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Pienaar to return?

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Loving the moral highground here, you would all do it, twice. I know i would, since when has loyalty in footy mattered?
 
Loyalty, meh. We don't need loyalty, we need goals.

I think anyone expecting loyalty in this day and age in football is setting themselves up for massive disappointment.
 
He earns his spec back, if he can't he can do one back down to money laundering FC.
 

neonleon said:
He ran his contract down, got his agent to find the juiciest contract out there (because we wouldn't pay him £75k a week) and left six months before his contract was due to expire thereby depriving the club of a decent compensatory transfer fee.

A year of not playing football later he's back in the city hoping to pick up the pieces.

If we do get him back on a permanent (which is doubtful because Spurs will want 3 or 4 million) we may get a little bit more loyalty this time round. Who knows. I think its a mental block with these lads. Earn 5% more somewhere else? I'm off.
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You say he ran his contract down like its a bad bad thing? He signed it and he honoured it. We than chose to sell him 6 months before the end of it to cash in, we ended the contract early not him, although obviously he was ok with that.

Sure he could of signed a bumper new contract enabling us to possibly get a higher transfer fee but if an offer didn't come in which suited us he'd of been stuck here.

As for being greedy, do you dislike all our players because they are all greedy playing for the money they do and not agreeing to take less to help the club.

Dictionary.com : "
the state or quality of being loyal; faithfulness to commitments or obligations."

Seems to me that he was loyal to us by giving his all in every game he played for before we got rid of him.
 
neonleon said:
He ran his contract down, got his agent to find the juiciest contract out there (because we wouldn't pay him £75k a week) and left six months before his contract was due to expire thereby depriving the club of a decent compensatory transfer fee.

A year of not playing football later he's back in the city hoping to pick up the pieces.

If we do get him back on a permanent (which is doubtful because Spurs will want 3 or 4 million) we may get a little bit more loyalty this time round. Who knows. I think its a mental block with these lads. Earn 5% more somewhere else? I'm off.
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Love the amount of spin on that, as if he knew from the get go that he was just playing for us until he got a better offer, then he would be off. It's been said before that he simply wanted to be paid what he (in my opinion) deserved to be paid, which was as much as Arteta. Why should he stay at a club in a worse position, lower ambitions, and practically no chance of winning anything ?

It's not just about the 5% more.
 

EY EY LADS!!

I'm the one meant to be causing angst on here not Steven Pienaar FFS

Frankly the fact he was forced back with his tail between his legs makes me forgive him of leaving in the first place.

The grass WAS NOT greener at Spurs and all that.

Righteous indignation to the Toffeemen!


What's important is he'll be playing for EVERTON FUSSBALL CLUB. That. Is. ALL. That. Matters. Frankly.
 
THT has pretty much destroyed the 'greed' argument IMO:

All this ‘greedy’ tag and other criticisms levelled at Steven is a tad unfair in my opinion, as had the club offered Steven a deal at around £60k a week then he would have signed there and then. Truth is he was never offered anywhere near that amount despite being, in my opinion, Everton’s best player in terms of creativity and hard work.
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http://thtandlcab-football.com/?cat=8

Arteta was on £75k a week correct ? £60k for Pienaar was WELL worth it, all day long.
 
I gave up expecting loyalty from footballers beards ago.

All I care about now is we have the best left hand side partnership we've had in donkeys back together, if only for a few months. Enjoy it.

I would have him back permanently but I wouldn't pay more than we got for him. Similarly, he can bugger off with the silly wage demands.
 
I wouldn't blame Pienaar if we took the piss with the contract offer and undervalued him. If we offered him £60k and he rejected it, then I'd be calling him a snide.

I enjoy my workplace, the people in it, and the job itself.

If I was on £30k a year, and they offered me £32k a year, and someone else came along expecting me to do the same job and offered me £50k a year, I'd ask my current company for parity, and if they couldn't do it, would settle for around £40k because I enjoy it, and the grass isn't always greener. If they took the piss and stuck to £32k I would be out the door as soon as, however.

Loyalty exists for some people, but you've got to find a happy medium.
 

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