Former Everton winger Anders Limpar has admitted this week that his biggest career regret was rejecting an offer from the club to extend his time with us 22 years ago.
The now 53-year-old is probably best known in this country amongst other fans from his spell at Arsenal, but back in March 1994 he made a reported £1.6milion switch to Goodison Park and according to Soccerbase he went on to make 66 starting appearances for the club across all competitions, with an additional 18 showings from the substitutes bench. The Swedish international returned six goals in that time, before he departed the club in January 1997 on a loan spell with Birmingham and then departed permanently the next summer.
His spell at the club was mixed as he admitted himself to the Official Site and the self-confessed Evertonian as a boy, does regret his departure, especially as the club were making moves to secure his services for longer – where presumably his time at the club would’ve seen far more brighter moments.
The 1995 FA Cup winner was quoted by the Liverpool Echo as saying.
“What I can remember is that I didn’t play that much in ‘97 for some reason, if I was bad, I don’t know. All I know was that I was a little bit fed up after 12 years or whatever abroad. Jesper (son) was seven-years-old and I wanted to go back to Sweden for him to go to school. I remember that Everton offered me another three-year contract and that’s one thing I really regret in my life, that I didn’t sign again. I went on loan to Birmingham for some reason and then we went back to Sweden. I totally regret that, I should have stayed another three years with Everton. That’s a dark period in my life to leave it.”