With James Rodriguez leaving Everton for Qatari club Al-Rayyan barely a year after his lionize arrival at Goodison Park, Sky Sports News reporter Alan Myers reflects on the colombian ‘s high-profile move to Merseyside, why it did n’t work forbidden, and what his exit means for the club going forwards… First of all, I think the overriding feel for Everton fans is disappointment. first that it did n’t work out but besides because none of them got to see him play. His entire Everton career was played behind close doors and even the final base game of final season, when 6,500 fans were in Goodison Park, he was n’t involve because he was injured .
A lot of fans would have liked to have seen him play for Everton because there was a lot of excitation around his arrival. It was about a palpate of unbelief that he was joining from Real Madrid. The motion came along with the euphoria that was still there from Carlo Ancelotti coming to the club, besides.

It seemed like there was going to be a fresh management at Everton under Ancelotti, with the likes of James coming in, and other signings such as Allan and Abdoulaye Doucoure . With those signings, it felt like the club was making a step up .
Rodriguez illuminated Goodison Park when he joined
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James Rodriguez illuminated Goodison Park when he joined the club
As we all know now, that did n’t come to fruition. Ancelotti left very abruptly to go to Real Madrid and now James has departed after one season, in which he made 23 Premier League appearances, scored six goals and recorded four assists. Those two exits are n’t connected. From what I am state, James had already decided that he did n’t want to continue playing at Everton before Ancelotti ‘s announcement. He was infelicitous and would have liked to have left oklahoman .
Since new director Rafa Benitez has come in – and with James efficaciously frozen out of the side – there was speculation that James did n’t fit into his plans. I ‘m pretty sealed that was n’t the case. The one person I would n’t blame at all in all of this is Benitez. Benitez wants people committed to the club and he knew straight off that this player wanted to go – and if that ‘s the casing, he has to move on. Benitez has n’t got time to see if he could talk him about. Do n’t forget Benitez has come in under huge imperativeness vitamin a good. even the top clubs ca n’t carry players who do n’t very want to be there and that ‘s particularly true at Everton, who need 100 per penny commitment, which we ‘ve seen from the likes of Andros Townsend .
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James Rodriguez was unable to inspire Everton to a higher ending than 10th stead survive season
so where did it go incorrectly ?

I think it ‘s been a perfect storm. I do n’t personally feel that Everton are in a position to have players such as James at the moment. What you might call lavishness players. There ‘s absolutely no doubting the endowment of James and players of his level but they swim in a different pond and I do n’t think Everton are there. Everton are even having to build a brain and an ethos. They need people who are going to graft, people who want to be there, people who want to be separate of the team. The drive is, of course, to have those screen of players and that sort of squad, with a top class director. But there is a fortune of building and basic stuff to be put into place beginning, with regards to the team. Because of what ‘s going on with the stadium and everything else off the field, people equitable mechanically equate that as the team going to another level. The club might be, but that does n’t necessarily follow with the team. When things are n’t going well as a team, players like James are the first base to be song about it because they ‘re used to a different level and that ‘s what I think was the problem .
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James Rodriguez showed flashes of his glare with Everton but struggled for consistency and fitness
Whether that ‘s his mistake, or the club ‘s fault for getting him, or a coach ‘s demerit, I do n’t know. I think it ‘s a combination of everything. But it ‘s very a lot an avalanche consequence. Once the foundation starts to crack, everything falls on top. This was a bang-up opportunity for James. He was well looked after and he was well liked at the golf club, besides. But it was n’t like he was in top classify form when he came to Everton. And I think he possibly started to panic because things already were n’t great for him – in terms of his past few seasons at Real Madrid and on loanword at Bayern Munich – and he saw the ground shifting from under him again with the operation of the team, which exacerbates the trouble. Add in to that the fiscal site. It ‘s no secret that Everton are close to the threshold of ‘Profit and Sustainability ‘ rules, which is effectively the Premier League ‘s Financial Fairplay. In the last transfer window, they were working on a one out, one in basis. however, James was the highest pay player in the history of Everton Football Club. They tried to get a consider done with him to go to Porto and then a club in the UAE, but that did n’t happen before the transplant deadline. They ‘ve now managed to do a cover with Al-Rayyan. This is n’t an avenue Everton will go down again any time soon, surely not from a fiscal point of watch.

The last five years have been a real moral for owner Farhad Moshiri . They ‘ve spent over £500m and they ‘re hush going out of the Carabao Cup in the third round, struggling in the league, finishing 10th. That ‘s not good enough for the money that ‘s been spent. It ‘s not one person ‘s demerit, it ‘s corporate responsibility and the owner needs to look at it and say, ‘was that the right thing to do ? Do we need a unlike strategy ? ‘. Because bringing in James did not work for Everton or the musician.