neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
This is getting a bit strange now...
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Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
Well they can't say, "one careful owner" when hawking him around can they?
People are strange, when you`re a stranger Neil.
I know that you mention since he scored his first goal, but for me Rooney simply isn't a great Evertonian or legend at this club.
CRIMHEAD
Player Valuation: £40m
He absolutely did not create the most chances. By what measure? Assists? Key passes? None of those metrics and gave the ball away a ton.
That team was maybe the worst passing team I’ve seen at Everton in a long time. We need guys that can pass. Rooney does not take care of the ball. I have no problem if he stays, but he’s only a useful player that can occasionally create chances pushed farther up the pitch and should not be starting.
Look at the stats, he created the most chances.
orly
Please check with me for Blammo criteria
I know that you mention since he scored his first goal, but for me Rooney simply isn't a great Evertonian or legend at this club.
The key bit was 'since his first goal against Arsenal', otherwise I'd have included even more obvious ones like Southall.
Much better placed individuals than us call Rooney a legend, and rightly so.
Eddie Bosnar, not joking either.
Never threw a dinner table at a fitness coach, so for that reason he ain't an Everton legend in my book.
Leon Osman. Actual Everton legend.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
I assume you mean for the opposition with his awful passing
Don't even get me started on Phil Neville and Hibbo. Legends.
d34noj
Player Valuation: £40m
Didn't get that far into the sentence mate!
dancing llama
Player Valuation: £750k
I can't wait for the moomin thread calling for Steve MacManamanamanaman, Micheal Owen, Robbie Fowler, Ian Rush and Steve McMahon to be added to the list of Everton legends, after all they were Ev supporters and won stuff for other teams, that's what counts innit!
However, it's my humble opinion (and that's all it is) that I feel that a significant part of why this occurs is due to PR or toeing the party line.
Don't get me wrong, he's been a very successful player who has played, and achieved, at the highest level both domestically and intentionally.
Nevertheless, for me the distinguishing point is that his achievements were not for Everton or while Everton were either his focus or priority.
He scored a great goal against Arsenal and looked a wonderful talent while a young land, but rightly or wrongly he moved on to new pastures.
Since he's returned, well I don't think he's been an overly successful buy and as such I don't correlate being an Evertonian and us revering him.
A Manure legend? Maybe so. England legend? Yes, probably. A legend for Everton? Not for me sorry and claims he is are questionable.
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