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Can't wait to see this man at Brazil this summer!

Hope he invests in some decent shinnies sometime soon though
I had genuinely forgotten he existed until I saw that.
 

Alex Nyarko:



  • Signed from Lens of the French First Division for a fee of £4.5m in the summer of 2002, Alex Nyarko arrived at Goodison eager to cement his reputation with goals and graft as well as strength and skill in the Premiership.

    Walter Smith likened Nyarko's playing style to Patrick Vieira and, suitably, it was the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger who recommended Nyarko to Smith.
    "He is a strong type and his style means you would put him in Vieira-Petit bracket," he said.

    "He gets up and down the pitch very well and physically I don't think he will have any problems adapting to the Premiership.

    "Arsène Wenger speaks very highly of him and he impressed me straight away when I watched him. He can play a number of roles although he was mostly employed in a defensive midfield role last season."

  • Alex started with early performances that quickly endeared him to the Goodison Park faithful, including a wonderful display in a 5-0 pre-season win over Preston.

    However, later on in the season, things turned unpleasant for the Ghanaian.

    As the team and his personal form suffered during the 2000-01 season, he was subjected to abuse from a fan who walked on the pitch at Highbury as the Blues were being beaten 4-1 by Arsenal.
    'This is the fourth or fifth time this has happened and that's it. I'm finished with football.

    ''This man has done the same thing before. He came and offered me a black T-shirt for my blue one and told me to [Poor language removed] off. So today I have decided I am quitting football. I can't live my life like this. I can live without football and that is what I am going to do.

    ''I came to this club when I would have been better off joining another one but I have had no problems with anybody at Everton and I have full respect for everyone. I have been happy with the way I have played and I don't upset anybody, but this is too much.''

  • After this incident, Nyarko vowed to retire from the game and failed to return to training with Everton.

    When his self-imposed exile was ended, Smith placed him on the transfer list and soon afterwards, Monaco took him on-loan for a season.

    A permanent deal with the French giants was not forthcoming and the troubled star soon made his way to PSG, on another loan, but quit the club as soon as he learned that they were not going to sign him on a full contract.

    Following a spell away from football, Nyarko returned to Bellefield in July 2003 and played 14 games during his last season at Goodison before leaving when his work permit expired.

    He went on to play for clubs in Norway and Switzerland before retiring in 2007.
 

Kevin Campbell

Many Evertonians were nonplused by Walter Smith's desperation signing of Kevin Campbell on loan in March 1999. The former Arsenal striker had failed to set the Premiership alight in the manner expected in the early part of his career and his move from Nottingham Forest to Turkish side Trabsonspor in 1998 seemed to confirm that Campbell's career was in danger of petering out rather than scaling the heights at a top Premier League club.

However, cash-strapped Smith saw in Campbell a cheap way of acquiring much-needed firepower for his bid to steer Everton away from increasingly real relegation danger. The benefit was mutual, as Kevin was by that point desperate to leave Turkey, having been on the victim of barbed racist comments by the Trabsonspor president who branded Campbell a "discoloured cannibal" and attacked his scoring record.

Campbell's initial impact at Goodison was staggering. He fired nine goals in as many appearances for the Blues and his goals almost single-handedly steered the club away from the drop zone and to mid-table safety. It was perhaps the most significant contribution any one player had made to Everton since Andrei Kanchelskis notched 16 goals and brought then manager Joe Royle's side to within minutes of UEFA Cup qualification.

That summer, despite crippling financial problems, Everton secured a £3M transfer for Campbell from Turkey and there was hope that the solution to one of the club's longest running problems — namely the lack of a 20-goal-a-season forward — had finally been found.

Campbell started his career with Arsenal and rose through the ranks to become a regular first-team goalscorer at Highbury until the arrival of Ian Wright edged Kevin out of the spotlight and he eventually transferred to Forest for £3M in 1995.

He enjoyed probably his best season to date in Nottingham Forest's colours during 1997-98, when he scored 23 goals. His partnership with Pierre van Hooijdonk was a vital element in the Midlanders' 1st Division Championship win and their emphatic return to Premiership status.

It had long been thought that the former Arsenal striker had a lot more to offer and this was the answer to his many critics. With strength and pace, two good feet, and modest skills in the air, his 23 First Division goals proved to be his highest aggregate yet, and included three braces and one hat-trick.

His move to the Black Sea city of Trabzon was a curious but lucrative one, but barely a season had gone by before everything went sour and Campbell was looking to return home at the first opportunity. He sent his family back to England, and tried hard to extricate himself from the club, where he was dropped and ended up training with the youth team.

Enter Everton and an obviously grateful Campbell arrived at Goodison to make a fresh start. Although he failed to score on his first two appearances — an away defeat by Liverpool which ended the Blues' 5-year dominance over the Reds and the corner-stone capitulation at home to Sheffield Wednesday — Campbell scored twice in his third game, against Coventry City, and didn't look back.

Kevin's arrival had coincided with the explosion onto the scene of Francis Jeffers, and the pair struck up a phenomenal partnership, supplemented by the midfield craft of Nick Barmby and Don Hutchison. However, because of injuries to Campbell and Jeffers, and the subsequent departures of Barmby and then Jeffers himself over the ensuing three seasons, Super Kev was unable to provide the consistent and reliable source of goals Everton so badly needed and the team experienced long periods of stagnation going forward.

Having signed a lucrative 5-year deal in 2000 that would earn him £30,000-a-week and been awarded the club captaincy, he had the platform on which to build on his Goodison hero status. But Campbell's own long-term injury problems in each of the 1999-2k, 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons seemed to take a severe toll on his sharpness, pace and general fitness. Nevertheless, he still managed to rack up 25 goals in 67 starts.

Campbell was one of the many players to benefit markedly from the arrival of David Moyes and his emphasis on fitness and football. Another good spell for Campbell in the first half of the 2002-03 season saw him scoring 9 goals in 25 consecutive starts. But SuperKev has been less fortunate in his second full season under Moyes, getting few chances and failing to find the net until the last dismal game, and a consolation goal (some consolation!) against City's five.

Campbell saw very little action in what was to be his final season at Goodison Park, with Davis Moyes switching to a 4-5-1 formation where Marcus Bent plowed the lone furrow, regularly subbed by Duncan Ferguson. But SuperKev did get one final start, playing most of the vital New Year game againstPortsmouth before his pay-off deal (£10k/wk) enabled him to stay in the Premiership, moving on to West Bromwich Albion and the supremely ineffective management of one Bryan Robson.

Campbell left in January 2005 on a free transfer to West Bromwich Albion, who were bottom of the Premiership. He was appointed team captain shortly after his arrival and successfully led the club to Premiership survival (this was the first time that a club which had been bottom of the league on Christmas Day had survived relegation).

Cardiff City
However, in May 2006, after WBA's relegation to the Championship, Campbell was released by the club. He signed for Cardiff City on a free transfer on 2 August 2006. He scored his first and only goal for the first team in an FAW Premier Cup quarter-final match away at Carmarthen Town on 13 February 2007, and was released by the club in May 2007, subsequently retiring from the game to pursue business interests. His final competitive appearance came against former club West Brom on 20 February 2007.

He ran his own record label, '2 Wikid', with rapper Mark Morrison the label's first signing. But in December 2004, with the artist still signed to 2 Wikid, Campbell was forced to obtain a court injunction against rival label Jet Star, in order to prevent it from releasing Morrison's album Innocent Man. The injunction was lifted shortly afterwards, and the album was eventually released sometime later.

Campbell was featured on the Sky Sports series "Where are They Now?" in 2008, when he was the co-owner of a security company "T1 Protection", specialising in supplying bodyguards to celebrities and other wealthy customers whilst traveling abroad. He also commentated with Asia-based TEN Sports for their Premier Leagueand Champions League coverage.
 
Mikel Madar:


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Mickael Madar joined Everton as perhaps Howard Kendall's strangest signing after getting back into Deportivo's first team after recovering from a broken leg, which followed his inclusion in the French squad for the 1996 European Championship.
Paris-born Madar was a tall, powerful striker who began his career with Sochaux and later played for Cannes and Monaco, where he won his first cap for France against Romania in 1995.

Madar played as a traditional centre-forward with emphasis on his physical strength, on which his game based. He was an opportunist striker and with an acceptable goalscoring record; he possessed good heading ability and intelligent positional sense.

Given these traits, it was interesting to see Howard Kendall playing Madar alongside Duncan Ferguson, rather in his stead. The combination was potent, but it depended heavily on there being a decent supply of playable crosses and through balls. Danny Cadamarteri was the main casualty from Madar's arrival, but The Squid was a little over-hyped after he burst onto the scene, and needed the break.

Mickael Madar was quick to admit the difficulties he had adjusting to the English game. Talking after the Leicester City match, where he scored an excellent early goal, Madar said:

"Before I came here I was out for a year with a broken leg and I can't yet play a full 90 minutes at my best.

"I have told Mr Kendall I can't play all the game because it is a fast pace in the Premiership and I get tired because I'm not 20 anymore I'm almost 30. It is better that I give a good 70 minutes than an average 90. I know the fans wanted me to stay on, but I am tired."

The 1997-98 season was dismal, with Everton surviving on goal difference. A case could be made that Mickey's magic Gallic touch and superb positional sense brought in those vital goals of his, and really did make a difference.

But something disgraceful seems to occasionally happen in football: the manger decides a player is useless, or the manager falls out with the player, and refuses to pick him. Yes, he had been sent off pre-season, sustaining a 3-match ban, and yes, there were rumours of training-ground insolence... But when asked at the Blackburn match why he wasn't playing – while fully SIX defenders slugged out a dire 0-0 draw – this what Mickael had to say:

"I've no idea. The manager just doesn't like me. He's only seen me play twice. The first time I got a hat-trick and the second time, I was sent off too quick for him to make any judgements."

And what are the prospects of him coming back into the team?

"Nil, as far as I can see. I think they just want to get rid of me and get me off the wage bill. Anyway, my wife is very unhappy here and is desperate to leave. Living in Liverpool isn't the same as living in France or Spain. So it looks like I'll be going fairly soon."

The view from the other side was, of course, quite different. Walter Smith reportedly said of Mickael Madar: "Well I'd have no hesitation playing him if he'd just do as we ask him to do on the training ground. But he won't. He thinks he knows best. End of story. At this moment in time, and as will remain the case until he sorts his head out, Francis Jeffers is ahead of him in the line-up."

After Duncan Ferguson left in November 98, Mickey finally got to strut his desultory stuff before the stern countenance of Walter Smith... all to no avail. He was obviously well out of place in the new conservative atmosphere of Goodison Park, and a move back to his native France was inevitable, if a long time in coming.
In two seasons he played 19 league games for the club, scoring six goals. In 1999 Madar moved to Paris Saint-Germain, then in 2001 he transferred to Créteil. Madar retired at the end of the season in 2002.

Madar was picked three times for France and was in the French squad for Euro 96.


In a recent interview Zlatan Imbrahimovic haliled Madar as one of his idols:

Zlatan Ibrahimovic : " Mickael Madar is my role model "


FootballFrance.fr : You are telling us that Mickaël Madar is your model?


ZI : I owe him a lot . I take this opportunity , through you , to thank him. My talent, my haircut , my love for France and Paris , I have to Mickaël Madar . Knowing it has evolved PSG scored the day of my signing at the club. Like him, I have a good head game and an impressive physical presence . He still registered one day doubled Coupe de France against Thouars , and brilliantly finished his career at the Pierre Brisson stadium in Beauvais with Créteil taking a red card, it is not everyone who can say that. Malmö A home in Sweden , there is even a bus shelter that bears his name . This win tonight is just one of Mickaël Madar . "

 
......eh, deceased?
Only kidding bud.he threw his shirt in the crowd last game of the season when the gladdy was all standing (pure mayhem) me dad got his hand bit trying to grab it and ended up with a tiny bit of the shirt which was on my bedroom wall for years Hahahaha (soft get me like)
 
Ray atteveld (deceased)
He's still alive: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Atteveld

His football talent may not be, but....

Mikel Madar:

madar-300x136.jpg

Mickael Madar joined Everton as perhaps Howard Kendall's strangest signing after getting back into Deportivo's first team after recovering from a broken leg, which followed his inclusion in the French squad for the 1996 European Championship.
Paris-born Madar was a tall, powerful striker who began his career with Sochaux and later played for Cannes and Monaco, where he won his first cap for France against Romania in 1995.

Madar played as a traditional centre-forward with emphasis on his physical strength, on which his game based. He was an opportunist striker and with an acceptable goalscoring record; he possessed good heading ability and intelligent positional sense.

Given these traits, it was interesting to see Howard Kendall playing Madar alongside Duncan Ferguson, rather in his stead. The combination was potent, but it depended heavily on there being a decent supply of playable crosses and through balls. Danny Cadamarteri was the main casualty from Madar's arrival, but The Squid was a little over-hyped after he burst onto the scene, and needed the break.

Mickael Madar was quick to admit the difficulties he had adjusting to the English game. Talking after the Leicester City match, where he scored an excellent early goal, Madar said:

"Before I came here I was out for a year with a broken leg and I can't yet play a full 90 minutes at my best.

"I have told Mr Kendall I can't play all the game because it is a fast pace in the Premiership and I get tired because I'm not 20 anymore I'm almost 30. It is better that I give a good 70 minutes than an average 90. I know the fans wanted me to stay on, but I am tired."

The 1997-98 season was dismal, with Everton surviving on goal difference. A case could be made that Mickey's magic Gallic touch and superb positional sense brought in those vital goals of his, and really did make a difference.

But something disgraceful seems to occasionally happen in football: the manger decides a player is useless, or the manager falls out with the player, and refuses to pick him. Yes, he had been sent off pre-season, sustaining a 3-match ban, and yes, there were rumours of training-ground insolence... But when asked at the Blackburn match why he wasn't playing – while fully SIX defenders slugged out a dire 0-0 draw – this what Mickael had to say:

"I've no idea. The manager just doesn't like me. He's only seen me play twice. The first time I got a hat-trick and the second time, I was sent off too quick for him to make any judgements."

And what are the prospects of him coming back into the team?

"Nil, as far as I can see. I think they just want to get rid of me and get me off the wage bill. Anyway, my wife is very unhappy here and is desperate to leave. Living in Liverpool isn't the same as living in France or Spain. So it looks like I'll be going fairly soon."

The view from the other side was, of course, quite different. Walter Smith reportedly said of Mickael Madar: "Well I'd have no hesitation playing him if he'd just do as we ask him to do on the training ground. But he won't. He thinks he knows best. End of story. At this moment in time, and as will remain the case until he sorts his head out, Francis Jeffers is ahead of him in the line-up."

After Duncan Ferguson left in November 98, Mickey finally got to strut his desultory stuff before the stern countenance of Walter Smith... all to no avail. He was obviously well out of place in the new conservative atmosphere of Goodison Park, and a move back to his native France was inevitable, if a long time in coming.
In two seasons he played 19 league games for the club, scoring six goals. In 1999 Madar moved to Paris Saint-Germain, then in 2001 he transferred to Créteil. Madar retired at the end of the season in 2002.

Madar was picked three times for France and was in the French squad for Euro 96.

In a recent interview Zlatan Imbrahimovic haliled Madar as one of his idols:

Zlatan Ibrahimovic : " Mickael Madar is my role model "

FootballFrance.fr : You are telling us that Mickaël Madar is your model?

ZI : I owe him a lot . I take this opportunity , through you , to thank him. My talent, my haircut , my love for France and Paris , I have to Mickaël Madar . Knowing it has evolved PSG scored the day of my signing at the club. Like him, I have a good head game and an impressive physical presence . He still registered one day doubled Coupe de France against Thouars , and brilliantly finished his career at the Pierre Brisson stadium in Beauvais with Créteil taking a red card, it is not everyone who can say that. Malmö A home in Sweden , there is even a bus shelter that bears his name . This win tonight is just one of Mickaël Madar . "
Zlatan loves Madar? This is going in bold big typeface, ahem, FFS!!!!
 

Saw the thread title and really wanted to post "Liverpools title challenge". But then read it, and realised that would be childish, off topic, and probably bannable now.

So I wont.
 

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