James Morrison

[CHOULO19 24,332]

It is easy to say that Lampard, Cahill...etc clearly had the potential in retrospective. They, like Morrison, had many doubters when we signed them, just take a look at the first couple of pages of the Garry Cahill thread.

Also about him being 26, Cahill is 27. And, if memmory serves, Drogba was also 26 when we signed him.

[Marvin123 484]

cant belive this page is open, no thanks mr morrison theres a reason your at baggies

[SeB 1,281]

Yes, some people seem to imagine that a football carreer is something rather static whereas it's in constant change. All is matter of opportunities taken, chances given, favorable combination of circumstances ; underlined in the background by an amount of work at training.

The player in question showed an quite incredible improvement in all domains of the play but people are still skeptical and argue as if nothing happened at all ? Where's logic there ?

[SeB 1,281]

I thought he was one of England's best defender in that season, it certainly got him some caps for England.

On a personal plan I was more impressed by Roger Johnson & Scott Dann between 2009 and 2011. The clubs where they went were complete mess, they were often exposed even if they have their wrongs as well (behaviour, drinking sessions for Johnson)

[Stats 7,056]

Two words: Just no!

[The Skipper 20,593]

The player in question showed an quite incredible improvement in all domains of the play but people are still skeptical and argue as if nothing happened at all ? Where's logic there ?

No one's not saying Morrison hasn't improved. What most are trying to say is that he doesn't have it in him to belong to a top four team.

There's a million of James Morrison's around, hard working players that improve season after season until they've peaked. I don't see Morrison improving enough to even be worth a squad role at CFC, my opinion though.

[Ollie 4,400]

Always liked James Morrison as a player, he's good technically and has good shooting and work rate and tackles too. Fact is, we're too big of a team to go for the likes of him. Liked him for a while tho i must admit.

[Justin_3d 1,140]

Yes, some people seem to imagine that a football carreer is something rather static whereas it's in constant change. All is matter of opportunities taken, chances given, favorable combination of circumstances ; underlined in the background by an amount of work at training.

The player in question showed an quite incredible improvement in all domains of the play but people are still skeptical and argue as if nothing happened at all ? Where's logic there ?

There was a transfer thread to get either David Luiz, Cahill or Kjaer for crying out loud!

So it was not a transfer where you can say, dam you got him out of nowhere.

Only one is Ivan, and that was done by Avram!

[Spike 12,049]

Yes, some people seem to imagine that a football carreer is something rather static whereas it's in constant change. All is matter of opportunities taken, chances given, favorable combination of circumstances ; underlined in the background by an amount of work at training.

The player in question showed an quite incredible improvement in all domains of the play but people are still skeptical and argue as if nothing happened at all ? Where's logic there ?

Because life is a lot like Football Manager where your attributes stop exponentially growing after 24.

[English Freak 456]

I seriously wouldn't mind James Morrison, always works hard, great tackler and despite playing for West Brom is actually quite good. Has some eye for goal actually, telling you right now every goal he scores is a fucking wonder goal!! Also he's Scottish, well English but Scottish lmao.

Some of these comments about lower clubs and stuff funny. Look at some of the players who are now considered good/class/have great potential.

- Nemanja Vidic played for Red Star Belgrade and CSKA Moscow before he played for Man United, look at how he has preformed in the last 5 years.

- Gary Cahill played at Villa and Bolton, now playing for the Champions of Europe. Looks capable of replacing JT soon.

- Kevin Strootman at PSV, used to play in the second division of Dutch football now linked with AC Milan and United. Has unreal potential.

- Petr Cech played at Rennes, moved to Chelsea and turned into one of the very best goalkeepers of the last 10 years.

- Vincent Kompany played at Anderlecht then Hamburg, moved to City and after a few seasons is probably the best CB in the league imo.

- Frank Lampard from West Ham to Chelsea, now considered one of the greatest midfielders to play in England.

- Thiago Silva played at Juventude, Porto and Dynamo Moscow. Struggled then moved to Fluminiese and then went to Milan. Now an amazing CB!

- Joe Cole from West Ham to Chelsea, was a very good player when he was injury free. Gutted we let him go

I don't think any of those players on your list were 26 years of age (apart from Cahill) when they were signed by their respective clubs.

Morrison just isn't good enough to play for Chelsea FC. Yes, he has talent, he has ability...but he also has limited potential.

If he really was that great, then how come none of the top clubs want him?

He's an average player, nothing more.

[OneMoSalah 8,778]

I don't think any of those players on your list were 26 years of age (apart from Cahill) when they were signed by their respective clubs.

Morrison just isn't good enough to play for Chelsea FC. Yes, he has talent, he has ability...but he also has limited potential.

If he really was that great, then how come none of the top clubs want him?

He's an average player, nothing more.

Yes but if you think about it, people though Cahill was an average player and were proved horribly wrong. Could happen to Morrison or could be another Steve Sidwell case.

[Jase 43,479]

Yes but if you think about it, people though Cahill was an average player and were proved horribly wrong. Could happen to Morrison or could be another Steve Sidwell case.

Thing with Cahill is he has proved that he can play at the top level with England while he was still at Bolton. Get all the points being made about Morrison but right now, I'm not sure if it is wise to take a risk in purchasing a midfielder like Morrison to solve our creativity problems. As you said, he could turn out to be a great signing or just another Sidwell. What we need right now is a creative midfielder who has proven himself at a much higher level than Morrison has, someone like Moutinho, Modric etc.