Everton Banter Archive February 01 2015

01 Feb 2015 21:33:37
If it is true Spurs offered 5 mill and Lennon for two big for his boots Mirrallas I say take it get rid bye bye move on and good rid.

{Ed025's Note - he does not get a lot of sympathy from me either stef..

On THBN they are saying the following.

"Tottenham offered Everton £3 million plus Aaron Lennon, who is valued at £7 million, Everton want £5 million plus Lennon on loan, with an option to buy in the summer. Tottenham want a loan with a guaranteed purchase."

Not sure it is a deal I would want to be honest.

How is lennon valued at 7 million and mirrallas only 3-5 when they've both got 18 months left on their contracts? Do one levvy I'd rather let kevs contract run down.

{Ed025's Note

And yet before penalty debacle, we were saying 20-25 million.amazing how missing a penalty devalues a player. Lennon is nowhere near the player mirallas is.

01 feb 2015 23:49:00
i hate it when we deal with tottenham and levy. i remember the peinaar incident when we bought him back for as much as we sold him. the mans a deluded skin flint. i'd rather look elsewhere to sell kev. like athletico. send him there with koke xoming the other way.

Haha Denti 25 mill where the hell did you get that from yes he is a good player but the day a player thinks he is bigger than Everton is the day he has to say bye bye good luck and all the best. Players should be proud to play for Everton a club steeped in history and pride I say dellp into it it's mind blowing we are a very very very big club any player wearing our jersey should be proud of it if not then do one Coyb.

02 Feb 2015 01:29:00
This is exactly what I've been saying dentie

Penalty incident aside, Mirallas is worth much more than 5 million alone. I'd say at least 15-20 mil, for levy however, he can pay 35

Have I missed something here when has Kev every said he is too big for Everton? Has he not always said he will make a decision at the end of the season about if he stays or if he goes? Why do we constantly slag off our players just because someone has heard a rumour from a "reliable source"! Okay he made a mistake taking that penalty but do we really want to get rid of one of our best players for one mistake? We all know he want CL football but what player doesn't? As for his valuation well that will be based on what someone is prepared to pay and what EFC are prepared to accept.

{Ed025's Note - kev is a good player sa90, and if his attitude was better i would want to keep him, the penalty incident was not the first time his inflated ego has surfaced though mate, its obvious he wants away and we cant allow him to run his contract down and leave for nothing next year, for me it would be sign a new contract now or your out the door, kow-towing to these prima donnas does the club no favours, if your not desperate to wear the shirt then for me i dont want you here, but thats just my opinion..

We've got a year option so av heard

01 Feb 2015 18:50:52
have you seen atsus goal, screamer.

01 Feb 2015 17:02:03
RM apparently wishes to pass on his thanks to the posters on this site for helping him get the three points yesterday.

He thinks a lot of his problems have been a result of his misunderstanding of the English language. He thinks he speaks English well and is proud of his use of big words such as phenonenal. However when he has read the posts on this site he has not properly understood many of the phrases we use.

He therefore decided to study further idioms, similes, metaphors, euphemisms etc in order that he better understands our advice and communicates it better to the players and the fans.

A few examples: Having spoken with BK before the chairman lost his voice, he picked up some expressions used in the theatre. Therefore, when he asked Mo Besic, he of Bosnian descent, to 'break a leg' before his first few games, this was taken literally and at first Besic was a red card waiting to happen. The advice to only buy players in the January window who 'were going for a song' also hampered his dealings. A winger was also offered for £5m only for him to be told this was ' an arm and a leg'. RM felt that the whole player therefore would cost at least double that and the deal collapsed. More recently after the bad PR over the Mirallas and Baines penalty fiasco he was advised to get Kevin to 'eat humble pie' but was unable to find anywhere to buy it.

He know gets what 'square pegs' is all about and yesterday dropped Barkley, as he believes he has been ' all Bark and no bite' and played only one number ten. He also believes his substitutions were more like for like.

Regarding Aiden, he feels he owes us an apology. He was advised before he signed that he 'wouldn't cut the mustard' but having met him beforehand saw he had no problems in the eating department. He was also told recently that Aiden needed to 'put a shift in' and had him work nights once a week in a factory which has had a negative impact on his performances on the pitch.

RM is learning however to take advice though. A meeting took place with the kit man when the coaching staff told him he needed more 'clean sheets' Now he understands the real meaning of this and we haven't conceded for two games he feels this has put us in a special moment.

He knows navyblue and others are suggesting including McCarthy alongside Besic and Barry and now he has heard the next opponents have been with three at the back and flooding the midfield is giving this serious thought.

So going forward RM says he is not going to bury his head in the sand and be as stubborn as a mule or turn a blind eye to the obvious, but to turn over a new leaf, have a game plan, let his actions speak louder than his thousands of words.

Finally when it comes to talking about Evertonians, to put his brain in gear and use his loaf, as blood, especially blue blood is thicker than water.

Sent from my iPad

{Ed025's Note - i enjoyed that tedster..

Very good Tedster, enjoyed a little chuckle at that.

Tedster: good post - you certainly are a cunning linguist and I hope your missus appreciates that ;-)

That will bring a smile to all that read above posts. Well done lads

Used to play for a five a side Team which we named the Cunning Linguists, the Vicar took umbrage (true story) so we changed the name to Cunning Lingerers, he gave up after a few expletives that cannot be repeated on here and should never be spoken by a vicar anyway, oh and we were not phenomenal either.

01 Feb 2015 15:56:01
Well couldn't really have asked for better really. A win and three valuable points, and the bottom five all losing. Fortunately there are enough poor teams in this league for us to survive, but still not convinced with the direction we are going in as a team.

01 Feb 2015 13:25:34
Bit of cheer here, I'm in las vegas for my wife's 30th birthday, so after lots of beer in harrahs I asked the duelling pianos act to play a song for my wife (I added we were huge everton fans) so he gave a shout out and then began to sing "it's a grand old team" we went nuts and proudly shouted to everton song to over 150 people, complete with "koppites are gobs##tes" at the end. That was 2.30 am and made our night. Coyb!

01 Feb 2015 12:17:09
Hi been looking on here for years an never posted bit just like to add this is a great site for everyone to gt together an comment on our wonderful team even iv were not so wonderful at the min seen loads ov people tryingare a song for Joel do here's my take
Its Joel it's Joel
He protects our everton goal
He's Spanish an stands in the hole ooooo it'd Joel lol

31 Jan 2015 22:28:32
Wasn't the best performance but a win is a win. Defended well for most of the game, even if there seemed to be a bit of panic in certain situations. I'm not too confident if we continue in this vain though, we rode our luck a bit against another struggling team. Against better players and teams we may not be so fortunate.
That said, how good does it feel to grab 3 points for the first time in what seems like years? COYB

{Ed025's Note - it feels great spud, im not after a witch hunt mate, just for our club to do well mate..

01 Feb 2015 10:18:54
I second that ed, mid table mediocrity will suit me after the way we have played this season! Let's hope for another improved performance against that lot.
On another note, Besic should retain his position. He has been the main plus point of this season so far, tidy little footballer. When JM is back, them two should be played in the middle together with Barry being relegated to the bench. Hope he stays for many years to come

{Ed025's Note - he has been great spud, we really need his tenacity and fighting qualities during this run in, he really is an example to all the other guys on how to apply yourself when the going gets tough mate..