vorm wasnt traded to swamse
used to talk to a person who sort of worked with the everton staff at the time of van der meyde being here.
Apparently he was the best technically gifted player we had for years, *in training* said everything just came easy to him, could take people on, had the best shot on him, could pick a pass from no where.
Players / manager / coaches were absolutely made up with him in his first few weeks of training, then he got a injury... then his daughter got ill... then he turned to ale. Sad really.
edit -
to add to that, after his first season he put on a lot of weight due to the ale, but there was a point i think it might have been 2008, where he really sorted his life out and got really fit in pre-season, he was flying apparently, and then he had a very good pre-season game against nottingham forest i believe, but got injured in that match, which again was a shame because apparently the staff thought that'd be his season, and he could make a proper impact was going to be brought back into first team fold.