Our annual will he won’t he saga has arrived, following in the feet of  Moutinho, Riquelme and Rooney, Lescott is the latest in our now traditional summer torment, and like all these sagas in the past, a sudden influx of hundreds of people in the know has infiltrated the forums with behind the scenes knowledge, Moutinho is on Merseyside for a medical, Riquelme has arrived at John Lennon Airport and is on his way to Bellefield, and of course this summer Jo is definitely involved in the Lescott deal, and my favourite so far, Micah Richards has been seen at Finch Farm as part of the Lescott deal, a couple of days before it was announced he was quarantined in Cyprus with swine flu.

This current saga has had it’s fair amount of publicity, with papers announcing he’s about to demand that Moyes lets him speak to City, somehow getting hold of this information before Moyes does.  And somehow, despite Moyes saying no one will leave and Lescott saying he’s an Everton player until the club tell him otherwise, part of us still believe this source less article.

We’ve not got a big budget, somewhere between £10-£20million is most likely, but unlike last year when Johnson was surplus to requirements, this year we need everyone we’ve got.  The likes of Hibbert and Osman may not be top quality top four players, but they’re committed reliable squad players who are worth more to the team as squad members than the few million they’d raise.  Cahill and Neville are aging and arguably past their peak, but their character and attitude is what keeps us ticking on the field and helps create our great team spirit, and as for the likes of Lescott, not a chance, the message sent out from us selling one of our star players would do more damage, short term at least, than the millions we’d get to spend.

But at a time when Aston Villa have lost Barry, Arsenal have lost Adebayor, United have lost Ronaldo and Milan have lost Kaka, all against the preference of the clubs, to suggest that Everton are immune to money and player pressure would be naive.  Will he or won’t he go?  When the players and coaching staff are as clueless as the rest of us, I’d say no one outside the Lescott household and the Everton management know the answer to that, so as an Evertonian cynical from experience, I’m going to bury my head in the ground until something is confirmed on our ever reliable official site.

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