Your morning Everton headlines for Tuesday, December 6.
'I couldn't believe how bad some were' - Wayne Rooney says Everton team-mates weren't good enough
Wayne Rooney believes some of his former Everton team-mates weren’t good enough to play for the Blues while claiming that the club tried to sell him to Chelsea without his knowledge.
The Croxteth-born star, now 37, and head coach of Major League Soccer outfit DC United in the USA, offered his damning verdict in a candid interview with Toffee TV.
Discussing coming into the first team dressing room as 16-year-old, Rooney said: “It's mad how quick it changed. For me to go in with Duncan (Ferguson), Stubbsy (Alan Stubbs), all of them who have I grew up watching, to then go and play with them, train with them every day and play with them, and then so quickly, I remember thinking: ‘These are c***!’"
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Tom Davies makes Everton critics admission as off-field business venture revealed
Everton’s Tom Davies admits it’s still his job to prove his critics wrong - even if he stopped caring what they said about him a long time ago.
Certain aspects of the midfielder’s off-the-field lifestyle from his fashion choices to passion for skateboarding have raised eyebrows with some but the Blues’ home-grown hero insists it no longer gets to him like when he first burst into the senior side.
Davies told the PA news agency : “To be honest I’ve stopped reading what people said about me a long time ago. People are entitled to their own opinion and say what they want about me, but I know what sort of person I am and what my morals are through life and football.
“I’m probably at the stage of my life where it doesn’t bother me a lot like it did when I was younger. A football career is too short to worry about what people are saying about you.”
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