Schneiderlin looking abroad for next challenge

Evertonians or any football fan tend to appreciate players who work hard, such as Gueye, but unfortunately, Gueye lacks quality on the ball.

Schneiderlin seemed like a good signing at first as he showed both. For some unknown reason, he stopped showing any desire to play positively with forward passes and started sitting on the toes of our centre-back and playing everything sideways. We've now ended up with two central defensive midfielders who pass sideways or backwards so no wonder teams don't exactly feel threatened by us!

Schneiderlin is on a fortune. Prospective clubs will say they aren't paying those wages, Morgan says he won't leave, Everton back down and offer to make up the shortfall.

Brian, this happens a lot in football, but rarely to the extreme that was Fowler, post-Leeds.

Whether this is due to the management, coaching or strategies most of us don't know but one thing is certain the team has never looked so poor especially in the early part of games when they always seemed to look lacklustre.

When the team is losing, the defenders usually get the blame and eventually Schneiderlin became the target.

A new manager with new ideas and the ability to create a team spirit might work for next season with people like Schneiderlin but ultimately it's up to the players themselves to produce the goods on the field and earn the big wages most of them are getting.

North Korea is probably more suitable. He can then carry on to masquerade as though tracking runs, jogging idly about and be a 'Rolls-Royce'... or something.

I remain frustrated at how spectacularly his tenure here has unravelled. Not only did he play really well last season, but he seemed rejuvenated by the move - he seemed to really connect with the club and the fans, and seemed excited to be part of what we were building.

I can forgive a downturn in form, but a rotten attitude is impossible to overlook. Very disappointing.

They didn't put THAT in the season ticket renewal letters!,"His contract with the blues still has more than three years to run..."

They didn't put THAT in the season ticket renewal letters!,,,1,01:17:49,,90.216.229.235,ok,13098,04/19/2018 01:17:49,mitchell_reigate@hotmail.com,reader,, 911188,36521,toffeeweb,19/04/2018,Don Alexander,donfraser1983@hotmail.co.uk,"Steve Ferns (various posts), your take on the success of our youth production seems to be based on us having populated squads in lower divisions with more players than any other Premier League club and, if that's true, bloody great for those lower clubs.

Kevin Tully's point, with me and various others supporting him, is that our record of producing players who've made the tops with us is in the 21st century very, very sparse, Rooney aside.

Since 2000 only Rodwell, Duffy, Forshaw and, er... that's it (although I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong!) have any sort of record "gracing" other Premier League teams from their "birth" in our youth system.

In short, we don't have a great record when it comes to benefiting Everton from within, but that's the case with most clubs these days. In 1970, we had Tommy Wright, Brian Labone, John Hurst, Colin Harvey, Jimmy Husband and Joe Royle from our youth teams. By the mid 80's it had dwindled to Gary Stevens and Ratters and, in the past 20 years, the "best" we've had is Tony Hibbert.

But let's cling on to Unsy doing for us what nobody in half a century has ever done for us, eh?

When it went tits up for Ronald, then Morgan was never the same. Just shows how important the role of the manager is at the personal level. At least he is giving early notice and booking his exit early.

I would be very surprised to see him remain after the summer.

William #14, sorry but you're rewriting history. Schneiderlin's game went to crap from the first Europa League games last summer, well before Koeman's fortunes crashed. The "role of the manager" had nothing to do with Schneids' collapse. In fact, I'd say the opposite is true -- that if #2 had maintained his performance levels from last season (and if Koeman had stopped naming him when he didn't), the Dutchman might have lasted longer in the job.

Morgan's sudden and mysterious deterioration makes him the single biggest disappointment of this season IMO. (Still think getting married had something to do with it...)

Close the door behind you, Morgan.

A lot of Brits go to France for a holiday but he's the only Frenchman I've ever heard that came to Britain for his.

In reality though... taxi!

Still youngish at 28, he will probably go to Marseille or similar for 㾻m. And no doubt he'll be excellent there and we'll all wonder what happened.

He looks like he wants away and, the way he has played all season, he will not be missed by a good majority of Everton fans.

Nyarko
Neville (quiet at the back)
and now Schneiderlin

Please, Morgan, just fuck off now!

You'd think that clubs would invest more time and effort nurturing their talent, especially considering the fortunes spent to acquire them... and wages. Rich, young men, often less than worldly wise (and some) with lots of time on their hands need to be constantly reminded of the responsibilities that come with the talents with which they have been blessed and unbelievably good fortune in becoming a professional footballer.

Back to topic: Schneiderlin has simply become a poor footballer with a very pretty wife.

Otherwise, I'd maybe say Everton signing Rooney, might have something to do with such a change in attitude?

Something has changed him, though, because he looked like a footballer who was going to improve us, but now he only makes us worse and exasperates so many who have to put up with a man who is earning a fortune but is not even trying to disguise the fact that he his just going through the motions.

His missus will want a baby to trap him... I mean seal the deal.. I mean complete the family.

He has been splurging ever since and has nothing left it the tank cum matchday...

"His marriage ruined him. His missus will want a baby to trap him."

If he pulls out of his marital duties the way he pulls out of tackles, then his missus has little hope of conceiving.

Tony (#30), for the record I was kidding about the marriage being the difference, but I do wonder sometimes if the ring was contaminated with kryptonite or something. The suddenness and extent of his collapse was remarkable, and the fact that he has never recovered is hugely frustrating.

Jog on son, you're the worst I've seen in a Everton midfielder's shirt since Alex Nyako. You personify a modern mercenary footballer who doesn't try or give a sh*t about the club as long as you're getting paid. A disgrace who played for 4 months and then gave up.

I don't care if we lose £10 million on this deal, this guy will cost us more in league places.

Dumbarton it is then.

What happened Morgan? I'm not, repeat not, going to read your book when it comes out, so tell us all now, please. Why are you playing so badly after starting off so well?

The Mancs yet again saw us coming...Please, no more Man Utd cast-offs. The way Everton's buys have been the last few years, the lack of strength and fitness, makes you wonder what they do to pass a medical.

The weekend and no game... Good weather, hopefully it will last, and the players can turn over The Toon on Monday.

I do wonder if this is part of a deeper malaise, whereby cliques had formed, and certain players started to ridicule the club (the story about Mirallas and his Olympiakos shin pads being another clue).

Schneiderlin is an enigma of a player; interesting now how we now only remember his lack of movement and sideways passing when our early perception of him was that of a classy ball winner who could quickly turn defence into attack? I just hope we halve our losses and get anything between ٧-12 million for him with no liability for paying any of his massive fucking wages.

Nothing – after all, they did sell us Sharpie.

Perhaps your 'arl fella can persuade them to buy him.