Upset Everton target 'vanished' on deadline day

You have to feel sorry for the lad.

Looks like he was being forced to move.

Poor bugger. Being shipped around like a piece of merchandise. Can't blame him for hiding away.

The last person to be consulted on what he wanted. Makes me angry.

If this is what football is becoming, then you can keep it

Textor sounds like a right one to me. Moving people round Europe when they don't want to move.

I wonder how he persuaded Mangala to sign for us when he wanted to go elsewhere by all accounts. The deal with Lyon, who he owns, may well get looked at by the authorities.

For how he would look after Everton, just look at how he treats Lyon.

Let's hope this never happens

T'was always thus.

No matter how big a name you were, you'd be told "Pack your bags, you're off to ________________"

Agree with Dennis. It's always been like that.

Does anyone remember a certain Alan Ball? Biggest shock to us and also him. He was never consulted, Catterick just told him he was going. Big mistake but Catterick decided the money was too good.

Players decide they want away and so do clubs. Always been the way.

There's a few in our squad due a move against their will!

It's business.. he is just an asset. Like it or not. Poor lad.

Pick your wages up and go were you're told. Another fact.

At the end of the day, players — regardless of who they are and where they're from — are only interested in one thing: money.

Not slagging them, good on ‘em, but all this kissing the badge and all that is shite.

Local, homegrown players are no different. Given the chance of more money and chance of honours, they'll be off. Who can blame them? Very few would.

The days of lads sticking with one club are long gone and few and far between.

Hope Textor gets here and forces Ashley Young to sign for absolutely anyone else.

John fact. These people saying they feel sorry for them why?

You know what you're going into. Sell your soul, get on with it. UTFT.

Sounds like a weakling. We have enough cry babies as it is, what with getting a “knock” and being missing for weeks on end. What happened to men?

Surely this is the “useless generation”.

It's no different in other premium sport across the world. If you watch Moneyball, players are told they've been traded and given a contact number at their new club.

I appreciate these players remain in the same country, with the same language and culture, but what happened with Nuamah is not unique.

John @7.

The rumour surrounding Alan Ball was the fact he was in terrible debt due to his gambling. Read into that as you may.

If any Blue out there can confirm or deny the above, please enlighten me. Cheers.

This is not a recent trend. How many one-club players has there been at any club? The difference now is that top players have far more money, power, influence on what they want.

Most players, the non-Premier League or top tier clubs, have far less money, power or influence in their career or transfer dealings. Clubs and agents decide a player's next move by limiting their options and / or engineering moves. Multiple decades-old practice.

Also remember letting wee Bobby Collins go to Leeds.

He was Footballer of the Year the following season.

Alan Ball and Wayne Rooney spring to mind.

And a certain Mr Bosman had a similar case?

Jimmy Gabriel was another, he fell out with Catterick over footballing styles. Harry wanted it played long and wide, Jimmy wanted to play it shorter, inside when it was on.

Jimmy more or less said that Harry told him he sold him as far away as he could — Southampton — just to fuck him over for arguing with him.

Brian @2, they are commodities. I'm convinced that, in a lot of cases, the players often don't have a lot of say. It's down to the club and agents.

Rooney's recent interview was telling. He didn't want to move at the time but was told by the club he was being sold to Chelsea. Then he took it into his own hands and decided if the club wanted to sell him, he would choose.

I think there are some players who consider families first before agreeing to a move — especially if there are children at schools.

Ian @21.

I could not agree more.

Ernest needs to make sure he has a good agent who looks after his interests.

Take the football player angle out of it.

You're 20, like where you live, are content with your life, like the job you have, have a chance to be involved in an international project (European football in his case).

If your company comes along and says they don't want or can't afford you any more and are letting you go (usually with a redundancy package), that's one thing, but when they say "We're selling you to another company somewhere you don't want to go, that might go under any day now, and by the way, don't know if you speak the lingo, but who gives a shit?" — you might feel entitled to be a bit brassed off.

That's nothing to do with being a cry-baby or soft. That's just being treated like crap.
Players are human too (well at least some of them are!)

Textor does not come out of this one well… and which of our current squad would he be touting to balance the books?