Everton goalkeeper Andy Lonergan extends Goodison Park stay
Journeyman goalkeeper Andy Lonergan has signed a new one-year deal to remain at Everton for the 2022-23 season, according to the Liverpool Echo.
The 38-year-old has played for 16 clubs throughout his extensive professional career but has only been subjected to being the third choice at his previous four clubs.
That includes Everton who are yet to give the one-time Republic of Ireland international his debut for the club with Jordan Pickford and Asmir Begovic preferred by Frank Lampard and Rafael Benitez.
Despite having never played for Everton, Lonergan does offer a great deal of experience to pass onto the other goalkeepers at the club while being content as the emergency backup should anything occur with the preferred options.
The Toffees have loaned out youngsters Joao Virginia and Harry Tyler which has almost forced the club’s hand into extending Lonergan’s stay on Merseyside should Pickford and Begovic be out of action for any reason.
Waste of time
Wherever this craze of getting washed up old has-beens to sit around the club doing very little came from it has to be stopped because it is doing no good to anyone.
Someone like Virginia or Tyler would have loved to be the third choice for Everton this season where they could learn valuable lessons from the two senior choices before perhaps heading out on loan in January.
We are wasting plenty of money every single week by keeping the journeyman in a job that any other shot-stopper at the club could do just as well and for much longer.
Surely we must have realised he wasn’t up to much when he didn’t play a game for West Brom throughout the 2020-21 season but we still went and signed him.
Even worse than that though is that we’ve signed him again this season having seen how useless he is to the club in a total waste of his and our time and resources.