Not sure about the latter. Rooney against Bolton for us was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen. It could be argued he peaked at the Euros before he left.
He was very good for a spell. He could thread a pass through the eye of a needle. Obviously it didn’t end well for him due to his boozing and injures, but he had all the ingredients of a top deep-sitting playmaker.
I prefer Fellaini causing chaos in the box. I like a passer next to a defensive midfielder, so Garner Carsley would do well.
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I agree, obviously great players don’t just become great out of nowhere so clearly he was capable of very good performances when playing for us but in terms of his overall performance levels under Moyes they were nothing like what he did in his overall career (understandably of course, because he was 16/17).
None of them have been better in terms of talent obviously, that was kind of what I meant, but he was miles behind yakubu in terms of what he actually produced, bent had more of an impact on an individual season, probably Ferguson did too, without checking I would guess the likes of Saha, beckford, even Beto had better scoring rates etc. Obviously as footballers none of them come close to Rooney but I’m terms of what they did at Everton it’s a bit more nuanced. Struggling to make the bench is probably over the top but the general point stands, there’s a difference between the players who had the best careers and the players who performed the best for Everton.
Fair enough, I was just trying to make the general point that it’s always difficult with these things to separate the actual best players and those who do best for Everton. If you don’t think that applies to Rooney it’s no big deal but as I said, there’s general point stands.
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