Posted by Oliver Wilson

Everyone used to want to be 'like Mike', but now everyone wants to be 'like Richard'?

It's no way near as catchy but it makes for some very entertaining reading around the sports pages of Europe that's for sure.

When Richard Sherman became, seemingly, the angriest man to ever make the Super Bowl, most of us laughed and enjoyed the moment, all except Michael Crabtree that is. We even spoke about it on the Kick About this week, as we asked for more of football's interviews to be less generic drivel and more WWE sport entertainment (without the steroids and chair shots of course).

We asked and we duly received as Frank Ribery came out from behind his third place Ballon d'Or trophy (or possibly the huge pile of silverware he amassed in 2013) to point the finger at FIFA, saying that he deserved to win the the World Player of the Year award for 2013, casting aspersions over the extended voting deadline for the competition and implying that football's world governing body did everything it could to ensure Cristiano Ronaldo took home the big prize.

While Ribery may be able to back-up the accusations that FIFA's voting process and results were more ridiculous than putting a pub on a motorway service station - just ask those Real Madrid and Barcelona stars from FIFA's World XI to pull out their medals from 2013 and you'll see why Ribery feels there should have been more of his fellow teammates alongside him in FIFA's all-star side - we thought that the Frenchman's outspoken word would be a one time moment of outspokenness from a current player, and a moment that just happened to coencide with Sherman's outburst.

But no.

It seems that another is determined to walk the path of the outspoken athlete, with Juventus' South American midfielder Arturo Vidal putting himself in the spotlight with a Kanye West style, 'greatest player in my position' rant.

"I am the best player in the world in my position. That's simply the way it is for me," said the Bianconeri star to Sport Bild.

"There are a lot of players out there in my position who try and play just like me and want to copy my style of play.

"But it's quite clear for me that I'm the best in my role. Nobody puts in as much defensive work as I do and then scores a lot of goals on top of it as well."

Bold words that can be backed up by his fantastic start to this season for the 26-year-old.  Vidal has grabbed 15 goals in 28 appearances this season, including 10 league goals this year, propelling Antoni Conte's side well above the trailing pack in the Serie A table.

Vidal, though, might want to chose his words carefully because, unlike Ribery, he has very little to look at in terms of a trophy haul from last season.

A second successive scudetto with Juve is all he can pull out to compare to Bayern's boasting haul from the last 12-months and, while Serie A provides some of the most entertaining football in Europe, the calibre of opposition around Juve doesn't meet the standard of Dortmund, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea and others, that La Liga, Bundesliga and Premier League side's have to battle with to make a run at a league title. Juventus have struggled in Europe against Europe's best and, while the club is returning to Europe's elite after a two year absence from the tournament between 2010-2012, they haven't looked like a Champions League title contender.

There is no doubt that Vidal is having an incredible season in Serie A and is one of the best midfielders in Italy's top flight, but he's still underperformed when put against a real European test.  It doesn't help that Vidal's comments come after a Coppa Italia loss to Roma during which he and his Juventus underperformed on a pretty dismal night for the side from Turin.

If a player is to be outspoken, they really need to have crossed the Ts and dotted all the Is before they open up.