Source: Liverpool_Echo
Everton FC?s Joleon Lescott?s head was turned by Manchester City long ago
TO borrow the line made famous in that exchange between the late George Best and a perplexed waiter: 'where did it all go wrong?'
It is a question Joleon Lescott will, in all likelihood, be asking himself at this moment after the saga surrounding Manchester City's attempts to sign the England international took another dramatic twist this week.
David Moyes' public declaration that he had rebuffed a written transfer request from Lescott provided concrete proof on the fact a number of Evertonians had been refusing to believe all summer: the defender is desperate to move to Eastlands.
Given that all the talk about Lescott has come from the other end of the M62 - and the player has, perhaps unwisely, kept his own counsel - it is easy to see why many have jumped to the conclusion that City's was a one-sided chase.
Not so. Lescott's head was turned by City months ago and their hostile pursuit has, to a certain extent, paid off because - as the letter Moyes received on Tuesday morning showed - Everton have a player in their squad who no longer wants to be there.
Looking at things from a purely economic point of view, it is easy to understand his thinking. After all, if you were offered the chance to move to another job with the promise of having your wages doubled, your response could only be 'when shall I start?'
Regardless of whether you feel modern footballers are overpaid, you cannot blame someone for wanting to accept the opportunity to secure the financial futures of their children's children's children.
But, unfortunately, Lescott finds himself in limbo because he has adopted a stance that can at best be described as naïve. Others will say it has been foolish and weak-willed; from word go, he has patently been hopelessly ill-advised.
