Monday, 19 December 05, 10:36 AM · Comments (0)
And to add insult to injury, we've just had to pay his former club, West Ham, ?350k for making 50 appearances.
If it weren't for injury he probably wouldn't get a sniff, but we're not in that position.
O'Leary's already blown the whole season's transfer budget in the summer, so no chance of a replacement.
And it makes sense that Ridgewell began his career as a midfielder.
He just isn't up for the task of defending and maybe he should move back to midfield.
I'm not sure how he'd play, but I think he'd be better and more confident in a position he must be more used to.
But there's no chance of that as we're all defendered out. We've gone back to the usual play-someone-else-as-a-center-back model.
I think it's about time O'Leary got lost- somewhere in Timbuktu preferably.
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