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Moyes & Osman fear loss of key players
Despite many Evertonians looking forward with real anticipation to a 2010/11 season that promises so much, both manager David Moyes and midfielder Leon Osman have spoken out with an air of caution that suggests the club may yet have difficulty hanging on to some of it’s key players this summer.
Talking in the latest issue of The Evertonian, the manager seemed guarded in his optimism as he commented;
“I don’t mind raising expectations as long as there’s a hint of realism in amongst it all”
He then continued, in a manner that surely suggests he feels things may well be ‘out of his hands’ ;
“The biggest problem we find at Everton is the spending power of the other clubs around us. What’s going to happen? Will we be able to keep those players we’ve all been talking about? That’s the thing. Can we keep them?
And, finally, with a chilling hint of some of the things we heard back in the disastrous summer of 2008, Moyes seems to sound something of a warning as to his ability to remain motivated should the club fail to re-sign the likes of Steven Pienaar and Mikel Arteta to new, long-term, deals;
“If we can(sign them), then I think that optimism will stay. If we can’t, then I think it would alter.”
Whilst, of course, these comments could also be viewed as somewhat innocuous and we don’t know the exact context in which the manager was speaking, the words of Leon Osman when talking to SkySports over the last few days add further gas to the flames.
The diminutive Skelmersdale schemer seemed to join up with his managers thinking in preparing Evertonians for the worst as he commented;
“We’re building a quality squad at the minute and if players were to leave that then it would be disappointing,”
“But football is not a long game career wise and if people were to leave we can’t hang around and mope about it, we move on and move forward.”
“Hopefully they don’t and we’re looking strong for next season, but even if they do it’s not the end of the world.”
Whilst we’d certainly agree with Leon that losing our star turn’s wouldn’t be “the end of the world”, it would surely signal the end of David Moyes’ patience with Bill Kenwright and a board that have continually hamstrung him in the transfer market since his arrival in 2002.
Everton Football Club is undoubtedly bigger than any one player,but you would have to ask….just how many times can we expect the manager to continue performing miracles if the club can’t match the ambitions of either himself or his top players?
We will all be keeping our fingers crossed that these fears are unfounded. If the worst does happen though, you would really have to sit back and ask “where can we possibly go from here”?
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fingers crossed indeed! It has to be a worry when the two of them are talking like this though, because you have to assume they have some inkling at least into the intentions and thoughts of the players. Ossie’s comment about the “short career” struck me as odd to be honest. That sounds almost as if he is saying “you can’t blame them for taking the big money elsewhere”.
It would be so depressing to take two steps back when we have got as close to challenging as we are now.
Theres very little ambition at our club under the curret board so who could blame our best players for moving on?
These fans who defend Kenwright and his regime should remember his complete lack of ambition for Everton FC will cost us our top players sooner rather than later.
And then eventually the manager.
it appears once again that £50 or £60 thousand a week is not good enough for many of todays players, leon osman says a footballers career is short what a load of b******s, lets say an average premiership players earns around £25,000 a week and he plays for 10 year in the premiership, that works our around £1.2 million a year times 10 equals £12 million for ten years, sickening when you think the average fan earns around £15,000 a YEAR, It’s not winning trophies that encourages todays players to do well it’s MONEY and how they love it, most would sell their own mother if it meant a few bob more in their pockets, can i also say how much i respect jack (one in a million) rodwell, who had the opportunity to swell his bank account (like an ex everton rat) who proudly put money before respect for everton and then lied about it by blaming davey moyes, i also believe that dan gosling will copy rodwell and sign for everton for anothe 5 year when his contract is up.
For Christs sake. Lee, let’s face it. The only thing that will make you happy is if the Sultan of Brunei suddenly realised he was a lifelong Bluenose, bought the club, bought Stanley Park and built the best stadium in the world and filled it with Mourinho, Kaka, Ronaldo etc. Realistic ambition isn’t lack of ambition. Steady growth will always outlast a growth boom like Citeh are experiencing.
If Bill had knocked back promising prospective investors i could understand more where you’re coming from. But where are they Lee? Where are the Yanks, Arabs, Russians with billions to burn?
If we were battling relegation year on year it would make sense to attack people at the club. But if it hadn’t been for a ridiculous caralogue of injuries and hugely unsettling start to the season which was more about DM than BK then we would’ve finished 4th or better. Steady improvement. As a certain recently unemployed Hispanic waiter might say…’Fact’.
YWB, a tedious and dishonest line of attack-Bill has found a billionaire, Sir Phillip Green.
8th place after finishing fifth is not my idea of steady progress.
Youngwilsonball.
The only thing that will make me happy is some much needed compitent leadership from boardroom level, which we don’t have now.
I constantly criticise Kenwright and the board because i don’t rate them and KNOW we could do better,your probably another of these fans seduced by his pathetic ‘tales from the boys pen’ or his boring ‘i love the club’ stuff,well these soundbites don’t buy the players our manager whats to acquire.
Steady progress? We went backwards last season,mainly down to the spending power of Man City and Tottenham. Are we ever going to be able to compete with them while this man is determined to cling on to his trainset?
No.
Everton football Club is a attractive investment BK has conned the supporters with his search for investment does he have a legal binding that any potencial investers cannot discuss a interest publicly no !!! he has not even looked the club is not for sale !!
i don’t think BK is even interested in money its more of a selfish reason he likes the attention of being evertons chairman
i would rather see some oily goat shagging arab incharge than that shit actor he should fuck off down south with his homosexual friends i don’t give a shit that he is a fellow supporter so fuckin what give it up bill moyes can’t keep you at the helm forever
Gordon Lee.
Exactly mate, Kenwright has a massive ego and loves being chairman of ‘his’ club and the kudos it brings him.
He’s in it for himself and not the club. He knows were skint and despite constantly banging on about finding investment,he doesn’t really want it because he doesn’t want to dilute his shareholding and breakdown his power base at our club. Thats why we’ve never had a rights issue,even Peter Johnson had one of those in 1996 to put some much needed cash into our club,but Mr Ego won’t will he.
Get this clown out of Goodison.
I find it difficult to come round to some people way of thinking. Maybe I’m an optomist, or maybe I just dont see the bad in people first. However, maybe the reason the club hasn’t been sold, is actually because the right person hasn’t come along, you know, like what is said by the club every time the question is asked. The difference comes when you consider what is viewed as right for the club. The views of some is that they couldn’t give a toss about motives so long as they are loaded. The views of others are, so long as they have the right ideas, business acumen and the right interests at heart, then if they aren’t the righest person in the word, then thats fine. I’m all for the latter. I was only a kid when we were the best team in Europe, but I have grown up during the real bad times and they are STARTING to become a distant memory, games confined to the annals of Premiership history books. I no longer travel to Goodison with the knowing feeling of defeat in my stomach, I actually start the day quite upbeat, I can spend more Mondays in work with a smile on my face than I do hiding from all around me, I talk football with lots of different fans, and not one of them consider us a laughing stock. That is what I consider progress. That progression will win us things, and put us in a position to continue to win things. That is the progression that has been brought by the astute management from the top down. Things could be better, I know that, you know that, but things could be a lot worse, and they have been. The teams around us are spending money, but they are hardly out of reach are they. The search for a SUITABLE investor/buyer (be careful not to get these two mixed up) must continue, and I’m sure it will. But just be careful what you wish for.
“Be careful what you wish for”. The usual soundbite from the pro-Kenwright types,heard it loads of times.
What i wish for is competent leadership from the top,is that to much to ask for? Not some luvvie who hogs the limelight when things are going well yet hides when its going tits up.