To be fair mate, loads of players get played out of loyalty.
Hes our generations Horne, or Pembridge or whatever. Not really good enough, but a cheap squad filler.
It's not lads like him who have got us into the mess we are.
I’d say indulging players who aren’t good enough is one of the key reasons we’ve been in the mess we are. Playing Kenny Keane Davies Coleman last season almost relegated us. There’s been opportunities to get rid of all of them but there’s always been this ‘they’ll do for one more year as backup’ feeling. Then they first choice inevitably gets injured and they’re all back in.
Kenny almost cost us our PL status with his horror show v Burnley. Coleman similar with his gifting of the first goal against Palace. Davies and Keane may well have cost us europe under Ancelotti getting caught on the ball twice by Burnley under no pressure at all. Keane the same against Spurs. There’s countless examples of this.
He’s part of a core of players that has played regularly whilst countless managers have been fired for flirting with relegation and it’s generally been a team Evertonians have hated. A big reason we seem to be doing better this season is because we’ve got rid of most of these mistake ridden clowns from the starting line up.
I was one of Davies’ biggest fans when he broke through. There was a young player who was battling for everything and his desire took him ahead of more talented players allowing him to beat them in midfield. That all seems to have gone now and he just seems slow, sloppy, and ineffective. His trajectory has just been downward ever since his first season.
