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I have just read that Kyle Naughton may be loaned back to Sheffield United after playing only one game for Spurs since they 'gazumped' the Toffees to his signature at the start of the season. I can't help thinking that the lad could be an Everton regular by now if he'd joined us...
Hibbert was surely well out of favour after the FA Cup Final and Naughton would have surely got a start early on. Who knows, with a lack of depth in the right-back position he could even have been eyeing a World Cup spot if he'd done well.
Spurs have a history of signing young talent, with a very low success rate: for every Lennon and Huddlestone there seems to be a Naughton, Dos Santos, Bostock and a Bentley!
No disrespect to Hibbert but with Coleman, Neill, Heitinga and Neville now available we have a lot of cover there. Moyes has a much better record at bringing young talent into the first squad and Naughton should have considered this and told the Sheffield United greedy guts boys to send him to Goodison.
Spragg Johnson, Posted 07/01/2010 at 17:06:39
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Coleman looks very promising, but his first team career stretches back minutes rather than years and let's not forget a lot of those minutes were pretty awful too.
Top class right backs do not grow on trees, that’s why nobody in the Prem seems to have one and why the likes of Benitez and Redknapp will splash out a combined £40 million trying to find one — without success.
Coleman is about to get his chance, we are all a little excited, let's hope he can deliver consistently and save us the millions Keith mentions.
The majority of players don’t give a toss for the club they play for now, just what they can get out of it, London and decent wages for a kid whether he’s sat at home on his games console or playing would be a dream come true for most people that age.
Coleman does look like a good signing and we’ll just have to go with what we have and not cry over what could have been again, fed up of that game, it’s the new Everton way.
The display from Coleman against Spurs and his match-turning run against Carlisle for the second goal demonstrated that the lad has ability; the test will be during the coming months when we will see can this be sustained and has Moyes got the bottle to play him ahead of reliable old Tony Hibbert.
On Bentley — yes please! He is a great player who just hasn’t responded to Redknapp’s mangement style. He was great at Blackburn under Hughes, great at Norwich, much better for Spurs under Juande Ramos... and was once talked about as a natural replacement for Beckham for England. (He scored the first senior England goal at new Wembley.) If we could get him on loan and permanaently in the summer, it would be a great signing.
Coleman was much cheaper but, from what I’ve seen of Naughton, Naughton is by far the better prospect.
I would be extremely unhappy to have Coleman at right midfield, he has a heavy touch when dribbling and is clearly only suited to playing right back. We need more midfielders, not more defenders playing in midfield. I’m hoping Donovan will get a go down the right.
£13 million for Andy Johnson
£24 million for Joleon Lescott
£27 million for Rooney (who has never lived up to what he was IMHO)
£5 million for McFadden
£3 million for James Beattie...
Tom, please!! He is carrying United at the moment and is absolutely one of the best players on the planet, we got screwed by United.
Agree with the rest though.
On topic, it does look as though what many said about Naughton is coming true, he seems to have potential from what I’ve read but that's no good if you don’t have the chance to realise it. Coleman certainly looks a good prospect and with him, Hibbert, Heitinga, Neill, Neville and Gosling able to play RB we are more than covered there.
I haven’t seen enough of Naughton to have an opinion yet but he will probably be cursing Sheff Utd for sticking out for the Spuds deal.
The difference is that now Spurs seem to have the money to throw away. But the rich men running that club didn’t get that wealth by not watching their money. They will tire of it soon. Don’t forget about the failure of Gareth Bale at Spurs as well.
On the other hand, has he become the once-in-a lifetime ’George Best’ player that he looked like being with us? I don’t think so.
If you ever coach a young person who lacks the ability of we chosen few to play on the left, teach them how to, if you can. There is a future for them in this game.
ps:- when people refer to us as ’one-footed’, I console myself in the reflection that about 60% of professional footballers wouldn’t know what to do with their left foot except to stand on it.
And sometimes not very well at that.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2009/10/08/everton-youngster-seamus-coleman-on-comeback-trail-100252-24879675/
Did you see how many chances he missed against Leeds? Give Torres or Drogba any of those and they will score.
Rooney is a top player, but I wouldn’t put all the burdon on him in South Africa as you will get knocked out in the quarters as always
If you’re good enough to play at the top level, why would you not play just to have, say, an extra 35 grand on top of your 65 thousand a week?
So you could buy another dozen motors? have his and hers diamond-encrusted toilet roll holders? build a bigger swimming pool in your third home?
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