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Kone Signs on 3 Year Deal
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BoysInBlue
Player Valuation: £50m
Some disgusting attitudes on display in this thread and I'm totally serious.
Oviedo badly broke his leg, and has yet to come back too, but because he's loved, he gets chants sung about him all the time & everyone is very positive, with no mention that he's played 1 game in now 11 months out.
Kone? Different story. Because he had an iffy start to his EFC career (a massive 6 games), the reaction to his badly injured knee is totally different.
Constantly taken the piss out of. No compassion at all. Nobody singing his name or offering encouragement. Now people saying he's finished, that we should get rid of him, end his contract (erm he has a valid contract for another 18 months), saying we should get the insurance money.
Come on, we're Evertonians. We should be better than this. Not the lads fault he got injured and is struggling to come back from it.
Dread to think what the lads morale will be like if he sees the like of this, what people are saying about him online. How is any of this gonna help him? Give the lad a chance and some encouragement!
Oviedo badly broke his leg, and has yet to come back too, but because he's loved, he gets chants sung about him all the time & everyone is very positive, with no mention that he's played 1 game in now 11 months out.
Kone? Different story. Because he had an iffy start to his EFC career (a massive 6 games), the reaction to his badly injured knee is totally different.
Constantly taken the piss out of. No compassion at all. Nobody singing his name or offering encouragement. Now people saying he's finished, that we should get rid of him, end his contract (erm he has a valid contract for another 18 months), saying we should get the insurance money.
Come on, we're Evertonians. We should be better than this. Not the lads fault he got injured and is struggling to come back from it.
Dread to think what the lads morale will be like if he sees the like of this, what people are saying about him online. How is any of this gonna help him? Give the lad a chance and some encouragement!
sageyefc
Player Valuation: £90m
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Not like the lad wanted to get injured, and before everyone start going on about hes costing us x amount per week wages, thats what insurance is there for, to cover it
Is right,
Not like the lad wanted to get injured, and before everyone start going on about hes costing us x amount per week wages, thats what insurance is there for, to cover it
BoysInBlue
Player Valuation: £50m
Oviedo isn't back though is he? Started 1 game vs Swansea but is still in the same boat as Kone.
And his injury & Kone's are equally as bad.
bizzaro
LOVE GOT JUST THE WAY IT IS #ALWNV
If he comes in and does a Naismith and shows the likes of @davek and @MoutsGoat up
By smashing in a hatrick
Then we all know what will happen
By smashing in a hatrick
Then we all know what will happen
bizzaro
LOVE GOT JUST THE WAY IT IS #ALWNV
Toffeemeister
Player Valuation: £8m
I don't have a problem with Kone I would like to see him fit and playing for Everton again.
How ever I thought spending 6 million on a 30 year old was bad business to begin with.
How ever I thought spending 6 million on a 30 year old was bad business to begin with.
emb
Player Valuation: £8m
It was a gamble, but one that made sense at the time. With Lukaku and Eto'o here, it's easy to forget what a mess our striking options were in the days of Jelavic and Anichebe.
Distin?
spudmuncher
Player Valuation: £1.5m
Southampton spent around 8 million on a 29 yr old pelle... seems to working ok for them, kone only a year older when we signed, I guess you never know, thats why its called a gamble
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
Great post!
When we got McCarthy there was a massive negative reaction, just like Kone. Thankfully James he has been able to shut everyone up and won us all over, which sadly hasn't been the case for Kone, its not his fault we bought him, or his fault he got injured. The negative OTT stuff wrote on GOT this season about our players has been embarrassing, not just Kone but Howard as well as a few others.
When Kone comes back no one is going to give him a chance, first mistake he makes and everyone will be al over it.
There is a very valid reason why people were/are against the Kone signing. You know, that he scored something like 1 goal in like 60 matches with Sevilla might have something to do with it.
Its not that people WANT him to do bad, its just that when he does something bad or his age becomes a factor(as it absolutely has here) it justifies the people that were so steadfastly against it.
Its not that people WANT him to do bad, its just that when he does something bad or his age becomes a factor(as it absolutely has here) it justifies the people that were so steadfastly against it.
The injury wasn't age related mate, it was an unfortunate one and in the vast majority of cases players who suffer it don't recover fully from it.
Its folly that so many view him as rubbish based on little time in an Everton shirt yet forget the beasting he gave our defence in a Wigan shirt, prompting Heitinga to be subbed at half time if my memory serves me correctly.
The unfortunate injury rendered any impact he could have made null so its a bit trite to criticise spending six million on him.
The wider point is too many bells jumping to a conclusion about a player before he's been given a chance. As annoying as those who do steadfast back players/managers and fail to take any criticism on board of them.
I'll be honest, i was HUGELY against this transfer. And for people who said 'well who could forget how he ruined our defence' well, so did Jelavic against others that first 6 months. Am i happy with people slating him? No, because literally nothing good can come out of him being injured. He may be a drain on the wages, a bad transfer, blahblahblah. But he's still an Everton player. I want nothing more out of any player than for them to do well for my team.
Meh, he still has 18 months left, come on Kone, take a year off completely and just BOSS the last 6 months to win the whole thing!
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