Ihaters
Player Valuation: £35m
Someone else said this earlier and its doing my head in. The amount of money City paid had nothing to do with Lescott's behaviour. Hell you could argue we could have got more if Lescott hadn't made it abundantly clear that his time with us was done in the Arsenal game. He had likely forced a transfer prior to that game (especially given our finances) but we were holding out to cash in -- it was clear after that game that we lost our leverage in negotiation because his status here was now untenable. If City weren't so impatient they should have knocked 5m off the offer after that game and said take it or leave it ... we would have taken it.
Another one hanging that result on Lescott. He didn't not play in that game we were just poor. He forced a transfer by handing in a transfer request and moping around a lot and making it clear he wanted out. Moyes then sold him and we got 24mil.
He could of given us a few more years and done a Pienaar and gone for nothing... That would be much better apparently.