African Cup of Nations

I still cannot decide whether it is better for Morocco to ignore his talent and him come back refreshed, or for him to play and retain his match fitness....

I think the rest will do him good

Is that what they told you!?

The body language of the arm around his shoulder from a teammate speaks volumes

i doubt this has been an experience Ilias has enjoyed the sitting on a bench is hard enough but to be taken off on 31 minutes will be too much for him

hes too good a player to be treated like that im quite happy to wager he wont play for Morrocco again

Jimjams

Tactical reasons: when said by a manager that quite obviously doesnt like you as either a player or a charachter is the managers way of saying bye bye and thats what exactly happened with me which it looks like is happening to Chair with Morrocco.

this happens some managers like you some dont

but any player that gets taken off on 31 minutes is definatley being dug out by that manager

even with the MW decision taking off Thomas and Dozzell that didnt bode well for either player as they were being targeted as the reason its not working

Thomas looks like he wont play for us again and before that game he hardly figured

Dozzell was obviously told by MW to pull his socks up and after that game he didnt figure for a while then got a chance because of injury (which shows his charachter)

but if you also look at Dozzell hes got quite a bad record of bookings also

with Dozzell i think its a case of watch this space

Jim Jammer

it came across like you missed my point amigo i knew your were attempting to tease but i just had to make sure

like a good friend of mine suggested Grumpy snow whites friend

more chance getting poo from a rocking horse trying to tease this cat