Sums up Everton fans to a tee:
Leon Osman:
Academy player who earned his way into the team and stayed there for over a decade. Fantastic technique off either foot with a silk look first touch, always put a huge shift in, would score headers against far taller centrebacks, could dictate games from deep, could score from behind the striker, and more often that not got tasked with creating from outwide which he did without having any pace at all. Could slalom past players like they weren’t there and linked with other players easily. Gave everything to Everton for his whole career and was central to teams who finished in the top 5 (including fourth) and and made a cup final. Probably saved Martinez’s job in his second season when he came back from injury.
Everton fans reaction: Grass, snake, powderpuff, remember the cup final though, couldn’t hit a ball (just ignore a YouTube reel better than any other Everton premier league player), weak, slow etc.
Gylfi Siggurdson:
Bought for 40 million. Has the whole team built around him because he’s completely useless in any position apart from number 10. Can’t dictate from deep, can’t play outwide, can barely perform behind the strikers. Has no pace, can’t dribble, had a really poor first touch off both feet, can’t beat a man through any means. Apart from set pieces and trying to play the odd through ball he has nothing to his game at all. Has spent the majority of his Everton career not even trying for us and has been central to teams that have achieved nothing.
Everton fans reaction: Our best player, one of Europe’s best attacking midfielders, needs x y and z around him to be on his wavelength, wouldn’t swap him for anyone in the prem in that position.
It’s a complete and utter joke how some of our fans worship at the altars of utter trash like Barry McCarthy Schneiderlin and Siggurdson. After having seen the likes of Kanchelskis Limpar Arteta Pienaar Osman dancing across the Goodison turf or watching proper aggressive midfielders like Carsley or Cahill I thought that Fellaini was a poor midfielder oddly worshipped by the fans. Even he though thrived under multiple United managers after he left us and is a league above the current incumbents.
Quite simply Gylfi Siggurdson is one of the worst midfielders in our premier league history yet is worshipped by some fans as though he is one of the best. He’s not fit to lace Leon Osman’s boots let alone get anywhere near the level Arteta or Pienaar used to be at.