Ian
Just doesn't shut up
- Joined
- Nov 25, 2007
- Messages
- 2,132
- Reaction score
- 2,883
Vitinha made 22 appearances for us. Didn't impress in any of them. (other than showing he was a match for 7th level Chorley). Didn't look like he wanted to be here. Perfectly understandable why a manager would not prefer him ahead of Neves/Moutinho and even Donk at that time. I don't think he wanted to be here in the first place and that's as much why he didn't settle. And it was widely reported at the time that Gonvalves didn't want to be here.
It's a lesson we needed to learn - it's no good having players who don't want to be here, even if they could be drafted in as part of the Mendes portfolio.
Vitinha more often than not was played out of position, usually wide on the left ( as was MGW) in a season when a majority of us thought Moutinho was poor and should have been rested/ rotated more.
It was definitely something that Nuno deserved criticism for...... no real wonder players look uninterested if the coach has no faith in them.