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David Moyes: Lescott saga behind Everton's bad start
Published 23:00 24/09/09 By Martin Lipton
David Moyes last night admitted the Joleon Lescott transfer saga had unhinged his squad in the first month of the season.
Moyes’ public wrangle with Manchester City ended with his £24million move to Eastlands but not before Everton had been thumped 6-1 by Arsenal on the opening weekend and then lost at Burnley.
Since Lescott’s departure was followed by the captures of Sylvain Distin and John Heitinga, Everton have stabilised, scoring 11 without reply in winning their last three games in all competitions.
And while Moyes did not blame Lescott alone for the poor start, he conceded the whole mess had been a major factor.
"It’s difficult when you are building a team," the Goodison chief told the LMA Management Conference at the Emirates Stadium.
"You nurture their talent and then bigger clubs come along and take them away. It’s hard to resist but you have to move forward.
"It’s a difficult situation. When your best players may want to leave you never want to give up on them. You always hope they will turn round and say ’it’s fine; I want to stay’.
"But it comes to a point where you have to decide what is best and you realise you need to make the change.
"What happened with Joleon was part of our poor start. I would hate to put all the blame on that but behind the scenes we were never really settled.
"Our player recruitment wasn’t as quick as it should have been because we didn’t know if we were going to have the funds or not and so we had to do things very quickly. That played its part but I wouldn’t want to put it solely on that."
Think Davek will pick bones with the last bit lol,
David Moyes: Lescott saga behind Everton's bad start
Published 23:00 24/09/09 By Martin Lipton
David Moyes last night admitted the Joleon Lescott transfer saga had unhinged his squad in the first month of the season.
Moyes’ public wrangle with Manchester City ended with his £24million move to Eastlands but not before Everton had been thumped 6-1 by Arsenal on the opening weekend and then lost at Burnley.
Since Lescott’s departure was followed by the captures of Sylvain Distin and John Heitinga, Everton have stabilised, scoring 11 without reply in winning their last three games in all competitions.
And while Moyes did not blame Lescott alone for the poor start, he conceded the whole mess had been a major factor.
"It’s difficult when you are building a team," the Goodison chief told the LMA Management Conference at the Emirates Stadium.
"You nurture their talent and then bigger clubs come along and take them away. It’s hard to resist but you have to move forward.
"It’s a difficult situation. When your best players may want to leave you never want to give up on them. You always hope they will turn round and say ’it’s fine; I want to stay’.
"But it comes to a point where you have to decide what is best and you realise you need to make the change.
"What happened with Joleon was part of our poor start. I would hate to put all the blame on that but behind the scenes we were never really settled.
"Our player recruitment wasn’t as quick as it should have been because we didn’t know if we were going to have the funds or not and so we had to do things very quickly. That played its part but I wouldn’t want to put it solely on that."
Think Davek will pick bones with the last bit lol,
