Matthew Martinez
Player Valuation: £1m
It is all nonsense as someone suggested, but unfortunately it shapes images and perceptions of football clubs, because nearly 3m people buy the Mirror on a daily basis.
Everton are desperately trying to change their image and perception. They sign up all their best players to lengthy deals and smash their transfer record, yet the Mirror still focuses on another club, making disparaging remarks, denigrating Everton and even worse, questioning the player and his attitude. Did anyone hear one single thing about this supposed 'bad attitude' that Lukaku has, at Everton last season? Because I didn't.
Mourinho is a bad, bad tit, and the Mirror is just as bad. They cannot bring themselves to write a positive Everton story because they have been wrong at every single turn this year - Baines, Coleman, Barry, Barkley, Lukaku. Hell, even as late as this morning, Lipton was still talking about Everton not being able to afford Lukaku and how we 'might get him on loan'. The guy is a biased hack. No time for him at all after this saga.
Bang on. Crazy how he can write about us when (as you conclusively proved earlier) he doesn't have the requisite knowledge his position demands. Pfft joke!