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evertonarntwe
Player Valuation: £35m
I doubt he approached the club to make an apology, i'll assume they approached him
I take it pienaar is a rat then aswell?
Not sure where these “gave us his best years” shouts are coming from. He went on to play over 100 games, Captain and win trophies for Arsenal after he left us. Seems like he was still decent.
Also seems like the perfect spiritual successor to Marco in a few years. More nailed on than a broken poodle.
Also seems like the perfect spiritual successor to Marco in a few years. More nailed on than a broken poodle.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Already said so. But it doesn't change a thing.
Last hour of the window throws a transfer request in when we're trying to build on a decent season.
The lowest of the low.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
They did...all the way up to Manchester to inteview him and he couldn't even be arsed to change into neutral clothing.
Classy.
evertonarntwe
Player Valuation: £35m
but if you listened to the interview he said he wanted to go the year before and had good offers but moyes and kenwright convinced him to stay one more year because they wanted to build, he stayed and nothing happened that season so he wanted to go, you make it sound like out of the blue he wanted to go, he's told them he wanted to go, a late offer was made so he had to tell them again
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Is the fact he wanted to leave us a year earlier than he got to a plus point in your view?
evertonarntwe
Player Valuation: £35m
You're calling him a rat because of the manner he left ie last minute, but he'd have already told them he wanted to leave
is he a rat for wanting to win something before he retired? certainly not
as me and others have said, he CLEARLY gave his best footballing years to us and should always be welcomed back, he's far from a rat
did you dislike pienaar on his second return and think he was a "rat"?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He was desperate to leave Everton for two years before he did.
That's ok. As he says, it's football and he wanted "better".
That is the very reason, though, that no Evertonian should ever fawn over Arteta.....and THAT is also football.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Your mind must be playing tricks on yiou. Arteta's signature pass was to recieve the ball and look sideways to Pienaar or Baines ALL THE TIME.
I can remember one match when he took control of the game and started playing forward passes: an away match at Villa that we won easily enough. That is about it though. He was the ultimate crab passer...which is why I stated earlier that Roberto would have loved him in his team.
evertonarntwe
Player Valuation: £35m
can you blame him? we were a good club with a good team but he stuck out like a sore thumb for how great he was, he could have been winning trophies and playing in the champions league every year if he got an earlier move
people like arteta because he gave his all and didn't "down tools" like some modern day footballers do, again far from a rat
I was fine with him until the Quarter Final in 2014
He'd been well received by many prior to that game
But there he was, openly cheating against us
He was my favourite player and I appreciated the reasons why he chose to leave, but that crossed a line
This wasn't Lukaku giving it back after we'd had a pop at him. This was a former player who had always been treated with respect, despite leaving the club in somewhat acrimonious circumstances, and yet he behaved in a disgusting manner to get us eliminated from the FA Cup
I've still not forgiven him for that
You don't expect former players to do you any favours, but you do at least expect them not to try and cheat you, especially if you still treat them warmly following their move
He'd been well received by many prior to that game
But there he was, openly cheating against us
He was my favourite player and I appreciated the reasons why he chose to leave, but that crossed a line
This wasn't Lukaku giving it back after we'd had a pop at him. This was a former player who had always been treated with respect, despite leaving the club in somewhat acrimonious circumstances, and yet he behaved in a disgusting manner to get us eliminated from the FA Cup
I've still not forgiven him for that
You don't expect former players to do you any favours, but you do at least expect them not to try and cheat you, especially if you still treat them warmly following their move
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He didn't down tools, no. He merely walked out and left us in the lurch with 2 minutes left in the transfer window to get a replacement in.
Thanks, Mikel.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I only need @mkrudden to come and tell me that Barry was better than Arteta for my full dose of utter nonsense for the day. Arteta was good for one match, ffs heard it all now.
evertonarntwe
Player Valuation: £35m
dave, kenwright didn't have to accept that offer did he? he could have said no we haven't got time to replace you, we'll sell you in jan ( which btw is what ANY competent chairman does )
your pinning the blame on the wrong guy
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