Leon Osman

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Ossie has been a brilliant player over the years. You don't get to play over 25 games a season for 10 years at a club like Everton without being a good footballer. Moyes built a number of different sides, and Martinez is overseeing a large transition, but Ossie has played a significant part in all of them, that's a sign of being a good footballer in this modern Premier League era. This should be his last season, but he has served us well imo.
 
Ossie has been a brilliant player over the years. You don't get to play over 25 games a season for 10 years at a club like Everton without being a good footballer. Moyes built a number of different sides, and Martinez is overseeing a large transition, but Ossie has played a significant part in all of them, that's a sign of being a good footballer in this modern Premier League era. This should be his last season, but he has served us well imo.
Agreed.
 
Ossie has been a brilliant player over the years. You don't get to play over 25 games a season for 10 years at a club like Everton without being a good footballer. Moyes built a number of different sides, and Martinez is overseeing a large transition, but Ossie has played a significant part in all of them, that's a sign of being a good footballer in this modern Premier League era. This should be his last season, but he has served us well imo.

You can, that's what so tragic about it.
 

If the rumours right about him leaving as player coach at Hibs under Stubbs it would be the best move for him IMO - a great little player/servant played out of position under DM too long for many years!
Seems unlikely that we'd let him leave with Gibson on his way out and Clevz and McCarthy on the treatment table.
 
Ossie has been a brilliant player over the years. You don't get to play over 25 games a season for 10 years at a club like Everton without being a good footballer. Moyes built a number of different sides, and Martinez is overseeing a large transition, but Ossie has played a significant part in all of them, that's a sign of being a good footballer in this modern Premier League era. This should be his last season, but he has served us well imo.
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You can, that's what so tragic about it.
Name them. Not many that haven't been relegated.
 
He's been good in patches but bad for a lot longer, sad to say. I have a huge soft spot for him but his good games were outnumbered by games where he was played out of position or off the pace or couldn't get into the game.
 
He's been good in patches but bad for a lot longer, sad to say. I have a huge soft spot for him but his good games were outnumbered by games where he was played out of position or off the pace or couldn't get into the game.

The best number 10 we never had. Would have been great there, but unfortunately, Cahill was always nailed on for that slot, and Moyes used his versatility as an excuse to spend funds anywhere other than wide right.
 

The best number 10 we never had. Would have been great there, but unfortunately, Cahill was always nailed on for that slot, and Moyes used his versatility as an excuse to spend funds anywhere other than wide right.

Nailed it, unfortunately. There were glimpses when he played centrally of what could have been but the main memories he leaves is of him and hibbert making our right flank completely useless or of starting games despite being past it with ross sitting on the bench.
 
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Name them. Not many that haven't been relegated.

Hibbert and Osman himself. Both have been mostly poor/average players throughout their careers (slightly above average on their best days) but have managed to steal a living from the club for over a decade now. Osman has always been a more useful player than Hibbert but that's not saying much quite frankly. Hibbert should have been shown the door in 2009 and Osman in 2012/13. How they've stayed at the club this long under multiple managers and made such massive strides in quality is to me one the world's greatest mysteries. On par with the Zodiac Killer and Stonehenge.
 
If the rumours right about him leaving as player coach at Hibs under Stubbs it would be the best move for him IMO - a great little player/servant played out of position under DM too long for many years!
I know what you mean but Martinez (with a lot more money to play with) still plays him in that same position now. He did it in our very last game.

Fans may not understand why he plays out wide but it's clear that his managers think it suits him.
 

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