It's not about not rating him. It's the idiotic excuses for not rating him.
I'm baffled why he gets so much grief yet Del gets away with been tosh for a year, for example...
He didn't set the price tag. Had he stayed fit I'm sure he'd have contributed more than he had - and we'd be saying it was money well spent.
Regardless, he's out now.
Well I don't think it's personal against him at all or him versus Deulo. In fact Deulo is an example of why it's so frustrating we bought him. Attack filled with inconsistent, fast, slightly brain dead with the final ball wide players.....and we spend 20mil on another one to add to them, supposedly to improve on them but for me and many he was not the option to do that and def not at that price. Didn't make sense to me at the time. He then didn't look any better than the average standard I'd always thought he was at Palace despite his contribution stats wise. He is to me an example of a lot of the players we have had to put with up with for years at Everton and the last type of player I wanted.
Hope he comes back the same though, because he seems a sound lad and as a squad player, now that he is here, he has plenty to offer.