Are you able to image Daniel Agger in an Everton shirt? No?
Thank goodness. Neither can we, due to David Moyes. The previous Everton boss got here very near including the centre-back to his ranks at Goodison Park previous to his eventual change to metropolis rivals Liverpool.
Stunningly, nonetheless, the ex-Brondby star recounted the time the Scottish coach ghosted him after suggesting some curiosity in his skills.
“My first 12 months I gained the league and the cup and performed for the nationwide group, certainly one of my first video games was in opposition to England and we gained 4-1, i t was a extremely good sport,” the Dane spoke on the Aldo Meets Podcast.
“Brondby really advised me that David Moyes the Everton supervisor was within the stadium and needed to talk to me afterwards and I stated ‘yeah, okay’. And I got here after the sport and thought that was an honest sport, however he disappeared.
“I requested the membership director there and he stated ‘no, he stated to me he didn’t suppose you had been ready for the Premier League’. I assumed okay and 6 months later I used to be right here.”
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Thank goodness for Rafa Benitez
Look, clearly the now West Ham head coach is a really gifted soccer supervisor, as evidenced by his current exploits in London.
He wouldn’t be the primary high supervisor both to overlook out on an outstanding expertise after woefully underrating them from a primary remark or two.
However goodness gracious – what a participant to overlook out on!
Fortunately, Rafa Benitez’s eye caught and held agency on Daniel Agger and we obtained to get pleasure from ‘Dagger’ on the coronary heart of our defence for a lot of a 12 months earlier than he fell prey to the weird antics of Brendan Rodgers.
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