He slashed his wrists with razor blades but did not inflict serious injury; he flung himself head first out of a window, but a plastic dustbin broke his fall; he tried to gas himself but an automatic lighting device on the cooker prevented him; he tried to hang himself with flex but could not get into the right position; and then he drove to a bridge over the Stevenage bypass but found it was too low to fling himself over. In his final attempt he drove his car into the back of a parked car at 80 mph, but 'miraculously' survived with relatively minor injuries."
How I see it is the lad is a late developer. People tend to forget that he was about to be let go the season he played and scored for the first team. He improved so much over a short period of time. He basically saved his Everton career in 6 months.
It's quite common for players of his style, it takes them a while to get there, to fully understand how strong they actually are. Where was Didier Drogba at Victor's age? He was an average forward in the French League.
He's never going to be anything special, agreed, I don't think he's as bad as people make out though. I think he could easily be a decent Premier League forward. Emile Heskey managed it, the standard isn't as high as people make out.
Possibly, although I think we might keep him around for another season or two more.
Moyes seems to like him, he plays him and involves him in games when he's available. A squad player is a squad player, I'd much rather we brought them through our own academy than bring them in for money and wages.