ARTETA RECEPTION

[Azzurri]

He didn't love the club enough though to tell them that they can't really afford to pay him £75K a week so I'll take a pay cut did he? .... but he was quick to say publicly that he had taken a pay cut to go to The Arse.
Not his fault I know that the club overpaid him, but it's the one thing I remember from when I read the reports of him leaving. For me he's just another player in a red shirt now.
It's just a pity that the club has now made exactly the same mistake with Fellaini.

Meh. He's a human being lid. If you worked for BT and they offered you 40k a year instead of 30 even though they couldn't afford it and you liked your job you'd take it. But if you were offered 25k to do something boss like test world class restauraunts you'd be on it. He probably only said that so he isn't accused of being a mercenary.

 

[Goat]

He didn't love the club enough though to tell them that they can't really afford to pay him £75K a week so I'll take a pay cut did he? .... but he was quick to say publicly that he had taken a pay cut to go to The Arse.
Not his fault I know that the club overpaid him, but it's the one thing I remember from when I read the reports of him leaving. For me he's just another player in a red shirt now.
It's just a pity that the club has now made exactly the same mistake with Fellaini.

So your saying we SHOULDNT pay our players the wages other Clubs will and should show them the door?

Bob? Is that you?

 

[EFCNIK]

I still love him and I refuse to believe he desperatly wanted to go last season :'( I REFUSE!

 

[TheFinnFan]

I still love him and I refuse to believe he desperatly wanted to go last season :'( I REFUSE!

ffs, dude.....slap your bum with that white belt of yours

 

[Matt Damon]

For me its indifference. The last set of comments did it for me... Meaning there's no love any more. Just indifference.


Plus for me its all about anyone in A BLUE SHIRT.

i.e. those prepared to win, live, have kids, retirement and to be buried in it.

Its all about EFC for me like.

 

[BigBlueBalls]

Deserves a clap for his time here when he put solid shifts in, deserve a slap for some of the comments he's made since moving. Moyes rescued him, Everton paid him well, and he got to strut in the Premier League and get himself on show.

 

[Azzurri]

Deserves a clap for his time here when he put solid shifts in, deserve a slap for some of the comments he's made since moving. Moyes rescued him, Everton paid him well, and he got to strut in the Premier League and get himself on show.

Like what? Yeah, he could have swerved saying he was desperate to leave last year but at least that shows he didn't do a Tevez and refuse to play. I seem to remember him saying "Everton have a big place in my heart and I will always be an Evertonian for sure."

 

[Arteta2391]

**** my avatar and username, but it shall remain the same.

 

[Elong]

I'm gonna cry

 

[Christiffa25]

I do get pissed off when people jump on the fact of a player getting paid a high wage and we couldn't afford it for what is a top player.

You people do realize that clubs have a wage budget?? If a class player ie Arteta, Fellani ect gets put on 70k a week to keep the said top player it can and should just be easily adjusted somewhere else! Ie running with 1 less squad member would make his 70k immaterial. A player out on loan ie yobo counter acts that higher wage.

Back to Arteta he served us well, moyes persuaded him to stay with the promise we were good enough to challenge champ league... We failed.. And in the end I do feel got the best deal for Arteta and the club and the squad if moyes has the money to spend.

No booing from me!!

 

[The Esk]

Looking forward to the first time he trots over to our corner to take a corner, puts two hands in the air and then fails to beat the first man!

Will get a great reception from me and almost all other blues

 

[Frank Drebin]

He means nothing to me now.

 

[somuchfun]

 

[BigFred#9]

So your saying we SHOULDNT pay our players the wages other Clubs will and should show them the door?

Bob? Is that you?

What I am saying is that I don't think the Club can AFFORD to be paying any player £75K per week in our current financial & performance situation. We need to get real. Accepting that we are currently a part of the 'second tier of the Premier League', I doubt many of the clubs around us are paying salaries of that amount.
Circa £50K should be about our maximum (until such times as we generate more revenue from e.g. consistently progressing to the later rounds of the cups and hopefully more stints in the Europa League).
If that isn't enough for the likes of Fellaini then, yes, the Club should consider selling him and bringing in a comparable replacement, unless Moyes isn't capable of that aspect of manageing a football team either.

 

[Azzurri]

What I am saying is that I don't think the Club can AFFORD to be paying any player £75K per week in our current financial & performance situation. We need to get real. Accepting that we are currently a part of the 'second tier of the Premier League', I doubt many of the clubs around us are paying salaries of that amount.
Circa £50K should be about our maximum (until such times as we generate more revenue from e.g. consistently progressing to the later rounds of the cups and hopefully more stints in the Europa League).
If that isn't enough for the likes of Fellaini then, yes, the Club should consider selling him and bringing in a comparable replacement, unless Moyes isn't capable of that aspect of manageing a football team either.

You're bumping his wages up 5 grand with every post mate.