Richards is going to see Shepherd cos he issues contracts-not Davey-Davey will have told Shep if he wants to keep richards-his dossiers on all the players were marked keep/sell/maybe depending on who it was-my guess is MR was a maybe
its all very well having a ball holding forward but first and foremost the job of a striker is to score goals. Richards gets the occasional tap in but I have yet to meet any fan who can honestly say that, if by some miracle, Richards made a run in behind a defence ff and found himself one on one with the goalkeeper they would put money on him to score.