goodisonopheliac
Player Valuation: £30m
One thing I do like about Kev: he has the nicest arse in football. Sod Eden Hazard. Mirallas' derrière is much better.
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goodisonopheliac
Player Valuation: £30m
Niasse is basically a black Steven Naismith. Sure, he's not great, but he tries. He puts a shift in and he's been nothing but classy about the whole Koeman thing when he could have gone to the S*n about it or whatever. Mirallas, who is a good player - I'm not going to go 'oh, Kev is gash' because he's not - is also very inconsistent. Sometimes he's great. Other times he is an absolute pain in the arse.
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Woooooooowww
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He will just look the other way.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £70m
If it has to be unrequited, then so it shall be.
Lowste
Player Valuation: £30m
Never liked him mate. A player who believes he is a Ronaldo and struts around the park thinking he is, when in reality he is more of a Terry Curran
Llyrap
Player Valuation: £5m
I wonder if one day he’ll wake up and realise that actually, despite thinking for the last decade that he is the best player in the world, he is not and had he realised sooner he may have been a better player.
His pace makes him look better than he is. How many times have we seen him beat a player, put his head down and ignore everyone else and then fluff a shot.
Arrogance can be tolerated in the truly talented.
His pace makes him look better than he is. How many times have we seen him beat a player, put his head down and ignore everyone else and then fluff a shot.
Arrogance can be tolerated in the truly talented.
goodisonopheliac
Player Valuation: £30m
I don't hate Kev, I just get very annoyed with him sometimes. I don't hate any Everton players.
NSNO_Phil_1878
Player Valuation: £5m
Kevin Miratlas
Last season, my youngest lad was one of the mascots for the Burnley game. Before the game all the kids had a little 'meet & greet' with the players, and Kev had all the time in the world for them, happy to pose for photos with a genuine smile on his face and signing match programmes. He is my lad's favourite player, and as luck would have it, he was the player my lad was paired with to walk out onto the pitch with at the start of the game. Kev was really good with him and my lad still randomly goes on about it all the time months later. So for that reason alone I hope he signs a new 9 year contract, cos if he leaves my boy will be heartbroken lol
Lowste
Player Valuation: £30m
I I hate to be hard, but pain will follow your young lad through his life watching Everton.. KM leaving may well be his first introduction to it, so as a good parent have ready them age old words that fathers have spoken to their sons and daughters over the decades. 'Get used to it aa it doesn't get any better'
goodisonopheliac
Player Valuation: £30m
That's sweet. Kev has kids himself, I think his wife gave birth to their daughter earlier this year?
Kever10
Player Valuation: £25m
Mirallas seems like a nice guy. I've heard a few stories that seem to suggest he has a lot of time for fans and kids especially, and he seems to be close mates to a number of players, so I have no doubt he is popular in the dressing room.
But for all the skill and moments of magic he has produced in his time here, a good YouTube clip worth of worldies and knee high Suarez tackles, there are very few people who seem to care if he stays or goes, which is as good an indication as any of just how inconsistent he has been.
He is a quick, skilful, attacking player who can score goals, and spectacular ones at that, the very type of player that people love to idolise and admire. But for whatever reason, he's just never done it often enough. Whether that's complacency, arrogance, lack of game time, injuries, falling out with managers, etc.
Players like Naismith or Niasse, as has been pointed out, always seem to get way more stick than Mirallas, based purely on what is a perceived lack of ability, or the potential of what he "might" do. While they try hard each and every time they play, Mirallas often exudes the body language of "it's not my day today, I don't fancy it", and it's there for all to see.
But people will still argue the case that there should always be room for players of his ability in the team and he should automatically start ahead of these so called lesser players, regardless what their individual outputs are. And it doesn't always strike me as fair.
So I offer a different comparison to another player with whom I see a lot of similarities. A player with equal, perhaps greater ability. A player who was also often played out of his preferred position but never moaned and in fact became our best player wherever and whenever he was deployed.
Mikel Arteta.
Arteta was, until injuries took their toll, one of the best players to play for Everton in the modern era. Similar to Mirallas in size and frame, he too had lots of skill, and while maybe not as quick over 10 yards as Mirallas, he also possessed that match winning moment of magic and was a scorer of spectacular goals, including the odd free kick. He was often played as Right or left winger, whether that was his preference or not. And he was always professional about it, and always reliable.
So next time you try and compare why Mirallas is technically a better player than Naismith or Niasse and should automatically take their place in the side, try comparing him to another player with similar levels of ability and potential, but one who did it on a regular basis.
And in doing so, realise that if Mirallas was determined enough, consistent enough and most importantly, good enough, he would be in the team, and would probably be our best player, wherever he was asked to play.
But for all the skill and moments of magic he has produced in his time here, a good YouTube clip worth of worldies and knee high Suarez tackles, there are very few people who seem to care if he stays or goes, which is as good an indication as any of just how inconsistent he has been.
He is a quick, skilful, attacking player who can score goals, and spectacular ones at that, the very type of player that people love to idolise and admire. But for whatever reason, he's just never done it often enough. Whether that's complacency, arrogance, lack of game time, injuries, falling out with managers, etc.
Players like Naismith or Niasse, as has been pointed out, always seem to get way more stick than Mirallas, based purely on what is a perceived lack of ability, or the potential of what he "might" do. While they try hard each and every time they play, Mirallas often exudes the body language of "it's not my day today, I don't fancy it", and it's there for all to see.
But people will still argue the case that there should always be room for players of his ability in the team and he should automatically start ahead of these so called lesser players, regardless what their individual outputs are. And it doesn't always strike me as fair.
So I offer a different comparison to another player with whom I see a lot of similarities. A player with equal, perhaps greater ability. A player who was also often played out of his preferred position but never moaned and in fact became our best player wherever and whenever he was deployed.
Mikel Arteta.
Arteta was, until injuries took their toll, one of the best players to play for Everton in the modern era. Similar to Mirallas in size and frame, he too had lots of skill, and while maybe not as quick over 10 yards as Mirallas, he also possessed that match winning moment of magic and was a scorer of spectacular goals, including the odd free kick. He was often played as Right or left winger, whether that was his preference or not. And he was always professional about it, and always reliable.
So next time you try and compare why Mirallas is technically a better player than Naismith or Niasse and should automatically take their place in the side, try comparing him to another player with similar levels of ability and potential, but one who did it on a regular basis.
And in doing so, realise that if Mirallas was determined enough, consistent enough and most importantly, good enough, he would be in the team, and would probably be our best player, wherever he was asked to play.
might be a tit in training, but shows more effort and spark on the pitch than most including our record signing
SuperTimCahill
Player Valuation: £25m
Should be a part of the squad vs Southampton
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