He cost £27m and scored 2 league goals, he was a total failure. Whether that was his fault, the manager's fault, the other players' fault, my fault or whatever is pretty irrelevant really, the point is as an Everton player he did not produce the goods. If we make a profit it's not a total failure of a transfer, if we get him back and he scores loads then he hasn't been a failure, but right at this moment his Everton career has been an unmitigated disaster.
I've said before, I don't think we really do hold all the aces. If he wants to go, his extremely powerful agent wants him to go, and one of the richest and most powerful clubs in the world wants him, i'm not all that convinced we'll be standing firm. I'm also not sure we're really in a position to turn down an offer which brings us a book profit of £20m and risk getting back a player who a) doesn't want to be here, and b) may find playing for us just as difficult the second time round as he did the first time.