Source: Liverpool_Echo
David Moyes slams Man City's ?disgusting? Joleon Lescott chase
DAVID MOYES has slammed Manchester City's aggressive pursuit of Joleon Lescott and branded their attempts to sign the England defender 'disgusting'.
Having kept his own counsel on the matter for most of the summer, other than issuing a couple of statements, Everton's infuriated manager has spoken his mind on a saga that has rumbled on and on.
Bewildered by the way City have conducted their business in public, Moyes' patience finally snapped when Mark Hughes declared on Thursday that he had not given up hope of signing Lescott.
It provoked a considered but powerful response from Moyes, who mischievously suggested City will have come up short this season if they do not challenge for the title, given the money they have spent, and that they lacked the class of Real Madrid.
Moyes was also emphatic in his declaration that Lescott, who has certainly been unsettled, will not be sold as he is the man in charge of footballing affairs at Goodison Park - contrary to what Hughes had intimated at his Press briefing.
'The dialogue has not taken place with Manchester City and Everton in the way that it is said to be,' Moyes pointed out.
'If it was, the dialogue would come to me. There has been no contact with me. I'm the person here who makes the decisions, I'm in control of Everton Football Club. There has not been one call. It's disappointing.
'We have got a player who we really value and we want to keep. We think the world of him and he can play two positions. We don't want to lose him. Yet he is being continually put in a position like he is at this moment. They way it has been handled is disgusting and all it has done is disrupted our club.
