Everton to demand FA dock Manchester City points over Lescot

[Squelch]

Of course it could be Gollum endearing himself to the rags board.

With Baconface soon set for his slippers and his whiskey galore, maybe Gollum has been tapped up.

 

[blueinsa]

Every single transfer conducted starts with contact to the player via the club or an agent asking him if he would be interested in joining, anyone who thinks that a club goes to all the trouble of launching a campaign of scouting and putting in an official bid before talking to a player is deluded.

It's yet another part of the EFC/Moyes medial campaign to take the heat off them and to place it on us.

See you in court Moyes pmsl.

 

[Marvin]

All this stuff about who made it public first really is irrelevant. City had been briefing the press about it left, right, and centre anyway, and would inevitably have mentioned it at some point as it was a perfectly legal, official, and justifiable bid.

Everton's claim will be that we contacted Lescott (directly or indirectly) regarding the details of the contract on offer before Everton gave us permission to do so. That, of course, will be entirely true. Proving it will be a completely different matter though.

You are right to draw a distinction between the public annoucements by each club and its officials, and any private contact between City and Lescott which is almost by definition unknown.

It seems to me that the self-defeating inflammatory conduct of Moyes in regards to City and his own player owed more to conflict with his own board than anything else.

 

[Bill]

take 30 points off us, we'll still finish above them.

 

[tommybooth]

I say horse shit boy.

 

[Banned Tosspot]

Good luck with that one Everton.

 

[KentBlue]

If there's any truth in this story (which I doubt) then Everton and Moyes will be laughed at by all and sundry.

The guy's just being a prick.