Niasse: I don't think I deserve Everton situation

Kinell, I've just had an idea for a song. Now all I need is the tune.

Even more than how we can pay so much for a player who has looked so bad in the very little we have seen of him, what really puzzles me is how Koeman could make such a damning judgement based on 45 mins on an Austrian hillside kickabout friendly.

Did someone have a quiet word? And why?

There will be the usual people lining up here to say he's rubbish, but ask yourself why we paid £13m for rubbish plus wages and don't use him at all.

I notice he's scored a couple of times for the Under 23s so clearly not a total basket case, so what happened? Ringer sent over from Russia? Off the field activities too unsavoury?

Finally, it's a sobering thought that this year buying Niasse with wages and sacking Martinez and paying up that ridiculous contract has cost EFC around £30m! The same figure that not so long ago would have got our feet in at the Kings Dock has just been squandered for diddly squat in a few short months! Go figure...

Lots of players find their level in lower leagues and he is no different. I just hope he gets a decent move soon as it is not his fault that money was wasted.

Maybe not quite the perfect professional that he is trying to make out. If he was Premier League quality, then we have to ask ourselves why the likes of Hull etc did not pile in to grab a bargain when we were so vocal that he could go????

Can fans who watch the U23 play please keep us posted on the ToffeeWeb of how he looks.

But, after reading his comments I did feel a bit choked for the human being involved in this fiasco. He certainly didn't intend to come here to fail.

There are two victims in this affair. The player himself who was sought after and the fans who were promised something to save our miserable last season.

Let's have it right, he isn't good enough for us. In an ideal world, he'd being playing somewhere else, and we'd recover whatever we can from this disaster.

For every player going on strike, or hawking around his release clause, is another club sticking their player in the stiffs. Not nice, but reality.

Some people have decided he is good. Someone at Everton agreed. However, I doubt that anyone on this site with resorting to gossip and rumour really knows. He is on good money, I would imagine, so he's got a nice silver lining to his woes.

Different time, late goal as sub, arm round the shoulder, super confident, what a steal. It all seems so down to fate.

It is not that difficult to understand: "Move,. bitch, get out the way, get out the way" seems to be clear enough language to me... but, if Niasse cannot understand it, then he should take it up with Koeman, not the media!

Koeman told him "You are off the first team", a clear indication of where he judges him to be as a player. I have no issue with Koeman sending him to U23s based on last season and the friendly he played.

I agree that he should fight to get back in, and that is a fair stance; he either makes it from there or not. He should have went on loan, but the stubborn idiot dug his heels in, so he should shut his mouth about him being treated unfairly.

We are not running a charity here at Everton Football Club any longer, which makes me VERY, VERY happy.

In most businesses, a financial disaster like this would mean a detailed review of what went wrong and who was responsible. If I was Moshiri, I would want to know about this transfer as well as Martinez's 㾶m pay off. Elstone or Kenwright need to be put on the pedestal and if so incriminate Martinez's naivety.

We are never going to come out of this smiling but it's certainly not Niasse's fault.

Koeman also shouldn't close down his options so quickly.

I just can't see why Koeman can't have another look at him and give him chance?

But if it is football he wants to play, he could always request a transfer and get in the first team in a lower league.

The lad didn't buy himself for millions, Everton did.

The lad didn't have himself watched, Everton (apparently) did.

If he's on £50k/60k a week, Everton offered it.

If Everton buy a shit player, Everton's fault.

And imo, anyone pointing their finger at the player might as well be kneeling in the middle of the street screaming..

"Grrrr! Why does he get loads of money and not me?'

Apparently there's a, errr... 33-year-old striker linked with Boreham Wood. A young whipper snapper called Yakubu.

We would be better off playing one of the young lads than Niasse.

In the real world, for the lack of tactics, fitness and discipline inflicted on the players in his charge, and his all round incompetence as a so-called manager, he would have been dismissed with no recompense. Instead, he relieved our club of £10 million as a payoff, and around £10 million in wages. What a crazy world we are living in.

[That was a song by Joe Brown.]

Good luck but I think there is a reason one of the top guys in world football won't give you the time of day, Niasse!

Gone where?

For how much?

When?

Who wanted him?

What were the terms?

(nb: if you want a player out, not the wisest thing to broadcast that after watching him for 45 mins, you want him gone - hardly likely to have teams queuing up).

This 'he could have gone' stuff is the most simplistic bollocks I've heard and just a refusal to point the finger where it should be pointed - at the club.

Ffs what is Niasse supposed to think..

"Move from Russia to Liverpool, get settled in, then get told to fuck off to somewhere unspecified, for a deal that exists only in the head of narked TWers, all within 5 months? Sure, no problem!"

Same thing happened with Gosling, club fuck-up, player gets it in the neck from supporters.

Those who love grabbing a flaming torch and chasing monsters round online should at least make sure they're chasing the right monster.

Who advised BK to buy him? From what I saw, he looked useless and Koeman appears to think he is useless also.

Move him on ASAP and, more importantly, I hope we are identifying quality replacements.

But he isn't, because he hasn't.

[If you see what I mean!]

Yakubu? 33? What, dog years?

Ironically, it probably is neither his making nor fault at all. I actually feel sorry for him. The truth of this deal will eventually come out.

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2016/09/20/david-unsworth-praises-Evertons-oumar-niasse/

There is "something" very wrong about all this. If he was a "baddy", the press would have been all over it.

Not questioning your opinion but, to be fair to Niasse, we haven't really seen enough of him to put him in the same category as them three.

Out of those three, Bernie Wright has to be by far the worst centre forward ever, closely followed by Brett Angell.

Sure, we have Niasse and Kroldrup... But they spent huge on Balotelli and Carroll.

To corrupt it (and boy was there ever a better word for what this Niasse situation is about); "It's football, therefore it's bent."

If the Niasse transfer ain't so, only those in the football "industry" (ha-ha, as if!) involved in it can show it to be untrue, but by now anyone with an iota of common sense will not be holding their breath waiting for them, whoever they are, to come clean.

Really, it's that simple is it?

Phew, here's me thinking that he was on a 4½-year deal and couldn't be 'moved on' anywhere unless he wanted it (which he sensibly only would for a similar deal).

What bothers me is the powers that be at EFC keep making bad judgement calls on this. Everton wanted any club interested in a loan deal to pay most if not all of Niasse's wage – (which is rare these days I believe, unless a top player). The Turkish club (forget the name) apparently were willing to do this provided they could have an option to buy him for £3 million or thereabouts.

There were other interested clubs similar to above, apparently. We tried to use Niasse in signing Bolasie but Pardew was having none of it.

The club have fucked up big time, and they should have just let him go, but oh no not Everton, we will hold on to him and see if a club will come in and we might get a few bob back – like that's going to happen after Koeman basically telling the world of football Niasse's is shite.

If EFC want rid of Niasse, bite the bullet, do a deal with the player to pay off his contract and say bye-bye.

Valencia – who the fuck sanctioned that deal?

The sooner we put this behind us (by that, I mean Niasse off the books), the better.

If he ain't good enough, then the fans' anger should be directed at whomever sanctioned the deal to bring him to Goodison Park in the first place.

Still a long way to go to sort the club out...

I've said on TW before, the transfer stinks and Niasse looks to be a patsy to me. Will someone at EFC please come out and explain who thought he was a good bet and who decided to pay 㾹m plus for him? I'm surprised EFC are not making him do the laundry but maybe someone else does that job.

BTW, Mark (#27) – brilliant adaptation of Smokey's finest.

Niasse has flopped in 157 minutes of football. He arrived grossly unfit and injured, and was faced with one of the worst managerial performers seen in the Premier League for a long time, a squad in open disarray... something slowly becoming clearer as the months go by since Martinez was sacked. And an utterly poisonous atmosphere from a crowd who wouldn't have given Messi more than two full games to prove himself worthy of the shirt as the team plumbed new depths.

He may actually be a player worth zero not £13.5m, I can't honestly tell. He looks and has been poor, very poor, and frankly yes I'd be concerned if I was Koeman. But this is a club "blessed" with one outstanding forward and a heap of, well, let's be kind and say "mediocre" cover players in out-and-out attacking positions. So surely he was worth a place on the bench v Norwich for instance? The trouble is every second he got on the pitch he was under a microscope where he was being assessed as a player, or a genuine fraud we've somehow been kidded into signing?

I agree with the need for answers from the scouting team. But Martinez made what appears to be a grossly stupid panic buy. At least that's all we mere supporters will ever get to think without some commentary from the club. But to treat the player as he has been, that's just plain petty. Koeman may be miffed that the guy didn't leave the club in August. But why is it Niasse's fault that he didn't want to give up a dream this quickly? So he's punished with childlike behaviour from a club that I thought knows better. There may be more to the story but my sense is we tried to push him out the door for money we obviously didn't think he was worth else why tell the world he's crap?

When Rom is out for a while injured and Kone has exhausted his bank of one in twenty half decent performances and everyone is fed up of saying "Why did we loan in that that guy from West Ham he's utter rubbish" and the new young hope from Sheffield isn't yet ready, who is playing up top?

It all reflects badly on pretty much everyone concerned this sad mess but could there be a fairy story here with the whole thing suddenly clicking and Unsy working a bit of man-management magic? Probably not I guess but I'd quite like it to be so, just to prove that making such a judgement after 157 minutes of football just has to be a flawed approach.

He was a given a good contract and has made himself available for first team football. He's been denied that so he's made himself available for the U23s and worked hard.

He's more than entitled to claim his wages and fight for his place if he wants to. We know for personal reasons he wants to stay in the area and he has made it clear he wants to play for the club. Calls to ship him off are harsh and unrealistic.

Good luck to the guy. Seems like a nice fella and I hope he proves Koeman wrong.

David Unsworth praises Everton's Oumar Niasse

It seems Unsworth has not written him off?

Manchester Vs Moscow, £50k per week for 3 or 4 years. Girlfriend likes everything about it, so therefore not in his earhole 24/7... On a general level, what's not to like... Totally not his fault and he seems to be taking it in a decent manner.

We all know what the bigger question(s) are though, Somebody(s) signed off on this. It'll all come out in the end, it might take a few years but it'll surface... it always does.

First thing you have got right Mr Niasse, you don't deserve your situation at all. Bloody damn cheek. But I still say there's something decidedly dodgy about this whole transfer, something that I doubt us Evertonians will ever find out.

Having criticised Niasse, I hope somehow he comes good, but when Koeman openly slate's the player and says he won't play him, surely something's not quite right.

To offer some perspective, it's not half so controversial as the players who can easily get 1st team football at a top club for silly wages but choose not to because they're not quite as silly as what they have. The millions sunk in the loan hole by Man City and Chelsea, for example, are staggering.

He may have found some form, surely a Championship team would give him a chance. If he comes good, it's a win-win solution. From what I've seen, he is two-footed, has a bit of pace and ball control, and has an eye for a goal. Just a pity Martinez isn't accountable for this signing...

Trust me, he'll appreciate this Premiers League contract in a few years. Probably the last big money he'll see. Good attitude (while speaking to the Press), so he'll catch on somewhere and have a nice living. Next.

The problem is, when there is a monumental fuck-up like this, there is never an inquiry or anyone held personally responsible for it. Surely our new owner must suspect what has preceded him at this club and not trust anything Kenwright has been involved with.

However, footballers like everyone else have employment rights and are entitled to be treated as human beings, not pieces of meat, and to be spoken to in detail about the problems and what may be needed.

"The Guardian" interview suggests a pleasant, humble individual and whatever his standard of play is or is not, he deserves some respect from his employers.

Incidentally Alan Shackleton was up there with Bernie Wright and Brett Angell. Bernie really was a winger.

"After just 45 minutes, you cannot say to me: ‘You are no good.'”

I agree.

This raggedy arsed kid from nowhere is going to prove a lot of people wrong when someone finally gives him a fair go.

Nobody is going to look at a 26-year-old playing in an Under-23s league, the scouts there are looking at potential and, by 26, he doesn't have a lot of developing left to do.

It's not only his signing that doesn't make sense... none of this makes sense.

He is putting the ball in the net for the U23 team, and it looks like he has the right attitude.

I think he at least deserves to be treated a bit better.

The question remains, just who scouted him and are they still working for us?

I agree with you regards to Bernie Wright, he would have made a great winger on The Empress of France!!!!

Slowly but surely, however, Robles improved, especially when he had a 3- or 4-match run when he kept clean sheets, with everyone then screaming "keep him in", and there was uproar when he was dropped and Howard returned.

At least Niasse deserves a chance. You never know, there might be a decent player in there somewhere?

But with Super Scout to 'run the rule' over all future signings, this manager will have someone to blame!

Koeman must have his reasons to act like he does. My guess, but it's just that, is that Koeman does't believe Niasse has got what it takes mentally to make it at Premier League level. That the club arranged a transfer out that Niasse accepted at first but rejected it later on (maybe indeed his wife doesn't want to move back to Russia). That might have annoyed Big Ron so much he thinks Niasse can rot in the reserves.

Add to that the ridiculous transfer fee we paid for him at a time when the takeover wasn't in place yet, and the story gets even stranger. Perhaps Koeman feels this whole transfer saga is dodgy and he wants nothing to do with it.

Koeman has also seen him in training and also decided he isn't up to it. Personally I would cut our loses by giving him a year's salary and a free transfer. Why have him on the books?

As he's still an Everton play and being asked to join in with the U23s means he should be given a locker. That treatment isn't very fair.

Conversely, if he's been told to leave and should have taken the offers which were on the table, it could be construed that he isn't at the club and is only being allowed to train with the U23s as a gesture of goodwill. (that's he's being picked for the U23s is another matter.)

Until the reason for him not being liked or chosen by either Martinez or Koeman is intriguing.

Happy times together we've been spending.
I wish that every kiss was never ending.

Oh wouldn't it be Niasse?

#ideasforsongs

It now looks like he is prepared to sit there and sweat it out for the next four seasons. It is a monstrous cock-up which can only be put down to Kenwright who was completely blind to Martinez's limitations.

He's not being picked because he is hopeless and nowhere near Premier League standard.

Where was Sir Greedy's yacht moored when this one went through?

I think a few EPL clubs including Arsenal & Chelsea were interested in him at one stage so we can't just say our touts and OFM got it totally wrong. It sounds to me like when he came to us he completely lost any form that he had in Russia.

It could be a psychological/mental issue but it sounds like a good few clubs were at least watching him so must have rated him to some degree.

Koeman must have been totally demoralized when he saw him in training, and told him he had no future at the club. I believe Ronald jumped the gun, because it would have been easier to loan out or get rid of Niasse if he had said nothing, as other clubs now know he's a dud.

Firstly, Niasse has cost the club nothing – Kenwright, Elstone & Martinez are responsible for Everton being 㿆m light.

Players simply play; some are bought by clubs (and offered 㿣k a week), others aren't – it's that simple.

Niasse's only (playing) obligation to Everton is to be ready to play when selected – that's it.

I appreciate Koeman doesn't want/rate the player (and personally I don't blame him) but more or less telling him to fuck off to somewhere else (now!) was imo, just dumb.

If Everton FC (who are responsible for the mess) want to get rid of the player, they should be going about things in a much more conciliatory manner.

Anthony (#73) – 'Conversely, if he's been told to leave and should have taken the offers which were on the table.'

What were the offers? Were there actually offers? If there was, were these offers better?

Fact: Once a player has signed a 4½-year deal, he can't be told to leave or take another offer (even if another offer exists).

I might add (re any player), anyone posting simplistic wishful-thinking along the lines 'we should ship him out' or 'get rid' etc, shows an incredible lack of knowledge & understanding as to how the game works.

If it is true (IF!) he is on 㿣k a week and has another 4 years to go on his contract (that bit is true) why would he leave? To get 㾷k a week in the Championship? Would you?

Finally.. Mark Riding (#35) – 'He's shite. And he slaps his bird about. Maybe that has something to do with our manager's position on the player?'

If he definitely 'slaps his bird about' and a court were to find this to be the case, this would be grounds for dismissal.

If however you are stating as fact something unproven, you need a fucking good talking to.

If he's at the club he should be part of the first team squad, playing for the U23s to keep sharp in case of injury.

We would be failing in our duty as human beings if we made the guy suffer the indignity of carrying his kit around in a Lidl bag without getting a game for 4 more years for a measly 50 grand a week.

So come on, lads, who is first to lob in for the Return Niasse to Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novorod or anywhere?

I didn't mean Niasse personally, but buying Niasse has cost the club 㿆M. He obviously won't go somewhere to drop to 㾷k a week unless Everton subsidise his wages or offer him a lump sum to go there. Otherwise, he may just sit tight till 2020. What an embarrassing shambles.

ps: As you suggested we lob in to support him, I guess yours will be the first tenner and you'll be holding the money. Give me your details and I'll send you my tenner... Ah! I see now! You don't catch me that easily.

I can see, though, that with the lad earning a likely pretty penny, sympathy isn't easy to rustle up.

As the transfer deadline loomed ever nearer, Niasse's long time agent redoubled his efforts:

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Poor Niasse.

Playing well in the U23s makes him look good and hopefully will entice some buyers in January. If they saw him play for the first team, his value would drop even more.

Allegedly it was her (who lives in Manchester) that told him that he had to stay put and not move out of the area under any circumstances.

I also wonder whether Ian Atkins had a part in this deal which is why he was allowed (encouraged?) to take the Villa job.

It might be best all round if everyone at the club just kept their heads down and thought about what they are about to say on the matter before having it repeated outside of the training ground.

Really?

That simple eh - wow!

Fine, just give us a list of the firm offers that were on the table for him (and the details) and the list of teams he definitely turned down so we judge for ourselves.

(Unless of course you're just throwing out some fact-free, half-baked, not thought through at all, alehouse lawyer bollocks...)

I saw him against Man Utd U23s last month and he looked fit and ran around but if that is all he has then surely someone must be accountable for his recruitment? Although I don't blame him at all as apparently there were a few other suitors when we got him.

Proper head-scratcher, this one.

Bobbie's parting gift...

I'm not saying the ballot was rigged just that it wasn't worth a barrel of beans.

10 good reasons for not signing Joe Hart:

1. We didn't ask;
2. Koeman didn't want him;
3. Dandruff wanted to go to Italy – not Scouseland.

The rest you will have to make up yourself as I can't be arsed.

Say what you like about the lad's talent or lack of, that has got to hurt anyone's pride. Feel a tad sorry for young Oumar.

Did they see some YouTube of him whilst being lap danced in Moscow? Sherlock Holmes would have a problem with this one.

He can get his overpaid agent to find another club cos players just want to play!!! Or so they keep telling us. I would think the person scouting him is to blame...oh, and the player – for being shit.

Koeman told him he should leave and he didn't. I just find it hard to believe that his agent couldn't find him a club if he wanted to go.

Now that just leaves Billy Boy and our Chief Executive Officer who were involved in the whole sorry mess; like most on here, I'd love to know the whole story.

1) No problem with a managér telling a player 'you're not part of my plans.' Big problem however with the manager letting the press/world know. Why? Because it could make a player think "He's made me look a right twat, so fuck him and fuck Everton, I'm sorted for the next four years." (nb: like Winston Bogarde did at Chelsea).

2) If the player is shit, remember (as I've stated before) he didn't buy himself.

And I repeat, if you want to grab a torch and join a mob of online monster hunters, make sure you're chasing the right monster.

If you have facts on definite offers that were on the table, let's hear them.

Let's hear what he knocked back before (as you inform us) he decided 'to stay where the money is.'

Otherwise, for me, it's just more venting – more 'fuck him, he's loaded, I'm not.' nonsense.

Everton fucked this up, that's where the bile and anger should be aimed.

With who, for how long, what money etc.

Like I said, I find it hard to believe. That's all.

The player is shit... and yes, that is his fault – nobody else's.

Obviously no other club is as yet prepared to give him a contract, and no doubt if his agent does find him another club, they will probably expect us to stomp up a fair slice of his wages.

I know he didn't sign himself and it looks like, with Reeves and Atkins now gone, they might have had a hand in this transfer. But I can't feel sorry for Niasse – how many have lost their jobs because a new boss comes in? The difference is, he has a contract worth a few million that guarantees him that money were the ordinary Joe Bloggs is lucky to walk away with his P45 and little else.

I say people slagging the player are venting and full of anger; you respond 'no you are.'

Well done, Oscar.

Either way, it's not the lad's fault; I'd love my boss not to let me in the building at work and still get paid!

In regard to Niasse, perhaps Valencia as well, has either of them really been given a chance to show what they can do? I don't know the answer – just asking the question.

Sometimes I wonder, assuming that players talk with players from other clubs, is what kind of message does the (before they've had barely a minute to settle) criticism of new players have on other players that Everton would like to sign? Already the "Glitz" of London seems to be a draw card for some vs the northwest of the country.

Still, something about this deal stinks to high heaven. Especially via Russia where the money disappears.

Along with Nyarko and Krøldrup, it's difficult to see how you can get it so wrong.

No teaching involved Mick, I simply figured out how to utilise an option TW offer – an option available to all and one that serves two purposes.

1) It allows the writer to emphasise words he/she considers worth emphasising.

2) It allows those frustrated because they can't find fault with the content of my posts, to have a lame dig based on style rather than content.

Niasse – it's a short career. Go on, sign for a club who will play you.

Can you explain how people feeling sorry for him affects the terms of his contract?

Fact: If not one person on the entire planet feels sorry for him, he still gets paid 㿞k (or whatever) a week by Everton for the next 4 years (if he wants).

As for 'go sign for a club who will play you' – name a club (just one!) who will definitely play him.

I note that Mr Atkins (formerly our chief scout) has left us and gone to Aston Villa... hardly a step up for him.

Why has he gone? Has anyone any idea if it was because of the Walsh appointment? Or could it be that he has been held accountable for the Niasse signing amongst others?

'There was some interest in him but not the interest that he liked to have. It is all up to the player whether he doesn't leave, I can't understand it, but that is normal."

Seems that there were offers but probably gash ones.

Can't blame the player for feeling hard done by, but it's hard to sympathise with a man who earns more in a week than I do in over a year.

Seems to be a running theme with Martinez though, touched lucky with Lukaku but we then had the... excuse me... fucking mind-boggling loan of Traore.

He scores first game and then injured, so instead of shipping him back, we keep him on our books to make a brief appearance at the end of the season... and then send him back. We simply don't know if he was good enough or not because he came in in the Russian close season, clearly unfit and into a team that were not playing for its manager.

Everyone seemed to have given up so it is unfair to judge him on his minimal amount of minutes last season and zero minutes this season.

Ah well, we will always have Kone as our back-up.

Wasn't it some kind of phone-in were viewers/fans voted Niasse as player of the year? That's what I heard.

Koeman has the final say and I think that's completely fair. Koeman is probably the person to give a true assessment of the real Niasse. I mean if the coach can't decide who he wants to play for him, who can?

It's not the first monumental cock-up at Everton and it won't be the last. It sort of follows us from time to time, doesn't it?

In 99.9% of cases, I would agree with those who say that he hasn't had sufficient playing time to prove himself – however, in this 0.1% instance I am convinced that he actually is so bad that any manager would embarrass himself by actually picking him. You could pick me in my prime to play for Everton and you wouldn't need even 45 minutes to come to the conclusion that I wasn't good enough. I suspect that training sessions have revealed the true extent to which the club has been duped. There is something altogether negligent or fishy about this transfer. It looks like a complete write-off will be required.

Incidentally, I don't blame Niasse for the predicament. He didn't buy himself.

This is not a dig at you but a general observation.

Reading posts on threads like this, it often seems as though there is only a 'this or that' option available.

A 'black or white?' or 'for or against?'

Imo it's something that occurs because some simply dismiss the facts preferring to lash out and vent.

But guess what - you can feel he's been hard done by without having to feel any sympathy for him.

My heart isn't bleeding for Niasse because, as you say he's a very wealthy man.

But (and here's the bit that seems to confuse some) the deal Everton offered him (and the one he accepted) is Everton's responsibility – 100%!

He's on loads of money? We got duped? Koeman doesn't want/rate him? Not his fault.

I don't mean 'not his fault, feel sorry for him', just... not his fault.

Consequently, I feel anyone directing their ire at the player rather than the club, is probably posting to relieve pressure building up in their skull, rather than hoping to enlighten TWers..

So our manager has said he had offers but Niasse decided against going because he never fancied them. Well that's what the contract entitles him to do so. Pretty much like the contract given to OFM removed any fear of failure.

Koeman made it abundantly clear to the lad that, if he wants to play football, he needs to leave... the lad clearly wants to earn 㿞k a week playing in front of a few people for the U23s.

It is quite clear that he is another Per Krøldrup who needs to be moved on.

Unless Koeman names the clubs, then I can't help you any further.

And his wife probably made it abundantly clear that, unless he wants to spend the forseeable seriously strengthening his fucked wrist, he'd better think twice about upping sticks to some far-off shithole for the first side who had a sniff.

Because you are exactly the type of 'black or white - no grey thank you' poster I'm referring to.

In fact, let's see how many times you can ignore reality, just to have a pop at the player.

You 'inform' us..

Koeman made it abundantly clear to the lad that if he wants to play football he needs to leave... the lad clearly wants to earn 㿞k a week playing in front of a few people for the U23s.

Hmmm, 'clearly' eh... problem is, this takes absolutely no account (ie: conveniently and deliberately ignores) the player and his family. It ignores the fact that 3/4 months earlier, he moved to another club in another country.

It ignores the fact that if (IF!) there were clubs interested, nobody knows who, where or what the deals where.

By the way, if you were on a dead good guaranteed four-year deal and your boss told you he didn't want you, find somewhere else, would you just meekly go? (Clue: would you fuck!)

Then you ludicrously add...

It is quite clear that he is another Per Krøldrup who needs to be moved on.

Quite clear?

Again, making it up as you go along – if Niasse is shite (and there doesn't seem much dispute) he's not likely to be snapped up by a top 7 Serie A side is he?

Nobody really knows what went on with Krøldrup, but as he became a regular for Fiorentina and was there for years, maybe (just... maybe) he wasn't that bad.

Know what the only similarity between the players actually is? Everton FC (who you ignore in favour of slagging the player) fucked up with both deals.

Re 'his wife who he hit?' – as I've stated earlier, that's grounds for dismissal if proven.

If not true/proven, those spreading the rumours are nob-head gossips.

Good job you put the question mark at the end, otherwise it would have come across as an even bigger ale house rabble rouser comment than it does already.

Every single report of the incident states the same thing: police were called to a disturbance at his house and Niasse was arrested on suspicion of assault. No mention at all of who the alledged victim was. Now, it might well have been his missus but, then again, it might not.

It could have been an unwelcome visitor who turned up uninvited and demanded to take Niasse on in a game of headers and volley's whilst incredulously screaming "How Much?" over and over again, before taking a well deserved nunchuck to the face and being told to fuck right off.

Sure, the club might have rushed out a statement saying they 'condemn any form of abuse' (and you could maybe read into that domestic abuse, if you want to jump to conclusions), but in the same breath, they admitted they weren't actually in possession of any of the facts as the police were still trying to ascertain what went on.

You, like everyone else on here (including myself), haven't got a clue what happened that night, who was involved, whether it was anything more than a mere misunderstanding, a heated argument, or a hand-to-hand fight to the death in Niasse's dining room that had been specially done out to resemble the Thunderdome from Mad Max 3, with the two combatants catapulting through the air, trying to grab makeshift weapons (frying pan, pillow, bog brush, potato peeler, giant dildo, 4-month-old gerbil) cellotaped to the walls and ceiling.

That's before we even get on to the all important fact that he hasn't actually been found guilty of anything at all to date. Apart from looking shite in his few brief appearances in an Everton shirt, that is... (Seemingly a hanging offence to some.)

Re Krøldrup, I heard some years after that they watched one player thinking it was Krøldrup and so bought the wrong player. Not sure how true this is, but there was something strange.

Great thread this. Could we be looking at a record for the number of times the word 'Eugene' has been used in a single thread?

Koeman says he rejected options to go elsewhere to "earn" his money. Niasse says he wants to stay and fight for his place despite being made quite aware that he hasn't got a chance. Are we asking for a 㾹.5m refund? No. Are we telling him we are sacking him? No.

We are actually telling him that, in his chosen privileged career, his current club isn't the right fit for him. That we will find a club where he can play football.

In short, he's exercising his right to live where his Mrs wants him to whilst picking up good dosh for playing with kids desperate to make a good career and earn a quarter of the money he's on. If he's happy to do that, then fine... it's his right – just as it's my right to view him as a mercenary.

If the career (professional football) has a short shelf-life, presumably it also has a short time for earning shed-loads of money life and all players try to maximise this time (nb: they don't all have agents to maximise their playing time).

Koeman says he rejected options to go elsewhere to "earn" his money.

Unusual this one, Koeman seems to be very forthright, not afraid to speak out, give the facts etc ('tell it like it is' as some prefer) yet strangely gives no details at all of the 'elsewhere' – who, how, how much etc.

Niasse says he wants to stay and fight for his place despite being made quite aware that he hasn't got a chance.

Well his chances are slim certainly, but I seem to remember Henderson at Liverpool being in a similar position not that long ago. Plus I guarantee had Niasse stated "I'm not prepared to stay at this club and fight for my place" you and others would be on here ranting about that.

You continue...

Are we asking for a 㾹.5m refund? No

No... coz we fucking can't!!!

Are we telling him we are sacking him? No

No... coz we fucking can't!!!

We are actually telling him that, in his chosen privileged career, his current club isn't the right fit for him. That we will find a club where he can play football.

That is 'actually' not true.

How do you get 'we will find a club' out of 'If you want to play, you'll have to find another club''???

You wouldn't be (shock of shocks!) making shite up to suit your agenda would you?

In short, he's exercising his right to live where his Mrs wants him to whilst picking up good dosh for playing with kids desperate to make a good career and earn a quarter of the money he's on. If he's happy to do that, then fine, it's his right – just as it's my right to view him as a mercenary.

You can 'view him' however you want. If you want to ignore the pathetic, amateur behaviour by the club that scouted him, bought him for 㾹.5m and (apparently) pays him 㿞k+ a week, and instead focus your anger on the player, up to you. But when I see obvious slanted bollocks dressed up as fact, I will point it out.

Have I for one second said that it isn't the club's (Martinez, scouts etc) fault that we are lumbered with a player who isn't up to it? Nope. Indeed, the club needs to investigate how we actually managed to pay this amount for a player who clearly lacks ability.

I have highlighted the fact that the player has been told that he must look to go elsewhere if he wants to play football and that Koeman said such opportunities were made available to him – that is a fact unless Koeman is a liar.

He is entitled to stay and play Under-23 football for the rest of his 4½-year deal. Would I do that? Nope.

Only last week, I watched a program around Joe Cole – the lad could have sat it out earning money at Villa, he moved to Coventry and took a pay cut... he since moved out to Tampa, again to play football. The reason? He wants to play as much football as he can till he can no longer play. I get that... I don't get Niasse.

Je suis mercenaire.

Plus why should you alone be labelled a mercenary?

Office wants you so pays you big money, then weeks later they don't want you and they want you gone fast coz they don't want to pay you – how mercenary are they?

Fuck em', you stay there until they pay you off or sort you out with a new office for the same money.

Peter (#147) – Naaar, not doing the murky-the-waters, deflecting semantics thing. I have clearly pointed out what I see as the weaknesses of your posts, I'll leave it for others to decide who is making sense and who isn't. As it's obvious (to me) you'd rather be 'right' than right, I'll make this my last word to you on this thread.

You should copyright your posts.