2025/26 Seamus Coleman

[PhoenixIreland]

You think that countless Everton players, coaches and managers are all spinning a line to justify Coleman's wages?

Groupthink, well known phenomenon.

 

[PhoenixIreland]

Dangerous to write him off...

Not dangerous at all, he's been done for the guts of a decade.

 

[Neiler]

I’d enter if he wore his Ireland jersey tbf.

 

[davek]

I’d enter if he wore his Ireland jersey tbf.

The feller also almost single handedly keeps that Everton in the Community programme running which hands the club the type of publicity you cant buy.

He's Everton to his core. The club should be looking at handing him another extension to his existing contract to ensure we maintain that sort of soft power in the coming years.

 

[Nymzee]

The feller also almost single handedly keeps that Everton in the Community programme running which hands the club the type of publicity you cant buy.

He's Everton to his core. The club should be looking at handing him another extension to his existing contract to ensure we maintain that sort of soft power in the coming years.

The only soft power around here is your failed excuse for a working penis.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Not dangerous at all, he's been done for the guts of a decade.

I'd have said the same too if I was still of the age where trying to look cool for the lads was a thing.

 

[Marius57]

The feller also almost single handedly keeps that Everton in the Community programme running which hands the club the type of publicity you cant buy.

He's Everton to his core. The club should be looking at handing him another extension to his existing contract to ensure we maintain that sort of soft power in the coming years.

So you want to pay him circa £55k a week to do charity work, for what you have explained several times on this site is a separate organisation that we just lend our name to, to get some publicity?

 

[davek]

So you want to pay him circa £55k a week to do charity work for what you have explained several times on this site, is a separate organisation that we just lend our name to, to get some publicity?

It is separate, but that doesn't mean the club dont bask in its positive publicity...which is why they second players to it.

Coleman's case is this:

• he still offers an alternative at RB and can still do that effectively as he's done for Ireland when judiciously played by a clued up manager rather than the clueless manager we have here
• the value he's added compared to the value he's taken away is well in credit, therefore cry-arsing over his financial cost is just...well...for worthless cry-arses and bears no weight
• his role at the club as a man who can integrate new players and act as club captain/ambassador remains priceless
• he is almost certainly going to join the FT coaching staff at some point so the club will retain his expertise and familiarity with the current squad

If you're Friedkin you see that type of package and you know you cant get rid of Coleman.

 

[Marius57]

It is separate, but that doesn't mean the club dont bask in its positive publicity...which is why they second players to it.

Coleman's case is this:

• he still offers an alternative at RB and can still do that effectively as he's done for Ireland when judiciously played by a clued up manager rather than the clueless manager we have here
• the value he's added compared to the value he's taken away is well in credit, therefore cry-arsing over his financial cost is just...well...for worthless cry-arses and bears no weight
• his role at the club as a man who can integrate new players and act as club captain/ambassador remains priceless
• he is almost certainly going to join the FT coaching staff at some point so the club will retain his expertise and familiarity with the current squad

If you're Friedkin you see that type of package and you know you cant get rid of Coleman.

He couldn’t manage to play regularly under Dyche either. Is he clueless as well?

He has added value and he has been a loyal servant for the club. He is a club legend in my view. But that doesn’t mean you just give him ongoing years when he isn’t able to perform as a player.

The last 2 points can be easily solved and merged together. Make him a coach. He can still act as an ‘ambassador’ and help integrate new players as a coach.

The club needs to move on and progress from being the sentimental soft touches of the Kenwright days. You said this in 2019 about Coleman:

 

[blulouie]

He couldn’t manage to play regularly under Dyche either. Is he clueless as well?

He has added value and he has been a loyal servant for the club. He is a club legend in my view. But that doesn’t mean you just give him ongoing years when he isn’t able to perform as a player.

The last 2 points can be easily solved and merged together. Make him a coach. He can still act as an ‘ambassador’ and help integrate new players as a coach.

The club needs to move on and progress from being the sentimental soft touches of the Kenwright days. You said this in 2019 about Coleman:
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KERBOOM

 

[SJB]

Once he's over this minor setback, I wonder if Moyes will utilise him on the right side of midfield as he did early in Seamus' career... maybe when N'daiye is flagging and we need to shut up shop he'll be the man Moyes looks to.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

das ist a waulting...

 

[davek]

He couldn’t manage to play regularly under Dyche either. Is he clueless as well?

He has added value and he has been a loyal servant for the club. He is a club legend in my view. But that doesn’t mean you just give him ongoing years when he isn’t able to perform as a player.

The last 2 points can be easily solved and merged together. Make him a coach. He can still act as an ‘ambassador’ and help integrate new players as a coach.

The club needs to move on and progress from being the sentimental soft touches of the Kenwright days. You said this in 2019 about Coleman:
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Oh look, a post pulled from a few years ago shorn of the context I gave it at the time. A completely shameful hack.

The context was that Seamus after his massive injury of a broken leg was finished as a starter - something I've never backtracked on since. We've always needed a RB to start since that point...unfortunately the club bought Nathan Taterson and so the search goes on.

Oh, and the rest of my post you hacked away at and left the guts of on the editing room floor underlined what I've been saying here today:

"His saving grace these days is his attitude: he hates losing, he has a lot to say on the pitch, and he says exactly the right things off it. But it's not enough." ...which was spot on then as it is now.

Did you REALLY think you could get away with that deception you tried on above?

Pathetic.

 

[PhoenixIreland]

He couldn’t manage to play regularly under Dyche either. Is he clueless as well?

He has added value and he has been a loyal servant for the club. He is a club legend in my view. But that doesn’t mean you just give him ongoing years when he isn’t able to perform as a player.

The last 2 points can be easily solved and merged together. Make him a coach. He can still act as an ‘ambassador’ and help integrate new players as a coach.

The club needs to move on and progress from being the sentimental soft touches of the Kenwright days. You said this in 2019 about Coleman:
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Caught with your pants down Davek

 

[Marius57]

Oh look, a post pulled from a few years ago shorn of the context I gave it at the time. A completely shameful hack.

The context was that Seamus after his massive injury of a broken leg was finished as a starter - something I've never backtracked on since. We've always needed a RB to start since that point...unfortunately the club bought Nathan Taterson and so the search goes on.

Oh, and the rest of my post you hacked away at and left the guts of on the editing room floor underlined what I've been saying here today:

"His saving grace these days is his attitude: he hates losing, he has a lot to say on the pitch, and he says exactly the right things off it. But it's not enough." ...which was spot on then as it is now.

Did you REALLY think you could get away with that deception you tried on above?

Pathetic.

The point was about the sentimentality Dave. Which is why I specifically mentioned the word sentimental. The clubs progress is more important. I made it pretty clear that it was about the club progressing rather than the rest of the post.

And I bet the Friedkins (who you mentioned in your previous post) will want their playing assets to be effective as players when the cost of them each year is several million. Rather than gifting new contracts to players who barely get on the pitch because they didn’t cost us much to buy 15 years ago.