From being a youth player at Manchester United, to playing in the West Ham first team, Ravel has constantly turned heads with his natural and often effortless raw ability on the football pitch. On the other hand, his personal life has often caused much controversy and many feel that his attitude lets him down.
Cardiff are the third team that Ravel has been loaned out to since joining the hammers' back in January of 2012. The other two being Birmingham and Qpr. At Birmingham things were positive and he often showed glimpses of pure class - and on his return its safe to say that his performance against Tottenham on October 3rd earned him many plaudits . Since then he has taken 10 paces back and is now struggling to play first team football with Cardiff - and looks set to return when his loan deal ends in early January.
Ravel has now worked under Sir Alex Ferguson, Sam Allardyce, Harry Redknapp, Lee Clark and now Russell Slade. All 5 of those manager have agreed on one thing, that one thing being that Ravel's footballing ability is not in doubt but his attitude on the other hand...
The first three of the managers mentioned, are arguably 3 of the most experienced and respected managers to grace the Premier League in recent years, so if they can't get the best out of him, can anybody?
With Ravels contract being up in the summer, I really can't see him being offered a new contract - and I can't say I'm too bothered about this. Whereas a year back I would have been somewhat disappointed to see him go.
I was one of the people who deluded themselves into believing that a few good performances would see him on the straight and narrow but I was wrong.
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