Everton’s worst best 11

[Dancing Pat]

Andy van der Mayde was a real car crash signing

 

[Raino85]

For a long time I have considering the fact we have had a lack of truely world class players at Everton. Only Kanchelskis and teenage Rooney meet that criteria in the modern day.
However we have had an abundance of good players that were well past their best while gracing the everton shirt. Wondered if anyone could improve on this list
pretty sure defensively there are players I have missed:

Gk - Westerveld
Rb - Sidibe (World Cup winner, bit part loan player)
Cb - Ashley Williams (stretching it a little)
Cb - gough
Lb - Kenny sansom
Rm - James
Cm - rooney (second spell)
Cm - gascoigne
Lm - ginola
Cf - e’to
Cf - mark hughes

Who have I missed?

Paul Gerrard & Richard Wright both ranked as Englands best up and coming goalkeepers when we signed them! I'd put either if them ahead of Westerveld!

Graveson on his second spell couldnt run

Roysten Drenthe maybe too?

I never saw him play but i noticed Kenny Sansom had a brief spell at us just before i started getting interested

 

[No8Bally]

The list of dross we have had would fill a phone book.

 

[No8Bally]

Mickey Thomas - refused to play for the reseves, so HK got shut pretty quickly. Only ever played 10 games for us

 

[MACCA75]

Paul Gerrard & Richard Wright both ranked as Englands best up and coming goalkeepers when we signed them! I'd put either if them ahead of Westerveld!

Graveson on his second spell couldnt run

Roysten Drenthe maybe too?

I never saw him play but i noticed Kenny Sansom had a brief spell at us just before i started getting interested

Samsom did ok. Think he had 6 games and scored and was MOM in one. We’ve certainly had worse.

 

[twoblue]

Andy van der Mayde was a real car crash signing

Champ man legend.

 

[twoblue]

….Mo Johnson, past his sell-by date when we got him & £1m was costly for us.

Scored at old Trafford in a rare win.

Paul Gerrard & Richard Wright both ranked as Englands best up and coming goalkeepers when we signed them! I'd put either if them ahead of Westerveld!

Graveson on his second spell couldnt run

Roysten Drenthe maybe too?

I never saw him play but i noticed Kenny Sansom had a brief spell at us just before i started getting interested

Add Simonsen to the list of up and coming goal keepers we destroyed in the 1990s

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

This is such a depressing thread when you read the absolute garbage we’ve had playing for us over the year, and we haven’t even mentioned half the crap that’s played for us.

 

[Dancing Pat]

Champ man legend.

He certainly lived his dream!

 

[jondel]

….Mo Johnson, past his sell-by date when we got him & £1m was costly for us.

Rod Bellfit was past his sell by date at 16.

 

[Jeff Jones]

If we're talking about real world class players who came here when past their best we can't include players like Baardson, Gerrard,
Wright, Curran and Bellfit, amongst others, who were never world class and maybe not even past their best.

 

[jondel]

If we're talking about real world class players who came here when past their best we can't include players like Baardson, Gerrard,
Wright, Curran and Bellfit, amongst others, who were never world class and maybe not even past their best.

Rod Bellfit would be in any worst eleven of any team anywhere in the world at any time.

 

[CairnsToffee]

DAVID SMALLMAN played 16 times, 15 times badly, only a kid and didn't know his name was David for months, thought it was F@&k off Smallman?

Plus Richard Gough played well for us and was a good buy, don't forget we had the likes of Carl Tiler playing Centre Back too!

 

[Jeff Jones]

Rod Bellfit would be in any worst eleven of any team anywhere in the world at any time.

And in a swap for David Johnson. Which idiot thought that was a good idea?

 

[jondel]

And in a swap for David Johnson. Which idiot thought that was a good idea?

I think at the time Harry Catterick was ill. Either that or he was on crack cocaine.