Players who will have regretted NOT choosing Everton

[Vintage]

I was proper well behaved except for telling everyone upstairs that manny fernandes was downstairs signing for the blues

Everton that or is it maccavennie that

 

[Marius57]

I completely understand why players have rejected us for the past few years with the football we were playing.

Won’t happen anymore now that Moyes is bringing sexy back.

 

[Neiler]

Kyle Naughton.

 

[BiggyRat]

Witsel anyone???

 

[BiggyRat]

Was at Sydney but think he's been released since.

Fancy not making it in the A-League! Even Big Ange won trophies there!!!

 

[Marc bolan]

Kyle Naughton.

Yes weren't we also after kyle walker same time both at Sheffield utd moyes was the manager

 

[Merseyzig]

Riquelme thinks about it all the time.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Witsel anyone???

Can't regret not choosing us, he's ours.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Vaddis Odunpronouncible-Ofunspellable has never used a fax machine to this day

 

[Furey1878]

Roy Keane is on record as having said he should have signed for us after leaving United, that Moyes made an approach and would have used him correctly. Just he knew his time was short and his heart ruled his head in choosing Celtic.

No big loss, he retired 6 months later anyway.

Got a feeling he'd have went a bit longer with us. Would have still been in a top league and the hunger would still have been there.

 

[twoblue]

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.

Gravasen
Lescott
Arteta
Digne
Onana
Barkley (let’s face it hasn’t been great here since he left)
Rooney
Anthony gordon
Fellaini

All of them have had better careers playing at better levels since leaving us.

Not many will regret leaving.

 

[twoblue]

Roy Keane is on record as having said he should have signed for us after leaving United, that Moyes made an approach and would have used him correctly. Just he knew his time was short and his heart ruled his head in choosing Celtic.

No big loss, he retired 6 months later anyway.

Gone on record = casually mentioned on a podcast once?

 

[paultheblue]

His uncle Bryan Small was similar as he burst on the scene at Villa but didn't train on so maybe its a family trait to flatter to deceive on the football pitch

I think Brian Small was dropped in favour of Brian Little funnily enough both were discarded when Villa signed Brian Tiny

 

[Titus Bramble]

Witsel anyone???

'Witsel is ours'

 

[jamieni]

Think we were in for Dean Saunders and he chose the rs,allways thought he would have done realy well with us.Don't know if he regrets it like.

I can recall telling my friends at the time we were signing him for £2.8million or something only for him to go to the RS. Never forgiven him