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# Morrison: “United gave me too many chances”

Ravel Morrison has admitted that Sir Alex Ferguson gave him ‘too many chances’ at Manchester United.

Morrison, who currently plays for Lazio, was an key member of United’s 2011 FA Youth Cup winning team, and was touted as one of the best academy products to come out of Carrington since Paul Scholes.

However, the 22-year old was often caught in trouble and was convicted of intimidating two witnesses of a knife-point mugging at the age of 17, for which he was given a 12-month referral order.

Even though Gary Neville and Rio Ferdinand offered to take Morrison under their wing, the troubles continued and the youngster from Stretford was sold to West Ham in January 2012, only managing to make three substitute appearances for the United first-team.

And in an interview with [The Sun](https://www.apple.com/), Morrison accepted that he was given enough chances to straighten his act and sharpen up his attitude.

He said:

> No, I have to be honest about this. Manchester United and Alex Ferguson gave me too many chances. I don’t think they would have given any other player the amount of opportunities they gave me. I can only blame myself and not look for excuses.
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> A lot of the things I did wrong at United was silly stuff. It wasn’t because I was involved in robberies. It was more messing about playing computer games and hanging out too much with my friends when I should have been more dedicated to training.
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> Back then I had time-keeping issues, too. I never thought, ‘Oh s\*\*\*, I’ve got to go outside now and get on the training pitch’.
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> Even Rio Ferdinand took me to one side and said, ‘You need to get out there 15 minutes before the session starts and stay later as well’. He was right, of course.
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> To make it as a Manchester United player, or indeed at any top club, you must be more professional. But I had concentration and focus issues at that time.
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> I remember my coach, Rene Meulensteen, trying to advise me not to leave when West Ham came in for me. He said, ‘If you leave the club, it’ll be hard to get back’. But I was young and wanted to play football.
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> I would have done things differently if I was in that situation now. But it’s done now and there’s no going back. All I can do is look forward.