Source: Liverpool_Echo
DAVID PRENTICE: Why Everton FC's Steven Pienaar could be jumping in at the deep end
STEVEN PIENAAR has an unexpectedly deep voice. If the scale of his pay demands reported this week are accurate, it seems he has pockets to match.[LNB]It's usually almost impossible to take objection to Everton's silkily skilled South African.[LNB]His artistry on a football field is matched only by his workrate. He tackles, runs, closes down and creates - another six assists so far this season to go with last season's 10 and the previous campaign's 14 - and if you were to argue that he doesn't score as many goals as he should, when he does he devotes them to God.[LNB]Then there's the key part he has played in Everton suddenly being proclaimed as the Premier League's new Arsenal wannabes. ('Everton are keeping the ball like Barcelona!' gushed Paul Merson last week. And no, he hadn't fallen off the wagon, because the BBC website used exactly the same phrase).[LNB]But the fast growing molehill about Pienaar's new contract negotiations is starting to leave a sour taste.[LNB]Everton tell us they are prepared to make Pienaar one of their highest paid players.[LNB]That's not the very best paid.[LNB]But come on, when someone's offered you - let's pluck a figure out of the air - £40,000 a week, what differ- ence does an extra £10k a week make?
