price for him just to make Chelsea feel irritated. I think Danny Simpson still deserves a go, actually, but if that kind of dosh is available after we get a tall striker, I think Daní Alves is a far superior footballer.
no thanks
don’t want a player from city
I think we actually have enough defenders if you can recall a certain pair:
Danny Simpson and Gerrard Pique.
If we were to buy any defenders then I don’t think another young, talented player with a ‘bright future’ is what we need. We have those in the two I just mentioned. If money was going to be spent on bolstering up the back 4 we need a seasoned professional who has a world class label pinned to his back.
If we do spend money on another forward, I will be very excited about the prospect of Rooney, Tevez, Manucho and the ‘new’ signing being more threatening to other teams next season. I actually hope Frazier Campbell comes back!
Look..all saffy does with his youth is to sell them away for a couple million quid..i see him buying micah for 20 mil and then selling pique and Simpson for 4 each..gone are the days saffy took players from the academy, nowadays he just buys GREAT youths like rooney,ronnie,anderson,nani etc etc..pique and simo have NO chance whatsoever..read phil bardsley..
anyone remembers Rooney scandal, shagging an OAP prossie?
so what if Richards did what he did… but £25 mil is way too much for him, and if buying him is only tokeep him away from the other teams, then sod it, but the boy’s got talent, and nevermind his past, Fergie wil sort him out, as he did everyone else.
no he shite and I beleive that girl was not inmpressed with him either
“Pee Wee was his nickname.
yes cause in a few years time brown will be gone and anyway he is better than brown even if he does come from city
people who we should get rid off
(saha,van der sar,neville)
people who we should buy
(richards,pato,buffon)
“Christmas Shagfest”??
What the hell actually happened at the christmas party? I thought one player was falsely accused of rape, but it sounds like a sordid gangbang or something!
we would be amazing with micah!
sagar- u wouldnt have took giggs then?!
SAGAR: u take good players whereva they come from…
Richards is from leeds and is just signed 2 man city. its not like he grew up a city fan or anything…
And dennis law played for city before signin 4us…
austin reynolds: Giggs chose to come 2us instead of city… i dont think he was ever signed 2their yts scheme???
if he’s good enough then why not? as long as he’s not doing anything illegal (shagging underage girls, doing drugs) or drinking like Best, then I don’t really care. It’s his private life, he can be f***ing 3 legged mules for all I care, as long as he delivers on the pitch.
red devil london- well i thought he did. i wonder whos thought correctly???
either way my point is it doesnt matter.!