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Tony Hibbert

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Cheeky prick.

He has been a charity for 4 years and is a millionaire thanks to EFC despite being an alarmingly poor footballer.

Will always remember Chelsea shamelessly isolating him at Wembley and thinking after that game that him and Oswoman simply must be gotten rid of.

Seriously if I was Koeman/Kenwright I'd ban him from Goodison/FF the disrespectful hobo.
 
I'm not really sure what Hibbo was hoping to achieve by doing this. His departure could certainly been handled better but he must have known that it was unlikely he would be retained. He also must have known that his comments could only be seen as a direct attack on the club. He is a boyhood blue who got to live the dream and become very rich in the process. I'm just very disappointed by the whole thing.
 
Hibbert was my favourite player not because he was actually any good at football but I thought he'd realised that he had gotten away with being a crap footballer and was well looked after by one club for years, he never seemed to say much or moan about anything, I guess that is until his contract ran out...
 

Most of you are missing the point. His complaint is not about losing his job, it was that no one was willing to tell him. Hearing news like that via the club website is classless by Everton. Everyone has the right to expect more than that from their employer, i would say even more so if you are in the public eye like footballers. Rumors fly all the time, they have every right to not listen to (maybe even should completely disregard them) them until they hear it from someone from the club.

Doesn't matter if it comes from koeman, or Walsh, or some asst coach, or even the person who does payroll, he has every right to hear that from the club before it is posted publicly on the website. I bet each of our academy players find out that they are not being retained by a human that works for efc, why would we treat those who were never good enough for us better than those who served us for a decade?

If he was told (in person or even a phone call) and then it was posted and he complained about not being retained, then he deserves every ounce of crap we are giving him. I love his loyalty, but he was nowhere near good enough anymore and I didn't think he should have gotten his last extension.

So again, his complaint isn't about losing his job, it is about the way he found out, and I think he (and Ossie) are justified if this is true. Classless move by our club.
 
chriswho said:
Most of you are missing the point. His complaint is not about losing his job, it was that no one was willing to tell him. Hearing news like that via the club website is classless by Everton. Everyone has the right to expect more than that from their employer, i would say even more so if you are in the public eye like footballers. Rumors fly all the time, they have every right to not listen to (maybe even should completely disregard them) them until they hear it from someone from the club.

Doesn't matter if it comes from koeman, or Walsh, or some asst coach, or even the person who does payroll, he has every right to hear that from the club before it is posted publicly on the website. I bet each of our academy players find out that they are not being retained by a human that works for efc, why would we treat those who were never good enough for us better than those who served us for a decade?

If he was told (in person or even a phone call) and then it was posted and he complained about not being retained, then he deserves every ounce of crap we are giving him. I love his loyalty, but he was nowhere near good enough anymore and I didn't think he should have gotten his last extension.

So again, his complaint isn't about losing his job, it is about the way he found out, and I think he (and Ossie) are justified if this is true. Classless move by our club.
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With all due respect, we all know that. Hes still behaved like a ta-ta.
 
What an engrossing thread this has turned out to be. A mountain out of a molehill if ever there was one.

We will never, ever, know the internal workings of our - or any - football club.

And one could on many occasions be forgiven for thinking that, on par with players' wages, they are crazily out of kilter with every other commercial enterprise in the country right now.

So this sort of apparently ham-fisted end to a long-serving player's contract could, on the face of it, have been handled better? Certainly, Mr Hibbert seems to think so.

However, let's stop and think a bit...

Here's the situation as I see it:

Tony Hibbert had a contract that he knew expired this Summer.

Presumably he was made aware of the expiry date when he signed it?

Presumably, he and or his agent will have made a note of that date in their diaries?

Presumably, as that deadline approached, one or both would have made enquiries with the club about whether it was going to be extended?

And presumably they will subsequently have had the joint wit and intelligence to realise that it was not?

Instead, we are asked to believe that Hibbert woke up the morning after his last pay day and was completely horrified to discover there wasn't going to be another. And no-one had had the decency to tell him!

What?

Really?

It may well be that the club did not send him a hand-crafted, wax-sealed certificate, in finest linen, beautifully concealed inside a Faberge Egg and delivered by a coach and horses to break the news to him - but are today's footballers (including the likes of our consistently average, if loyal former-fullback), so deluded as to think they deserve some sort of fanfare and 'apology'?

I would be amazed if the club's HR department had not fulfilled all their legal obligations and notifications to the letter, especially when such large sums of money are involved.

Yet here's Hibbert wanting us to believe that one day, without warning, Everton simply stopped talking to him.

Personally, after he and Osman got whipped in the 2009 cup final, I think he was extremely lucky to get paid for another SEVEN years.

He's been a crock for the last three, so even during that time he will surely have earned in the region of two million pounds or more for doing sweet FA.

Even if the club had been neglectful, who is he to complain after earning a genuine fortune and not having done more than a few days' work in the last 1,000-plus alone.

On that evidence alone, I would say the club have gone overboard to look after him.

We've got used to the likes of Ronaldo being a prima-donna. And even Yaya Toure's recent 'unhappy birthday' outburst wasn't completely unexpected - so cosseted are these vile, vain, greedy, self-centred people we invest so much of our hopes and money in.

But a second-rate fullback, who no-one has seen hide nor hair of for the best part of the last three seasons?

Hibbert, you should be ashamed of yourself - not sorry for yourself.

You have gone from being one of us, to a complete gobshite.
 
he was a championship footballer on a premier league wage, who had to do very little to earn substantial amounts.

I agree if he wasn't told he would be leaving (i'm not sure I believe that) that is a little harsh, however he knows, we know he stole a living
 

I have a bit of sympathy for Hibbo.A simple phone call or being told the story face to face is not much to ask.However he has had a good run at Everton and he barely played the last few years.He must have known that the show was over.I can see both sides of the argument.However i don't know if i only speak for myself here but some of the comments abusing him both on here and on Facebook Twitter etc are sickening and it kind of backs up Hibbos point about this new classless Everton.The same people abusing Hibbo a man who gave his whole professional footballing life to Everton were probably blowing steam up Wayne Rooneys you know where these past few weeks as well.With support like that who needs enemies eh.
 
Well said Mike O'Brien on the Everton Facebook page.

Hibbo may not have been the most graceful player to have worn the shirt but he is a blue and he lived and breathed Everton. Irrespective of what he got paid he has my utmost respect. Like any employer nowadays Everton didn't show that respect in the way they treated both players. They showed respect to Judas Rooney by turning up for his testimonial though.
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If my contract was coming to an end at work..I'd ask my agent if it was being renewed...that's if I earned enough to have an agent.

If I was a 35 year old average footballer who had hardly figured for 3 seasons I'd presume my playing career over

If I had earned a fortune by playing for my home town club...I'd be grateful



If I was a fan who'd helped pay the wages of above...I'd be unsympathetic
 
chriswho said:
Most of you are missing the point. His complaint is not about losing his job, it was that no one was willing to tell him. Hearing news like that via the club website is classless by Everton. Everyone has the right to expect more than that from their employer, i would say even more so if you are in the public eye like footballers. Rumors fly all the time, they have every right to not listen to (maybe even should completely disregard them) them until they hear it from someone from the club.

Doesn't matter if it comes from koeman, or Walsh, or some asst coach, or even the person who does payroll, he has every right to hear that from the club before it is posted publicly on the website. I bet each of our academy players find out that they are not being retained by a human that works for efc, why would we treat those who were never good enough for us better than those who served us for a decade?

If he was told (in person or even a phone call) and then it was posted and he complained about not being retained, then he deserves every ounce of crap we are giving him. I love his loyalty, but he was nowhere near good enough anymore and I didn't think he should have gotten his last extension.

So again, his complaint isn't about losing his job, it is about the way he found out, and I think he (and Ossie) are justified if this is true. Classless move by our club.
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You are missing the point, we know this but it the way he ranted about the club in the media about we are not a people club and how it's gone crap since Moyes left. Our Everton community do a lot of good work.
 

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