ToffeeWeb - Season 2007-08

Chad Schofield
1 Posted 02/10/2007 at 21:48:58

Wow, he sounds good - very good, but not going to get too excited yet - besides which, seem to have a tendancy to rest our young players a lot so that they don’t burn out before being sold on!

OK, that’s a little to cinical - wish the lad all the best, and hope he continues perfoming the way he has to date.

james elworthy
2 Posted 02/10/2007 at 21:59:13

No, Rooneys agent will engineer a move so he can get a cut

Dutch Schaffaer
3 Posted 02/10/2007 at 22:09:21

Lets hope baxter has a little more loyalty and passion for Everton then that the always-trying-to-end-a-goal-drought Rooney.

Nick Harrison
4 Posted 02/10/2007 at 23:30:42

Haha, an accurate description, Dutch.

Mark Murphy
5 Posted 03/10/2007 at 08:47:04

If hes signed a contract with Stretford any excitement I felt just disappeared.

Gone before he’s twenty.

Over Moyes & Kenwrights dead bodies natch...

murf

Michael Newton
6 Posted 03/10/2007 at 10:32:58

If Jose Baxter is any good then an agent like Stretford will cash him in. What good is he to Stretford without a cut of a transfer deal.
He will engineer a move to Man Utd or Chelsea and then take a big cut of a fee.
Players from the so called big 4 have moves engineered to continental giants like Real Madrid, AC Milan or Barcelona by their agents because again its a big pay day for them.
What good is a guy who only played for one club in his career to an agent, Trevor Brooking, Bily Bonds, Brian Labone and Bobby Charlton.
In fact I cant think of anyone other than Labone that played for Everton only in the last 30 years unless someone can shed some light on it, I think Colin Harvey played somewhere at the very end of his career like Sheff Wed, which in theory makes him nearly a one club player, but even now at the end of their careers players dont go down to the lower divisions except for Nick Barmby.

Paul Cook
7 Posted 03/10/2007 at 10:47:07

How about some of the other young lads at the Academy? The like of Agard, Kissock and Rodwell. Are they ones to look out for? Let’s hope for more Rooneys [talent, not the shite attitude] and not more Jevons and Branches.

James Elworthy
8 Posted 03/10/2007 at 10:47:25

Agents also get a big cut of new contracts they can get for their players, I am sure Arteta’s agent did because he tried to engineer a move and then he signed a new contract out of the blue.
Is Johnson’s agent behind these rumours of home sickness. Is Johnson married to Unsworth’s ex wife? He found Villa to far from home and moved to Portsmouth & Ipswich which was a laugh as you can’t get much further away.
If you get paid 35 to 40k a week then I find home sickness to be a load of balls, I would happily live in John O’Groats for that type of money.
Man Utd have kept a few of their players over the years, Neville, Scholes, Giggs, and I am sure Phil Neville, Butt and Beckham would of stayed if Fergie didnt get rid of them. However they were all part of an exceptional youth team.
Tony Adams springs to mind in recent times, did Kevin Ratcliffe finish his career at Everton I cant recall.

James Elworthy
9 Posted 03/10/2007 at 10:47:25

Agents also get a big cut of new contracts they can get for their players, I am sure Arteta’s agent did because he tried to engineer a move and then he signed a new contract out of the blue.
Is Johnson’s agent behind these rumours of home sickness. Is Johnson married to Unsworth’s ex wife? He found Villa to far from home and moved to Portsmouth & Ipswich which was a laugh as you can’t get much further away.
If you get paid 35 to 40k a week then I find home sickness to be a load of balls, I would happily live in John O’Groats for that type of money.
Man Utd have kept a few of their players over the years, Neville, Scholes, Giggs, and I am sure Phil Neville, Butt and Beckham would of stayed if Fergie didnt get rid of them. However they were all part of an exceptional youth team.
Tony Adams springs to mind in recent times, did Kevin Ratcliffe finish his career at Everton I cant recall.

Dave Southword
10 Posted 03/10/2007 at 11:01:04

Things are slightly different now. New rules forbid an agent working for two parties in one transfer. Stretford was Rooney’s agent but also worked for Man Utd as the buying club. He can no longer do this which cuts a portion of revenue for the agent and makes it a lot easier for renegotiations as the agent hasn’t got his eye on a big payout from elsewhere.

Keith (in York)
11 Posted 03/10/2007 at 11:44:11

Quote: ’Shall we be getting exited?’
A Freudian slip? If Stretford is involved the answer is probably ’Yes’!

Paul Cook
12 Posted 03/10/2007 at 12:34:04

James, Kevin Ratcliffe left Everton in 1991 and went on to play for Cardiff, Dundee, Derby, Notts Forest and finally Chester before retiring in 1995.

Steve Lyth
13 Posted 03/10/2007 at 12:37:59

I think young jose is more than aware about what Stretford achieved for the Scouse Uncle Tom and it says a lot that he has signed a contract with him.

Allan Hobbs
14 Posted 03/10/2007 at 13:10:58

You might also like to think about a term at night school with English like that.

Punctuation??

Chad Schofield
15 Posted 03/10/2007 at 13:38:19

Michael Newton, Matt Le Tissier at Southampton - but in to the detrement of his international career (let’s not get into that argument again)!

Thing is Jose’s doing very well for us right now. He’s been signed by Nike... but in fairness you only have to look at some of the talent we’ve had come through our ranks - players who we’re raved about including the likes of Jeffers *spit*, Cadermatri, currently Vaughn and tragically John Marshall (RIP). Glittering start to a career doesn’t always mean they’re going to dazzle the world. I do hope Vaughn gets back soon though and whilst Jose’s with us let’s back him rather than trying to be Mystic Meg and talk about what will happen to him a few years down the road.

Seth DeMerit
16 Posted 04/10/2007 at 15:47:56

what happened to John Marshall?