McCarthy to be called up by Ireland

Can't think of anyone more annoying than these 2.

The Irish FA &,O'Neill are taking the proverbial. If it wasn't that bad that everytime McCarthy played for Ireland last season he wasn't fit & came back physically worse. We lost Coleman for pretty much a season whilst playing for Ireland!

I guess that explains your role in the ToffeeWeb "family"!

Excuse me?

Terribly boring at this stage but I always have a peep at the threads for the laughs.

"I guess every family needs a deadbeat."

What do you call someone who continues to not produce, causing everyone else to pick up the slack, while continuing to do other things they want to do before taking care of their responsibilities back home?

McCarthy has been injured for years now, unable to contribute for Everton. Yet every time Ireland comes calling does he say to them "no, I need to take care of business at home first"? No he doesn't. He joins them instead of continuing to work on his fitness with Everton. It's like a child, you can't go play at your friends house if you haven't done your chores at home. But McCarthy goes off and stays injured, while Everton pays his wages.

Poor analogy which doesn't work on any level. Let me ask what do you call someone whose hamstrings are shot from being asked by his club / former manager to play while injured. Next time you wonder why he's injured so often, ask yourself why that is.

Missing Hibbo and Ossie, are we?

1. He is only called up not playing when declared unfit. No statement yet by Everton about him being not fit enough to play in four weeks time. So cut out the hysteria.

2. If he is not wanted by the club, what's the hysteria about.

3. On a provocative note, it is clear Koeman is not interested in playing him. In limbo like Niasse and the most of you here don't want him so he has no future at Everton. Why would he not put himself in the shop window if he got the opportunity?

I'm a big fan of players playing at international level, but surely someone should be intervening given the history here.

We could do with less of the hysterics. If he is unfit then he should stay at the club otherwise I believe he is required to travel. Koeman needs to keep a cool head here too!

Ireland need him more than us. In O'Neil's position, I would do the same. As for players playing injured, most of them carry knocks whilst playing – it's the norm for professional footballers.

"Its a shame that his career has been plagued by international duties."

That's the thing Colin – it hasn't. The problems he has all go back to a certain Catalan asking him to play through injury for his club. The Koeman vs O'Neill stuff is a ridiculous sideshow that has detracted from this uncomfortable truth.

Mccarthy is valued at around £20-25m, I like jimmy Mc but now is probably a good time to cash in and look for a player with more going forward.

Mccarthy out along with Niasse and Robles would pretty much cover cost of transfer fee and wages for Mahrez.

Sometimes it's better to cut your losses.

He's got O'Neill and Keane bending his ear to play for his country (waiting for the snide remarks that he was born in Scotland), but anyone who has watched the first few games do this season and who saw a fit James McCarty in his first season at Goodison can see that we need this boy fit for the season.

If he then returns with an injury, would Everton be in line for compensation? Not an entirely satisfactory situation but it might open up discussion in the matter.

As a few others have said, HE'S BEEN NAMED IN THE SQUAD, he hasn't joined the squad, O'Neill hasn't said he's fit and he certainly hasn't played. And it's two and a half weeks til the game.

All inconvenient truths to the ToffeeWeb hysteria. What a fortnight we have ahead.

International teams cannot buy or sell players.

Another point that's being missed, probably intentionally, is that McCarthy didn't join the squad for the last set of games so I guess maybe you might have his priorities wrong.

Give me McCarthy over Stephen Ireland any day. Although if he could pass the ball forward, or even just look for the ball, in green or blue, it'd be a help.

For both player and club the best solution would be to sell. Should really have sold last summer.

A club like WBA or the barcodes would probably take him for 15m.