This will hopefully all be done soon. Either Lescott will demand a move, formally, and Everton will reluctantly let him go, or he won't, and we'll walk away. Either way, it will be decided within the next 24 hours, I reckon. And that suits both clubs: we need to bring in someone else if he doesn't join, while they need a replacement if he does come to us.
I still think he'll come. If he's been on his current reported salary level for all his time at Everton, then his net earnings over those three years will amount to somewhere around the GBP 3 million mark. Over the next three years he can expect somewhere round the same figure if hye sticks with Everton. I'm sure he'll have been well paid at Wolves relative to most of the population, but I doubt he'll have millions stashed away from there.
In the circumstances, I rather tend to think a contract offer supposedly guaranteeing him somewhere in the region of GBP 12 million net will be rather attractive to him. Of course, that may be wrong or he may have other priorities. But I think when you look at what this move would probably mean for his personal finances, you couldn't blame him for asking for a transfer.
