Ravel Ryan Morrison was born on the 2nd of February 1993 in Wythenshaw, Manchester and his first club was Fletcher Moss Rangers Football Club, an amateur junior football club based in Didsbury, Manchester. He was first scouted for the Manchester United Academy aged 8 by former United coach Phil Brogan and Sir Alex Ferguson described Morrison as having "as much natural talent as any youngster we ever signed", while Rio Ferdinand called him "the best young kid I have ever seen in my life". Phil Brogan said: " I had never seen anything like Ravel before. I had this surge of excitement the moment I saw him. I knew I had found a boy—he was incredible—and I knew he could go all the way to the top. You just had to see him. It was the way he moved across the pitch, with or without the ball. He was amazing. On pure talent, I would say Ravel Morrison was better than Paul Pogba. Of course, Pogba had his many qualities—he was strong and athletic—but he couldn’t do the things Ravel could do; no one could. The other boys were in awe of Ravel. He just looked as though he was destined to be the best."
Ravel signed on as a first-year scholar in 2009 and turned professional on the 2nd of February 2010, on his 17th birthday. However, no matter how talented you are, success is not always guaranteed, as we are revealing, and Ravel Morrison’s career is a great example of this. He was prominent in United’s 2011 FA Youth cup winning team with Jesse Lingard and Pogba. Initially he was compared to the greats of the past like Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and many others. However he just didn’t possess the work ethic, patience and consistency needed to become a great. Brogan recalls, "He got a taste but then got bored. He needed more games. When he was bored, he got into problems." Ravel himself has admitted to skipping training sessions and this lack of drive and work rate was a major stifler in the Jamaican's career. By 2012, major concerns had built up over him and whether he could actually make it at the club with all his issues off the pitch. Court appearances and assault charges resulted in Ferguson making the difficult decision to let the youngster go. On deadline day of January 2012, Morrison dropped down a Division to join West Ham on a three-and-a-half-year contract, but made just one first-team appearance as the Hammers earned promotion back to the Premier League. The following season he was sent on loan to Birmingham City and, while there were initial concerns over his attitude, he finally displayed moments of quality at first team level. After returning to Upton Park ahead of the 2013-14 season, he then made the breakthrough into the first team and began to make an impact on the Premier League but fell out of favour with manager Sam Allardyce before eventually returning to the Championship to join Queens Park Rangers on loan in February 2014. Later he joined Cardiff City on loan, where he started only once and with six months remaining of his deal at West Ham he signed a pre-contract agreement with Lazio in January of 2015. Despite a promising start to pre-season, the England under-21 international failed to establish himself at Lazio amid renewed criticisms of his attitude which saw him on the move again joining Mexican outfit Atlas on loan. Lazio then gave him the chance to train with rising Swedish side Ostersunds in February 2019 but he struggled with injuries and only made a total of nine appearances for the club. After leaving Ostersunds he returned to British shores in 2019, signing a one-year deal with newly-promoted Sheffield United. Then there was a one-year deal with ADO Den Haag in September 2020, the 11th club of his career, before he was handed a lifeline from Wayne Rooney's Championship side, Derby County where he found his feet once more - but his next club would come sooner rather than later as Rooney, the new manager at DC United, persuaded the player to come across the pond to sign up with his 13th different employer.
Ravel Morrison’s career is the sad reality of what can occur if even the brightest talents lose focus and don't possess the right attitude and motivation to work at the level needed to make it as an elite level footballer.
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