Players you got it totally wrong about

[throughthewindandthedrain]

I think you've made a key point there - you can be an average squad player journeyman type in the EPL and as long as you can play enough years, you are financially set for life as long as you don't have a gambling/booze problem or Bernie Madoff as your financial advisor. You read stories about the older ex-pros (Kevin Beattie springs to mind) running pubs, selling double glazing etc because wages in those days were nothing special compared to today's.

It's funny though mate, about seven years ago I saw a Liverpool player settle a £2700 bar bill with five grand and instruct them to keep the change... Utterly mental, you can see why these lads burn through their money. lampard owns a large amount of property but they are all mortgaged - what if he has a run of defaults or a huge property crash? In reality these lads should be set for life after one Premier League contract, but they reckon a decent number go under.

Briefly on topic: I thought Bily was going to be a world beater, think I watched him away at Hull and couldn't believe what he seemed capable of. Sadly, he never truly delivered, but scored some cracking goals and I always hoped he'd make it!

Any Financial advisor would probably tell you to always get a mortgage.

If you have 1 million in the bank it earns a good whack of interest.

If you have 1 million in your bank but you buy a house for say 200k and pay cash for it you now only have 800k in the bank and lose a huge pile in interest payments.

Always better to mortgage as the interest alone on your money in the bank will probably pay the mortgage anyway.


I think.

Everton.

some good solid advice here but have a feeling they will all be in the bookies and not paying any attention. suppose the only thing that really gets annoying is the..'my year of hell' cr*p that a few of them have come out with (Joe Cole), cos they sitting on the bench on a 100 odd grand a week.

 

[throughthewindandthedrain]

on topic.... worth a mention for Gary Ablett. ex red, assumed he was a donkey, mainly famous for the drug slang. some great performances though, genuinely class centre half and really sound guy.

 

[blaggerblue]

Fellaini for me! took a full callendar year for him to even look like a footballer.

 

[mawders]

Any Financial advisor would probably tell you to always get a mortgage.

If you have 1 million in the bank it earns a good whack of interest.

If you have 1 million in your bank but you buy a house for say 200k and pay cash for it you now only have 800k in the bank and lose a huge pile in interest payments.

Always better to mortgage as the interest alone on your money in the bank will probably pay the mortgage anyway.


I think.

Everton.

A good financial advisor will say get a mortgage only when the interest on savings is higher than the interest on a mortgage thereby a net positive interest by saving.

Anyway, back on topic. Jesper Blomqvist and Danny Williamson. Blomqvist was a risk that didnt pay off and williamson was just finding his feet in one of the worst everton sides in a generation when he had that injury

 

[duncs pigeon]

Michael Branch, watched him for England schoolboys and thought what a natural goalscorer. Looked good when he came into the first team, think he even joined up with the England squad for training. A case of too much too soon

 

[throughthewindandthedrain]

Michael Branch, watched him for England schoolboys and thought what a natural goalscorer. Looked good when he came into the first team, think he even joined up with the England squad for training. A case of too much too soon

is he the lad that was done for dealing?

 

[Tree13]

Royston Drenthe for me. I genuinely thought that he would flourish with us. I thought his style of play and his mentality were better suited to the EPL than La Liga, and I thought he would thrive as a starter - being a bit-part player at Real was clearly no good for him.

Sadly I never figured that he would be such a humugous ****tard.

And the other way round: Coleman. Never in a million years did I think that a £60k tarmac-juggler would blossom into a top-tier prem fullback. One day soon someone's gonna put in a bid of around £10m for this lad.

 

[throughthewindandthedrain]

Royston Drenthe for me. I genuinely thought that he would flourish with us. I thought his style of play and his mentality were better suited to the EPL than La Liga, and I thought he would thrive as a starter - being a bit-part player at Real was clearly no good for him.

Sadly I never figured that he would be such a humugous ****tard.

And the other way round: Coleman. Never in a million years did I think that a £60k tarmac-juggler would blossom into a top-tier prem fullback. One day soon someone's gonna put in a bid of around £10m for this lad.

talking of classy right backs..there was a lad playing for us early eighties, was keeping Gary Stevens out.. Brian Borrows. I was young and I loved to see full backs who could stroll around looking cultured so I had lots arguments with my elders that he was a few classes above Stevens who was nothing but a decent athlete as far as I was concerned. I probably just didn't really give a toss about defenders defending .. think the 5 0 Rush game meant a re-think was needed

 

[monty]

David Smallman, cracking inside forward we signed from Wrexham, he had a great eye for a pass, tackled brilliantly and certainly knew where the goal was, he made the mouth water. Within a short time of arriving he was badly tackled and his career was over, a great great shame

 

[throughthewindandthedrain]

David Smallman, cracking inside forward we signed from Wrexham, he had a great eye for a pass, tackled brilliantly and certainly knew where the goal was, he made the mouth water. Within a short time of arriving he was badly tackled and his career was over, a great great shame

what year was that, name rings a bell but don't think saw him live

 

[throughthewindandthedrain]

David Smallman, cracking inside forward we signed from Wrexham, he had a great eye for a pass, tackled brilliantly and certainly knew where the goal was, he made the mouth water. Within a short time of arriving he was badly tackled and his career was over, a great great shame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHV-PfV9F_U

best to stop watching this 2 minutes in

 

[Joe De Loach]

In terms of talent and skill though van der Meyde was an absolute beast. If he´d been right in the head he´d been a fantastic footballer for any side.

Met an ex player of no great name around the time, he plays still, at 58, played til 40 in the Middle East, played 9 games for Everton in the 70's, he said to me why are Everton buying a player, that is too lazy too work on his left foot, after that, I was puzzled? I don't think he played the ball for Everton with his left foot, in my opinion worse player from the start....

 

[EFCPaul]

James Beattie. Thought he'd be an absolute goal machine but all we got was a lazy fat [Poor language removed] who headbutted people.

I honestly went off him even before his first game (I think it was against Middlesbrough). Me and my brother went to the ground early on the day to hang around the players car park to get autographs as lots of people do. About 100 people were there and every single player at the time came and signed some autographs and took a few pictures.

Beattie eventually pulls up at 2pm, all the fans been waiting for hours for him in the cold (bitterly freezing it was that January day) and he just walks past everyone who'd waited hours for him. Record transfer and star striker completely blanks the excited fans. Never liked him after that even though I such high hopes for him.

 

[billybinghamsboy]

"James Beattie. Thought he'd be an absolute goal machine but all we got was a lazy fat [Poor language removed] who headbutted people."
Never rated this fella was hoping Moyes was going to buy his strike partner Kevin Phillips a way better player.

 

[billybinghamsboy]

Kenny Dalglish jeesus did I get that one wrong.
I remember telling my rs brother in law how crap dogleash was wouldn't make it at Lpool. Can't see him scoring in the 1st division. He lets me know he hasn't forgotten on a regular basis.