I'm a bit weird me. I go the match to watch those fellas that do things that I think even if i was young and mad fit there's not a chance I could be as good on the eye as that. He's one of them players, and I'd be gutted if he left. And not least because it yet again perpetuates our status as a stepping stone club for anyone out of the ordinary. But like the battered wife that we are, we all pretend we're not arsed, his output is shite and replaceable and we'll get someone as productive for less and fingers crossed he'll be a bit shitter, so we might get a bit longer of him. Dwight McNeil, basically. And so it goes on - and we fucked goodison park off for this. Same old shit, comfier seat. We're all fucking dickheads.

As for his output, his Peter Beagrie-esque moments, his drop off in form and all those things which you make a reasonable point about, im pretty sure the fact that post-grealish he is about it in terms of creativity means that the special attention he receives from opponents to snuff him out has helped with that - not to mention he's got uber-crab 3 more years Mykolenko acting as his decoy. And
then you've got one or other of Barry or Beto to be feeding it's little wonder he holds on to it too long.

Stick that lad in a good side, with marauding full backs and competent forwards and he'll be a world beater. Against teams with two deep banks of four he's the type who'll win you the game. Until we start acting like a big club we won't keep big players and that's a fact. Who can blame him if he does leave d? Fucking 13th from the jaws of 7th? We can't have nice things. Get to fuck Everton.