Quality is brilliant, its what everyone wants provided they first work hard and wear the shirt with pride.
Arteta is a quality player. He fits the mould of working hard and knowing what it means. It is not mutually exclusive.
When you allow players who don't work hard, who don't care for the club and want to leave - start every game, it demoralises the other players, damages team spirit and worse still its very rarely successful. The game, before any amount of individual brilliance, is essentially a team game - and you only need one player not pulling his weight to bring the team down.
I think we saw that when Arsenal beat us 7-1.
But you are of a generation that idolises players rather than the club they play for. And consistently apologise for their shortcomings on the grounds that they are ambitious. If Johnny was really that ambitious he would be using football to force a transfer to a 'bigger' club, not his mouth in the media.
But the Arsenal game was more down to
Moyes' fault and his handling of that situation as Lescott wasnt the worst player on that pitch in that game. He wasnt on his game and the players werent prepared.
As for players who play if they want a move - Heitinga isnt playing. And also, Heitinga hasnt said he wants to move, he said he's flattered by the interest.
Point being, a lot of Evertonians like to rubbish players no matter if they were of the standard of Messi if they say something they dont like about the club.
Im personally in the camp that if they're putting the performances on the pitch of a high standard and if they player is of top quality, they can say anything they want. See Fabregas for Arsenal.
If we want to be a top club we need top players. Top players have ego's that need rubbing. Otherwise we have Osman's, Hibberts, Distin's etc playing week in week out. And that doesnt push you on.
