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Schneiderlin's regret at joining Everton
54 Comments Morgan Schneiderlin has been talking about the move he quickly came to regret, when he joined Everton from Manchester Utd 5 years ago:
“I learned a lot from my departure from Manchester United. I had played 40 matches the previous season with Manchester,” he told L'Equipe.
“When I come back from the Euros, I take 10 days off and I play very little for three, four months. Then, I have Ronald Koeman and Everton who are pushing hard to get me, every day, from October.
“I will remember it all my life: I should have played against Liverpool (in October 2016) as starter, and the coach comes to see me. He tells me he doesn't feel me inside the group.
"I tell him that indeed, with what has happened in the last 3 months, I am not in it and I want to go to Everton... I regretted it very quickly.
“Even if it went very well at Everton, when you play for Manchester United, when you're at a club like that, it's not for a moment of doubt that you have to question everything.”
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2 Posted 21/02/2022 at 14:12:01
3 Posted 21/02/2022 at 14:55:51
4 Posted 21/02/2022 at 15:14:51
If you're looking for an Everton player to do no more than go through the motions, put his team-mates under pressure with hospital passes, and generally provide the illusion that we are playing with one less than the opposition, then Schneiderlin was your man.
I cheered his departure with pure abandon. What a fraud.
5 Posted 21/02/2022 at 15:22:25
â€What a fraud†needs no more words, describes him perfectly.
6 Posted 21/02/2022 at 16:01:07
7 Posted 21/02/2022 at 16:04:38
8 Posted 21/02/2022 at 16:23:54
Ashley Williams
Schneiderlin
Bolasie
Sandro Ramirez
Vlasic
Klaassen
Walcott
Tosun
Sigurdsson
Moise Kean
Iwobi
Gomes
Mina
Gbamin
Bernard
I am sure I have missed out on quite some more.
A list of expensive, infamous footballers who have now brought our club to its knees.
9 Posted 21/02/2022 at 16:44:14
Although it feels like we're rubbing shoulders with the big boys again, it very rarely works out. We end up with an under-performer on big wages.
It is much better to pick up younger, less established players who are prepared to learn, work hard and consider Everton to be a step up in life. These don't quite feed the vanity as much as a big (ish) name but they can deliver more and for much longer, with lower wages to boot.
Unfortunately the Dele Alli is a worry, and it will be a challenge for him and Lampard to get him motivated enough to deliver.
10 Posted 21/02/2022 at 17:46:39
11 Posted 21/02/2022 at 18:42:57
12 Posted 21/02/2022 at 18:50:42
13 Posted 21/02/2022 at 18:56:43
14 Posted 21/02/2022 at 19:13:06
15 Posted 21/02/2022 at 19:14:02
16 Posted 21/02/2022 at 19:14:28
17 Posted 21/02/2022 at 20:58:07
Take responsibility for yourself and perform on the pitch and maybe you can get back to your big club again.
18 Posted 21/02/2022 at 21:13:37
I thought Schneiderlin was another example of players happy to hide at Everton. He invariably dropped deep and provided pointless link-up with centre-backs that achieved nothing but to give the opposition time to organise and rob us of a midfielder. And I thought that when he was being praised in the first season.
19 Posted 21/02/2022 at 21:47:02
Always been concerned about signing players dropping a level because they are clearly not good enough for the big time but, in their delusional little minds, they are!! A guaranteed recipe for not breaking sweat.
We should put an embargo on buying from clubs out of our league till we prove we are in their league.
20 Posted 21/02/2022 at 23:07:52
Gobshite who constantly hid when the going got tough and one of the worst pound-for-pound signings we've ever made.
21 Posted 21/02/2022 at 23:24:07
22 Posted 22/02/2022 at 18:12:16
23 Posted 22/02/2022 at 19:00:35
24 Posted 22/02/2022 at 19:05:37
25 Posted 22/02/2022 at 19:14:44
26 Posted 22/02/2022 at 19:17:39
27 Posted 22/02/2022 at 19:34:32
28 Posted 22/02/2022 at 19:42:53
If I may go another round on that Schneid the Meff, we should have swerved him.
29 Posted 22/02/2022 at 20:01:05
Unfortunately there are many more.
30 Posted 22/02/2022 at 20:23:32
31 Posted 22/02/2022 at 20:36:39
He is ace when he gets one-on-one on centre-backs but he does go missing and has trouble imposing himself on the game.
32 Posted 22/02/2022 at 20:52:17
That list of Ajax's at 8 is horrific! A who's who of nobodies, who cost us everything!
33 Posted 22/02/2022 at 20:54:56
Lukaku showed a complete lack of respect to the owner, the manager, the players and the fans. Chelsea spent huge money to bring him back and gave him a big 5-year contract and, 6 months later, he gives that ridiculous interview.
34 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:02:55
A charlatan of a footballer.
35 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:09:30
36 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:12:10
37 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:13:41
Andy #36, agree. Morgan Sscneiderlin is the only Everton player for whom I have absolutely no respect.
38 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:23:38
39 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:31:24
40 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:32:34
Hard to believe we identified central midfield as an area to strengthen…then proceeded to spend £100 million on Schneiderlin, Klaassen, Gomes, Gbamin and Delph. Thank you to our esteemed Directors of Football and Ronald Koeman!!
However much Schneiderlin regrets signing for us, there are far more of us who regret us signing him!!
41 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:42:27
And don't tell fucking lies.
42 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:47:01
Pathetic and a sad indictment of the period under Ronald Koeman, which has seen Everton continually spiral in terms of improving in form and success.
43 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:48:47
It feels like so long since we've had a functional central midfield (Barry and McCarthy?)!!
44 Posted 22/02/2022 at 21:55:12
Barry is the prototype of what we need now but with maybe a little more speed. A man who can read the game who has the respect of his fellow teammates.
45 Posted 22/02/2022 at 23:04:23
Well said Mr Rathbone #19
46 Posted 22/02/2022 at 23:13:05
Any club employing those footballers would be in trouble.
47 Posted 23/02/2022 at 12:39:59
Morgan was a waste of a player. Even in his first few months, when people on here were referring to him as a Rolls Royce player, I couldn't understand what they were seeing.
He was a midfielder who never played a forward pass!! Never!!!
Arsehole.
48 Posted 24/02/2022 at 18:23:56
It's amazing how someone supposedly regrets signing for us but is happy to accept the money that could have been better spent on someone better and happy to play for us.
Best to keep your gob shut, Morgan, stupid bugger.
49 Posted 24/02/2022 at 19:01:06
50 Posted 24/02/2022 at 19:13:30
51 Posted 25/02/2022 at 19:45:50
52 Posted 25/02/2022 at 19:56:17
Glad he sodded off to a Mickey Mouse league where he finally found his level.
53 Posted 26/02/2022 at 17:32:55
54 Posted 01/03/2022 at 10:18:38
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1 Posted 21/02/2022 at 12:49:22