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Player #872
Appearances:
41
Starts:
32
Goals:
0
Seasons:
2
Source: Football card #27 Kieran Richardson issued by Topps under the Match Attax 2014-15 series, 2014.
Source: Football card #27 Kieran Richardson issued by Topps under the Match Attax 2014-15 series, 2014.
Kieran Richardson
Position
Left Back
From
2014-15
To
2015-16
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IMAGE CREDIT
Kieran Richardson
Seasons Quick-View
Seasons
Age*
29 | 30 |
Division
PL | PL |
Appearances
41 |
26 | 15 |
Starts
32 |
20 | 12 |
Substitute
9 |
6 | 3 |
Unused
15 |
3 | 12 |
Goals
0 |
0 | 0 |
*Age on opening day of the season
FAC: FA Cup; FL: Football League; D1: Division 1; D2: Division 2; D3: Division 3; PL: Premier League; CH: Championship
FULL SEASON BREAKDOWN
Kieran Edward Richardson
Birth Date
Friday, 12 October 1984
Birth Place
Greenwich, London
Birth Country
England
Villa Youth
n/a
From
Transfer in
Fulham
From
For
£675,000
On
Friday, 11 July 2014
Previous Clubs
West Ham United |
2002-07 Manchester United, Free |
2005 West Bromwich Albion (L) |
2007-12 Sunderland, £7.38m |
2012-14 Fulham, £765k |
Loans Out
None
Transfer Out
To
Unattached
For
Released
On
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Subsequent Clubs
2016 Cardiff City |
Source: Football card #27 Kieran Richardson issued by Topps under the Match Attax 2014-15 series, 2014.
Source: Football card #27 Kieran Richardson issued by Topps under the Match Attax 2014-15 series, 2014.
Villa Career
Seasons Active, Fee, Starts (Sub) | Goals |
2014-16 £675k, 41 | 32 (9) | 0 |
STARTS
SUBS
GOALS
Played Under
Paul Lambert |
Tim Sherwood |
Rémi Garde |
First Squad Appearance
Saturday, 16 August 2014
Debut Appearance
Saturday, 16 August 2014
Stoke City (a), Premier League
DEBUT
First Goal
Did not score
Final Appearance
Saturday, 16 April 2016
Manchester United (a), Premier League
FINAL
Final Squad Appearance
Saturday, 16 April 2016
Honours
2014-15 FA Cup Runners Up |
Height
(5 ft 9 in) 1.75 m
Foot
Left
International Team
England
Kieran Richardson
Player #872 for Aston Villa, Kieran Edward Richardson played as a left back played as a left back for the club in Villa’s 2014-15 and 2015-16 Premier League campaigns, with the latter ending in Villa’s first relegation from the top tier in nearly 30 years. Kieran made 41 appearances.
Kieran was born in Greenwich on 12 October 1984.
Paul Lambert had signed Kieran from Fulham for £675,000 on 11 July 2014 in a total about turn on transfer policy. Gone were the lower league imports and in came an equally unfathomable approach - signing ageing, faltering and in some cases downright failed players with ‘Big 6’ club history but who had long ago discarded them.
In summary, Richardson, ex-Manchester United, arrived and although it represented a shock to the system that this was the level of recruitment Villa was now operating at, he provided solid if unspectacular predictability despite his better days being well behind him.
Richardson started all of Villa’s first 9 games as to the surprise of many Lambert’s team made the best start to a campaign since John Gregory’s in 1998-99 during which time Richardson contributed his only assist of the season for Andreas Weimann to score in the 36’ of Villa’s 2-1 win over Hull City on Sunday, 31 August 2014. Normal service however resumed with four consecutive losses at an aggregate score of 0-11 before Richardson was relegated to the bench.
Richardson would make just three starts and six substitute appearances in the next 20 games before returning to the team in Tim Sherwood’s first game in charge on Saturday, 21 February 2015. Richardson however was substituted off in the 42’ with injury and he missed a further six games as a result.
Following his recover from injury Sherwood recalled Richardson to the team for six successive starts before injury once again ruled the former England man out only to return to start for Villa in the 2015 FA Cup final defeat at Wembley.
In total Richardson played 26 games for Villa in 2014-15.
2015-16 saw interim manager Sherwood surprisingly kept in post and with a major, though disjointed overhaul of the squad having taken place in the close season, it was not clear how often Richardson and as a result he would not make a Premier League start until his penultimate game in charge on Saturday, 17 October 2015 in Villa’s 0-2 defeat at Chelsea. A run for Richardson of 6 games in the side as a starter saw Villa lose all six at an aggregate score of 5-16 as Villa chalked up their 12th loss in 17 games.
By the end of Richardson’s run of starts Tim Sherwood was gone and Rémi Garde had arrived as his successor but after an initial new starts under Villa’s new boss, Richardson was relegated to the bench and he made just 3 starts and 2 substitute appearances in Garde’s next 20 games.
With Garde’s resignation with Villa on the brink of an inevitable relegation, caretaker manager Eric Black recalled Richardson to the starting line up for his final 2 games for the club including the defeat away to Manchester United on Saturday, 16 April 2016 that confirmed Villa’s relegation before once again succumbing to injury.
Richardson was released by Villa in July 2016.
Cissokho played under Paul Lambert, Scott Marshall & Andy Marshall, Tim Sherwood, Rémi Garde and Eric Black.