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AaronTheBlue
Player Valuation: £60m
he will rise above the sunderland defenders, from a corner like a mix between dave watson and lescott, before giving a bullet header into the top left hand corner past pantilmilon, wait and see mr cheese
Haha...it was a joke. I'm on Team Aaron with regards to this player.
....that's convincing.
AaronTheBlue
Player Valuation: £60m
Robertor
Has left the building
Let's be honest mate a mix between Dave Watson and Lescott comes absolutely nowhere near Funes Mori. I hope you'll reasses your comment and find that a mix between Beckenbauer and Passarella would be more accurate.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
My name's Funes, and where's my fish and chips ? 
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/31/ramiro-funes-mori-everton-sunderland-argentina
Everton’s Ramiro Funes Mori happy at deep end after River Plate education
Argentinian defender is braced for a lengthy run in the first team earlier than expected after injury to Phil Jagielka, starting with Sunday’s visit of Sunderland
Ramiro Funes Mori came off the bench against Arsenal last month and is set to make his third Premier League start against Sunderland today. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA
Paul Wilson
Ramiro Funes Mori is a bit of a mouthful, so Everton’s new centre-half from Argentina has been thinking about shortening it. “I have asked my team-mates to call me Funes,” he says. “Though in the media I like to be Funes Mori, and that’s what it says on my shirt. José is really my first name, but my mum and dad call me Ramiro. Actually, I think I have too many names.”
Whatever they choose to call him Everton supporters had better get used to their new defensive recruit, because with Phil Jagielka out for two months Funes Mori is in for a prolonged run in the first team. The chance may have come slightly sooner than he expected or wished but it is unlikely to faze him. This 24-year-old is not just a veteran of the superclásicoderby between River Plate and Boca Juniors, he actually scored the winning goal for River Plate in his last one. A header, at Boca’s ground. An experience, he says, that allowed him to remain reasonably calm about making his Goodison debut against Chelsea then appearing in the Merseyside Derby.
“What you have to understand about football in Argentina is that it is life and death,” he explains. “People are crazy about it, and sadly there have been fatalities. For that reason, they don’t allow away supporters at games any more, there is too much trouble and fighting. So in the last derby it felt like it was 45,000 people versus 11. When I scored there was perfect silence. When I screamed I heard myself, and so did the rest of the ground.”
Funes Mori speaks in fluent English, a result of spending his teenage years in Texas, where his father moved to work as a mechanic. Along with his identical twin brother, Rogelio, he gained a degree of fame in the United States by taking part in a football reality show built around young players trying to break into the big time.
The prize for winning was supposed to be an MLS contract, though it did not work out quite like that. “Rogelio won and nothing happened,” he says. “He never got a contract with FA Dallas and we wanted to play professionally, so we went back to Argentina when we were 16 years old.”
Both imagined they would one day move on from Argentina to Europe and both did, just not together. Rogelio moved first, but a spell at Benfica did not work out and after a period on loan in Turkey he moved to his present club, Monterrey in Mexico. Ramiro stayed longer at River Plate and stayed focused on England. “As a kid I always watched the Premier League, so when Everton came in for me I had no doubts,” he says. “For me this is the best league in Europe, playing in it is a dream come true.”
Funes Mori nevertheless sounded out a few fellow Argentinians on the advisability of a move to England. Having just broken into the Argentina team he was able to ask Martín Demichelis and Pablo Zabaleta of Manchester City about life in the north-west. “They both recommended it,” he says. “Mostly for the fish and chips, actually, but they said I would have no problems with English football. They said it would be faster and more intense than I was used to, and it is, but I don’t mind that. I am here to adapt and learn, and so far I am enjoying it a lot. To be honest, I didn’t think I would break into the first team so quickly but as a footballer you have to be ready for these moments.”
Everton play Sunderland on Sunday seeking their first league win since September. Along with the rest of the Everton squad, Funes Mori attended Howard Kendall’s funeral on Thursday and was impressed by the way his new home city paid its respects to a football man. While he could not claim to recognise all the famous former players in the cathedral, he does have an awareness of Everton’s history, tradition and playing style under their current manager. “Like I said, I followed English football a lot back home,” he says. “I knew about Everton, what sort of a club it was, and I knew about Roberto Martínez. Since the first moment I spoke with him and he told me how I would fit into the team it has been great. He likes to play from the back and he has confidence in me. His way of playing is very comfortable to me, I couldn’t ask for anything more.”
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/31/ramiro-funes-mori-everton-sunderland-argentina
Everton’s Ramiro Funes Mori happy at deep end after River Plate education
Argentinian defender is braced for a lengthy run in the first team earlier than expected after injury to Phil Jagielka, starting with Sunday’s visit of Sunderland
Ramiro Funes Mori came off the bench against Arsenal last month and is set to make his third Premier League start against Sunderland today. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA
Paul Wilson
Ramiro Funes Mori is a bit of a mouthful, so Everton’s new centre-half from Argentina has been thinking about shortening it. “I have asked my team-mates to call me Funes,” he says. “Though in the media I like to be Funes Mori, and that’s what it says on my shirt. José is really my first name, but my mum and dad call me Ramiro. Actually, I think I have too many names.”
Whatever they choose to call him Everton supporters had better get used to their new defensive recruit, because with Phil Jagielka out for two months Funes Mori is in for a prolonged run in the first team. The chance may have come slightly sooner than he expected or wished but it is unlikely to faze him. This 24-year-old is not just a veteran of the superclásicoderby between River Plate and Boca Juniors, he actually scored the winning goal for River Plate in his last one. A header, at Boca’s ground. An experience, he says, that allowed him to remain reasonably calm about making his Goodison debut against Chelsea then appearing in the Merseyside Derby.
“What you have to understand about football in Argentina is that it is life and death,” he explains. “People are crazy about it, and sadly there have been fatalities. For that reason, they don’t allow away supporters at games any more, there is too much trouble and fighting. So in the last derby it felt like it was 45,000 people versus 11. When I scored there was perfect silence. When I screamed I heard myself, and so did the rest of the ground.”
Funes Mori speaks in fluent English, a result of spending his teenage years in Texas, where his father moved to work as a mechanic. Along with his identical twin brother, Rogelio, he gained a degree of fame in the United States by taking part in a football reality show built around young players trying to break into the big time.
The prize for winning was supposed to be an MLS contract, though it did not work out quite like that. “Rogelio won and nothing happened,” he says. “He never got a contract with FA Dallas and we wanted to play professionally, so we went back to Argentina when we were 16 years old.”
Both imagined they would one day move on from Argentina to Europe and both did, just not together. Rogelio moved first, but a spell at Benfica did not work out and after a period on loan in Turkey he moved to his present club, Monterrey in Mexico. Ramiro stayed longer at River Plate and stayed focused on England. “As a kid I always watched the Premier League, so when Everton came in for me I had no doubts,” he says. “For me this is the best league in Europe, playing in it is a dream come true.”
Funes Mori nevertheless sounded out a few fellow Argentinians on the advisability of a move to England. Having just broken into the Argentina team he was able to ask Martín Demichelis and Pablo Zabaleta of Manchester City about life in the north-west. “They both recommended it,” he says. “Mostly for the fish and chips, actually, but they said I would have no problems with English football. They said it would be faster and more intense than I was used to, and it is, but I don’t mind that. I am here to adapt and learn, and so far I am enjoying it a lot. To be honest, I didn’t think I would break into the first team so quickly but as a footballer you have to be ready for these moments.”
Everton play Sunderland on Sunday seeking their first league win since September. Along with the rest of the Everton squad, Funes Mori attended Howard Kendall’s funeral on Thursday and was impressed by the way his new home city paid its respects to a football man. While he could not claim to recognise all the famous former players in the cathedral, he does have an awareness of Everton’s history, tradition and playing style under their current manager. “Like I said, I followed English football a lot back home,” he says. “I knew about Everton, what sort of a club it was, and I knew about Roberto Martínez. Since the first moment I spoke with him and he told me how I would fit into the team it has been great. He likes to play from the back and he has confidence in me. His way of playing is very comfortable to me, I couldn’t ask for anything more.”
Michaelcoyb
Transfer Window Time Keeper
Cant wait till he scores. His celebration is going to be boss. Limbs EVERYWHERE.
Maltese_Falcon
Player Valuation: £15m
Why is he going on "David Luisesque" runs ?
bretts angell
Player Valuation: £950k
I love his effort.seems to give everything.
Monumental
Player Valuation: £225k
Wasn't his best match (just regular) but it's important for him have a mistake like in Sunderland's second goal and then team manages to recover from that.
TheFinnFan
Finners
love that man
AaronTheBlue
Player Valuation: £60m
Struggled at times today but what he is, is a fighter he will fight for everything and learn from that still needs to form a partnership with stones and adapt some more ways to the league but he has been impressive
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