A.) Lescott is on around 30k more per week than Heitinga, who allegedly at £62k had to take a paycut from Atletico to come here.
B). Even if we offloaded Heitinga and used his wage for Lescott, that's 33% of his already heavily-taxed pay vanished, something to which a Premier League footballer won't be too happy about.
C). If he were to come back to Everton, either on loan with us paying his wages or on a permanent basis, I don't see where we're going to find a parity sum of £90k a week, which roughly estimates to £4.7m p.a.
D). We all know we'll be lucky to get anything above £8m for Heitinga, and this is Everton we're talking about here, how much of that will go back into Finch Farm or to the banks? Anything we'd have left certainly wouldn't get "those young players we want" on top of Lescott.
E). The events around Lescott's departure won't sit too well with many people, especially if we're paying f*cking wages like that.
F). He's 30, it would be staggeringly ill-founded business in every way to offer sums of money like that to a central defender, if we're talking about breaking the bank for f*cking Wesley Sneijder or something then it's a different beast.
Lescott is a great player and a partership of him and Jagielka would do us the world of good; But if we were to get him on loan with Man City paying his wages it would be a miracle & a reasonable stop gap until the summer at best, because we certainly couldn't afford a transfer fee and wages similar to what he's on now, as it would blow our wage structure out of the water by some distance.
And he's a [Poor language removed], so it's a no from me.
