QPR manager Harry Redknapp believes Ravel Morrison is as classy a player as Real Madrid ace Gareth Bale.
The brilliantly talented 21-year old midfielder, currently on loan at Cardiff City from West Ham United, could become one of England's best-ever players according to many but he finds it difficult to produce consistent football at the top level.
Morrison started at Manchester United, where Sir Alex Ferguson rated him on a par with Paul Scholes, but now finds himself in the Championship after loan stints at Birmingham City and QPR where Redknapp came across him.
In his new book, 'A Man Walks On to a Pitch', Redknapp speaks of the sublime talents of Morrison who he believes can become a superstar if he penny one day happens to drop.
'I had Ravel Morrison at QPR last season. Sir Alex Ferguson said he was the most naturally gifted player he had seen at Manchester United since Paul Scholes - and then sold him because he could do nothing with him,' read an excerpt from Redknapp's book which is being serialised exclusively by Sportsmail this week.
'He'd been at West Ham, scored one of the goals of the season against Tottenham but they, too, found it hard to control him. He'd already had one loan spell at Birmingham City, but ended up with me.
'There was one game last season when we'd lost confidence and were losing. I asked him to change his position, to play on the left. His face fell into a petulant pout.
'I pulled him away from the rest, took him outside and explained as patiently as the time allowed. 'Ravel, we are losing the f****** game,' I said. 'I just want you to play there and do a job for the team. We have to win the game. It's not about you, OK? It's about the team.
'People look at your face in there when I've asked you to do something, and they will all go away and think you are a big-headed bastard, because your attitude stinks. That's what people say about you.'
'Second half he was absolutely different class. He ran the game, everything good we did came from him and we were all watching it thinking, ''What a talent''.
'You looked at that performance and thought he could get us promoted on his own if he put his mind to it. It was like watching a player with Gareth Bale's class in the Championship.'
