Yobo gone

[Summerskin]

I know it was Charlton, but what game was it when he was doing his laces? Tbh I don't remember it at all.

Was it the 2003/4 season? In which case i'm pretty glad I don't remember it.

 

[Ihaters]

Fair point my broda, but do you reckon he atleast deserved a testimonial considering he was with us for close to a decade?

Would of been a nice gesture.

 

[TheDoctor]

Served the club deligently for close to a decade, won Everton a fair number of supporters here at home (myself included),honest guy who always gave 100% for the club and of course,David Moyes' first signing for Everton. Is Yobo, in your eyes, an Everton legend?

Could have been if he hadn't ****ed us over before the Benfica game.

 

[NaijaBoi]

Are you Joseph Yobo?

Ha Ha Ha...I wish. Nigerian women love Yobo. Only if I had a fraction of his sex appeal lol.

 

[composter]

There's a piece on another site from a Nigerian Journo comfirming the transfer but also suggesting that the transfer was delayed 'due to a curve ball from John Heitinga'
any ideas??

 

[sheeds]

There's a piece on another site from a Nigerian Journo comfirming the transfer but also suggesting that the transfer was delayed 'due to a curve ball from John Heitinga'
any ideas??

That's true mate and I posted about it in detail on another site about 10 days ago and a bit on here , it'll come out but it was basically everton (or people negotiating for everton ) trying to sell Heitinga & Yobo as a pair without telling the people negotiating for Yobo before the Turks pulled their Yobo interest and wanted to pay the agreed (combined fee) price for Heitinga which was about £4.5m. That's why the deal dragged on when it was already all but done & then collapsed it was complete mess

 

[Whitty]

so we'd have taken £6.5m for the pair???

 

[sheeds]

£7m (which actually may have been euros ) was the price negotiated by another 3rd party without telling Yobo's people , im told the bloke claimed he had a mandate from everton (which I believe he probably did from 'someone' ) . I think this Dutch bloke wasn't in possession of all the details hence the stories saying everton didn't know how long he had left on his deal . I can't really go into too much detail but frankly it was a car crash

 

[tonka1878]

Fair point my broda, but do you reckon he atleast deserved a testimonial considering he was with us for close to a decade?

It would have been a nice gesture but testimonials are from a long gone era when players stuck with a club while earning £400 a week and having a second job. If you lasted 10 years at a club you where generally part of the family, which is still the case here as Hibbo said. But earning £30.000+ a week and then saying I stayed here for 10 years and all I got is a gold clock, not for me. (not that Yobo has but the point stands.)
If the money goes to charity then fair enough but personally I think Joe Yobo has done fairly well out of Everton for 8 years (less the last 2).

 

[tonka1878]

£7m (which actually may have been euros ) was the price negotiated by another 3rd party without telling Yobo's people , im told the bloke claimed he had a mandate from everton (which I believe he probably did from 'someone' ) . I think this Dutch bloke wasn't in possession of all the details hence the stories saying everton didn't know how long he had left on his deal . I can't really go into too much detail but frankly it was a car crash

I'm guessing you've heard that a few times describing Everton's transfer "business".

 

[Philw]

Served the club deligently for close to a decade, won Everton a fair number of supporters here at home (myself included),honest guy who always gave 100% for the club and of course,David Moyes' first signing for Everton. Is Yobo, in your eyes, an Everton legend?

No. If he'd been part of the playing squad for the last two years he'd be deserving of a testimonial, but as he's essentially left 2 years ago, then he's not due won for me...

 

[Roztitute]

If we had sold Heitinga and Yobo for a joint fee of 6.5/7m Euros I'd fume into an early grave.

 

[kev101]

Served the club deligently for close to a decade, won Everton a fair number of supporters here at home (myself included),honest guy who always gave 100% for the club and of course,David Moyes' first signing for Everton. Is Yobo, in your eyes, an Everton legend?

He's just another average ex player, nothing more.
And, he certainly didnt always give 100%! Didn't he pretty much refuse to play before the acon one time?

 

[sheeds]

If we had sold Heitinga and Yobo for a joint fee of 6.5/7m Euros I'd fume into an early grave.

To be fair Heitinga didn't want to go to turkey and anyway it'd have been undisclosed but the whole story has so much to it most of which I can't post but it was chaotic. Anyway done now , the issue with Yobo was that he was a good player for us when he signed but as the clubs expectations grew and we moved up the league he perhaps wasn't up to it.

 

[steken1]

For essentially six years of playing and refusing at one point. No way does he deserve anything other than thanks for moving us forward.

Good servant is the class I'd put him in.