Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I still am.
He was BY FAR my favourite player at the time, then it comes out about him crying to bill to get the move, and I have no time for him still.
Like it’s up there with my worst breakups tbh
People outside Everton do t realise how good Arteta was before his cruciate injury in 2009. He came back from that at about half the speed he used to have and was still good enough to walk into Arsenal’s midfield and captain them to trophies.
Arteta pre injury was absolutely unbelievable. That period he has when he was hitting those long range free kicks straight in, he was almost a one man team, just get the ball to him and he’d win the match for you.
Still remember a prime Villa team under Martin O Neil coming to Goodison for a cup game and we had Gosling and Anichebe on the wings, Cahill upfront, and Rodwell Neville holding mid. They had Barry Milner Young Petrov Downing etc. and were in really good form. We played Arteta at 10 though and he just dominated the entire game and we battered them 3-1 with half our first team missing and no strikers. He was absolutely unplayable.