FiNeRaInSnowflake Royal I'm still bitter about Tanner, Dickie, Hyam, Novakovich and Stacey.
We do alright, but we could do a lot better given the potentials we've had.
We bring in an awful lot of mediocre squad fillers when we could give Academy lads 5-10 appearances instead.
Apart from Stacey none of those guys have amounted to anything. No one can stop talking about Novakovich but he's in Serie B without a goal in 9 games.
Don't understand the hype about Loader, can't get into a mediocre championship side and is making a fuss about wanting a move. Says more about the decline of Man Utd if they really are sniffing around.
Dickie and Hyam are 23 and are playing for promotion-chasing clubs in League One. Writing them off is silly.
Craig Tanner had 6 in 26 for Motherwell which is comparable to Gylfi at Everton (except obviously for the level of the club, just saying it's a good return for an attacking midfielder). He then had a freak knee injury that seems to have effectively ended his career, been out for 18 months, turned down a sympathy contract from Motherwell in search of regular football and hasn't been able to convince anyone to take him on. A slightly less extreme version of Aaron Kuhl.
In all three cases it's entirely reasonable to think that if things out of their control had gone a little differently then they could have made it here.