Brendan Rodgers said a similar thing about Downing, and he's been a lot better since. Some players just respond to it.
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SteKelly
Player Valuation: £35m
Downing couldn't get worse lad
He said it and he will still be in the dug out saturday.
steken1
Player Valuation: £70m
Downing was actually crap at the time though.Not skinning people and scoring winners. I think Kev's scoredmore for us in hislast two games than that weird looking bell has in his whole time for them.
bluebottle
Player Valuation: £35m
Christ on a bike.
Point being that a lot of people criticised Rodgers for saying what he said about Downing, and now he's playing much better.
Doesn't matter how good the player is actually doing, some respond well to harsh words and others don't. Seems that Kev is in the first category, as Downing was.
i thought he went down for no reason for against Stoke, and said to the fella next to me, hes prob gone down so the crowd dont boo if Moyes pulls him off.
i dont mind him only playing 60 mins if he plays well.
i dont mind him only playing 60 mins if he plays well.
Ihaters
Player Valuation: £35m
I think you either underestimate some of our players we've had or overestimate Mirallas if you believe that, more likely you just don't like Moyes and this would be an excuse to put the boot in.
Titus Bramble
Best centre half to grace the Premier League
Bit of an overreaction that, mate. Moyes is challenging him to keep up his form and complete 90 minutes in our last 7 games.
Pabbers
Player Valuation: £60m
Moyes has threated his future at the club, for what ?? Scoring 2 worldies, and trying to drag Moyes team on further.
He has a cheek, with keeping us hanging on about his future, that he can question someone else's.
And Arteta, do me favour, quality player, but hardly the attacking threat Kevin is.
He has a cheek, with keeping us hanging on about his future, that he can question someone else's.
And Arteta, do me favour, quality player, but hardly the attacking threat Kevin is.
steken1
Player Valuation: £70m
No mate. You tell someone doing better than everyone else that they should do better they'd most likely tell you to kindly koff. You tell someone doing dog turd the same, you might sting their pride a bit and get a response.
It's not always as black and white as some like tough love, some need a mollycoddle.
Pabbers
Player Valuation: £60m
Attacking wise, last player of his type was Andrei.
Ihaters
Player Valuation: £35m
Coleman and Drenthe dissagree... You also said exciting, I'd argue we've had a lot of players that were.
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