Ross Barkley - Thanks, and goodbye.

[stamullenblue]

Bakayoko is having a mare of a season with Chelsea fans already wanting to get rid. Alonso and Zappacosta won’t conflict with Barkley, same goes for Kante. Willian and Pedro are both strongly linked with moves away at end of the season and Fàbregas is now in his 30s.

I believe he’ll have plenty of chances to impress, maybe not straight away but over the next year... whether he can take those chances is anyone’s guess.

Hope he falls flat on his face !

 

[stamullenblue]

He will be sold in the summer for 35-40 million due to lack of game time .... that’s all this is about

 

[Caolam]

I have already forgotten about him.

 

[Carlito]

And ?

They’ve given him his shirt number for a reason, you don’t give a player an iconic number if he’s never going to be given game time.

Not sure that the shirt number means an awful lot. Oscar got no.8 after Lampard, and soon found himself shipped off to China.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Mismanagement of the club? What were they supposed to do when the little bellend decided to run his contract down? Sell him to another club? We did that, but Roscoe wouldn’t play ball, and pulled out.
Some Evertonians seem to think we have been prevented from taking our rightful position at the top of the tree these last thirty years just because we were mismanaged. I wonder do Newcastle and Villa and Sunderland and Wolves and Leeds fans all think the same, but for the ‘mismanagement’ they’d all be Man United. We’ve done amazingly well for a team in Walton to hold on to a top 7 berth for the last 20 years, through shrewd management and recruitment. But there’s no divine right for us to be there. We could do a Wloves tomorrow, drop down and never come back up.

I'm out on the pop now mate. I'll reply to this when I'm sober.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

No thanks from this fella to the club who nurtured him as a youth.The club who gave him his break in professional football.What gratitude.Im all over Lukaku and Stones leaving.But this leaves a very bitter taste in the mouth.

 

[Toffeeslam]

I agree with quite a lot of that mate but it's all very one sided.

A lot of extreme views here on both sides, but as usual the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. The club is, without doubt, being grossly mismanaged at the moment and, with the appointment of Allardyce, has regressed to pre Moyes days. Ross himself has not behaved in a way which will enamour himself with the fan base. Personally, I think a lot of that is down to him being thick and allowing himself to be influenced by his management team, but that still doesn't excuse the way he has behaved.

Ross never developed as well as we hoped and expected, but lets not forget he is still just 24 and players in his position don't usually mature for another couple of years or so. Jesse Lingard for example is a year older, and just started to show signs that he could develop into a proper playmaker.

Let's not re-write history either. For the last 4 years he's been our only true creative player and, whilst being inconsistent, we only ever really played well as a team when he played well. Anybody please quote me a game we played well over that period when Ross wasn't in the team and pulling the strings. I can't remember one. Second half against Sunderland away last season maybe?

Being our only creative player meant he was often man marked or doubled up on. Playing for Chelsea teams won't be able to do that, plus he'll be playing with better players and will have more options when in possession. If he recovers properly from his injury, I can see him being a success at Chelsea and getting a lot more game time than many on here seem to think.

I want to wish him well. I really do. But the way he has acted prevents me from doing that. Maybe we should take a cue from the Besiktas fans, many of whom now also follow Everton. Maybe not. I feel angry at the club for allowing this to happen, angry at the player for the way in which it happened, but overall a deep feeling of sadness at the prospect that the best player to come out of our academy since Rooney is going to fulfil his potential at one of our rivals and not us.

Isn’t it a little convenient to blame the club rather then Barkley and his agent manufacturing an exit that is best for them and leaving the club out of pocket by millions ?

It’s not as if he wasn’t offered improved terms to stay and he may the decision to leave was it.

If he wanted to leave that’s fine (As an Everton fan I wouldn’t) but the way he left shafted the club big style.

Then his ‘people’ tweet that the club will always be in his heart is just nauseating cringeworthy clap trap. Sorry but I cannot share in the Barkley love in some on here see to have.

 

[mahermi1]

Shouldn't this thread be in world football now ? The player no longer belongs to us, he's a Chelsea player.

 

[4737carlin]

Main thing is we did get money for him and he won't be at all missed, just glad it's over with now

 

[NCLBlue]

This is their song for him:



‘Viva Ross Barkley, viva Ross Barkley, he left the scouse, cause they robbed his house, viva Ross Barkley’

Always said Chelsea have the most limited songs and chants!

 

[4737carlin]

This is their song for him:



‘Viva Ross Barkley, viva Ross Barkley, he left the scouse, cause they robbed his house, viva Ross Barkley’

Always said Chelsea have the most limited songs and chants!

They can sing that when he scores, won't expect too see it that often

 

[mahermi1]

Yes money can't buy you class.

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

I just re-read a few articles from back in October of Ross "getting back to fitness", and "working really hard in the gym" at Finch Farm. It was back when Rhino said to the media that he'd been speaking often with Ross, and in conversation, presumably, the subject of signing back on with Everton must have come up in private.

Ross must have known what was going to happen in January, but he's happily strung the club along. Him and Chelsea are the only ones laughing now.

At least we now know him and the Chavs are a match made in heaven.

 

[Rudolf Hucker]

I’m gutted he’s gone, but can’t blame the lad. It’s his job & he has a duty to himself to be the best he can be & end his career with medals. He wasn’t going to do that here.

He literally carried us for 2 seasons, but suffered due to the lack of quality & movement around him. Clear for anyone to see, except the morons screaming abuse at him.

This won’t reflect well on us when he’s showing what he can do & the tv pundits & press are queuing up to say how he had to leave Everton....

 

[Sharpattack]

I’m gutted he’s gone, but can’t blame the lad. It’s his job & he has a duty to himself to be the best he can be & end his career with medals. He wasn’t going to do that here.

He literally carried us for 2 seasons, but suffered due to the lack of quality & movement around him. Clear for anyone to see, except the morons screaming abuse at him.

This won’t reflect well on us when he’s showing what he can do & the tv pundits & press are queuing up to say how he had to leave Everton....

One of the few reasonable posts in this thread.