waterfootblues said:
For the past 30 years I have worked from time to time for a property manager who has a very successful wife who is a solicitor and runs a law firm and is now an MP. As a family they have shares in Wolves and for years they were raving about a central defender that played for the Wolves that was good enough to play in the premiership and will hopefully take them there. Wolves had no choice but to build their team organically as they had limited funds and it wasn't long before the big boys were knocking on the door enquiring about the special player they had. Wolves had become a club that struggled financially although they had great history.
The player was Lescott and the team to take advantage of the Wolves financial plight was everton.
This higher ground ploy from the everton fans is embarrassing and far from the truth.
We as a club are far more organic than they will ever be as is proven with our Acedemy and the players that have made the grade from the Academy. Richards. Ned. Ireland, Johnstone and to a point Joe Hart, Weiss and plenty more to come.
Moyes is the most overrated manager in the premiership for me. They got to the FA cup final, went 1-0 up and then Shit themselves. everton got BEAT because they showed a lack of ambition Moyes is a poor manager and has with a lot of luck overachieved to the MAX.
Lescott knows this and if he his brave enough to step outside his comfort zone and join a club with ambition and the will to win, then he will become a City player this week.
I respect your opinion about Moyes but I do not agree with it. I'm not being trying to be a traitor but I have to give credit where credit is due. Moyes has been working with a tight budget since he joined everton and has had great influence on players who might have not worked so well elsewhere (i.e cup-tied Jo) and this influence made them into top players. Just look at how Howard improved, Saha, a five million pound purchase in Jagielka, a formerly unknown Pinaar e.t.c. So please don't criticise a great manager just because he wants to hang on to one of his acomplished stars. If he really was a bad manager, he would have taken the money because Lescott isn't worth that much and he can bring in more players. But, he has choosen the hard road because
he believe that lescott is a big piece of everton's puzzle and it would be almost impossible to replace him.