Harding for Everton - Genuine article from Liverpool Echo

[Zebedee]

the main role of a defender is to stop goals going into the big white thingy

harding isn't quite doing that at present

Do you really believe that Mayo is a better option?

 

[Uncle Buck]

Do you really believe that Mayo is a better option?

Do you think Mayo would have been so easily bundled off the ball on Friday?

 

[Dez]

I think it's time to wipe off all the negative comments made about Harding on NSC. Everton need to know the truth - Harding is a better player than Ashley Cole and must not leave for less than 3 million.

 

[Zebedee]

Do you think Mayo would have been so easily bundled off the ball on Friday?

I doubt he would have got anywhere near the ball. He is well off the pace now. Mayo that is.

 

[Storer68]

Do you really believe that Mayo is a better option?

At the moment I think Ian Chapman is a better option

 

[Zebedee]

At the moment I think Ian Chapman is a better option

But isn't it nice to know though that another club is prepared to pay £750,000 for such a crap player...

Premiership clubs don't often offer that amount of money for the fun of it.

Perhaps Everton are really after Mayo and have got their left backs mixed up.

 

[BensGrandad]

Can we not bring back our best ever left back Jimmy Langley. Who incidentally took throws into the penalty box long before it became popular.

 

[southstandandy]

Apparently its a typo - the paper meant to say £7.50 and got the decimal point in the wrong place.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

In terms of spotting ability and talent, I would trust Moyes' and Taylor's judgement over most of Harding's NSC critics any day of the week

So would I normally. But not in this case. I'd trust the judgement of the people who watch him week in, week out.

 

[kalinski]

£750k? That's obscene. We should hold out for at least £4m. The lad's the most exciting prospect in the country after Wayne Rooney.

no he's a better prospect than Pele

 

[Stumpy Tim]

We should ask for 2m, and then accept 1.5m to cover our debts

 

[BensGrandad]

We should ask for 2m, and then accept 1.5m to cover our debts

Ask £8m and we may be in the black not the red when the accounts are published.!!!

 

[Kev the Ape]

WW would follow him!! Bye Bye Dan, we wont miss you!!

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

for which side?

 

[Zebedee]

I see the Harding knockers are still alive and kicking. So sad.....

 

[smudge]

I thought that last season he was quality, but this season got off to a nightmare at Reading & his confidence is shot to bits.

Normally I'd be gutted to see a promising youngster go; but these aren't normal times, so if we can get a good wedge for a player who isn't performing too well, then let's get as much as we can.

 

[Zebedee]

I thought that last season he was quality, but this season got off to a nightmare at Reading & his confidence is shot to bits.

Normally I'd be gutted to see a promising youngster go; but these aren't normal times, so if we can get a good wedge for a player who isn't performing too well, then let's get as much as we can.

I don't disagree with you Smudge, especially given the parlous state of the club's finances. But I do think that much of the criticism of Harding of late has been a tad OTT.

 

[oapdodge]

Am I the only one that is getting heartily sick of all the criticism that Harding is getting? I know that he has had a few bad games and has made mistakes but what young player doesn't? If Everton do offer £750,000 they will be doing so because they believe that Dan has a bright future, not because they are some naive charitable institution. In terms of spotting ability and talent, I would trust Moyes' and Taylor's judgement over most of Harding's NSC critics any day of the week.

Awaits flamin'

Have to agree with you Zebedee. I put a thread up recently saying very similar. Harding is and will be a good player. Only 21 and he just gets all his mistakes magnified,. Up until that error when he was fouled he had a good game. If as has been stated that loads of clubs are interested then I'm surprised a few NSC people haven't been approached to start scouting. Obvously their own proffessional scouts don't know what they are looking at.

 

[smudge]

I don't disagree with you Smudge, especially given the parlous state of the club's finances. But I do think that much of the criticism of Harding of late has been a tad OTT.

Agreed. Brighton never had much of a rep' for slagging off their own players. That was left to QPR & Spurs!

Withdean enables the moaners to be heard, as has been said many times before on here.

 

[skr80]

this thread cheered me up!!

would be a shame to see such a promising player leave however (bearing in mind we have just let claridge go also)