Arouna Kone

deipnosophist · July 11, 2015

He says he out to prove his quality this season and good proof of his quality was seen today.

Big Fat Sam · July 11, 2015

Lol ^

PS: The average Evertonian in Liverpool needs to work an entire year to earn less than Arouna Kone earns in one week.

At the end of this season he'll have sponged over 4.5m in wages from Everton FC. The average Evertonian in Liverpool would need to work for 150 years to pay for this loser's wages over that period.

An absolute disgrace.

deipnosophist · July 11, 2015

ah11984 said:
Worth looking back at what Martinez said when he signed him lol
"But probably the biggest strength that Arouna has is that calmness in front of goal, that composure to be a real reference for the team.
"As a player I would say he is a complete footballer at a really good age.

I suggest Bobby was being sarcastic...Catalonians are noted for it.

Big Fat Sam · July 11, 2015

deipnosophist said:
I suggest Bobby was being sarcastic...Catalonians are noted for it.

I always pull up that "complete striker" quote when I fancy a laugh.

However that isn't funny is this.

Arouna Kone has been bang average his entire career. He's never scored more than 15 goals in an entire season in his career. In fact, prior to joining Everton, Arouna Kone had scored a total of - wait for it - 29 goals in his previous six seasons; an average of 5 per season. AS A STRIKER!

This fella has played less than 700 minutes of football for Everton. I'm suggesting he's on around 30k a week, which works out at approximately 4.5k for each minute of football he has played for our team.

In this financial climate (not football), that's just sickening.

JustOpp · July 11, 2015

butters said:
Lol ^

PS: The average Evertonian in Liverpool needs to work an entire year to earn less than Arouna Kone earns in one week.

At the end of this season he'll have sponged over 4.5m in wages from Everton FC. The average Evertonian in Liverpool would need to work for 150 years to pay for this loser's wages over that period.

An absolute disgrace.

You act as if he intentionally deceived Everton into giving him a contract. It might not have been the best piece of business in the world, but he has earned his career as a professional footballer with several productive seasons, including one in the Premier League.

I feel it's a safe guarantee he'd have preferred being healthy and productive over the past two seasons than injured and, well, inept.

Deleted member 28206 · July 11, 2015

butters said:
Lol ^

PS: The average Evertonian in Liverpool needs to work an entire year to earn less than Arouna Kone earns in one week.

At the end of this season he'll have sponged over 4.5m in wages from Everton FC. The average Evertonian in Liverpool would need to work for 150 years to pay for this loser's wages over that period.

An absolute disgrace.

dat right butters, he is stealing a living, lets burn his house down lar.

maccavennie · July 11, 2015

Bryan said:
dat right butters, he is stealing a living, lets burn his house down lar.

He's probably got 4 Bryan so losing one probably won't arse him.

Deleted member 28206 · July 11, 2015

maccavennie said:
He's probably got 4 Bryan so losing one probably won't arse him.

Let burn a shirt, that'll show him.

maccavennie · July 11, 2015

Bryan said:
Let burn a shirt, that'll show him.

I would probably go for the garden shed, your guaranteed to at least destroy a lawn mower in the process

hktoffee · July 11, 2015

Cut loss on him and get a million or two back.

Zatara · July 11, 2015

I wonder if he could be sold to anyone?

Even the kids would do better or a loan...

AaronTheBlue · July 11, 2015

played alright today so not sure why people are being so critical, he made mistakes but not as much as mccarthy or coleman.

That added to it being the first game of pre-season and also him being on Ramadan people need to lay off a bit.

meagher94 · July 11, 2015

Honestly think paying £6m for Kone was a sort of an apology gift to Wigan from Martinez for taking McCarthy off them.

Aberblue · July 11, 2015

meagher94 said:
Honestly think paying £6m for Kone was a sort of an apology gift to Wigan from Martinez for taking McCarthy off them.

We bought Kone before McCarthy didn't we?

Martinez dropped a real clanger there, and with Alcaraz as well. Two players who have never been better than average and haven't even been that at Everton.

meagher94 · July 11, 2015

Aberblue said:
We bought Kone before McCarthy didn't we?

Martinez dropped a real clanger there, and with Alcaraz as well. Two players who have never been better than average and haven't even been that at Everton.

Maybe it was a more of a "sorry what I'm about to do to you" gift then.... I can understand the Alcaraz one as a 4th choice centre back and on a free but Kone has turned out to be an awful buy... maybe he would have scored 5-10 goals for us if he didn't have a really bad first season with injuries but he was never worth £6m.