Pienaar plays in Spurs friendly

It would seem the odd one out is where is Mr Yobo?

You contradict yourself in your own post mate. Try again. Which is it? Does Pienaar love the money and therefore demanded to move, meaning the Manager and Board did the best they could by selling him for something? Or is it stupid to say "he wanted to go and we had to sell him"?

Pick your argument; which do you believe?

If it is the way you end your post, that Pienaar just loves the money, which is true for just about every human being by the way, then the Manager did the best he could to sell him for something knowing we couldn't match his wage demands. Or is that too much sense for you to comprehend?

You don't get that with us Steven, come home.

One thing I don't get about these ITKs is why they state with such authority that they know. They may know of interest from clubs in players but anyone who's actually involved in a deal isn't going to be putting it all over twitter. It's like being at school and some kid saying 'I've got a secret, I've got a secret ner ner ner ner ner. Does anyone want to know my secret? I'll tell you if you be my friend and give me lots of attention.'

I remember hearing from a physio who was sorting my back out at the time that her mate was one of the Everton physios who said Steven Taylor was booked in for a medical. Obviously he never signed and I don't know whether he even had a medical. If only I'd known about twitter at the time, I could have been one of these ITKs and had lots friends!

Old Bill won’t make the same mistake he made last summer by telling people that we must sell first! However, nothing at all has changed, so there is no money!!!

Nobody should worry, it will come out sooner or later that there are three interested parties and talks are on-going! Nottingham Forest have been sold, so someone please tell me why hasn’t Everton!

An average ageing player who lacks any redeeming features as a human being. He is not the Messiah... he's a very...

@Peter. INTERESTING points. All of which are NEGATIVE and it seems you have it in for the CLUB. And is 'grubbing' a WORD?

People forget that on deadline day when we signed him back on loan, he was on the bench for Spurs in an evening match.

And since when has "Everton being interested" equated to a "Done deal"?

1. The transfer's not been concluded, and nothing's going to happen imminently.

2. Don't trust any anonymous rumours that you read on twitter or internet forums. People spout, and pass on, an incredible amount of garbage, especially when expectations are high. If anything real is happening, we'll find out about it soon enough from the media and known sources.

Agree with Nick Wall: all last night proves is that the deal has not yet been concluded. More than likely, the club that is skint (us) is trying to persuade the man who always likes to make profit (Daniel Levy) that they should sell him back to us for around £3M rather than around £5M. I would be a little surprised if this deal does not come off sooner or later but it might depend on how stubborn both sides are.

I actually think everything has been agreed, but the hold up is Everton trying to get the money to pay for the deal. I've got a feeling that this is from the delay of the Yobo deal. I would imagine the money from that will go straight to Spurs, but obviously the Turks aren't playing ball at the moment.

But he has taught me something: 'money-grubbing' IS the correct term (ref: Cambridge Dictionary Online). It seems to be favoured over the alternative (and I thought much more common) 'money-grabbing'.

We all potentially have something wrong with our vowels.

We can all see the sense of bringing him back given his performances as an Everton player and the relative wealth of alternatives for AVB, but all we have recently (that I am aware of) is the player saying he would be talking to AVB about his likely involvement at Spurs and David Moyes saying as far as he was concerned Pienaar was chomping at the bit to come back and he expected the deal to be done in short order (so much for playing our cards close to our chest).

The Spurs fans could easily have been booing him for the Chelsea congrats which to them must surely be a much more heinous 'crime' than wanting to spend your best years actually appearing on the pitch.

Pienaar is wanted here and I expect it will happen eventually. My concerns are that we will have to pay more than we can really afford to get him and that it could all still go 'pear shaped' if he is convicted of assault in South Africa. The thought that there may be another club interested in him (Michael Brooks #687) worries me greatly!

And for my bit, I would not buy anything that may or may not be spending time out of the country to stand trial for an assault charge until the matter is concluded one way or another. That is just sensible isn't it!!!

@ Vinny Garstrokes # 772 No I dont know if Baines wants to stay or not do you? But my comment still stands if we sell Baines to buy Pienaar, a pair who are at their most effective playing together, then that is insanity.

Bills priority is paying Barclays a chunk back that they demanded and even considering we have let 6 payers leave and have sold 3 others he is hoping we can get down to 26 fit players and that should do the first team and rezzies.

I am sure when Bill played in the Zingari there was only one sub allowed so why do we need more...

Meanwhile, that lot over the park who spent £120 million last year already have a pot of about £30 mill to go on this season's failures..