McGeady on disagreement with Parkinson


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Its such a waste of a talented player though. Fair enough, his "free role" might not have fit with parky's style, I'm sure he'd still have been a good option from the bench?
 
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If I didn’t have any hunger and didn’t want to play football then I’d still be sitting at Sunderland because I have a year and a half left on my contract,” said McGeady. “I’d be training there and just getting on with my life.

“But I want to play football as long as I can. It is a short career and you’re a long time retired. I still feel I can effect games and have got enough about me.

“It’s not like I’m 43 – I’m 33. I’ll be 34 soon but I’ve got that hunger to play and win matches.”

The next 13 matches will give a clearer picture of what comes next for McGeady.

He made his debut as a 59th-minute sub in the 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest last week and followed up with a first start in the 2-0 loss to Blackburn Rovers on Saturday.

The way McGeady’s stock has fallen at Sunderland means the former Everton wideman doesn’t plan too far ahead.

“I haven’t thought too much about the future,” he said. “I want to take it month by month and see how I do at Charlton, try to help the team progress up the league.

“As far as staying beyond that, I’ve not really thought about it. Who knows what will happen in football? It’s only two or three months ago I was playing at Sunderland, something changes and you’re at a different team.

“Football changes very quickly.


“If that was a possibility – staying beyond the end of the season – then of course it’s something I’d be looking at. I’m hoping that can maybe happen but it is down to me to start playing games and getting a run in the side.

“I’m gradually getting back to full sharpness. It will take a little time to get to 100 per cent. It’s about getting that match feel back. Game by game I’m gradually working to improve that.”

McGeady scored 11 goals in 34 games for Sunderland last season – but he was not fully fit by the time they faced Charlton at Wembley in the League One play-off final.

“I broke a bone in my foot about six weeks before the end of the season,” he said. “I wanted to try and carry on playing because otherwise it was my season up. I wanted to try and play, to help the team if I could.

“I wouldn’t train through the week and on the day of the game I’d have one, two or three injections in the foot to try and numb it so that I could play.

“We did the same in the final but I wasn’t fit enough to start. They wanted to have me on the bench.

“I came on but wasn’t fit.

“It was a tough day. No-one wants to lose a game in the last minute but also Charlton played better on the day and deserved it.

“The most frustrating thing came in the run-in to the season, where we had it in our own hands and let it slip away. We were second with two games in hand and six to seven matches to go. The fact we won one of the last six and finished fifth tells its own story.”

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Speaking exclusively to the South London Press, last year’s player of the year McGeady said: “There was nothing more or nothing less than me and the manager not seeing eye to eye.

“He felt it better that I train away from the group, for whatever reason.

“I didn’t do anything which saw me be fined, disciplined, sacked or banned from the training ground – just me and the manager had a disagreement. I was told to follow the schedule of the U23s from that point on.
“These things happen in football and you have to get on with it. It wasn’t anything personal or a fallout between myself and him.


“It’s nothing more than the manager felt he was better without me and that he didn’t need me. We didn’t see eye to eye.”

Speaking in mid-December after the decision was taken, Parkinson said: “We have spoken to Aidy about January and moving on, I feel it is fair to him to tell him now to sort something out.
“It gives me the opportunity to concentrate on the team moving forward.
“I feel it is the best thing for the team moving forward.”


Parkinson added: “It is not one particular incident, It is a decision I have made
“I wanted to tell Aidy and his agent early enough so we can put plans in place for January as well.
“It is a big decision, not one we have taken lightly, I have given things a lot of thought and I am confident it is the right thing for the club.

It took him how many months to come up with this diatribe ?

One undeniable fact - we are a better team without the twat
 
Its such a waste of a talented player though. Fair enough, his "free role" might not have fit with parky's style, I'm sure he'd still have been a good option from the bench?
Don’t think Luke Onien would agree marra......
 
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It took him how many months to come up with this diatribe ?

One undeniable fact - we are a better team without the twat
The second article has him saying he played with a broken foot in the last 7 games of the season
 
Hardly. He found his true level in league one. Towards the end of our championship relegation season he was blowing out of his arse and was frequently booked. Bit of a liability even then.
no one fiunds thweir trurue level at 34..they find it when they are at their peak..when he was playing chapons league/premier league.
also mcgeady is a champinsip player now..not a league one player..and thats ight now at the end of his career past his peak..he doesnt even have to stick around in league one..
 
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