Ravel Morrison was released by West Ham United back in 2015 and has not played in the Premier League since.
Now, Carlton Cole may be quite the cult hero at West Ham but it seems a little unlikely that he would have the power to open the doors for former players to return to the London Stadium.
Though that has not stopped the one and only Ravel Morrison from asking his former Hammers team-mate to put in a good word on Instagram.
Morrison is perhaps one of the most infamous examples of wasted talent English football has seen in the 21st century. He had the natural ability to rival any other homegrown talent of his generation but moments like that wonderfull solo goal against Tottenham Hotspur back in 2013 have been distinctly few and far between.
With a string of problems following him around off the field, legendary Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson decided Morrison wasn’t worth the hassle. And nor, in the end, did his West Ham boss Sam Allardyce.
“He was the biggest waste of talent I ever worked with,” Allardyce told Sky Sports in 2017, as reported by the Manchester Evening News, two years after Morrison was released by The Hammers.
Since then, the now 25-year-old has managed a grand total of four Serie A appearances for Lazio and, rather bizarrely, finds himself on loan at Mexican outfit Atlas. But it seems that eye for the spectacular has never left him, posting a video of him scoring a glorious chip in training for the Liga MX side on his Instagram page.
Though a West Ham return, even though Allardyce has gone, seems very unlikely indeed – regardless of what Carlton Cole says.
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