Mina signs off but not before ‘one last dance’

I'm surprised at 44%, seems even less.

COYBLUES!

I remember how ecstatic I was when we bought him... I had watched him for Colombia and figured that, with his talent and passion, he'd be a club mainstay for years to come.

How sad that this top-quality player, leader, man and Blue had such subpar quality leg muscles.

One final hurrah, big man, and then all the best to ya.

I was excited too based on watching Colombia. Frustrating beyond belief that injuries severely curtailed his Everton career.

If there's a simple lesson to be learned for Everton going forward, pray these lessons are learned. And on scale across the whole field.

UTFTs!

He's clearly the best defender at the club when he's fully fit. A positive influence in the dressing room and a leader on the pitch. Anyone that's spent any time in his company can see his passion for football and for his club is clear.

I understand the need to lower the wage bill and Mina's injury problems have meant he hasn't been worth his 𧴰,000 wages. But why not offer him a 2-year extension and try to get a fee for him?

Have we even attempted to offer him a lower salary on the basis that he's just not available often enough? Or would his agent have been upfront with the club and told them that's a non-starter?

I find it difficult to understand why we'd let a 㿈M asset walk out the door without even attempting to recoup something, especially a player that, I think, still have a lot to offer.

Credit to Mina, I was concerned about playing him, given he was obviously off elsewhere, and doubted whether he would be fully committed given his injury record and his desire or need not to have another injury just when he seeks new pastures. But in the last few games, he's given 100%.

Do it again one more time, one last dance, then go with some gratitude. But time to go, we need a new thinking, a new mindset, no room for people who mostly can't play.

I've never seen the appeal as a footballer. Maybe he could be a decent defender but it's all irrelevant when he can't string games together.

Had a few decent performances. Managed some shithousery that has ranged from the valuable, to the funny, to the embarrassing. But overall it's definitely good riddance from me.

Thanks for your service.

As for his "service" – hell fire, give me a break!

Labone, Hurst, Kenyon, Lyons, McNaught, Higgins, Wright, Ratcliffe, Mountfield, Watson, Yobo, Weir, Gough and Distin must be wondering what fucking planet we're on in eulogising Yerri Mina.

Another multi-millionaire “earner” from Moshiri's trough.

I'm all for early planning but has the club held talks at such an important time with all those out of contract this year? All hands to the pumps and two keepers on the bench… it never seems to stop.

But, with his injury record and our financial state, there was no way we could keep him. I wish him luck for the future and hope he bags one today.

He might be our best defender when fit, but therein lies the problem with our Yerry. Some of his antics have been shameful and embarrassing.

Imagine getting a job and only turning-up to 44% of the working week!

But his contribution in this current relegation dogfight means he was worth his transfer fee and every penny of his wages in his time at Everton.

Good luck to him in the future and hopefully he will find a similar Medical Services that will get him out of training.

I don't know what the stats are but it seems our injured players take twice as much time to recover from “strains and knocks” than other teams. And when they do finally reappear, they break down again, quickly.

This has been going on for years now. Maybe it's just my perception but we seem to be shit getting, and keeping, players back on the pitch.

Sadly he represents an era at Everton that is dead and gone. A contract that, over 5 years, was worth more than three times what Luton pay their entire squad per season, for a player who was fit less than half the time, is unthinkable now. That's probably a good thing, considering the money our club have burned on overpriced dross.

I'm hoping it's a new dawn for us, whatever happens today, and the most important signings will be a CEO and a board who have a clue about how to run a Premier League club – even if we are temporarily in exile in the Championship.

Mina — just for the record, I had a look at his stats which state that 57% of the matches he plays in, Everton win, while they only win 24% of the time when he doesn't! So when he plays, we are more than twice as likely to win than when he doesn't. Right now, we need winners in the team and I would rather he was playing than not.

I understand the fact he has been injury-prone, but that's not his fault – more likely poor conditioning or treatment. I hope he leaves on a great not… a last dance to remember.

He's the only defender we've got who can pass the ball and, as Christine points out, we win more with him in the side than not. Okay, he was injured a lot… but he's not alone, the much revered Calvert-Lewin the prime example, who personally I can't wait to see the back of.

Yerry popped up with a few goals as well. One thing's for sure: he's better than the other centre-halves at this club as proven by the stats.

Buy high and sell for nothing appears to be the way of things.

However I am sorry to see Mina leaving as he is a character and we are short of them these days plus the fact that he tends to be something of a leader, something we are desperately short of.

If only he could have remained fit!

We likely offered a contract with lower terms/based on matches played. He likely has more lucrative offers elsewhere, simple as that. It would be mad to offer a 3 year guaranteed salary given his injury problems.

As for the rest, I'll refer you to Christine's post #27

Mina, Keane, Holgate, Maupay, Gomes, Gbamin - we could do with them all leaving and giving a chance to the likes of Branthwaite, Welch, Warrington, Simms and Cannon.

I'd love him to stay. Tarkowski and Mina with Branthwaite as backup feels like a solid defence.

He's undoubtedly our best centre halve, but 86 appearances in 5 seasons is a joke.

Top 4 teams are getting that in a season and a half. His 𧴰k per week is like 𧷤k a week equivalent for players playing 60 games a season. Same for Calvert-Lewin.

Digne was a great signing and we got great money for home when he left, Mina and Gomes were awful signings, particularly, from a business point of view.

Mina redeemed himself, to some extent, over the past month but if he hadn't been so injury prone, we might not have been in the merde in the first place. Will miss him a bit though!

Gomes – we'll be still paying his big wages for another year.

Wish him well – I am sure he would have wanted to play in every game but injuries prevented that.

Dyche reinstated him just in the nick of time. Had he persisted any longer with Keane in defence, then I very much doubt we'd be celebrating tonight.

Branthwaite must replace him. Our rebuild begins now, from the heart of our central defence.

There is definitely an issue with either training methods, training or Goodison turf, recovery periods, post-training cool-downs. I don't understand why we haven't managed to get a handle on it.

I understand those saying Mina should get a pay-as-you-play deal but I think that ship has sailed. On his day, the lad could be class and was a master of the dark arts but we just didn't see him regularly enough and I think we'd get more of the same. Expect him to pop up and play for someone in Spain or Italy and play 40 games next season.

Good player, too injury-prone.

Sticking his head into that lad yesterday in such an important game was stupid. Alright when you get away with it.

He was entertaining when the context allowed it. He should have a good career in WWE.

"Imagine getting a job and only turning up to 44% of the working week!"

I've had plenty of jobs like that. It's the contributions that I made that were important to the company, not the time that I spent on ToffeeWeb.

㿇M in transfer fees down the drain though. Yet another expensive signing leaving on a free at the end of their contract. Such poor transfer management. We've lost so much money on transfers like this over recent years.

A good chunk of Moshiris's 𧺬M has disappeared on transfer fees that were never recovered. Off the top of my head: Sigurdsson, Bolasie, Mina, Tosun, Walcott, all signed for big money and eventually left on frees. We paid about 𧵎M for just these 5 and that doesn't include wages. And I'm sure I've missed others.

Mina in total would have cost the club around 㿥M, fee and wages combined. Bonkers. That's 10% of the stadium!

He's a shithouse but he's been our shithouse.

Yes, he hasn't played enough but when he did play, we were much harder to beat.

Off the pitch, he seems like a nice guy too. I happen to live near him and often see him in Tesco. He's always got time for a selfie with the kids and always had a smile on his face.

Good luck to him wherever he goes next.

Yerry Mina is head and shoulders our best centre-back; without him, we would have been relegated. So what if his injury record (historically) is poor and his wages were high and so on? — he is a winner, he kept us in the league and the negative financial cost of relegation dwarfs everything Mina has had from us.

We paid around 㿈M for him, we stupidly froze him out of the side, we stupidly let his contract run down (and failed to protect an asset we paid a lot for) without offering him an extension, thereby pushing him out the door and pushing him out the door on a fucking free and all when we don't have a pot to piss in! Great business that, Everton.

Who the hell are we gonna get in who is as good? And what are we gonna do, pay out another 㿈M and let that player's contract run down too?

Branthwaite is already our player. Keep them both! Pushing winners out the door will only further lessen the quality of our squad.

I am seething that Yerry has been allowed to leave and his contract has been left to end without club intervention. I doubt Lampard would have let Mina leave on a free, this is on Everton and Sean Dyche, he felt that Keane, Tarkowski, Coady, Holgate, and Godfrey were the centre-back answers.

Now it is too late, Yerry has gone, and the team has been weakened once again.

“Before the last game, I told you that we had one last mission together…and we did it! We have achieved it!”

He ends his message with “It has been an honour to have belonged to Everton and wherever I go I will be cheering for sure. You are in my heart.”

Nice words from the big guy!