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ilikecheese said:
You need to build bridge and get over footballers wages.

He remains a human being with the faults we all have. Imagine the temptations being 'richish' at 22 or 25 or 40. All are great but more easily corrupted for a kid.
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I'm not remotely arsed about footballers wages. I am arsed about the club giving (a suggested) 5k a week to a lad who was given more than enough chance to sort himself out. He gets no pass from me.

(PS "build a bridge and get over it"? Really? Are you a 12 year old girl?)
 
People jump all over the GAZZA thing in relation to him being left alone and abandoned by football an' all that palaver. And we get ripped for doing this, weird...

The kid's evidently a massive tit & as thick as a red, but he must have shown something for them to consider this as a way forward...maybe regret they never with Billy Kenny? I dunno...but the contracts gonna be crap and the ground rules have been fairly well laid down. If he balls's this up then, yknow, the club's been pro-active and have - IMO - tried to do something good...

Think it's a bit unfair to rip them for it TBH.

I'm not cock-a-hoop abarrrr it like but, yknow, I can't be against it either. Sentimental as it is it at least shows a bit of afterthought to players that've come through the ranks eh...
 

hktoffee said:
Not a teenager anymore...had chances and failed the drug tests twice. For someone in the 20s...he got to take responsibility of his life.
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And he is doing. He's been working with Everton In The Community over the last year.

He will be on a very basic deal, and afforded the opportunity to get himself fit and see if he can get into the U-23 side. Hopefully he gets his head down and earns himself a move to a new club. He's taken some wrong turns in life, but people at the club know him and i'd trust their judgement on this. I'm happy for us to give him this opportunity rather than let him turn into another Michael Branch.

Everton look after their own.
 
Mountfield1985 said:
And he is doing. He's been working with Everton In The Community over the last year.

He will be on a very basic deal, and afforded the opportunity to get himself fit and see if he can get into the U-23 side. Hopefully he gets his head down and earns himself a move to a new club. He's taken some wrong turns in life, but people at the club know him and i'd trust their judgement on this. I'm happy for us to give him this opportunity rather than let him turn into another Michael Branch.

Everton look after their own.
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Think that's been the problem to be honest mate
 
I seriously doubt he's been offered a life changing contract or anything close to what's being suggested, he's been offered a chance to sort his life out and i admire the club for looking after one of their own (despite the fact he's a self confessed RS who bad mouthed the club in the past). Does he deserve it? No! absolutely not but Unsworth and Kenwright clearly see this as a pet project and care about the lad. He'll never be near the first team and i imagine the first sign of trouble he'll be out on his a**e. The article says, this is a foot through the door for him, what he does from there is up to him.
 
The Cowboy said:
I'm not remotely arsed about footballers wages. I am arsed about the club giving (a suggested) 5k a week to a lad who was given more than enough chance to sort himself out. He gets no pass from me.

(PS "build a bridge and get over it"? Really? Are you a 12 year old girl?)
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He's not gonna coin anything near that, not a chance.

If he pulled 5 ton a week I'd be surprised. He'll have contractual tie-in's/bonuses and if he moves on there's a load of pozzy PR at what clubs could do to help younger players that go wayward....and he may turn out to be BOSS (as was thought at one point)...

It's win-win for the club.
 

zzr45 said:
Has anyone noted that he's failed 2 drugs tests? Don't think that's come up at all over the last 10 pages...

It's odd that it's being done so publicly for what is for all intents and purposes an intervention. Is the club trying to make up for a perceived 'failing' in his early career - possibly.

That said it does seem that we have a lot of 'troubled' former players.
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Think that has alot to do with the area's they come from, decisions they make outside of football and the company they keep from there childhood.
Especially kids coming through mid to late 90s were the teachings were not in place to help kids deal with that sort of stuff.
Hopefully clubs like ours have ironed those sort of creases out of talented kids who are maybe a little "rough around the edges"
 
If we're just using this to get him in to shape and move him on for a tidy profit in the Summer, then fine. I don't want him around the club, selling his 'ideals' to our youngsters.
 

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