I think as well it probably stings them that they couldn’t leverage a distressed club’s position to get a great player on the cheap - as they did with Rooney and Rio Ferdinand and many others over the years.No Everton fan is mad they're buying someone else.
It's a way of trying to position themselves as a club that arent a basket case and are in fact, still the envy of other clubs in England.
They are desperate to portray Radcliffe as heralding a wave of positive change.
They are used to being the bullies - only now no one takes them seriously as a credible footballing operation, let alone a giant of the game that gets what it wants.