Yobo calls off Fenerbahçe move?

If I worked for an organisation that did business like this, I would have jumped ship by now and I'll bet there are players at Everton thinking exactly the same.

Seems between Yobo and his new club.

People are starting to laugh at us, it's just Moyes they have the high regard for

Hang on, Bill.... "he's behind you!!!"

On previous Yobo thread people argued that only the Turks were interested, this OP says there is lot of interested parties.

Why can't the club let everyone know what the situation is?

Mark #788, I suspect that the club will have allowed him time away to sort out his future as it clearly isn't at Everton.

I mused as such on Twitter earlier. If both rumours are true, that would certainly add up.

Are the Turbanned Turks (to quote Lonnie Donnegan) likely to get him for anything like the same price, even if he wanted to go? Probably not.

We polite Brits regard haggling as a bit third world, until we come to buy or sell a house that is. This is exactly what is going on.

If J Heitinga is offered many millions of quids (in Swiss francs I would guess) for a two year contract he will be on his way, as any of us would. 'Personal terms' aren't just the amount, its where its paid into to tax evade.

And if JoYo can't sort out a deal with someone else, he will be our left back cover for a while. Not too much for his agent in that then.

None of these things are likely to happen.

Off to bed.

Maybe it's Yobo trying to force Fenerbahce to finalise the deal and stop leaving him hanging?

Or Everton doing the same?

Or Fenerbahçe trying to issue a "take it or leave it" to us?

It doesn't necessarily mean that our club are fools who have never negotiated a transfer before. Though many will believe that out of convenience.

We are well on the way to becoming Premier League football's laughing stock.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2178463/Johnny-Heitinga-set-Everton-exit-Fenerbahce-make-5m-bid.html#ixzz21bpCjPrS

So are Everton prepared to do MORE business with Fenerbahce even after they have made fools of us with the Yobo deal- NO DEAL.

We should have told them to fcuk off when they wouldn't pay the agreed fee and now Yobo's told them to fcuk off when they won't honour their agreement with him.

Good for him.

2. Yobo: the sale of a 31 year old centre back, who has spent most of his last two years at a football club, for a nominal fee would be a quick piece of business with most other clubs, but not Everton - a club chairmen and chief executives must dread doing business with.

If the club do something ridiculous and the fact is apparent that they have done so then by all means criticize them. But to suppose that Everton are a 'laughing stock' because Yobo and Fenerbahce have not concuded a deal that Everton have no part in negotiating is ridiculous.

If they agreed to sell Yobo for peanuts and buy PIenaar for a fortune then the wailing and gnashing of teeth on here would be incredible. The club are absolutely correct to haggle on fees – especially in these two instances as a) Yobo is an outbound player and as such does not need to integrate into the squad during pre-season & b) Pienaar is an incoming player but similarly, as someone familiar with the place, does not need the summer to bond with his new team mates – subsequently we can hold out for the best deal for the club, something I would've thought people would be happy about given our precarious financial situation.

I would be amazed if other clubs thought Everton are a laughing stock because they're negotiating transfer fees and moreover in the Yobo instance, as a few more level headed commenters have pointed out, it seems the issue here is with Yobo and Fenerbahçe. I fail to see how any of it makes Everton look 'incompetent and ridiculous'.

Also, the Indonesian tournament fiasco, while disappointing, seems to not be Everton's fault either – if, organisationally, it was a mess, then why bother?

By all means criticise the club, hold them to account as there are times when things could be done better... but for God's sake choose your battles rather than criticising anything and everything.

Think EFC and Yobo should walk away from Fenerbahche as they are are not a serious football club to do business with.

I mused as such on Twitter earlier. If both rumours are true, that would certainly add up...

You two must be drunk! (Lyndon Lloyd)

You two must be drunk! Here we are talking about a club that has pissed us around for a year after the initial deal was done and a price was agreed after the loan period, yet they had to haggle the price and get us down to half the price HE was actually worth, even though he helped them win the league and cup over the last 3 seasons... Now last me ask you this DO YOU THINK WE WILL TAKE A REDUCTION IN THE PRICE TAG ON JOHNNY??? Stop drinking the bath water!!!! We need the money and the players,... Personally I hope he hasn't gone so we can park his bum on the bench and he can watch the kids being brought on instead of him... Nothing like a bit of shame to get you to leave a club! If he is holding out for more money then he deserves everything he gets...

And we get the same nonsense about statements (#772 and #775). What can they actually say at the moment? Do you really think sharing info about ongoing contract negotiations is the best route to take? — I mean, is it really in Everton's best interests to bang out information to all and sundry? Wont this annoy other clubs, players and agents? What about if it exposes our other plans, that we don't want to share? What if other clubs start exposing all the details their fans want to hear, but we want to keep sctum? If he stays, it will be self evident so no statement needed (he'll be back at finch farm). indeed, the club won't be able to say anything more than "no agreement could be met". and if he goes, then we'll be told.

if there is any substance re Heitinga and the Turks , forget it! Too much of a piss against the wall. Jonny would have to be hard up to even give it a moment's thought.

Time to play hard ball and tell them all to get stuffed unless they're prepared to pay up. Gees, I'm pee'd off with the crap that is thrown at us (real or just dreamed up by the media).

Re-read my post, only redshite laughing at us, they will try and find reasons to laugh no matter what, that's the rivalry!!

But If you want to live your life worrying about what the redshite say, you go for it, mucker!

Well good for you, I wouldn't and I'm sure many others would tell them to get stuffed as well and stay put.

We paid £6 million for him 3 years ago. As far as I am aware, his stock has not risen in the last 3 years, and he is now 3 years older. Thus, £5 million is probably in the right ball park.

Some players might appreciate in value, but mainly younger ones who get better etc, or those who truly are bought for peanuts and turn into sought-after players. I don't think heitinga fits into those categories.

Would prefer we kept hold of him.

This is all been blown out or proportion by the more hysterical members of Toffeeweb.