Minimeister
Player Valuation: £35m
Have you missed half the season mate?
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Have you missed half the season mate?
stevesteve1878
Player Valuation: £150k
Gotta say I still like Leon Osman he's one of very few in the squad that regularly plays through balls, he's clearly a very intelligent player who can find space in and around the opposition 18 yard box and has feet quick enough to get a shot away (yes I know it's not always a good one). Sadly our fans have a habit of turning on players as they become less important to the first team resulting in a massive amount of unfair abuse It happened to Cahill before he left it happened to Kevin Campbell, David Weir and plenty of other players. If we were still battling around 15th place like we were when Osman first came into the team we'd see him as a great player but the squad has moved on and obviously the emergence of Barkley and the form of Naismith have made Osmans contribution less important this doesn't make him a useless player it just makes him a good squad player who will do everything he can for the team and score/create the odd important goal. The treatment our players get from our fans as they get slightly past their best is appalling.
Ossie sees the pitch even when we're at full health.
Hibbo is purely there for injury cover.
WarringtonBlue
Player Valuation: £8m
It's embarrassing the way some fans give him grief no matter what he does. The same fans who often give Howard or Barry or Baines a free pass. He's not a brilliant player but he can do a job and is happy to be a squad player, like Hibbert, and that's important
Eric Djemba-Djemba
Player Valuation: £60m
That's absolute nonsense. Howard doesn't get a free pass and Baines and Barry don't need one. Baines has been excellent about 5 years and Barry has been a great signing.
zirc
Player Valuation: £40m
We've got to do something with the sky TV money. It won't spend itself you know.Says on the Echo today, contract extensions for Osman and Distin........I must have misread this right?
Howard's been 50/50 even on here, what are you talking about?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
O'Keeffe:
Leon Osman’s fascinating book deserves to be read
Leon Osman received some concerted stick this week after excerpts from his new autobiography, printed in the ECHO, were misinterpreted as a scathing attack at Tim Cahill.
Osman actually speaks glowingly of the Aussie in other parts of the book but this passage, in which he makes a reasonable point about how the entire team teased Cahill over his top billing on the Goodison pitch when David Moyes was supposed to be bidding farewell, irked the keyboard warriors no end.
Cahill seemed peeved too, and decided to not-so-subtly express it by favouriting tweets criticising Osman.
While it’s clear Cahill is a fans’ favourite who scored some crucial goals and fought tirelessly for the Blues, it seems grossly unfair that Osman, who has spent his whole career at the club and fought just as hard, was so pilloried.
His book is an absorbing read, full of anecdotes and searingly honest insight into what it was like to play for Everton over the last decade. It’s also often hilarious. Those who took umbrage to the passage about Cahill are entitled to their opinion of course but could at least read it before judging a man who is Blue through and through.
Utter tripe. And no mention of the criticism Osman handed out regarding the treatment of Moyes. Well done, Greg. Another stellar contribution to the world of journalism.
Leon Osman’s fascinating book deserves to be read
Leon Osman received some concerted stick this week after excerpts from his new autobiography, printed in the ECHO, were misinterpreted as a scathing attack at Tim Cahill.
Osman actually speaks glowingly of the Aussie in other parts of the book but this passage, in which he makes a reasonable point about how the entire team teased Cahill over his top billing on the Goodison pitch when David Moyes was supposed to be bidding farewell, irked the keyboard warriors no end.
Cahill seemed peeved too, and decided to not-so-subtly express it by favouriting tweets criticising Osman.
While it’s clear Cahill is a fans’ favourite who scored some crucial goals and fought tirelessly for the Blues, it seems grossly unfair that Osman, who has spent his whole career at the club and fought just as hard, was so pilloried.
His book is an absorbing read, full of anecdotes and searingly honest insight into what it was like to play for Everton over the last decade. It’s also often hilarious. Those who took umbrage to the passage about Cahill are entitled to their opinion of course but could at least read it before judging a man who is Blue through and through.
Utter tripe. And no mention of the criticism Osman handed out regarding the treatment of Moyes. Well done, Greg. Another stellar contribution to the world of journalism.
joey_macmo
Player Valuation: £35m
O'Keefe is right imo
Chang Elephant
Forum God
If the last interest in buying Leon was 12 years ago from a lower league club these haters must include all premier league managers since then ?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He's done the exact same thing there he accuses the 'keyboard warriors' of: criticising without acknowledging the full context.
Osman wasn't given stick just for the Cahill comments. The serialisation this week threw up a lot of other stuff. It's in the totality of that he was 'pilloried'. I suspect O'Keeffe knows that but it suits him to present this as a one way street.
Not a great idea to misrepresent those Everton fans as both unfair and thick.
GwladysBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
Just another reason not to like him.
Slipstream
Player Valuation: £225k
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ian-doyle-tim-cahill-played-8035737
Am I missing something here? Who is this Ian Doyle? Who is he to decide who are Everton legends and who aren't ?
Also why are his views so important that other reporters in that joke of a paper feel the need to write articles about them ? 'Doyley on why' ffs. Since when do reporters print articles about what another reporter thinks?
[Poor language removed] Joe Rimmer. [Poor language removed] Ian Doyle. And [Poor language removed] Echo. Just trying to cover their arses because their Osman exclusives have backfired badly.
Am I missing something here? Who is this Ian Doyle? Who is he to decide who are Everton legends and who aren't ?
Also why are his views so important that other reporters in that joke of a paper feel the need to write articles about them ? 'Doyley on why' ffs. Since when do reporters print articles about what another reporter thinks?
[Poor language removed] Joe Rimmer. [Poor language removed] Ian Doyle. And [Poor language removed] Echo. Just trying to cover their arses because their Osman exclusives have backfired badly.
Dithering Dougie
Banned
Just another reason not to like him.
Do you dislike Peter Reid or Dave Watson as well?
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