Everton FC's Joseph Yobo believes season is set for lift off

11 September 2009 07:00
JOSEPH YOBO is predicting that Everton's season is set for take off now that David Moyes has fitted the pieces of his squad jigsaw into place. With the exception of long-term absentees Mikel Arteta and Phil Jagielka, the Blues are set to travel to Fulham on Sunday with a near full strength squad. The travelling party will include new signings John Heitinga, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov and, of course, Sylvain Distin - Yobo's new partner in the centre of Everton's defence. They showed signs of building a good understanding straight away in the 2-1 win over Wigan Athletic and Yobo is adamant that their alliance will get better in time. Those are sentiments which can also be applied to the team and Yobo can see no better place than Craven Cottage for the Blues to start making ground. 'It's hard to lose important squad members but it's worse when it is players who were important,' said Yobo, referring to the £24m sale of Joleon Lescott to Manchester City.

Source: Liverpool_Echo