da betway： It has been a relatively disappointing campaign for Everton in the Premier League this season, with many Toffees fans here in the Transfer Tavern calling for Roberto Martinez to be sacked!
da dobrowin： Over the years, Everton have had some top players play for them such as Marouane Fellaini, Sylvain Distin, Thomas Gravesen and Jack Rodwell.
Most of them have performed well enough at Goodison Park to earn some big moves away, most of which turned out to be a failure but nevertheless gained the Toffees quite a bit in transfer fees.
However, like pretty much every other club to play football at any level, there have been players that their fans couldn’t wait to see the back of and who simply just didn’t cut it at the top level.
Here we have a quick look at what a possible WORST Everton XI could look like……
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Richard Wright
Struggling to break into the Arsenal first team on a regular basis, Wright arrived on Merseyside in 2002 with the Toffees paying around £3.5 million for his services.
He cost his side a possible victory on his home debut when he gifted Spurs a goal in a game that finished 2-2.
Playing in 33 of Everton’s 38 Premier League fixtures in his debut season was about as good as it got for Wright.
A number of freak injuries reduced his appearances and then he found himself behind firstly Nigel Martyn and then Tim Howard in the pecking order.
After only 27 league appearances in his final four seasons at Goodison Park he left to join West Ham United on a free transfer in the summer of 2007.
Per Kroldrup
Kroldrup has to go down as one of the worst players in Everton’s recent history.
The Dane, who was part of their Euro 2004 squad, signed for the Toffees in the summer of 2005 for around £5 million from Italian side Udinese.
He had to have surgery before he had even made his debut, though, after picking up a groin injury.
He eventually made his debut, which actually turned out to be his only Premier League appearance, in the 4-0 defeat at Aston Villa on Boxing Day of 2005 and he quickly returned to Italy by joining Fiorentina in January of 2006, less than a month after his only appearance.
Alessandro Pistone
The Italian Alessandro Pistone joined the Toffees in 2000 after three years with Newcastle United.
Like Kroldrup above, he was quickly beset by injuries which allowed him only eight appearances in his first season.
Another major injury the following season saw him miss much of that campaign.
Only three games into the 2005-06 season he suffered a knee ligament injury which ruled him out for the remainder of that campaign, and the whole of the next one and he was released in 2007 after making 103 appearances in all competitions during his seven years at Goodison.
Claus Thomsen
Ask an Everton fan to name some of their worst ever players and many who watched the club during the 1990’s would name Claus Thomsen.
The Danish defender arrived at Goodison Park in 1997 after three years with Ipswich Town.
A fee of around £900,000 was a big deal at the time and in his first season scored an own goal in the Merseyside derby, which cost his side a victory.
After his only season on Merseyside, where several below-par appearances see him ranked unfavourably amongst most fans, he returned to his native Denmark.
Alex Nyarko
The Ghanaian is another import that didn’t go down too well with the Goodison Park faithful.
It was his first taste of English football when he arrived in the Premier League, commanding a £4.5 million transfer fee.
He was perhaps doomed to fail when during a game with Arsenal, a fan entered the pitch and offered Nyarko his own Everton shirt, not exactly a ringing endorsement.
He joined Monaco just days later before having a loan spell with PSG for the whole of the 2002-03 season.
He had a second bite of the Everton cherry when he returned off loan for the 2003-04 season but after just 11 more appearances he was forced to leave when his work permit expired.
Li Tie
Originally joining on loan in 2002, Li Tie made 29 appearances during his first season at Goodison Park and generally impressed as the club finished seventh.
However, when he joined permanently the following year things started to go wrong.
After an early season sending off, he then struggled with injuries before being ruled out for 12 months after breaking his leg on international duty with China.
After undergoing yet more surgery in 2006 he was released by the Toffees after just five Premier League appearances in three seasons, and joined Sheffield United.
Andy van der Meyde
Dutch international who had played for Ajax and Inter Milan and played major tournament football with the Netherlands, what could possibly have gone wrong when Andy van der Meyde came to Everton?
Well the answer to that, is plenty.
Only ten appearances in his first season wasn’t exactly what the club were looking for, and there were plenty of off-field issues with the Dutchman with rumours of alcoholism he was fined by the club, after claiming to have been spiked while out in a Liverpool bar.
Another issue, where he failed to appear for training, saw him again fined and he was eventually released in 2008 after only 20 league appearances in four seasons.
Idan Tal
It never filled the Everton fans with bags of confidence when Idan Tal arrived on Merseyside, after a career that hadn’t spanned outside of Israel.
During two-and-a-half years at Goodison Park, he made only 29 appearances and was never a regular in the Everton side with a number of below-par appearances.
After a brief spell in Spain, he returned to Israel before finding himself in the Premier League again with Bolton.
Simon Davies
Simon Davies had a decent enough career at the top level, playing in the Premier League with Tottenham, Everton and Fulham as well as making 58 caps for Wales.
However, his time at Goodison Park was disappointed on the whole, after commanding a £4 million transfer fee from Spurs in 2005.
He featured in 30 of the Toffee’s 38 league games during his debut season but his performances were generally disappointing and after the first half of his second season, where he failed to find the net, he moved to Fulham for an undisclosed fee after only 18 months on Merseyside.
James Beattie
After a prolific spell at Southampton, the signing of James Beattie excited the Everton fans but his spell, as a whole, was mainly disappointing.
In only his fifth appearance for the Toffees, he was given a straight red card for a headbutt on Chelsea’s William Gallas which, combined with a series of injuries, severely limited his appearances during his first season.
After 10 goals in his second campaign, he managed only two league goals in 33 appearances during his third, and final, season at Goodison Park.
After only 13 league goals in 76 appearances, he was sold to Sheffield United who broke their club record transfer fee to sign him.
Nick Chadwick
Coming through the youth ranks at Goodison Park, Nick Chadwick was a player tipped for big things in the future.
After 48 goals in 75 appearances in the youth sides, he burst on to the first team scene with early goals against Bolton, Leicester and Blackburn but then found it a struggle.
He had loan spells away from the club, and despite still finding the net regularly for the reserves, he didn’t do enough to nail down a first team place and a promising career unfortunately was reduced to a journeyman lower league career which spanned ten different clubs.