Jagielka adds another year to current deal

Loyal servant but letÂ’s not drag it out until he goes shite.

I remember reading a post here early on last season about him being one of "yesterdayÂ’s men". HeÂ’s proved that one wrong.

And, unlike a certain other blue-strip captain down in London, heÂ’s a class act who never fails to make us proud.

One thing he does that drives me nuts is his smiling and laughing it up in the tunnel before games. My only beef is IÂ’d wish, as Captain, heÂ’d set the tone of "ready to eat my own liver for three points" instead of his usual jagging around and laughing (no pun intended).

ThatÂ’s a very minor point and to be clear IÂ’m very happy heÂ’s committed another year.

Mike H (#4).........Â’Needs to show more balls on the pitch and stand up against idiot ref decisions and get the team to play to their strengthsÂ’

Mike G (#5).......Â’.. He's the man. Leader, fierce competitor and of course our most spectacular finisher!Â’

Now then, one of you is taking the Michael ....and the winner is........MG (#5) – of course he’s a ’man’ man!!.. as for a ’leader’ I sure as hell ain’t seen any of that in his make up , ’fierce competitor’ ..err yes of lost causes and back tracking - ’spectacular finisher’ ...oh yes there were one or two that he would call spectacular but other than that ....?

Sorry MH (#4) but you came second in the taking the Michael comp... Incidentally I agree entirely with what you say.

Player of the year in a year of under-performers – that he should have had the balls to kick arse and get results.

Jags has very rarely let us down and has done that very thing that all on here crave, fought for the Royal Blue shirt.

ThatÂ’s my take on the man, glad heÂ’s with us, not against.

Me, I was brought up on Brian Labone and can well do without all the histrionics which still never get any ref to change a decision. Jags is a leader, make no mistake!

I also admire Terry, but of course he has the benefit of having been brought up in a club with unlimited resources, so Jagielka's uncomplicated declaration of his desire to stay with Everton should be seen for what it is: a good thing. We need him to bring Stones and Galloway along.

I have him filed alongside Kevin Campbell as my very favourite Everton captains... added to which they both slotted against the Redshite at Anfield. He deserves the extended contract to see out his best years.

I don’t like him being compared to Terry as the man is poison – a great defender but a horrible individual who has way too much to say for himself to the media and referees. He makes Stevie Me seem humble!!

One thing that does concern me with him being captain was his apparent lack of leadership on the field last season and I don't mean harassing the referee either. Most of last season, the team looked rudderless and IÂ’m afraid that the captain didnÂ’t show much in the way of bringing the team together.

I know I said he leads by example but that's not the same as being a good captain. Maybe we can chalk it off to being an all round rubbish season last season as I always considered him a good choice for captain and he really didnÂ’t have much help on the field either.

Regardless, I am really pleased he has signed a new contract as he has been a rock for us in the past. Long may it continue.

Surely they could have waited for another if not into the last year of his contract to see that he can still play at that level then and give him motivation.

Sorry but the club is simply too soft with older players when it comes to new contracts. The likes of Chelsea only give Terry one year contracts at a time and heÂ’s 34 and their best defender!

Howard on a contract till heÂ’s 39
Barry on a contract till heÂ’s 36
Jags now on a contract till 1 month before heÂ’s 36
The likes of Hibbo, Osman and Pienaar all on contracts well into their 30s.

Jags has been a good servant but something will have really gone wrong if heÂ’s playing regulary for us in 3 yearsÂ’ time!

As good as Jags has been, I really donÂ’t see the need to add another year onto a contract this early for a man who will be mid-30s when it expires.

Jags has been great for us. But we should have molded some younger player into a similar character and personality and leadership by now.

I think it shows that were scared to give a younger player the chance to lead us forward in with maybe a bit more aggression.

He is praying these guys retire gracefully as he hasnt got the balls to say they are not Everton standard any more. That is what made Fergie the best ever.

No time for fucking sentiment in this game. This guy will gave Hibbert a contract until he is 40 rather than tell him he ain't good enough.

We all know Stones is brilliant on the ball, very elegant and classy but at times last season, in Stones I saw the Jags of old. His reading of the game and positioning was much better through out last season and the way he put his body in the way of things and those all-or-nothing, last-ditch blocks, were very Jags-esque!

They're forming quite a fruitful partnership at the back which bodes well for the team.

We all want to see out team play on the deck, but we love the way Jags puts his body on the line, we love that he hammered an unstoppable shot into the top corner of the Kop net. We love his recovering pace ... we love him.

But if there is a Premier League defender who has hoofed the ball forward more than he has, he must have been doing it when I wasn't looking.

Even after half-an-hour of playing about at the back, for a manager who has a possession obsession, you ALWAYS know that, sooner or later, Jags will put his foot through it.

If we canÂ’t match the wages of other Premier League clubs and want to remain true to our annual wages cap, then this is probably the only way we can keep the experienced International players happy and retain their services. Think of the contract extensions more as a reward to the players for being loyal and remaining with the club when any of them could have moved to other clubs for more money at any point in their careers. Younger players who we would like to join the club, mostly will have excessive wage demands and, whilst I wasnÂ’t happy with Hibbo and a couple of others getting extended contracts, in JagielkaÂ’s case he has performed well for Everton and Â’deservesÂ’ his extension.

Players are playing till theyÂ’re a lot older than they used to. They are so much fitter than they used to be. WeÂ’ve go plenty to get out of Jags yet.

Jags is a good centre half but we need a more commanding defender if weÂ’re going to improve and aim for the top 4.

Passing accuracy stats are absolutely meaningless if you're totting up the number of times our defenders (under no pressure) roll awkward little bobblers to each other. with no intention of moving forward.

It's what happens when the opposition decide to press.

I know we want to play out from the back but I donÂ’t mind seeing a quick ball/hoof over the top from the back, it mixes things up.

And people worrying or going on about JagielkaÂ’s age, I donÂ’t think itÂ’s a problem. HeÂ’s still got decent pace, reads the game well and that gives him extra yards on players and as fresh legs playing along side him. HeÂ’s a really good defender and IÂ’m glad heÂ’s signed up.

If anything, this thread for me has shown how there are differing perspectives on what makes a "captain". OK, Jags does not scream at referees like Roy Keane or Wayne, but he does his talking on the pitch for the most part, and I for one am happy that heÂ’s happy. He is well capable of performing at a high level at 36, as did Distin.

Periods of bad form happen with every player. Soon we shall hearing that Barkley going off the boil is caused by his passing his 21st birthday!

There is no-one here or at the club who can say for sure what he’ll be like as a player in a year, nevermind two, so what does the club gain by giving him an extension at this time for 3 years? Other than being tied to paying around £2.5M a year for 3 years instead of 2. The extension could easily have waited at least a year if not more, assuming it would even be worthwhile.

Also, when a player signs an extension, heÂ’s not only getting a longer contract but also an upfront signing on bonus. WeÂ’re not exactly loaded!

Yes, diets and training have improved but that doesnÂ’t mean every player automatically can play at this level at 34, nevermind 35 or 36, you only have to look at Pienaar.

If the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea rarely give out more than one-year contracts to players over 32, why canÂ’t we?

As I mentioned above, if Jagielka is still playing regularly for us in 2-3 yearsÂ’ time, then something has really gone wrong. His main attribute is his pace, which is not going to last forever, and I certainly canÂ’t see him lasting as long as Distin.

IÂ’ll add this to the bizarre contract given to Howard. He also had two years left in 2014 (at age 34) and was then given a new 5-year contract, ie, a 3-year extension!

And we wonder why we have so many pensioners on the books...

IÂ’m 59 and I wasn't that great when I was 21... but I cannot remember Jagielka making a pass I couldnÂ’t have made meself.

You may be impressed with his "stats", but anyone who watches Everton regularly, will have observed that those figures are down to an accumulation of never-ending meaningless passes across our back line. They will also have observed that Jagielka will eventually put his foot through it.

Jags has hoofed it throughout his entire career. Let's not turn him into Franz Bekenbauer because of a few misleading numbers.

IÂ’m delighted that the current England centre-half has stated how much he wants to play for Everton.

And youÂ’re also right. You were crap when you were 21... ;-)

And I know heÂ’s no Beckenbauer but heÂ’s no Chris Perry or Kenny Cunningham either!

He may hoof it but heÂ’s good at what heÂ’s there for first and foremost and thatÂ’s defending!

We should be proud to have him – not be taking every opportunity to knock him.

David Weir played top level till he was nearly 40. With centre-halves, experience is as important as pace – and Jags has both.

Also, I believe Hibbert got a 2-year extension and Barry got 3 years also last year. Both of these seem way over the top for a club that has little money.

His hoofs, are not the reason his stats are so distorted, they are just hopeful punts he uses to "clear his lines" and seldom find an Everton player.

Accumulating a high success ratio by making numerous meaningless passes when under no pressure does not mean he can pass a ball, any mug can do this and if Perry or Cunningham played centre-half for Everton last season, their stats would be distorted too and no doubt somebody would be on a football forum somewhere pointing out how impressive they were.

Jags is a decent defender, but he cannot pass a ball, he will never be able to pass a ball. Most observers will not be taken in by these idiotic stats.

Incidentally, the fact that he has a little joke in the tunnel means nothing. This shows that you are relaxed, and not intimidated by the opposition; once you get on the field, you can start growling.

A lot of the time, when he goes long, he is looking to switch it to the flank or hit Rom and he means it, but not every time it works out. It can look like a hopeful ball heÂ’s playing but itÂ’s not just hitting it long to clear his lines. Nor when it actually does go to our man is it a lucky punt.

When you're "clearing your lines" as you say, thatÂ’s when you're under pressure and just get rid and that is a hopeful punt upfield. Sometimes it goes to a team mate, sometimes it goes into Row Z, but when he has time to look up and make the long pass, thatÂ’s not a hopeful punt at all.

Jagielka has not been frustrating the fuck out of the GP faithful for years with hopeful hoofs every time he panics. . .HeÂ’s been playing the long pass to Rom "but not every time it works out and it does LOOK LIKE a hopeful ball" . .

Yakubu, Big Dunc, Anichebe, Jellavic, Saha, Naismith, Kone, and Lukaku. not to mention a host of England strikers have all watched in despair at Jagielka has knock missiles past them, Yet you think he is hitting long passes ?

Every defender who boots it forward aims it in the general direction of a forward, they all get lucky sometimes . . its generally known in the game as hoofball.

If JagielkaÂ’s stats were based on his "long passing" he would finish well down the list. The figures you are so clearly taken in by are solely down to those meaningless bobbly little passes with which he regularly puts his team mates under pressure.

Look, you are fooled by these stats. nothing I say will change your mind.