toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
Following this recent trend of new threads to pass international week, list your XI of your favour players (past and present) who have never played for Everton. If you're a weirdo like me and support another team, feel free to exclude them also as this may be fairly straight forward, hence why i have excluded lee trundle from this catchy titled thread.
My XI
Jose Luis CHILAVERT
A keeper who scores boss free kicks and comes up for penalties, how can you not love him
CAFU
Thankfully a young me got to see him live when he managed to score a brace v wales (before realising when i got home rivaldo scored the 3rd not cafu).
Sergio RAMOS
A very late addition to my favourite player XI, where i always resepected him as a top player, but recent events have seen him force his way through. A winner, but also a winner who gets there through fair play.
Taribo WEST
Based purely on his hair this one. A first name which can rhyme with haribo and florescent green hair, great combo. Surprisingly, Taribo was one Nigerian whose career never blighted by a questionable age.
The controversy over his exact age came long after his playing career had finished, in 2013, when former Partizan Belgrade club president Zarko Zecevic told Serbian newspaper Vecernje Novosti: “[West] joined us saying he was 28. We only later found out he was 40, but he was still playing well, so I don’t regret having him on the team.”
...oh, my bad
Roberto CARLOS
Bend it like Beckham or curl it like carlos? Imagine what he could do with these modern balls which swerve like anything? He'd be a dream on console games
Patrick VIEIRA
An utter powerhouse and the prem's greatest ever centre midfielder in my mind, was miles ahead of players like keane and i loved wtaching him play, exactly the type of player everton needs right now.
Jay-Jay OKOCHA
A smile that played football, the sport needs more players like this, a silky player on the eye who would make you smile at the very worst of funerals.
Andrea PIRLO
From the smile and carnival of okocha to the ice cool steely determination of the bearded assassin. Why did he retire? He'd still waltz his way around the best now.
Cristiano RONALDO
When he came to united you just wanted every defender to flatten him with a good hard british tackle. But he turned into probably the best there's ever been because he has always put his career first. For someone so vein in the modern football era, especially given how much talent he has, that's an utter rarity. Complete contrast to youngsters these days who think they've made it after their league debut and are happy to just collect the cash.
Gareth BALE
Obvious pick, i'll never see a better Welsh player than this (sorry nev) who just does the sublime. God we're going to suck when he retires. That overhead is definitely the best goal in a champions league final too!
RONALDO
Other than big dunc, the player i pretended to be as a kid. Just a silky brazilian goal machine who scored everytime i put Gol on S4C to watch european football (in welsh). Hated knowing he was out of the 98 final, then in, then out, then in .... and then he was crap and brazil were dismantled. The teacher had picked brazil out for me in school sweepstake that year as i was ill, will never forget that.
My XI
Jose Luis CHILAVERT
A keeper who scores boss free kicks and comes up for penalties, how can you not love him
CAFU
Thankfully a young me got to see him live when he managed to score a brace v wales (before realising when i got home rivaldo scored the 3rd not cafu).
Sergio RAMOS
A very late addition to my favourite player XI, where i always resepected him as a top player, but recent events have seen him force his way through. A winner, but also a winner who gets there through fair play.
Taribo WEST
Based purely on his hair this one. A first name which can rhyme with haribo and florescent green hair, great combo. Surprisingly, Taribo was one Nigerian whose career never blighted by a questionable age.
The controversy over his exact age came long after his playing career had finished, in 2013, when former Partizan Belgrade club president Zarko Zecevic told Serbian newspaper Vecernje Novosti: “[West] joined us saying he was 28. We only later found out he was 40, but he was still playing well, so I don’t regret having him on the team.”
...oh, my bad
Roberto CARLOS
Bend it like Beckham or curl it like carlos? Imagine what he could do with these modern balls which swerve like anything? He'd be a dream on console games
Patrick VIEIRA
An utter powerhouse and the prem's greatest ever centre midfielder in my mind, was miles ahead of players like keane and i loved wtaching him play, exactly the type of player everton needs right now.
Jay-Jay OKOCHA
A smile that played football, the sport needs more players like this, a silky player on the eye who would make you smile at the very worst of funerals.
Andrea PIRLO
From the smile and carnival of okocha to the ice cool steely determination of the bearded assassin. Why did he retire? He'd still waltz his way around the best now.
Cristiano RONALDO
When he came to united you just wanted every defender to flatten him with a good hard british tackle. But he turned into probably the best there's ever been because he has always put his career first. For someone so vein in the modern football era, especially given how much talent he has, that's an utter rarity. Complete contrast to youngsters these days who think they've made it after their league debut and are happy to just collect the cash.
Gareth BALE
Obvious pick, i'll never see a better Welsh player than this (sorry nev) who just does the sublime. God we're going to suck when he retires. That overhead is definitely the best goal in a champions league final too!
RONALDO
Other than big dunc, the player i pretended to be as a kid. Just a silky brazilian goal machine who scored everytime i put Gol on S4C to watch european football (in welsh). Hated knowing he was out of the 98 final, then in, then out, then in .... and then he was crap and brazil were dismantled. The teacher had picked brazil out for me in school sweepstake that year as i was ill, will never forget that.
