Probably Unwelcome Evertonian
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anymore than 2sheiks said:Can all you Bluemooners do me a favour and whenever an everton fan comes on this site prompting a response to something or asking a question,tell him to answer 2sheiks question.
-- Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:05 am --
Your bringing what you spent on midfielders into the equation shows just how weak your argument is.You were paid well over the odds for a good not great defender.If somebody came in with a bid for Steven Ireland for £20mil,I would say thats twice what he's worth,and would wish him good luck.You behave like we bundled Lescott into the boot of a car and held a gun to his head.Bottom line is you got £22mil for a player who is worth nowhere near that.What the fuck are you moaning about?And why didn't you kick up all this shit when baconface took wooney for the same amount?Probably Unwelcome Evertonian said:Go on then, since you keep asking in captials, I shall give you my take on events. *
His replacement didn't cost nothing. If anything, his replacement cost way over his value because of the short time scale involved and the neccessity to buy quickly due to injury crisis and approximately zero fit centre backs.
His replacement is also older so has fewer years left and also involved us having to break up a central defensive pair that Moyes rated as the second best in the league, only behind Terry and Carvalho. The timing, given our extensive injury list (that if fit, you could have made a starting eleven out of), compounded matters a lot. There was a lot of ill feeling at the time.
Looking back, OK we got Distin who frankly isn't worth the embarrassingly large sum of cash spunked on. Bilyaletdinov - funny one that. He has sparks of genius. Look at his goal against Man U - brilliant. He catches it early. Van der Saar doesn't even bother - he's not getting there! Other times he looks lazy. However, we spent £15m on another young midfielder 12 months earlier and it wasn't until his second season that he won the fans over. I am hoping history can repeat itself.
Finally, Johnny H was bought from that cash. He is one hell of a player, can bring it down, pick the simple pass, do all the basics very well indeed. And we've always liked our nutters at GP. It's good to have one again.
* Please note these are my views and not the views of the EFC community collectively. Now please stop posting in capital letters on MY board (joke - oh shit, here comes the lynch mob)
Your bringing what you spent on midfielders into the equation shows just how weak your argument is.
What??? Makes no sense to me. I haven't raised an argument. Although I have said that much of the money was spent on a midfielder, and a large proportion was also spent on a left footed central defender. I think you might be reading more into my posts than is actually there.
OK, so we both agree that £22m is a lot for Lescott? I think that is a given. However, at the time it happened (and the time it happened is essential here - think back to an opening day home 6-1 spanking at the hands of Arsenal) we had no other fit centre backs. Not one!
When he handed in his transfer request, it was like a two fingered salute to the club that took the chance on him. He knew we were in dire straits for a few months, and he helped drop us in it further. He quickly abandoned the team that gave him his chance. Much of the team that was brought together had no pre-season together as a result. Our form suffered, although I don't attribute that to Man City (as has been claimed that other EFC fans do) but more down to the extensive injury crisis.
Oh, the Rooney thing carried on for years. And now Moyes and Taggart are seemingly best of friends (and incidentally, I noticed that these were the first two managers that came out in support of Mancini being charged). It will all blow over, eventually!