Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:25 pm
bigmick wrote:GYBS wrote:Mick you keep putting in every thread about players bought not being picked ie keane yet hasnt he played a lot of matches for us and in fact only 5 more players have played more minutes than him ? So he has been picked plenty of times.
He has played a lot of matches for us yes. I think though that most people would probably conclude that if we were playing our best team, he wouldn't get in it. He doesn't even get in it when our star striker is injured as we'd rather move our best right midfielder out of position and stick him up front rather than play Keane. He doesn't get in the team when he's scored, and he doesn't complete a game when he starts one.
Some people may feel that Keane has been given enough chances and has made his bed and therefore should lie in it. I don't necessarily agree with that, but surely few would put him in their very best eleven, and nobody I shouldn't think would put him in Rafa's best eleven.
I only stick up for him because a) I think he's a good player and by a distance our best option up top when Torres is injured. b) after playing sh!t for months he's actually scored three goals in his last three league games and you never know, he might just score in the next one he plays in as well. c) We paid 20 million quid for him six months ago and it would be nice to think we hadn't completely spunked the cash.
What about hte games that KEane played in and did nothing ?
People forget these and only remember games he never played in and we never got the desired result.
LAndo's point in anotehr thread about only five or six players getting more league minutes than him is pertinent, especially as those players included Reina, Carra, Gerrard and Alonso.