Source: Liverpool_Echo
Victor Anichebe’s chance to make Everton FC career long-term
IT IS a tale of two strikers, which has already had more twists and turns than Silverstone. Consider the inter-changing fortunes of 21-year-old Everton centre forwards James Vaughan and Victor Anichebe.[LNB]The pair burst onto the Goodison scene at roughly the same time, both showing tantalising glimpses of future promise and both weighing in with goals early in their development.[LNB]Both have ensured fitful and chequered progress since, and trying to predict the future for the pair is like trying to guess the results of May's general election. Guess-work at best.[LNB]But rewind to early 2009 and ask most Evertonians who they would have thought would be the one out on loan at a Championship club and who they thought would be pressing claims for a first team place with ever improving performances, and the Vaughan votes would have outnumbered the Anichebes.[LNB]By the start of February 2009, the powerful young forward's Everton career appeared to be hanging by the slimmest of gossamer threads in the wind.[LNB]Not only had Anichebe apparently agitated for a loan move to Hull City, he then went one step further and almost committed Everton FC career suicide - he defied David Moyes.[LNB]Reports suggested that Anichebe rowed with his manager over the transfer to the KC stadium being blocked, and then became so frustrated he was ejected from the training ground on the eve of an important derby game.[LNB]It was hardly helpful in the club's preparation for the FA Cup replay.[LNB]But showing the strength of character which has become more apparent this year, the Nigeria-born striker responded by eventually getting back into the first team until that fatefully awful afternoon against Newcastle United in February.
