Sir Landon Of Donovan

[Kay20]

He does well out of personal sponsorship the lad a reported 10 mill a year, Nike, At&T, Gatoraide: would make you think he would want a significant proportion of image rights in contract negotiations. Or a reluctance to leave his core market.

Great point about image rights. As for core market, his sponsors would love for him to go abroad, where more Americans would watch him as currently EPL is more viewed in the US than MLS (though the gap is narrowing). In addition, MLS finally signed a deal with a bigger network, so their need for him as their poster boy has diminished.

 

[Walken]

Hahaha.

Fernandes: two boss stepovers and some Everton fans thought he was gonna be the best midfielder in the world and wanted us to pay 12m for him.

i still youtube them daily!

 

[micknick]

I dont buy that mate, there are loads of American players the world over Fulham had a raft at one stage. Even when Donovan came the last time we picked up pockets of support here and there - but didnt see any commercial spin off tbh.

I cant see a Everton/Donovan association making any difference to our revenue which is the point of raising our profile tbh.

I think you're wrong in my opinion.

 

[NelsForBlues]

No, he's worked with them for years. He's in a Gatorade ad from years ago.

EDIT: You made me go back and doublecheck for sure, and yes, there are links to him doing work with Gatorade in 2007 alone, and with the US team as exhibited in this ad from 2006:

He's been signed by Gatorade since he was a youth player, age 15 or 16. He was even featured in a commercial for them at that age.

 

[little curly alan ball]

Haha ..

STILL with the Landy Love ???!!!

Ladies , email me ....( NOT Landy linked , but just generally , as , as you will note from my username ...)

 

[RFUS]

I wish Landon would just retire and become a professional forehead model or something. This Landy fairytale isn't half dragging on.

 

[thebluefox]

Haha ..

STILL with the Landy Love ???!!!

Ladies , email me ....( NOT Landy linked , but just generally , as , as you will note from my username ...)

now bally hows things lad ,you have made more comebacks than tommy doc. pm me your number i lost me phone lad

 

[Summerskin]

Lets get it straight.

Landon came, he amazed, he fit in, we all loved him, we all wanted him to stay or come back.

He hasn't, the momentum out of him being here has completely evaporated and his return (whilst it would be most welcome) would just be rather ordinary now.

It's like an amazing one night stand you had with a girl that you know you'll never forget, rather keep it that way than get back with her and find out she's a frump with a bad attitude.

We love you Landon, we know you enjoyed it here but we don't want to be your girlfriend, lets keep it at the one night stand.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

Lets give youth a chance instead.

 

[little curly alan ball]

now bally hows things lad ,you have made more comebacks than tommy doc. pm me your number i lost me phone lad

Hiya T ..

Not a comeback , Mucka .

Ill be on for a few days sortin' out some messages an' stuff ..

Saw the Ladies Posts an' havent spoken to them in a time ...

Will do mate . Ill text it to you now ...

 

[TX Tiburon]

I dont buy that mate, there are loads of American players the world over Fulham had a raft at one stage. Even when Donovan came the last time we picked up pockets of support here and there - but didnt see any commercial spin off tbh.

I cant see a Everton/Donovan association making any difference to our revenue which is the point of raising our profile tbh.

Everton picked up more US exposure and fans in the short loan spell than in all the pre-season, waste of time US junkets in the last few years combined. The question is... has it translated to £s.

 

[Welton Toffee]

Everton picked up more US exposure and fans in the short loan spell than in all the pre-season, waste of time US junkets in the last few years combined. The question is... has it translated to £s.

I may have said this in the thread before but don't have a spare 10 hours to trawl through all 200 odd pages...

But shortly after Landon's loan spell I spotted a guy at an LCR (student club thing) night at my uni in Norwich wearing our home shirt with Donovan on the back. Being suitably worse for wear at the time I stumbled over and started singing 'it's a grand old team...' at him. He didn't join in which I thought was pretty rude but we got chatting and it turned out that he was an American and wasn't an Evertonian after all (so I let him off about the lack of singing). He said he was just a big Landon fan and so bought the shirt.

I've realised now that this is a pretty lame anecdote but I guess the moral of the story is that AT LEAST one person, if not 2 or 3, bought an Everton shirt purely because of Landon.

 

[johnnydawg68]

I may have said this in the thread before but don't have a spare 10 hours to trawl through all 200 odd pages...

But shortly after Landon's loan spell I spotted a guy at an LCR (student club thing) night at my uni in Norwich wearing our home shirt with Donovan on the back. Being suitably worse for wear at the time I stumbled over and started singing 'it's a grand old team...' at him. He didn't join in which I thought was pretty rude but we got chatting and it turned out that he was an American and wasn't an Evertonian after all (so I let him off about the lack of singing). He said he was just a big Landon fan and so bought the shirt.

I've realised now that this is a pretty lame anecdote but I guess the moral of the story is that AT LEAST one person, if not 2 or 3, bought an Everton shirt purely because of Landon.

If we signed him permanently, imagine what those numbers would look like.

 

[johnnydawg68]

Lets get it straight.

Landon came, he amazed, he fit in, we all loved him, we all wanted him to stay or come back.

He hasn't, the momentum out of him being here has completely evaporated and his return (whilst it would be most welcome) would just be rather ordinary now.

It's like an amazing one night stand you had with a girl that you know you'll never forget, rather keep it that way than get back with her and find out she's a frump with a bad attitude.

We love you Landon, we know you enjoyed it here but we don't want to be your girlfriend, lets keep it at the one night stand.

Everton is on US TV a lot now....I think we get more games than you do actually, but if Donovan played for us full time, we'd be on live every weekend, along with Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Citeh. Guaranteed. Exposure means money.

 

[Welton Toffee]

If we signed him permanently, imagine what those numbers would look like.

Exactly. We'd be talking double figures, for sure.