Slim wrote:1. It was well within his rights to sit on his arse and see out his contract, not saying it wasn't. It was also well within Danny Mills rights to do the same thing. Still a cunt of a move, no matter who does it.
2. Lescott was replaced by Demichelis, a far superior player.
3. Ask Carl if Lescott was a cracking player for us, then go rewatch the 3-2 against QPR and see who's to blame for both fucking QPR goals. Cunt almost gave away our title, but let's rewrite history as a player of "important matches" and an all-around "cracking player". Fuck off you carrots.
4. Yes it was a nice thing he did coming out and saying that, doesn't make him a saint.
Slim, I simply shared a very nice statement from Joleon about City and instead, you have turned it into an angry debate about Lescott's playing & loyalty for City.
1) Lescott not wanting to leave City, even if it meant less playing time, meant he loved playing for the club & winning trophies, far more than winning nothing with West Ham. Lescott also has a wife & school age children that he would have unsettled, with a sudden move to London, in January.
2) You must have a memory loss, to forget just how much Demichelis was torn apart by the media, as he struggled to replace Lescott! He was NOT far superior to Lescott, when he first arrived. It would take another season for Demichelis to fully settle in and develop a good partnership with Kompany & the other defenders. Even so, City have not topped the 2013-2014 season, where they conceded the least amount of goals, in the entire league.
3) Even the very best defenders in the world have had matches, where they cost their teams the match. The CB partnership is essential and can compensate for many individual flaws, as had happened with Kompany & Lescott/Demichelis. The main problem was that after defending for years, using zonal defending, under Mancini, suddenly all the original defenders had to immediately adapt to individual man marking. Some of the defenders adapted better than others.
4) I never called Lescott a saint. Ironically, you seem to have demanded that Lescott be a saint, by leaving the club when you wanted, just to please the management! You seem to demand perfection from human beings, that only exists on a FIFA video game!