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Tony Hibbert has revealed his “hurt” over the manner in which he left Everton .
And the long-serving former Blues full-back reckons ‘The People’s Club’ has been replaced by a “ruthless, horrible business”.
In a brutally honest interview with the Daily Mail, Hibbert has opened up about his departure from the club this summer.
Hibbert was out of contract at the end of June and says he was released without anyone at Everton telling him so.
“I was in Formby with my dad and brother when my wife Samantha rang to say she’d been getting text messages from friends that I wasn’t being retained. It was on the website,” Hibbert said.
I couldn’t believe it so I rang a friend at the club to check.
“They said, “Tony, I honestly don’t know why nobody has spoken to you”. I contacted Leon and he was in exactly the same boat.
“I won’t tell a lie, I was really hurt. Surely someone at the club should’ve realised it wasn’t right. I’d rather have been told at any point during the season there wouldn’t be a contract so I’d have a chance to plan my future and say a proper farewell. No player deserves that whether they’ve been at a club for five minutes or 25 years.
“In what other job would someone be let go or fired without a senior manager talking and explaining what was happening? I never got that and I honestly don’t know why. I didn’t get the chance to properly say goodbye to the fans.”
The 35-year-old was dogged by injuries during the final few seasons of an Everton first-team career that began in 2001 and managed just 45 minutes last term.
Hibbert is currently recovering from ankle ligament damage and looking to find a new club once he is fit again.
He has been allowed to do his rehab at Finch Farm but only in the afternoon when the first-team have finished training, the Mail article says.
“It’s hard for me to go in. It’s a horrible feeling,’ Hibbert said.
“I feel embarrassed. Everything from the club feels like a new smack in the face. My wife is even angrier at how I’ve been treated.”
But Hibbert says since David Moyes left the club in 2013, the place hasn’t ever felt the same.
“Every contract I had at Everton, I never questioned it or demanded more money,” he says.
“I have never kicked up a storm even as a kid. But since David Moyes left (in 2013), I have noticed the club hasn’t got the same feeling.
“The People’s Club, it’s no longer that. It’s a ruthless, horrible business and a lot of good people have gone.
“I understand a new manager wants to work a different way but it is a dog-eat-dog culture inside the club now. People are only looking out for themselves.”
唔續約前連單一聲都無，連 hibbert 和 osman 都係由網頁才知道自己不被續約，嬲都好正常，係球會25年連一份尊重都無。
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