Peid Reid was a former kopite....just saying like.
But as the saying goes "once Everton has touched you "
Couldnt care who any player supports as long as they do the biz for us.
Baines....still class.
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Peid Reid was a former kopite....just saying like.
But as the saying goes "once Everton has touched you "
Couldnt care who any player supports as long as they do the biz for us.
Baines....still class.
Jimmy Grimble
Player Valuation: £20m
Tierney scored for Celtic yesterday. Looks good
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
Still engaging in your one man jihad against one of our most loyal and respected players I see. As far as I can see his only perceived 'crime' is to choose the shirt over the man. Could teach a few people the meaning of club loyalty as far as I'm concerned.
I think people misunderstand what the "one of us" banner really meant
When the term "us" was used, it didn't necessarily mean in the context "He's an Evertonian like we are"
The "us" was more to do with Baines speaking out and telling the truth, whilst also saying what a lot of fans at the time were saying
He essentially gave "us" a voice at a time when we were voiceless and thus became one of "us" in the process
He didn't say anything that wasn't true, and Martinez's vindictive response to someone coming out and saying what fans were thinking was probably a moment where a lot of people who were erring about him finally started to turn on him
In a lot of ways, I see Baines as a genuine hero. His sacrifice started the ball rolling to Martinez's demise and essentially rescued the club from the eventual relegation we would have suffered had Martinez remained in power
So he truly was "one of us", regardless of who he supported in his youth
When the term "us" was used, it didn't necessarily mean in the context "He's an Evertonian like we are"
The "us" was more to do with Baines speaking out and telling the truth, whilst also saying what a lot of fans at the time were saying
He essentially gave "us" a voice at a time when we were voiceless and thus became one of "us" in the process
He didn't say anything that wasn't true, and Martinez's vindictive response to someone coming out and saying what fans were thinking was probably a moment where a lot of people who were erring about him finally started to turn on him
In a lot of ways, I see Baines as a genuine hero. His sacrifice started the ball rolling to Martinez's demise and essentially rescued the club from the eventual relegation we would have suffered had Martinez remained in power
So he truly was "one of us", regardless of who he supported in his youth
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
Love Baines
Pound for pound, I think he has been our best player over the last decade
In that period, he'said the only player who has laid a legitimate claim to being labelled the best we've ever had in his position
Pound for pound, I think he has been our best player over the last decade
In that period, he'said the only player who has laid a legitimate claim to being labelled the best we've ever had in his position
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
A hero for doing what? He started bitching about matters in the winter of Martinez's second season, not when it all started going arse up.
That's a very nice revisionist history you have up there, but it doesn't hold water. Baines was not guaranteed a starting place anymore with Oviedo providing tough competition and he didn't like it one bit.
It was pure self concern that had him briefing the Echo and stirring up trouble halfway through that second season (NOT half way through the third season), not the love of a club he's never supported at any point in his life.
bilyaletdinov_
Player Valuation: £35m
great player and servant to the club, when we replace him i hope its with Ricardo Rodriguez or Jonas Hector (especially after the RS were after them all summer)
This is utter tosh David
You say this like it's an absolute fact. Is this true or something you are just of the assumption that it happened that way ?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He was out injured at the time when we were playing halfway through the second Martinez season and one of the tv companies had him as a studio guest and he was dertermined then to voice his belief that he didn't know what way we were supposed to be playing. Now that is not something any player should be doing no matter who it is as manager, a manager btw who only ever spoke well of him.
He had an agenda very early on, and his third Martinez season outburst was NOT the act of someone sacrificing himself for the good of the team. It just wasnt. The lad had a massive axe to grind and it's pointless to think otherwise.
Possibly had just had a gut full of martinez's management, I'm not really too fussed about him telling it as he sees it instead of just using a heap of cliches.
Only thing that concerns me particularly is the club winning games which wasn't happening too often over the last 2 seasons.
tonka1878
Player Valuation: £20m
He should have started 6 months earlier to prevent us from our worst home season in living memory, I agree.
David I'd thank you to show the appropriate level of love, respect and appreciation for an Everton hero such as Leighton Baines, the voice of the voiceless
Good morrow
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
Today's Bainsey's 300th Premier League game for us.
Top pro, sniff it haters.
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