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How long will Arteta be out for?
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Do any of my fellow Evertonians know for how long Arteta is believed to be unable to play for us??? I have been to pretty much every site I could think of to get some more info on his bruised rib, but very little information seems to be available. Also, I read 12 different things on Saha's injury and the duration thereof; will either be back to face the shite at Goodison?
Cheers, COYB
Matthew Salem, Posted 26/01/2009 at 21:29:35
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The way he went down and then waved his hand at Bennett in an attempt to get Cahill a second yellow riled me to the point of committing murder. The spineless bastard Bennett should have booked the little twat. The even more spineless FA should ban the horrible bastard for cheating. That's that off me chest anway. Let's have the bastards in the replay.
Given the importance of team spirit and unity (and the availability of Yobo) Moyes would surely have dropped and fined Hibbo for anything so out of order. Particularly if you get an idea of Hibbo?s nature and massive regard for our great club, such as through the interviews on EvertonTV, you?d also know he is not a fucking knobhead that would twat our best player, FFS!
Moyes said that in an interview after the FA Cup game against the shite? I must have missed that. If he is only partially fit, I would rather rest him and not play him against Le Arse. The 3rd games vs the shite is all that matters as far as I am concerned. Benitez you fucking arrogant prick. Bring me a menu, I hear the appetizers are good!
Man Utd away is obviously tough, but with their massive injury problems I think we have a real chance and I?d not be surprised with a win, draw or a loss to be honest. I think we play Arse at home a day after they play WBA, so receovery time may be more on their side than ours.
Still, we have reason to be optimistic. COYB
"and I?d not be surprised with a win, draw or a loss to be honest." Well, I’ve seen some prudent predictions in my time but this beats them all ;-)
We have to beat Arsenal. I would be more tempted to rest Arteta at Old Trafford. If anywhere is going to be a backs-aginast-the-wall in job it is there. I will be in the United end for it, but I don’t anticipate seeing much in the way of attacking football from Everton. If there is any doubt that he can play all 3 matches then I would rest Arteta for that one and go all guns to get ourselves in with a shout of 4th spot with a win against the Arse and then put a team out to beat Liverpool, especially bearing in mind O’Neill’s poor record n the FA Cup. If we beat Liverpool we have a great chance to get through to the QFs and get revenge for the alarmingly one-sided 3-2 defeat at home to Villa.
Classic! lol
April fools day has come early it seems.
Is Kenwright that short-sighted?
I think the one word that is missing from our club motto is AMBITION. I cannot believe that we have no money at all... we have more revenue coming in than most other clubs and yet every club is active and we are not!!
We are supposed to be looking for loans and now Saviola is bracketed with Pompey for a loan target. The players we have are ?heroic? in their efforts but they need adequate reinforcements of QUALITY... Arteta, Fellaini, Howard and Cahill have no decent replacements and every other club have plenty. Even Villa are showing bags of ambition and are striving to get a Champions League spot. Surely we can raise a miserly £5 mill to get at least two reasonable acquisitions.
We are not far off ?pawning? the family silver at this rate... unfortunately I can see our bubble bursting sooner rather than later if nothing is done during this window.
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/09/01/27/manual_101751.html
Hopefully end of January...
You got me! I mean that I think we have an equal chance of each, as opposed to most of the last 20 years where I?d have thought a loss the most likely, then possibly a draw, with very little chance of a win!
Ironically, if we had more depth to the squad, I think we?d be in with a very big chance of a win (in light of Utd?s massive injury probs). Fresh legs are vital as the run in comes so I?d play Rodwell, Gosling and AVDM at OT against their majority reserve/youth side, coz they have freshest legs, quality and the element of surprise. In Moyes I Trust though!
Hope the lads are fresh for the visit of Le Arse tomorrow and that the Old Lady will reverberate with a full house.... the Arse are struggling for form and injuries so I believe the lads can get the points, with full backing of the crucial ?12th man? impact of the Goodison crowd in full voice... COYB!
Yes BK probably is that short sighted.
I read that Saviola is going on loan to Portsmouth FFS.
Weren’t we linked with him? So what the fuck have Pompey got that’s better than we can offer?
I?m slightly disappointed as there have been loads of strikers available this window to pick up cheaply, surely a loan deal for someone wouldn?t have hurt too much? Then again, there?s still time...
Saviola could be going to Pompei on loan and we’ll sign nobody in Jan.
As for Arteta, Sky Sports News (ever reliable!!) said last night that he could be back for the Arsenal game tomorrow night.
Paddy Power talk utter shit by the way Bradley, never believe anything bookies say mate!
1. ’Beneath contempt’ wouldn’t sell him to us or loan him... not sure Moyes would do business with him
2. We couldn’t afford his wages... and even if we could we couldn’t afford the wages restructure as the rest of the players who would, quite rightly, demand parity with Keane
Not going to happen unfortunately
Moyes earlier on O/S
That Russian dude Pavel Pogrebnyak said he had ’one foot in Everton’ until Zenit pulled the plug.
In other surfing click link below:
http://www.worldsoccer.com/glanville/060109.php
Don’t get me wrong, I can see he is a quality player and has pace, which is something we desperately lack up front, but I would much rather have Saviola.
The lad is pure class, quick and an exceptional finisher and the kind of "big-name" signing that would convince other players that we may be after that we have enough ambition for them. Real have basically said that they will contribute (if not pay all of) his wages for a loan with a viw to a permanent move and he could be our "one major" signing of the summer.
I will be so frustrated if he ends up at Pompey, playng out a relegation battle for a rubbish manager in stead of making the difference between UEFA qualification and CL qualification for us.
The RS and Utd get away with it by virtue of being in the CL every year and generally being well known with a World presence we simply don’t have.
http://evertonfceverything.blogspot.com/
What’s up with Harry - resigning virtually all the players that they sold!! Chimbonda yesterday, tomorrow Robbie Keane if the latter has the face to return to White Hart Lane having sprouted about how much he has always loved Liverpool from a kid and how he’s always wanted to play for them. Feel let down Robbie??? You have to feel for Davey, he must feel envious when he sees all this money being bandied about and his pot is empty.
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