Lennon to Everton, obvious

The obvious move and the move I wrote about on January 2nd and January 9th happened, Aaron Lennon joins Everton on loan until the end of the season.

It was obvious to me, obviously not to those who hurled abuse, but for the experience and quality Lennon has fighting relegation was a pointless career move. Everton I knew were interested in him and wrote as much, we wanted Mirallas but when that wasn't going to come off as a swap deal the assumption from the press was he'd go to Hull, then Stoke but why?

He had nothing to gain by joining Hull City apart from playing regularly but half the teams in the Premier League would give him guaranteed game time. He has been used to challenging for the top four and playing that standard of football, naturally he would have wanted to maintain that if he could. He still has the ability to do so as pace is vital in today's game for most sides. We don't use pace but other sides do and the abuse he gets is unjust.

I applaud him for turning down deals unless the right one came along for him and wish him every success up there. He'll return in the summer when we can then look to sell him and bring in a replacement, of which we have several candidates.

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