World class players?

Ballly · April 14, 2020

Throwing the Ratcliffe hat in the ring.

neilsyd · April 15, 2020

Exeter_Gently said:
Kanchelskis...Get the feeling people don't like mentioning certain players due to the short periods spent at the club. He was without doubt World class and improved us by about 5 to 6 league places that year. His performance against Sheff Wed away was the best single performance of an Everton player I've seen.

Yeah I was at that game. And the Liverpool away game. He was unbelievable. What a signing by royle looking back. How did we even get him?

Lloydystark · April 15, 2020

We ain’t got any

Bluebonic · April 16, 2020

catcherintherye said:
Interesting really. Why did United let him go? I agree with you overall, but that does weigh on my mind.

I've just done a little fact check. With Kanchelskis we got 57 points from 32 games. We got 4 from 6 without him. Thats a really high PPG number for him. Had he have played 38 games, at the rate we went with him we score 67/8 points. That season we'd have finished 4th and within 3 of Liverpool in 3rd. I suppose he made a massive difference to the team.

Persistent rumour was that he was balls deep in debt with the Russian mafia as he was a prolific (and Unlucky) gambler and that the only way he could keep them off his back was to move at regular intervals and cop for a juicy signing on fee to keep the sharks at bay. Probably a load of cobblers, but it was a widely accepted rumour at the time, not just with us, but with ManU fans too!