I scored in every competition. You play good matches. You give assists. Of course that’s fun but it’s important that it also delivers points. My first year here we were sixth, the next fifth.. this year I expected we’d end fourth or even better. We have big ambitions and every year the club progresses. I felt I did the same together with the club. This year I’ve progressed but the club hasn’t. That is frustrating but there are season that it’s not going to go as you would like. We kept the basis that made us so strong the previous seasons but I don't know what is going wrong now. We started the first 3 matches well. We had a lead each time but could never hold on to it and that hurt us a lot. We should have started the season with 3 or 4 wins but instead we ended up with 2 draws and a loss. Maybe that got into our heads. But it’s definitely not going as we would like it to go.
The worst is that I missed a penalty. To me that was difficult because I had a lot of confidence. Missing a penalty is never easy but it can happen and it will happen again. But the most difficult part was the criticism afterwards. The club, the manager and my entourage were behind me but in England I was treated as if I had committed a murder. But that’s part of football. There are worse things. Look at Malanda. There are much worse things in life and football is just a sport.
A lot of journalist talk about me leaving but I’ve never talked about that. There have been offers and interest from other clubs but that is normal. if you play well, things can always change. But I’ve never said anything and I feel good here. I respect the club. I'm still under contract and everything is going good. We will see. The club knows I want to play at a higher level. We will see if that is with Everton or a different club.
