Yobo finally set to go for €2.5M

I don't see why if there was any chance of a better offer the board would not have taken it. No-one likes dealing with people who go back on their word.

Chances are theirs was the only offer on the table and saved the club 50k a week in wages. Which we need!!

Fenerbahce have made us look like complete mugs, they've had him on 2 year long loans and then signed him permanently for almost half of what we were originally asking, what's to say other teams don't start acting the same way with us.

Or we believe he was shopped around and we rejected bids that were at least equal to what we had been offered?

Come on gents, you're finding sticks to beat the club over anything now.

He goes with my best wishes but would you want Yobo at Everton at that price?

Are some of you suggesting that we were receiving bids of £5m left right and centre but just refused to sell him because we really wanted him to go to Turkey?! Yeah I can just see that.

People saying we should have just offloaded him to the championship and what he thinks doesn't matter obviously have absolutely no understanding whatsoever of how football works. If he doesn't want to go, he doesn't go - simple. Player power rules.

This is certainly not restricted to Everton, pretty much every club in the league has players that they don't want eating up wages By all accounts Tal Ben Haim is singlehandedly making Portsmouth go bust.

Still tho, finally got rid of the gimp o/

IMO this and Pienaar have been handled disastrously.

We should have put Joey straignt on the transfer list when he first threw a titty lip and should have renegotiated Pienaars contract before the last 12 months and if he didnt want to sign then we would have got a decent fee for him too instead of 2 million and a box of eggs with 6 months left on his contract.

Everybody at Everton procrastinates until the situation becomes unmanageable. Gosling is another example.

Hope this goes through and enables Pienaar deal to do likewise. I suspect both will be done by week's end.

Big question is...will that be it?

TV payments come in on 1st August I believe. Maybe there might be enough for another mini-splurge? Probably not but if so i'll take either a right winger or a striker.

If this works out, far from calling it bad business I would call it inspired.

I am sure many of you will deride such optimism: this is Everton etc etc. We can only hope that the money for Pienaar is available and just move on.

People cannot expect us to get 30-yr old Pienaar for less than £5 million, yet still get that much for Yobo. I was hoping that we could squeeze £3m out of them, but there seems to be money problems over there as with the rest of southern Europe, so this £2m if confirmed would not surprise me.

I just want Pienaar, Baines to stay, and then find a loan striker who can keep Jelavic on his toes. I'm crossing mine, which is quite difficult.

I do like Distin and he is a model pro. I am not so quick to dismiss Yobo though and they both performed at a similar high level for us at their peak.
If you compared their careers who has the more impressive Cv? Tough call. Yobo's is probably more impressive but I would say Distin has reached his peak later than Yobo.

If we got £1m per season when he was on loan and then we got £2m we actually got £4m in total for him - which whilst still not great at least looks better than the paltry £2m.

That said, after clutching at straws for my own half empty glass viewpoint, it is yet another poor display from those in charge of purchasing and selling of players. Shoddy.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/fenerbahce-chairman-convicted-in-match-fixing-case-but-set-for-release.aspx?pageID=238&nID=24529&NewsCatID=362

People suggesting other cubs/better deal, are simply guessing and being naughty.

The Turkish clubs don't seem to have any trouble enticing players. Is that because they can splurge on wages what they save on transfer fees, or do they have very lackadaisacal tax regimes like the Greeks?

He should have been kept in and around the first team, playing some games, but with an eye to off-loading him.

When you make it known that he'll never play for the club again then that's when you screw yourself over in negotiations, especially when people know that you can't afford to keep him in the reserves.

So many years of bad decisions and bad news, these clowns need to go.

JoYo played very well for us. And his signing seemed to represent a vote of confidence in EFC - the star player of what was a star national team. He deserves to be treated well, and I'm sure whatever deal he's getting will do him no harm. So long as we get the pennies from the Turks I can't see it doing us any harm either.

Moyes gathers center backs around him like some blokes acquire Ford Cortinas. We have three of the best, with one waiting in the wings. And they give LB and RB cover. Jo going, almost at any price, is like not having a new signing. Leaving a bit of room for one to come in perhaps?