12 Responses to “The most annoying transfer saga of the summer : Joleon Lescott to Manchester City”

1. Peter Gardner
   September 1st, 2009 @ 10:26 pm

   John Terry’s shameful exploitation of City’s genuine attempt to recruit him. By maintaining his silence for so long, until he had received an assurance of a massively enhanced contract with Chelsea, and then declaring that he had never intended to leave, showed him to be the real money grabber of this transfer window. He should hang his head in shame, but he won’t. There was a time when the Captain of England was expected to be a gentleman.

2. judge
   September 1st, 2009 @ 10:37 pm

   Spot on Peter.

3. Feed the Goat
   September 1st, 2009 @ 10:54 pm

   The Lescott one is the worst, a bully of a manager in Moyes shown up in this prolonged rigmarole as a shallow and mean little man.
   Made me wonder after thier opening day hammering at home how it changed his players opinion of him.

4. jarty
   September 1st, 2009 @ 11:04 pm

   What a silly little remark from ‘ feed the goat ‘ All Moyes was doing was holding Lescott to a 5 year contract he’d willingly signed a year ago , ‘ Shallow and mean little man ? ‘ // he’s 10 times the manager Mark Hughes could ever aspire to be and expecting loyalty from his player is a great quality , bribing them to be loyal is something a 10yr old playing fantasy could do which is the ONLY way hughes could ever hope to match Moyes’s league placings over the last few years

5. jeff
   September 1st, 2009 @ 11:21 pm

   jarty,unfortunately the football world away from goodison was scratching its head and thinking exactly what feed the goat has written,unquestionable about moyes ability,but he took a leaf out of phil browns book and got carried away by his own self importance,and to be honest made a bit of a prick of himself

6. KingKong
   September 1st, 2009 @ 11:42 pm

   I thought Moyes handled it excellent, think about it, he got an extra 10mil for playing the game rather shrewd, theres no way Le$cott is worth £24mil… £15m was probably his true value, but Everton did not need to sell, thats why the price went bananas… Its fortunate that Jag’s is injured cos that would of been a massive shame to lose him to the money machine, if you want him… £40m at least

   Le$cott has just bought the Blues
   Distin – 5.5m
   Heitinger 6.5m
   Bilyaletdinov 10m

   And knowing moyes does his homework am guessing these boys are gonna prove master strokes

   you may take our players, but you wont, take, our Freedom….!!!

7. Peter Gardner
   September 1st, 2009 @ 11:53 pm

   I agree with Jeff. David Moyes is guilty of believing what the press write about him. His own opinion of himself is totally out of step with what most real people think.
   His assertion that he is in charge at Everton shows how deluded he is. Anybody with an ounce of sense knows that the man who holds the purse strings is the one who decides who goes and who stays. The decision was never Moyes’ to make. The reason he was left so little time to find replacement was down to his own stubborness and greed. That Lescott was for sale was never in doubt, only the price.

8. Dave T
   September 2nd, 2009 @ 12:56 am

   Terry was told by Red ROM that if Mr Chelski was going to leave so was he, leaving Terry with the stigma of driving the owner out & making him the focus for an ever increasing lack of interest in his school of divers.
   He would of been the focus of Chel$kis demise.
   Red Rom would love to bail out this was the last straw & a huge ego challenge of loyalty biting you on the bum after all he’d done for JT.

   Moyes had a 5 year contract at Preston until a better offer came around, a year into the contract. Lescott has copied the same format that’s all & we are the better for it, he is as good as Terry was 3 to 4 years or so ago & will prove it if he gels with a good partner.

9. wllmhll
   September 2nd, 2009 @ 2:43 am

   the lescott transfer was annoying – city’s never ending bids, moyes’ stubborness to hold on to the defender and the prove that there’s no or little loyalty left in football. bet there’s going to be another lescott type saga in the next window. arrrgh!

   terry’s was just disgraceful.

10. BlueSte
    September 2nd, 2009 @ 8:46 am

    The Lescott thing actually did show Moyes up to be a prick. He was banging on about City going about things the wrong way, saying the player was definitely not for sale. When the sale eventually went through he then moaned that he’d not had much time left to get replacements in, and that City knew the price and could’ve stumped it up earlier in the summer. Well, A). City were pursuing John Terry, and B). Hold up, thought you said Lescott was DEFINITELY not for sale.
    Moyes shamefully jumped on the press bandwagon of “bullying, nasty Manchester City, with all this money” and used this to drag City through the mud until he got what he wanted. In the meantime, he made mugs of Everton fans and created disruption in the dressing room. I actually hope he takes over from baconface at OT.

11. Dokièh
    September 2nd, 2009 @ 8:53 pm

    Tevez saga of course, which started in december actually. Here in Spain, Ribéry and Xabi Alonso: all day long talking about them and finally they only signed the former Liverpool player.

12. Football Buff
    September 3rd, 2009 @ 2:32 pm

    I also thought Moyes was pretty shrewd with this. He knew Lescott was adamant on leaving, that the defender was not to be stopped, so Moyes did what a good manager would do: cash in on it! City have millions more to spend; to them it doesn’t really matter if Lescott cost 22m or 18m. In the end, both sides gained from it!

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