BoysInBlue
Player Valuation: £50m
Hmm. I have heard from elsewhere mate. Not 100% off though was my snippet of info but 'looking unlikely'.
I'm really not that arsed anymore I don't think either way!
Everyone is entitled to believe what they want.
All I know is that Rory Smith is the only one with a name and face who is sticking his neck out and putting his credibility on the line to report stuff.
'Fourth Official', 'Watched Toffee' and the like are all faceless/nameless Twitter accounts that often post a load of BS but they can do that because no-one can (or rarely does) hold them to account, nor will it affect their 'career' in the same way a journalist's career might be affected.
Rory Smith is a decent fella with strong north west sources, writing for a respectable paper, at least in terms of football coverage.
Anyone can set up an ITK twitter account and tweet a load of nonsense that they claim to be the truth.
It's the in-thing to be super negative about Everton. There's people having a pop at the club for refunding the Man City ticket prices, claiming that they're doing it to sweeten the fans because 'the takeover is off'. The same people who cry about 'it must be half season ticket time' any time we're linked with a good player in the January window. It's 'woe is us' cynical world-wearyness that's just very tedious to be honest.
That Watched Toffee was crying about how the American Takeover would have been terrible for the club. Then when he claimed it had fallen through, he was bashing the club for it 'falling through', the same thing he thought would be bad for the club. Some people just like moaning for moaning's sake, the tedious blerts.