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Arteta has kicked his last ball for Everton
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I found out last night from a very reliable source that Mikel Arteta will be sold in January as his wife is homesick, hence why Everton won't play him before the window for possible injury again. (Ignore the smokescreen that's in the Echo...)
He's gone.
Ryan Sloan, Posted 09/11/2009 at 07:56:46
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Just wondering if anybody else had heard anything similar... I hope not.
Great result at the weekend, just what the lads needed to build some confidence for our next few difficult games. Saha is just a class act, get the Yak scoring as well and we’ll race up the league. The league's that tight that a couple of wins can raise you four or five positions. We had a dreadful start last year over the Moyes contract issue and look how well we did.
Just got to have a bit of faith in Moyes and the boys, if we start getting a couple of decent results, it should raise the spirit and hopefully the quality of football should start to improve as well.
We know Moyes loves 4-5-1 so when Billy and Pinnear are back we should hopefully be a bit more creative, Heitinga seems to be getting up to speed now and when the skipper gets back we should get a voice and a leader back in the middle.
Anyway, fingers crossed for Arteta and hopefully all these rumors are just that. I can’t wait for the day he walks over that line, he’s been a god for us. I just wish EFC let us know what was going on behind the scenes a bit more, so we didn’t all have sleepless nights over the rumor mill.
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Who would buy a player site unseen, who’s been off with a serious knee injury for almost a year and not played? If we did manage to sell him, it would be at a knock-down price if we don’t play him before Jan. Even for an outlandish rumour, that makes no sense at all.
As for Stuart’s rumour that the injury is so bad it’s ended Arteta’s career - it’s not impossible of course, has happened to a few players in the past. But generally people are able to keep playing despite major injuries, at least for a while and at limited effectiveness, even if it means they have to cut back on training sessions. Look at the number of major knee injuries Vaughan has had, or the likes of Ledley King.
Good to hear Osman, Neville and Pienaar should be back very soon. The two-week break probably came at just the right time, good to enter it off a win.... lucky as it was... but we’ve definitely been due a bit.
The club have given reasonably regular updates on Arteta and have at no stage suggested his injury may put his career at risk.
FFS James Vaughn is still able to come back and how many times has he stuffed his knee. Mikel will be back in time, I have to believe that otherwise I won’t get much sleep. As much as I want him back I’m happy enough for the club to make sure he is right before returning. He is too valuable to risk early.
Back to the point though, Mrs Arteta is very attractive, if she wanted me in sand down down down down down down downSpain while I was injured, I'd go...
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With a missus like that i don’t think i would be in a rush to get back!!!
Stunning.
Apparently his has had a lot of counselling and this was confirmed to me by my Uncle at the Benfica game.
Not sayin all this is rubber stamped but my Uncle is a very down to earth guy who has supported us for 40 years - he certainly isn’t into all the shite that goes on on here sometimes.
But Ryan Sloans reasons are way off the mark I feel, although it’s very apparent that Mikel is struggling bigtime
He’ll never play football ever ever again............for someone else.
Okee-doke!
(rolls eyes so far back, can actually see own brain fluid)
Does his contract run out in 2010 or was it extended? Either way he always seems a nice enough lad (unlike that agent of his!) but must be having a torrid time. As well as the injury there have been persistent rumours that his partner is unhappy and his childhood mate Alonso moving from the ’Redshite’ won’t help either.
Add to that his international situation & the fact he must have hoped for a good season & some luck to get into Spain’s world cup squad. Given all that it’s no wonder if his "head's done in". If he’s watched us play of late, that won’t help either as in the past we’ve relied too much on his creativity and this must be a heavy expectation / responsibilty to carry.
If he does stay in Spain maybe Real can loan us Rafael van der Vaart for a few months? He’d be a good fit (on paper) - midfield play maker, colleague of Johnny H, ex-Ajax like Pienaar and wants regular game time to be in the running for a WC spot. Just a thought (dream)!
His head has gone in what way?
He’s had counselling for what?
I love the international break because there’s always some shit like this on here.
I thought that these days ALL players make a swift recovery but we only have to remember Alf Inge Haaland.
He has needed to talk his way through this injury as he has apparently lost all confidence in his ability to ever play again.
These statements are legitimate, just to reitterate. I'm not some bullshitter who makes this up. I have been told this from reliable sources who know what is going on and I for one pray he is back asap — we need him!!!!!
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1 Posted 09/11/2009 at 16:52:55
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I know Moyes’s dog’s second cousin’s physiotherapist, and he says you are full of shit my friend.