Last month when Amadou Onana chose to join Everton rather than West Ham United, some not-so-happy Hammers appeared perplexed by the player’s decision but it seems as though after being given a couple of good years by the former long-serving Blues boss David Moyes, certain followers of the Irons have become somewhat deluded when it comes to their club’s position within the game.
This correspondent has no personal axe to grind with the long-standing former patrons of the Boleyn Ground, who like many Evertonians have been loyal supporters of a team steeped in the traditions of their community for generations, but perhaps since the move to the London Stadium, some sections of the fanbase have started to suffer from delusions of grandeur, certainly when it comes to their standing compared to Everton.
Onana himself was in no doubt why he chose to come to Merseyside and, after completing his £33.5million transfer, he declared: “I know it’s a big, big club, one of the biggest in England.” Some bitter West Ham followers would have you believe that the Belgian’s decision must have been all about the money though.
