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Posted by The Kippax Kid on January 15, 2008 7:11 AM | 

PERHAPS City's strikers could learn a thing or two from Ched Evans after he scored for Norwich at the weekend.
The 19-year-old Rhyl lad, on loan at Carrow Road from Eastlands, equalised at Barnsley in a game the Canaries went on to win 3-1.
Evans has been a revelation for Wales under-21s - on his debut last year he scored twice and set up another in a 4-0 thrashing of Northern Ireland, then scored a hat-trick in an astonishing victory over France, supposedly Europe's best U21 side.
He's strong, knows where the goal is and has a few tricks up his sleeve. He scored two minutes into his first start for Norwich, and although he's only scored for them twice since in 10 games, he wasn't shy at City last season with 16 goals in 23 starts for the academy side.
It's not surprising Sven apparently took a bit of persuading by Norwich manager Glenn Roeder to let Evans go back to Norfolk last week. City can recall him after February 6 and so far Sven hasn't let Roeder play him in the FA Cup. So with Mpenza struggling, Bianchi and Samaras free to leave and Valerie Bojinov and Daniel Sturridge still injured, sounds like Evans isn't too far away from the first team.
Meanwhile Micah Richards is still dithering over a new contract, apparently because his dad is trying to sort him out the best deal possible after Micah changed his representation.
Some City fans are saying we should sell him for £20m and buy new players, but if we want to be a big club again we need to keep our best players, especially players of Micah's potential. Remember that happened when Big Niall and David White left? There's no point having the best academy in the country if we're going to sell the top graduates to our rivals.
The idea that Micah should go back to right-back has some legs, though. Okay, he's developing a good partnership with the Dunney Monster at centre-back, but Vedran Corluka has impressed every time he's played there as well.
When Michael Johnson comes back, why not play Dunne and Corluka together, with Richards offering an extra attacking outlet from the right? With no right winger at City at the moment, he'd help create a few more chances, which have been in short supply recently.
Just a thought, Sven.


 

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