2019/20 Leighton Baines.

[Goat]

You'd prefer to be ripped off by a player who had no success?

Ive enjoyed every minute Baines spent on the pitch, I've had my moneys worth.

Hes the type of player you pay money to watch.

 

[davek]

You are genuinely buzzing that one of our longest serving players failed to win a trophy with us and a manager who’s a footnote in our club’s history won one with Wigan Athletic aren’t you.

I'm mildly pleased that he has finally gone, yes. I wouldn't say buzzing.

He arrived in 2007 and played hundreds of games and scored a few goals and created a few goals. A footnote in the club's history. His lasting legacy will be to have gloated (in his very passive aggressive way that he perfected) at a manager's dismissal.

That's about it for me.

 

[davek]

You seem to have accidentally pluralised the word "Trophy" there.

His career isn't over yet.

 

[tonka1878]

This is the type of stuff Kopites do on Twitter to wind Evertonians up.

Proper weird using the fact one of our own players didn’t win a trophy with the club he gave the best years of his career to.

Never seen any Evertonian in my entire life revel in the fact one of our own players didn’t win a trophy with us.

Kopite behaviour.

That is harsh but he does share similarities. Kopites are gob.....s.

 

[Goat]

His career isn't over yet.

Hes an International manager earning 750k a year, his career is over.

 

[davek]

Hes an International manager earning 750k a year, his career is over.

He got his cash off Everton: the money the club owed him when they broke his contract. He's set up for life. He also has credibility as a fine international manager and a manager who won a domestic trophy in England.

But the issue here is Baines.

I think it was telling that there was just a single piece in the Guardian after he retired last week (a pretty infantile piece by a hack like Hunter, who I expect nothing better off, tbh).

He deserves to be acknowledeged in terms of the amount of games he playes, but, as said = a footnote in our history.

 

[MikeH72]

I'm mildly pleased that he has finally gone, yes. I wouldn't say buzzing.

He arrived in 2007 and played hundreds of games and scored a few goals and created a few goals. A footnote in the club's history. His lasting legacy will be to have gloated (in his very passive aggressive way that he perfected) at a manager's dismissal.

That's about it for me.

Well it won’t be.

 

[hktoffee]

You'd prefer to be ripped off by a player who had no success?

Baines is an Everton legend.

The other is a below par low tier manager who we made a bet on but failed miserably in the end.

 

[davek]

Baines is an Everton legend.

The other is a below par low tier manager who we made a bet on but failed miserably in the end.

Baines played 350 times for Everton and he has to be credited for that.

However, he will be remembered as one of those players fans latched onto and inflated the importance of during an extended drought in trophies. Dave Hickson got that sort of accolade in the 50s; Bob Latchford during the 70s. Baines is not as important as those two, but he represents what they did: any port in a storm.

 

[Goat]

Baines played 350 times for Everton and he has to be credited for that.

However, he will be remembered as one of those players fans latched onto and inflated the importance of during an extended drought in trophies. Dave Hickson got that sort of accolade in the 50s; Bob Latchford during the 70s. Baines is not as important as those two, but he represents what they did: any port in a storm.

Baines will be the benchmark for any Left-back who comes after him.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Baines played 350 times for Everton and he has to be credited for that.

However, he will be remembered as one of those players fans latched onto and inflated the importance of during an extended drought in trophies. Dave Hickson got that sort of accolade in the 50s; Bob Latchford during the 70s. Baines is not as important as those two, but he represents what they did: any port in a storm.

Christ, imagine only occupying the same place in Evertonians' hearts as Bob Latchford. For shame.

 

[davek]

Baines will be the benchmark for any Left-back who comes after him.

He wont. The current LB is a player who relies less on any single partnership like Baines did with Pienaar - and Baines looked lost after Pienaar left. He's a better defender than Baines too.

 

[davek]

Christ, imagine only occupying the same place in Evertonians' hearts as Bob Latchford. For shame.

I like Bob Latchford. But we dont measure 'legend' out by goals scored - Cottee would be a legend if we did.

 

[Cameron Manning]

Baines played 350 times for Everton and he has to be credited for that.

However, he will be remembered as one of those players fans latched onto and inflated the importance of during an extended drought in trophies. Dave Hickson got that sort of accolade in the 50s; Bob Latchford during the 70s. Baines is not as important as those two, but he represents what they did: any port in a storm.

One of the best British players I ever saw.possibly the best.played his whole career with one club and represented England on numerous occasions but never won anything, except a losing FA cup medal, Tom Finney, an absolute legend to thousands of football supporters and not just PNE fans. You don’t have to win honours to be a legend.

 

[tonka1878]

Christ, imagine only occupying the same place in Evertonians' hearts as Bob Latchford. For shame.

You're making the mistake of looking for logic.