Sylvain Distin

salvadorantoffee · August 27, 2009

Thats greeat news man!!
But is the OS down for anyone else? I seem to just get a blank page and cant access the site

BlueTak · August 27, 2009

salvadorantoffee said:
Thats greeat news man!!
But is the OS down for anyone else? I seem to just get a blank page and cant access the site

Yeah down for me. (n)

davek · August 27, 2009

Chief Executive Robert Elstone confirmed: "All the formalities have been completed. After Sylvain made it clear his preferred destination was Goodison, the Chairman moved quickly to finalise the deal and Sylvain is now on his way to Merseyside to undergo a medical."

**** off Elstone you spiv.

John Lennon · August 27, 2009

davek said:
Chief Executive Robert Elstone confirmed: "All the formalities have been completed. After Sylvain made it clear his preferred destination was Goodison, the Chairman moved quickly to finalise the deal and Sylvain is now on his way to Merseyside to undergo a medical."

**** off Elstone you spiv.

have i mis-read that?

what do you want Kenwright to do in that situation?

davek · August 27, 2009

John Lennon said:
have i mis-read that?

what do you want Kenwright to do in that situation?

Elstone - a brown nosed chancer.

Kenwright - he's conveniently Mister Fixit now having gotten money in for Lescott. Nowhere to be seen for the last month.

teppic · August 27, 2009

ok enough of the kenwright bashing.

back on topic, i think distin will be a great signing. we need someone now to play. lets be honest, he is huge. a real quality center back. a better defender than lescott for sure.

5 million is perhaps a couple of mill over his proper price, but joleon lescott for 22 million?

we have done very well out of this deal. and there is money over for moyes to identify a long term replacement for lescott.

bluebloodinmyveins · August 27, 2009

Good solid defender. He's not worth the fee quoted though.

evilwebby · August 27, 2009

Can't say I'm overly happy with paying £5m for a 31 year old defender, but we could still get 3 or 4 good years out of him. He does look built like a brick sh1thouse.

As long as we can still bring in another couple of younger players at RB and RM then I guess it would be OK overall.

OneTrueLegend · August 27, 2009

Im made up we have signed him, the way its going we might have 2 CB's for the game at the weekend!! will wonders never cease!

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/distin-deal-agreed.html

goodisonblues · August 27, 2009

good signings natural leader at the back we havnt had that since stubbs and wier

Cold Nate · August 27, 2009

for a plug and play known quantity, $5mil is not too much. not every signing has to be a prospect that Moyes has a hunch on. the situation demanded we find: immediate game-ready CB with jags out, competition/cover for yobo for the rest of the season, depth at CB in medium term (3 years) for Rodwell or other to step in.

$5mil to meet all 3 of those requirements in today's market is a steal.

king louis IX · August 27, 2009

made up weve signed a left footed centre baclk to be honest. we have always looked much better bringing the bll out of defence with a natrual left footer at centre back ... makes the angles easier.
2 down 2 to go ??

Scottoffee · August 27, 2009

bluebloodinmyveins said:
Good solid defender. He's not worth the fee quoted though.

Yeah, but Lescott wasn't worth 24 million or whatever the final figure was!

4/5m isn't bad considering they didn't want to sell him and he was just recently assigned club captain.

Never had any major injury issues - averages out at 40.7 matches a season since 2000 (364 matches over 9 seasons).

www.soccerbase.com - The Internet Soccer Database

Goal return's not brilliant - only 5 in the same time - but that's not what he's here for!