Maguire Summary from an Evertonian I went to aforementioned match with:So first, the football. He is an absolutely brilliant player, he would
genuinely be one of the most talented players in the PL. He's a game
changer and will do some things which will have you shaking your head
in disbelief
He never got on with Moyes because he expects everyone to do their job
in the defensive unit and Drenthe wasn't really that interested in
that.
To get the best out of him you should just play him off a front man or
wide left and not ask anything of him defensively (or at least not
expect anything, he does surprise you every so often by pulling off a
great challenge)
In the negative column in terms of off the field, he is completely
mental. Not just a bit, I mean really bonkers. He comes from a
particularly nasty bit of Rotterdam and is reckoned to have ADD and
as a result really struggles to stay still/at home. Apparently alcohol
isn't so much the problem as he just can't switch off and so tends to
go out every night, he's also obsessively into music (he built a
recording studio in the basement of his rented accomodation within
about a week of signing for us)
The last straw when he left Everton was when, the Friday before we
played the filth in the cup semi, he was caught on CCTV breaking into
our training ground with two birds whom he proceeded to nail in the
gym (I shit you not)
In short, he's tremendous, I wish he still played/was banned from
playing for us because in the humdrum and mundanity of finishing 6th
(much like playing in the championship, I expect) he will provide
plenty of entertainment, good and bad. There aren't enough total
nutcases in the game these days, IMO
rofl, so much fro signing players who fit the Reading mould
Could he be our very own Balotelli? Or Reading FC's modern day Robin Friday.
ever.
