Players who will have regretted NOT choosing Everton

[ForeverEverton]

We`ve got a break to keep ourselves busy before Everton play again.

We hear of the players we could have signed and went on to have good careers at the very top of the game, what about players that have rejected us and will have regretted that decision, I`ll start....

Kamaldeen Sulemana - Rejected us in favour of Southampton and is about to be relegated for the second time with them. I was quite excited with him as it was the quick winger we were crying out for.

Jayden Philogene - I`m not sure how close this was but also about to be relegated with Ipswich.

I`d be curious to know who else we can add to this list.

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

Probably a longer list of players who regretted joining Everton. But

 

[Neiler]

We dodged a bullet.

Shocking details emerge surrounding Sissoko's Everton snub

French international left Everton hanging in the final hour of the window to sign for Spurs.

www.nbcsports.com

 

[f.t.r.s]

Manuel Fernandes the first time,
Spoke to him outside the Tesco in town and he promised he was signing...
Got home and he'd swerved us for valencia..

Jo after his first loan....

Kyle naughton, was our first choice for a new rb, went to spurs and basically flopped....

 

[Drico]

On a slight tangent, I'm always fascinated by those who leave Everton in search of greener pastures.

Moyes said it best back in the day: "Very few people leave Everton and go on to better things."

This is largely true - and those that do go on to better things tend to be the "very few people" he mentions.

Moyes, though he did win a pot with the Hammers, exemplifies the truism himself. He has said Everton is his club. He is walking evidence that most people peak at Everton.

Sure, Rooney, Stones, and, perhaps, Arteta went on to "better things", but they were our better players - and our better players tend to be those who could indeed have played for a title-competing side. The rest? Lucky to have our shirt. Barkley's career went largely nowhere. Richarlison's went down the toilet - not entirely unpredictably. Let's see where Anthony Gordon is in a year or two.

Even people like Joleon Lescott - a star of the Eveton team - who go on to win things elsewhere often find themselves marginalised and their career fizzling out quite quicky. Lescott left us controversially for City and won things - but by the time of the 2014 World Cup, it was his erstwhile Evertonian comrades-in-arms, Jagielka and Baines who were in the England side in Brazil, and not Lescott, who wasn't playing enough for City by then. Evidence, if ever it was needed, that you can have a good international career at Everton (if not win trophies).

Hopefully, this is about to change and people like Branthwaite can stay at Everton, win things, and play for England.

 

[dockroad]

Sam Byram turned us down to go to West Ham but that didn't turn out too well . Loaned to Forest then Norwich . Now back at Leeds .

 

[SLAVEN BILIC]

Manuel Fernandes the first time,
Spoke to him outside the Tesco in town and he promised he was signing...
Got home and he'd swerved us for valencia..

Jo after his first loan....

Kyle naughton, was our first choice for a new rb, went to spurs and basically flopped....

I don’t think Naughton rejected us, Spurs offered to take him and Kyle Walker in a joint deal for about £10m, and then send Naughton back up north on loan. Sheff Utd pulled the plug on the deal with us.

 

[Scally1878]

Sulemana and Onuachu for Southampton rejected us, such a short sighted decision for them in hindsight but mind you we were probably worse than what Leicester and Ipswich are at the minute at the end of lampards tenure

 

[jazzy]

Dan Gosling

 

[Simon Buttle]

Sulemana and Onuachu for Southampton rejected us, such a short sighted decision for them in hindsight but mind you we were probably worse than what Leicester and Ipswich are at the minute at the end of lampards tenure

Sulemana has shown flashes that there might be a decent player just playing in an unsuitable system for him but Tall Paul is a bit of a yard dog.

 

[Davidoff]

 

[Blue peter]

Sulemana and Onuachu for Southampton rejected us, such a short sighted decision for them in hindsight but mind you we were probably worse than what Leicester and Ipswich are at the minute at the end of lampards tenure

These examples right here are a microcosm of why the general footballing community do not see us as a big club any more but we had fed that perception through our own incompetence both on and off the pitch. I just hope the new stadium and those new owners get us back in to the big club conversation so a decision like this isn’t even a decision any more for target signings.

 

[Eggs]

….whilst players might sometimes regret joining a club, I doubt they’d think much of Everton as we’d have been one of a number of options they’d have had.

Nobody will be losing sleep over not coming here.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Manuel Fernandes the first time,
Spoke to him outside the Tesco in town and he promised he was signing...
Got home and he'd swerved us for valencia..

Jo after his first loan....

Kyle naughton, was our first choice for a new rb, went to spurs and basically flopped....

Read an interview with him recently saying he regretted not signing.
Also wtf did you say to put him off?

 

[Bedfordblue]

Lucky to have our shirt. Barkley's career went largely nowhere. Richarlison's went down the toilet - not entirely unpredictably. Let's see where Anthony Gordon is in a year or two.

Oh you’ve done it now, get your tin hat on sharpish……