honestly i can't say i hate lescott, his heads probably clouded with all sorts of nonsense at the moment, press coverage is stressful. if he had a change of heart and legitimately pledged his future to everton i would welcome him back (like the rs did with stevie), but at the moment, i just pity him.
enjoy your wages lescott, you are making a very smart financial decision, but this decision comes with a great price:
say goodbye to the greatest fans you will ever have the honor of playing before, you're joining an army of mercenaries and their fans will never love you like we do. who will buy your shirts when the casual fans only recognize the names of robinho and tevez?
say goodbye to your england dreams. you may think you're showing ambition but you're simply settling. you're abandoning the first all english back-four setup, the one that kept god knows how many clean sheets, that made some of the best attackers in the world look useless at bay for so long. you're turning your back on your future england teammates, baines, neville, and jagielka, all of whom urged and begged you to put the team, their comradery, **** it their friendship and common passion ahead of the temptations of the new money driven age of football. do you really think your partnership with toure will be as effective? do you think you'll ever score a goal again, will you even be called forward on set pieces with the absurd amount of attack-minded players that city have? if you stayed you could have been part of something revolutionary, made history for the england national team as we would have always remembered the 4 warriors who remained steadfast and strong for both club and country in a resolute fraternal bond.
say goodbye to your teammates. apart from the aforementioned, plenty have come out and stated their desire for you to stay, but instead you're willing to say goodbye to all of that. our defensive work perfectly epitomizes our resolve, look at our style of defending, look at the amount of blocked shots we average per game, our players are literally willing to give every bit of themselves to the victory, and i'm filled with pride whenever i see the slightest and slenderest of everton players flinging themselves towards the ball. will your high paid mercenaries give themselves up for the game, for their teammates? you might say thats just typical football, but i see more than that, i see players with discipline and passion, and i truly believe that it carries through in our style of play. you're leaving that team behind, the band of brothers who you knew you could always depend on.
most importantly, say goodbye to everton football club, you are leaving behind a proud tradition and the fact that you'd have the audacity to submit a transfer request a week before the season starts shows that you obviously didn't respect and appreciate what you were a part of. club legends came out and voiced their opinions about your transfer. why? because they still care, after all these years the day-to-day workings of everton are still a high priority to them. they want to see the club do well because they love everton and they know everton love them back. we may not have had the most money, but we gave you what we could, and obviously that wasn't enough for you. the history, the passion, the spirit, all wasn't enough for you. and for that simple fact that you didn't appreciate what you had, i pity you.
many people on here say that football is simply a business, but i simply can't look at this game so superficially. honestly 40k a week is a freaking joke and everyone on the team knows that. any one of our players making top billing could play anywhere else and make substantially more, but they don't because they understand. In the 120th minute in a cup final, when every bone in the bodies of the players is aching and its crunch time, time for every single player on the field to dig into the deepest depths of their souls to do the extraordinary, i trust our players to do what they for the good of the club.
i sincerely hope you come to your senses lescott, but if not than good riddance, we've endured greater losses, and the cleansing of those not committed to the cause from our fraternity will only make us stronger.
