Man City: "a dream come true"

What an odd thing to say!

What a suspicious thing to say!

BK - "I don't want you to leave, but if you want to go, it's a good offer, the bank will be pleased . . ."

JR - "I'm off!"

Gotta love these scouse rags-to-riches stories: all the way from Birkdale to Shitty, from no money to waterfalls of sponds. It's so like Wayne, it's thrilling. I can fully understand why peeps would hammer Wayne but give good old Scouse rags-to-riches Rodders a big fat slap back on the back.

From here to obscurity, Rodders la, like... See that Shitty bench at the Shield today, will you really be warming it? For a while, perhaps... until the first injury. Gotta laugh: expert commentator, 'and so where will Rodwell fit into this team', Answer, 'erm ... well ... you see ... it might be ... arm'.

'Money, money, money, it's a Prem footie player's with his head in his ass and swaggering "I am" world'.

Join the ranks of the great did-not-quite-make-it coz I have miles off unrealistic views of myself Rodders, like. Thanks for the money and the (two or three) memories. Out of the so-called prize assets, you were the one with tight fingers crossed, that I wanted to go. Perhaps Moyes played you wrong as some sway, but my hunch is that you will be found wanting.

Dream come true my ass Birkdale boy, you'll be lucky to get a chumps medal for requisite number of games and if a good dawn breaks, a league cup medal (Rodwell for Barry 88th minute).

Bad day for you kid, great day for us. £12 mill, fuck me!

Interesting your comment Michael, "Quite instructive that not a single site, twatter source or ITK had even a sniff of this". So if we assume a couple weeks to make it all happen, maybe we have players incoming based specifically on cash from Rodders' sale.

Looking forward to this next week.

David Frances post the other day when he referred to the unfortunate love of Evertonians liking to eat our young (or something like that) is all over the comments... unfortunate we cant just accept that a young Blue blooded Evertonian who has captained every age Group and already an England international might have some potential... that can be realised with the right manager/players/maturity/etc. Why do we need to break our "own kids" down at the first sight of any weakness or developmental needs.

Would only accept Owen if he was on less that Vellios, cause he should certainly play less than him!

“He is a good player,” “He is young and this is the first time he is at a club that plays to win. It will be different for him.

“But in a couple of years I am sure he will be a top and stronger midfielder.”

Rodwell is Mancini’s first signing of the summer as another rising star from Everton departs from Goodison Park...

Well that says a lot to me about how other people see Everton in the footballing world, I'm not for slagging Moyes off by any stretch of the Imagination but for one of you Peer's to come out and say that about the way you run the club/team I just find insulting and then wonder what could be the real meaning of a comment like that??

Is it a way of advertising an Exodus into their club? I do know it seems quite obvious though that Moyes himself plays right into the hands of these remarks sometimes no matter who it's from!

I'd like to see a More positive start to the season and see Moyes get at least half of the money from all outgoing player sales!!!

Mancini's words are not only accurate but the fact he said them without a thought to repercussions from Goodison speaks volumes.

Present day EFC are complete no-marks.

You have to actually be fit to get into a team to progress, or are we blaming Moyes for his paper thin hamstring now?

I think the only way for us to break the monopoly on the league is to develop youth talent and add shrewd signings such as Jelavic. With piss poor management of the club this will never happen. How can a club get a new kit deal with Nike and be no better off than the porevious shirt deal with Le Coq Sportif?

Good luck Jack, I'm sure you'll develop into a top player.

Since going to Man U, he is nowhere near as exciting to watch and he was even thrown out on the wing to accommodate Ronaldo, when he was there.

You very rarely see him get the ball and force his way forward, he is always looking for the pass, a lot of times even when he is is positions to shoot. I thought he would be a far better player than he is now.

We hear loads about "bringing them on the right way" — that means there must be a wrong way too.

The only difference is none of the coaches will ever admit to it.