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Former players, pundits and supporters piled on Neal Maupay after the striker trolled Everton following the club’s defeat to Nottingham Forest. Maupay, on loan at Marseille from the Blues, took to social media to joke at the expense of Sean Dyche’s side.

He wrote on X: “Whenever I’m having a bad day I just check the Everton score and smile.”

It was an extraordinary comment from a player technically still owned by the Blues - though Marseille have an obligation to make the deal permanent in the summer. 

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Paul Ferry
1 Posted 30/12/2024 at 03:17:58
"Whenever I'm having a bad day I just check the Everton score and smile 🙂" (Maupay)

"Prick" (Bellew)

Ernie Baywood
2 Posted 30/12/2024 at 05:12:10
Paul, when I saw that comment by Maupay, my thought was that someone playing the role of a prick is an even bigger prick than someone who is just a prick.

Life has a habit of sorting out these pricks.

Paul Ferry
3 Posted 30/12/2024 at 05:30:03
Ernie, given his less-than-impressive time so far in Marseille, it seems likely that he'll be coming back to us in the summer.

I hope that the new people treat him with the contempt he deserves/has earned. Jumped-up little prick.

Rob Halligan
4 Posted 30/12/2024 at 07:17:18
Paul….

Maupay’s contract with us is up in the summer.

I doubt very much he will want to extend it, or even be offered one, once his loan at Marseille has ended, so we won’t be seeing him again in a blue shirt, gracing the turf at BMD.

Paul Ferry
5 Posted 30/12/2024 at 07:25:23
Cheers Rob. That explains his X bravado. Good luck finding a good club knobhead.

Such certainty in an uncertain situation - 'We will have ... We'll have. ... '. The new lads know who they want in. They new owners will be great for us.

Let's just wait, see, cross fingers, and hope.

Ian Jones
6 Posted 30/12/2024 at 09:44:59
I thought Maupay was not our player anymore.

On loan with Marseilles having an obligation to pay, not an option...

Dean Williams
7 Posted 30/12/2024 at 17:43:00
Can we bring that piece of shit Maupay back for the 2nd half of the season, and make him train with the kids.
Nigel Scowen
8 Posted 30/12/2024 at 18:23:37
Don’t give this no mark the attention he craves. A failed Premier League player now playing in an inferior league where he belongs. He couldn’t even get a place in our struggling team says it all. Useless.
Peter Moore
9 Posted 30/12/2024 at 18:49:06
Big Wind Up Merchant. Laugh it off, he loves taking the piss. The narky little twerp lol
Peter Mills
10 Posted 30/12/2024 at 19:10:57
I read an excellent suggestion elsewhere that the club should fine Maupay £3m and use the cash to pay off Mr Dyche!
Barry Rathbone
11 Posted 30/12/2024 at 19:11:57
Made me laugh to be honest.

He got absolute pelters here and is giving it back - so what?

Jack Convery
12 Posted 30/12/2024 at 19:11:57
Cnut.
Mark Murphy
13 Posted 30/12/2024 at 19:22:43
As I recall he got quite a lot of leeway from the fans a la DCL in that he was being asked to play the lone striker - a game alien to him.
Still a Cnut though. I replied on the original Twitter that it wasn’t his fault - we thought we were buying the other one, the good one - Trossard.
Paul Ferry
14 Posted 30/12/2024 at 19:28:56
I don't think that Maupay did get 'absolute pelters' at The Old Lady. He was never the subject/object of a targeted sustained booing campaign.

He, was needless to say, like anyone else, the target of moans and groans when he did something wrong. But I cannot remember a single match when he was the am of significant targeted booing. I could be wrong on this and wait to be corrected.

I remember him getting flak after the Euston episode but he also acted like a twat.

A twat is a twat is a twat.

Anyone who can respond 'so what' to this might as well hang out with Maupay and swap stories.

Brendan McLaughlin
15 Posted 30/12/2024 at 19:50:42
If Neal could make half the impact on the pitch as he does on social media...he would be one helluva player.
Paul Ferry
16 Posted 30/12/2024 at 19:56:10
What makes me smile Brendan and others is that Maupay thinks people care so much about him that he needs to hire a PR company to 'correct' the public perception of him. Who the feck takes any notice of Maupay and cares about him until, of course, this snide low-life comment.

I'd advise him to get rid of this PR company as his 'public perception' takes one hit after another. Barry R might do a good job for him!

John Daley
17 Posted 30/12/2024 at 20:17:31
After an Everton fan replied to his original dig by stating the so called striker would get dogs abuse if he ever turned out against the blues again, Maupay commented further: “See you in the Champions League next season!

Then followed up a minute later with, “*championship”.


The Versailles born Verne Troyer (who, just like the actual pocket-sized Austin Powers actor, perfected the art of not pulling his fucking finger out) is obviously still deeply scarred by a dystopian Goodison stay that saw him deprived of the sort of love and adulation he so clearly deserved after clocking up one goal in 32 games.

Either that or he’s still just really, really pissed that his plucky, self-proclaimed ‘Shawshank Redemption’ style escape from Everton was actually caught on camera:

Link

Phil Roberts
18 Posted 30/12/2024 at 20:17:40
I did see a response from someone whose profile name was Tony Bellew.

If true, be nice if Neal said it to Tony's face.

Paul Kernot
19 Posted 30/12/2024 at 20:50:26
Similar to John Lydon posts I read now & then, regularly slagging off all & sundry, including ex Pistols members. His reputation is going the same way as the French dwarf too.
Jim Bennings
20 Posted 30/12/2024 at 21:06:29
Whenever I have a bad day I simply remember how shit a football player Neal Maupay is.
Andrew Grey
21 Posted 30/12/2024 at 22:03:36
Barry - 11

Yep!

Jeff Armstrong
22 Posted 30/12/2024 at 22:21:33
Over his 3 year contract he’s probably stolen about 5 million quid off the club he ridicules, for what? 32 games and 1 goal, and HE takes the piss out of EFC and all of us?? He should shut the fuck up and be grateful he earned so much with zero effort and return, he should learn wherever he goes in life and this world,he won’t be too far away from a scouser, and a decent chance that scouser will be a blue.
John Raftery
23 Posted 30/12/2024 at 23:11:39
Who?
Jay Hughes
24 Posted 30/12/2024 at 23:21:19
I fart in your general direction….now go away or I will taunt you a second time

Le petite prick

Brian Denton
25 Posted 30/12/2024 at 23:22:59
To be fair Jeff (22) it was a good goal

I saw Mickey Walsh's one league goal for Everton too.

Kevin Edward
26 Posted 31/12/2024 at 08:43:30
It’s a mad world when worse than average professional footballers who contribute nothing walk away with millions.

You’d hope that perhaps their shortcomings could be compensated with some integrity and class whilst being professional.

I wonder will this madness ever end? It’s the Emperors New Clothes isn’t it? It’s not Maupays fault that he behaves like a knob, and becomes a multi millionaire on the side.

Who’s the mug? It’s me isn’t it for taking an interest and writing this.

James Marshall
27 Posted 31/12/2024 at 09:14:00
An average footballer earning £2.5m per year, taking the piss out of us financially and literally. I have to say I kind of admire him for it!

99.9% of players are drones who say nothing, at least Maupay has some balls. In fact, isn't that something most of us would want in a footballer?

In a world where people are terrified of showing any personality, at least he's got the front to be a c**t. I kind of weirdly like that in a person.

Jeff Armstrong
28 Posted 31/12/2024 at 09:43:38
Brian 25 yes a good strike against West Ham, earned us 3 points that day, same as Doucouré’s last game winner against Bournemouth, so the poison dwarf’s strike was equally important I suppose.
I too remember Mickey Walsh scoring at Villa, wasn’t there though, he got a couple in the Eufa cup too, his brother didn’t cover himself in glory years later though did he as our DOF?
Maupey has always been a wind up merchant, he did a job for us when he came on against Arsenal when we were winning 1-0, got under the skin of the Arsenal defence,
still a c**t though.
Dave Abrahams
29 Posted 31/12/2024 at 10:19:05
Regarding Maupay, didn’t we get two loan fees for him n the last eighteen months and some of his wages by the clubs he went to, he scored a few for Brentford last season.

I find it strange that a lot of us defend DCL for having to lead the attack on his own, Beto and Broja finding it hard as well yet we expected a much smaller man to do better in that strikers role than he did.

I thought he was played out of position and obviously did better at Brentford in a different role scoring and assisting the other strikers. I think he is a natural nark on and off the pitch.

Justin Doone
30 Posted 31/12/2024 at 10:26:28
Not enough characters in sport anymore. A few words don't bother me and although it won't happen, I hope to see him playing against us in the future. He'd fit right in over the park.
Paul Kernot
31 Posted 31/12/2024 at 21:43:25
Good point Justin. I loved Mohammed Ali, Alex Hurricane Higgins and pretty much every half back in world rugby for being the mouthy bastards they were. Difference is, it was ok for all of the above to be arrogant because they were all brilliant at what they did.
Simon Dalzell
32 Posted 31/12/2024 at 22:04:08
We already knew what a complete snake he is. The lowest of the low, In fact I believe even the Cheese eating surrender Monkeys have distanced themselves from this offensive little nobody.
Mike Galley
34 Posted 31/12/2024 at 23:08:30
Christ, has this man got no proffesional pride?
Part of the reason we're in the position we are in is that some of our recent signings have not been very good, or even worse, haven't displayed sufficient character to help us, for a not insignificant wage.
Ring any bells, Neal?

Yet another blot on our history.

Paul Birmingham
35 Posted 31/12/2024 at 23:42:11
Fekk the Scum bag, no style, no class, and in any mode of life is a bitter and twisted douche bag.

Cack House, and over rated when at Brighton, and sadly, Everton got soused, for an excuse of a footballer.

History doesn't lie and Maupay was and always will be, well out of his depth, as a human being, and not worth the shin pads, ad a footballer. Grade A, ale house player stealing an excuse of a living as a professional footballer!

One of the worst frauds bought by Everton. That's saying something!

The positives are don't give him no more air, internet time, and Everton FC learn, improve, grow and get better.

Let him burn him self out, as he will with his sewage pipe gob.

UTFTs!
H N Y 2025!


Don Alexander
36 Posted 01/01/2025 at 00:47:08
Seems to me that in Maupay Kenwright identified self-serving traits and talent to match his own. HNY!
John Pickles
37 Posted 01/01/2025 at 09:03:40
Well, if he smiles now at how bad we are, he must have been in hysterics when he was here, because we were much worse when he was in the team.
Dave Abrahams
38 Posted 01/01/2025 at 10:15:38
Paul (31) One of my favourite sportsmen was Lester Piggott, he never spoke a great deal but could cut you dead with his one liners, possibly the best jockey of all time, he was arrogant too.

Sometimes arrogance can be very funny, maybe non Everton fans would find Maupay funny too, he certainly didn’t upset me!

John Raftery
39 Posted 01/01/2025 at 10:28:19
Me neither Dave (38). It is funny to see some of us getting wound up by a player who will be a mere footnote in small print in years to come.

I recall Frank Lampard saying they wanted to bring in a striker not to cover for Calvert-Lewin, but to complement him. Unfortunately Calvert-Lewin was hardly ever fit enough to play leaving Maupay to plough a lone furrow up front, a role for which he was never equipped.

Brian Harrison
40 Posted 01/01/2025 at 10:36:18
Dave 38

Lester was a true great, I think his deafness made him be a bit less talkative, but as you say his one liners were very cutting. I had a leg in a horse a few years back and we had it with the trainer Alan Bailey who had the old Eric Cousins yard in Tarporley. Alan owned a horse called Pickles, and he booked Lester to ride it at Chester. I know Alan had a fair wager on it and Lester got it home by a head. Alan said F***** hell Lester when did you think you were going to win that, and Lester replied " when you booked me for the ride 3 weeks ago".

I thought Lester was harshly treated when jailed over tax evasion, to think what some Government ministers have done since and not spent a minute in jail. I also think to remove his knighthood was wrong. I think Charles St George one of the owners Lester road for paid most of Lesters barristers fees.

Rob Jones
41 Posted 02/01/2025 at 00:12:53
Maupay's a horrible little shit.

The irony is, he's exactly what we need. If we'd used him as we intended to, he'd have had much better results. It's unfortunate that Calvert-Lewin broke down when he did, because Maupay played off of Calvert-Lewin would have been extremely effective, and he's exactly the kind of nasty the club's lacked for a long time.

We'd do well to ignore him.

Dave Abrahams
42 Posted 02/01/2025 at 10:05:29
Brian (40), Yes a great character Lester and his one liners to put people and horses down are legendary, one of my favourites concerned Alan Ball ——Alan had bought a horse and hired Lester to ride it in it’s first race, the horse finished third in a seven horse race and and Alan rushed to hear what Lester made of it Alan asked him “ Will it make anything” Lester replied “ Yes, Glue”
Brian Harrison
43 Posted 02/01/2025 at 10:41:03
Dave 42
I hadnt heard that story about ballys horse, he liked his horses.
I don't know how Lester survived as all he had to eat was a piece of dry toast a glass of champagne and a cigar.
Dave Abrahams
44 Posted 02/01/2025 at 12:10:27
Brian (43) Yes the “ Longfellow” was tall for a jockey and had to fast most of his life, rode his first winner aged twelve, I think. rode over the sticks a few times and headhunted for the big races, in one of his Derby wins he was hired on the morning of the race and Bill (?) Williamson who was jockeyed off the winner received £5,000 for the disappointment! Lester won that race in a very close finish and possibly Williamson wouldn’t have got that finish out of the horse, can’t think of the horses name at the moment.
Dave Abrahams
45 Posted 02/01/2025 at 12:25:35
Just checked Brian that horse was Roberto in 1972.

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