Players we really should’ve kept hold of

[Khalekan]

There is no point counting the likes of Stones, Rom, Barkley et al.

They wanted to go.

I am going for players whom, to the best of my knowledge, never agitated for a move or refused to sign a new contract.


Alan Ball

Ken McNaught

Duncan Ferguson

Gerard Deulefeou

Gary Speed

Shane Duffy

John Connolly

And of course, Gary Lineker.

 

[Tipp blue]

There is no point counting the likes of Stones, Rom, Barkley et al.

They wanted to go.

I am going for players whom, to the best of my knowledge, never agitated for a move or refused to sign a new contract.


Alan Ball

Ken McNaught

Duncan Ferguson

Gerard Deulefeou

Gary Speed

Shane Duffy

John Connolly

And of course, Gary Lineker.

Deulefeou, I'd almost forgotten about him, he was top class in his first stint here, if we'd signed him after that season who knows what would have been, instead he went to Spain on loan and went off the boil, been a shadow of what he was ever since.

 

[4737carlin]

Did we not get Mark Hughes round that time as well? Yet wouldn’t give Hutchinson the contract he wanted. Horrible times

Yeah we had to do some horrible deals, its another world now

 

[Aberblue]

As has been said earlier, Bobby Collins.

Alan Ball - Everton's biggest mistake was selling him and replacing him with the likes of John Connolly and Mike Bernard, two average players.

Ken McNaught - a future European Cup winner with Villa.

Andy Hinchcliffe - why didn't HK like him, I wonder?

Don Hutchison - he wanted a raise which was not unreasonable by football standards; instead, Smith offered him relative peanuts and replaced him with Alex Nyarko at three times Hutch's wages! Nice one, Walter!

Gary Lineker - I doubt if he'd stayed given Barca were after him, but failing to put in a first option clause was a mistake.

Martin Keown - probably sold for financial reasons

Peter Beardsley - selling him was madness

Speed, Arteta, Stones, Lukaku etc wanted to leave so it wasn't really a case of us "getting rid" of them.

 

[Tipp blue]

I wonder how many of these players mentioned were sold because we were skint? Probably would have gone into administration without the sales. A 10-15 point deduction back in the day would have been certain relegation from which we may never have recovered.

 

[Blueclouds]

Duncan Ferguson to newcastle

 

[Jags]

Beckford. Not our best ever player, but would have provided more than decent backup in a position we struggled with for years afterwardd

 

[MikeH72]

Thank god no one’s said Steven Naismith yet.

 

[Vegas Toffee Girl]

I agree with several already mentioned.

I'm going to add Gareth Barry. The midfield suffered after he left and I think he was a leader on the pitch., He could've helped us another year or two.

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

Steven Naismiths still doing it for scotland

 

[T LEAFE]

The rat Steve McMahon should have played more than the 100 games he played for us. He went to Villa only to get a move to the RS.

 

[Coggy]

Big Dunc and Don Hutchison.
Those were dark , dark days.
To those who think that it's fair to be slagging off Moshiri about the way that the club is run now, just think back.
God it was grim back then and we were almost a pantomime - Gazza and Ginola anyone ?

 

[4737carlin]

Big Dunc and Don Hutchison.
Those were dark , dark days.
To those who think that it's fair to be slagging off Moshiri about the way that the club is run now, just think back.
God it was grim back then and we were almost a pantomime - Gazza and Ginola anyone ?

It's crazy to think better ran club's with decent budgets went down and we never did, if we got the Smith replacement wrong we could easily of disappeared never to return like forest and Wednesday

 

[Nymzee]

Manny F

 

[Neiler]

Richard Dunne
Shane Duffy
Joey Barton
Manny Fernandez
Oliver Dacourt
Beardsley
Kanchelskis
Linekar
Keown
Garetth Barry
Matteo Ferrari