Everton Banter Archive December 24 2016

24 Dec 2016 22:48:55
To swap Ross Barkley ( Loves Everton) with a muppet who absolutely and disgustingly disrespected our club is a disgrace. don't care if your Messi or a Sunday League player, disrespect our Club, I don't want you. There are other players out their, however if he comes to our club I will be very angry with Everton proving we have no backbone. Let him rot at spurs.

25 Dec 2016 07:31:17
I think most blues feel exactly the same AT.

{Ed025's Note - well i certainly dont want sissoko here billy..

25 Dec 2016 08:21:07
It's just lazy journalism, some of them do lead sad lives.

25 Dec 2016 19:00:02
He's turned us down once boys (remember) happy Christmas Ed see you on the new year in bull bay.

{Ed025's Note - yeah mate, and a merry christmas to you AB..

24 Dec 2016 21:58:39
Merry Christmas boys, hope you and your families have a wonderful time.

Dags.

24 Dec 2016 22:29:32
Cheers dags. All the best mate.

25 Dec 2016 12:09:19
Yeah have a good one dags always nice to have a good natured fan of another great club as a regular visitor all the best to you and yours from all your evertonian mates.

25 Dec 2016 16:18:14
Thanks dags you too mate. I don't post very often but I enjoy reading your posts. Very honest and straight to the point. All the best mate.

25 Dec 2016 21:28:21
danefc, he is okay I suppose.

24 Dec 2016 21:26:55
Happy Christmas to ALL my Blue Buddies on here. let's hope we get some Christmas wishes and the coming year does indeed bring us some surprises and much merriment!

24 Dec 2016 21:34:10
All the best. Hope are wishes are granted for once and santa is a bluenose.

24 Dec 2016 15:24:04
I no barkley blows hot and cold but I want to keep him no matter what.

24 Dec 2016 12:05:00
Happy Christmas to all Blue posters, hope that the coming year brings Ronald, the team and us supporters the results we all expect .

24 Dec 2016 07:31:31
I expect Everton - and every other club - to be gathering information about many, many players, and to be regularly monitoring them via their scouting network, and to have "registered an interest" (whatever that might mean! ) in a select few of them, and even to be actively pursuing the possibility of an actual transfer.
I've little doubt that the various clubs' scouts and staff, the players' agents and representatives, the journalists and pundits, etc., know each other well and stories in the media will originate from some conversation or some sighting at a particular match or event.
I'd also imagine that there are plenty of stories with little or no factual evidence to back them up, but rather are speculation to fill column-inches in newspapers or be click-bait on websites.
As long as newspapers are being read and websites are getting hits, then the advertising revenue will keep coming -, and that's surely what the publishers want.
A real problem is that only a handful of transfer stories in the media are actually original (let alone "exclusive"! ) - most are repeated by websites, blogs, other journos, etc., that trawl the internet, etc., for any reference to a club or player.
The fact that the same story appears in many places does NOT make it any more true, . On the other hand, it doesn't mean that the story doesn't have some credibility. It's up to the fans to take these stories with a pinch of salt and try not to get too carried away.

24 Dec 2016 08:32:21
It may also cause the creation of specific club banter page and rumour page web-sites Sid. So that the club's fans can share all this info and even create some new rumours that are based on "gut feel" and nothing much else!

24 Dec 2016 17:08:27
Snodgrass at Hull better than Barclay?

24 Dec 2016 19:44:43
Are you nutts?

24 Dec 2016 00:43:28
Ross my still go on to be the player we all hoped he would be, however, right now, we need the finished arctical, if he is the big evertonion, then come back when your 27, and proved your the real deal, but at this moument in the clubs development, we need someone who can go and perform week in week out.
I realey do wish him well, and would love to see him come back in the future, and in our new home, win it all, but for now, i think he has to move on, for his sake and the clubs.

24 Dec 2016 08:05:27
All this media chat by pundits about whether or not Barkley should leave Everton for the sake of HIS career is irrelevant imho. It's the needs of Everton Football Club that must surely come first in this situation.
The club employs Ronald Koeman as manager and its up to him to select the player (s) he wants in his team and squad. If any player is not part of his plans, then the club should imho move that player out asap. If the club start dictating who can and who cannot be transferred in and out (subject to finance of course! ) , then the manager's position becomes untenable. At Everton, we've seen previous mangers (Kendall and Royle) resign on this principle.
Of course, I don't wish any ill will on Barkley - and he deserves the best career he can have - but if, at 23, he's not producing what the manager wants, then replace him with a player that hopefully will.
There are no absolute guarantees that a new player joining us would be an improvement, and a player leaving us might indeed flourish elsewhere, BUT there comes a point with every player when the time (or the price! ) is right and he should move on.
It's such a pity when so much obvious talent hasn't delivered consistent performances - just occasional flashes of brilliance and all too frequent instances of frustration and poor decision making. If I knew the answer, I'd be a manager earning millions and winning trophies, but I don't and so I'm just an opinionated fan hoping to enjoy a successful Everton.

24 Dec 2016 09:42:44
Fair point Sid. Just think with better players around him he would achieve. And that's my worry if he goes to Spurs mate.

24 Dec 2016 10:53:54
Barkley has surely had better players around him when selected for England (although I accept that's questionable! ) and he's not set the world alight, so it's still a moot point imho regarding his true effectiveness.

24 Dec 2016 11:34:59
Not really Sid, I can recall that clown Hodgeson screaming at him every time he touched the ball. It's sad that in this country we appear happy to sacrifice flair for hard work.

24 Dec 2016 12:31:31
The sign at Finch Farm reads something like: Hard work will beat talent if talent doesn't work hard.
It's a cliche, but it holds true in football in my experience.

24 Dec 2016 14:06:27
Name any Everton player that has been consistent over the last few years, not 1 springs to mind!
So why pick on Barkley?

24 Dec 2016 16:48:01
Always worked for me Cowpat at my level (combined services) many many years ago now. Never considered myself as skillful as some (I was two footed and considered quick) who I was picked above so had to be down to hard work and application.

24 Dec 2016 16:50:43
Sidsut the pace of the modern game makes it practically impossible for players to be 100 percent consistent but I would name Baines, Coleman and maybe Jags.

24 Dec 2016 19:14:32
Re sid sutton on players consistency tim cahill and Lee carsley maybe Steven pienaar for two years before his spurs move and a season after he came back but barkley has had it in his head put there by the Spanish lunatic that even when you play rhubarb your still great and that's the problem that a lot of are players still think but can't come to terms when ronald koeman tells them different.