change the 'is' for 'was' and add a 'then' to the end
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change the 'is' for 'was' and add a 'then' to the end
Always a good stopper!The highlight...
kone99
Player Valuation: £225k
kone is legend who can score hatrick in his 30's in premier league
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
Proper went downhill after his player of the year season. Could pass it out of defence well but was a bit erratic.
Brendan Janus
Player Valuation: £40m
Always did well in front of the back four !!
Translated as: "Also at Everton I experienced some wonderful years. We accomplished the impossible by reaching the semi final of the FA Cup".On his website:
Ook bij Everton – once a Blue, always a blue – kende ik prachtige jaren. We presteerden het onmogelijke door de halve finale van de FA Cup te bereiken.
So its his fault we ended up with Kone!lol
Hong Kong Bluey
Player Valuation: £750k
That was the City midfielder wasn't it?The highlight...
Hong Kong Bluey
Player Valuation: £750k
Benteke bossed him in that Villa game, Wales past him
.....yep, fabulous player. Lots of other examples of diminutive CBs, the Argentinian (Ayala?) and Baresi. I think Cannavaro was a lot broader than Heitinga but you know where I'm coming from. Jamie Carragher said he knew he had to retire after playing against Lukaku and not being able to cope physically.
kone99
Player Valuation: £225k
Nigel de jong .he was playing at milan this moth they released him
Gwladys Nights
Player Valuation: £15m
Heitinga was boss at times. If he had a nice big face like Stracqulursi everyone would love him. But he scowled sometimes so people projected their own failed hardman fantasies on to him.
One of the best ball playing defenders we've had over the last 20 years. And in his first year did pretty well as a holding midfielder too (though he seemed to regress in that role as the years went on). I remember one game away to Villa when we were 2-0 up and bossing the game. Heitinga, playing center mid, goes off injured and we ended up drawing 2-2.
Good on ye Jonny H. Decent player he was.
One of the best ball playing defenders we've had over the last 20 years. And in his first year did pretty well as a holding midfielder too (though he seemed to regress in that role as the years went on). I remember one game away to Villa when we were 2-0 up and bossing the game. Heitinga, playing center mid, goes off injured and we ended up drawing 2-2.
Good on ye Jonny H. Decent player he was.
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
The Unobstructed View
I liked him and he executed the final act in my ruining of Ashley Cole in the FA Cup tie, I'm firmly of the opinion as well that Howard Webb ruined him as a player by booking him at every single opportunity for the slightest of things and making him question himself regarding his tackling.
When we played Fulham a couple of seasons back, I was outside the ground when the Fulham coach pulled up. I saw Heitinga and waved at him
He waved back
Good on him
He waved back
Good on him
Deggo
Player Valuation: £20m
Plastic hard manRetires.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/s...es-immediate-playing-retirement-34415857.html
Monday 1 February 2016
Former Everton defender John Heitinga announces immediate playing retirement
John Heitinga won 87 caps for Holland
Former Everton defender John Heitinga has retired from playing at the age of 32, his club Ajax have announced.
A statement from the Dutch outfit on Monday revealing the news said Heitinga would be taking a job on their coaching staff. He rejoined Ajax last summer from Hertha Berlin on a one-year deal and has made only two Eredivisie appearances since, both as a substitute.
Prior to spending 2014-15 in Germany with Hertha, Heitinga had five years in English football.
He signed for Everton in 2009 and went on to make over 100 Barclays Premier League appearances for the Toffees.
The second half of 2013-14 saw him loaned out from Goodison Park to Fulham, for whom he played 14 times.
Heitinga came through the Ajax academy and had seven seasons as part of their first team before switching to Atletico Madrid for one campaign, then moving on to Everton.
He won 87 caps for Holland and was sent off in the 2010 World Cup final.
Heitinga said: "My ultimate desire was to return to Amsterdam and at the end of the season as a player for the third time celebrate a championship trophy with the Ajax fans.
"Yet I realised in December that the time to put an end to my active career was coming closer.
"The farewell is slightly ahead of schedule. But I look forward to this new chapter in my life.
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