Dominic King Article

[Joey66]

I'd chop my balls off for his quality now, even half a season James would probably have done enough for us to be well clear. He has more quality in his little toe than anyone we have now.

He is now clubless......no wants him - a great player in his day .....

 

[Rita_Poon]

Missed a trick with this.

"bill kenwright and his managed decline of Everton"

 

[ToffeeTim]

I'd rather Benitez had not moved him on and got rid of 5 other wasters instead tbh Tim.

A 1 legged Rodriguez would would offer more than Gray, Gordon (when he was here) Iwobi, Mcneil, Maupay and Doucoure combined.

We couldn't afford him. It was a bad signing

 

[D410]

Easy to write these articles now.

where was the courage to write them when he was back at the Echo under Kenwright......

 

[kenada_blue]

Based on how Monchi did at Roma, and to a lesser degree how he's done since he's gone back to Sevilla, its maybe for the best it didn't happen. Technology has moved on, and all the big clubs now know the form of every highly rated 15yo in South America and around the world, and with the use of feeder clubs can keep them away from the competition in case they turn out to be the next Zidane or similar. Its ruining the game, but neither UEFA or FIFA care as long as the bungs keep rolling in. So the model of clubs having a big team of scouts roaming the world like Monchi used to have is pretty much dead.

That article from Brands is relatively standard for failed DoF/Scouts. "I recommended all these players who turned out to be great for other clubs, but it never happened", but they don't mention the other 100 recommendations they also made that turned out to be crap for other clubs and the 30 players they recommended we sign, and turned out crap for us. The arguments about whether Silva should have been sacked or not are easy to make now, but at the time there would have been a riot if he'd been kept on for much longer. He'd lost the squad, and he'd lost his head, and giving him an extra month or two was only delaying the inevitable. He needed to be put out of his misery, and to significantly change the trajectory of results it made sense at the time to go for Ancelotti rather than Arteta. The time Arsenal have given Arteta to turn things around wouldn't have been given to him with us based upon how quickly the improvement needed to happen. Ancelotti was always likely to leave as he did, but he left us significantly better than he found us.

Don't get me wrong, I think Brands did ok in general, but equally that he wasn't snapped up by someone else before/after he was forced out, and has just returned to PSV is a sign that maybe he hasn't the capability or credibility within the football world that he thinks he does.

Great post. Agree with most of it

 

[kenada_blue]

He probably was on an enormous wage that we couldn't afford. Why else would he have came

He was a good player but a bad signing because we couldn't afford him. Moving him on is about all Benitez got right

If it was ran properly and we didn't have 3-4 other players on £100k a week providing zero on the books...he'd have been affordable.

But you know... everton

 

[kenada_blue]

Easy to write these articles now.

where was the courage to write them when he was back at the Echo under Kenwright......

Yep

 

[mahermi1]

Easy to write these articles now.

where was the courage to write them when he was back at the Echo under Kenwright......

Correct all of them on a tight leash at the Echo, an absolute disgrace considering how the Echo writers treated Liverpool owners over the years. They hardly had a bad word said about Uncle Bill and Co, rumours for years of Kenwright banning them from Goodison kept them at bay, would not surprise me one bit of they were true, the other side of Bill could be quite vindictive I've heard.

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

James Rodriguez agent needs to be knighted because his contract seems to increase with every article written about him. I remember when the club leaked he was on about 90k when he joined

 

[ultra]

Dom King has been in Kenwright’s pocket since his Red Echo days.
Even that article goes easy on BK with a reference to the fraud’s alleged “passion”. Sickening

 

[mahermi1]

Dom King has been in Kenwright’s pocket since his Red Echo days.
Even that article goes easy on BK with a reference to the fraud’s alleged “passion”. Sickening

Exactly luckily we had Prenno to give our side of things... Just shows you he gave that Rat a cushy little job at Everton at our expense for his " loyalty and servitude" didn't Myers work for Everton as a press officer too? As I said kept on a tight leash, is there any wonder Kenwrights been fooling the majority of fans over two decades...

 

[Billy Dean]

Correct all of them on a tight leash at the Echo, an absolute disgrace considering how the Echo writers treated Liverpool owners over the years. They hardly had a bad word said about Uncle Bill and Co, rumours for years of Kenwright banning them from Goodison kept them at bay, would not surprise me one bit of they were true, the other side of Bill could be quite vindictive I've heard.

It's funny because the Echo are already putting pressure on Liverpool's current owners for their performance this season.

 

[mahermi1]

It's funny because the Echo are already putting pressure on Liverpool's current owners for their performance this season.

Yeah for not spending enough money, yes the £85m for that front bencher Nunez was not enough, neither was the £50 inc add ons for Gakpo enough either. Imagine that was Everton, we would have been called all the undeserving, ungrateful barstewards in the World by the Echo writers.

 

[Moderatelywarmwater]

i dont think he was on anywhere near the 200k plus some people make out though

even so, if you needed to reduce the wage, you dont get rid of your best player and the only person who can create.

why not get donkeys like keane and doucoure out, them 2 alone would cover his wages.

£200k plus was widely reported at the time, so who knows.

But he was on €6.5m a year whilst on loan at Bayern with was a €2m raise on his Madrid wages.

Wie sich Bayern München seinen neuen Star James Rodríguez erkaufte

Mit James Rodríguez hat der FC Bayern München einen bemerkenswerten Vertrag geschlossen: Es gilt Netto statt Brutto. Außerdem toleriert der Verein die dubiosen PR-Einnahmen des Spielers.

www.spiegel.de

I imagine we had to pay a premium to get him to step down a level.