Everton boss,David Moyes has been told to forgive rejected Nigerian striker, Yakubu Aiyegbeni so that he can build a formidable squad for the Liverpool-based club ahead of the 2011/201 Englis Premier League season.

Former Everton star,David Prentice says Moyes should do to the Yak what he once did to Duncan Ferguson whose Everton career looked all but over when he was banished from the Blues training ground in 2003 for delivering “a few home truths” to the Blues boss.

Ferguson later apologised, was welcomed back into the fold and enjoyed another two-and-a-half years at his beloved Blues.

When he finally exited Everton it was in altogether more dignified and emotional circumstances in the summer of 2006.

Ferguson proved enormously influential, especially as a big impact super-sub during the fight to finish fourth in the spring of 2005.

And it’s a lesson Moyes may learn from this summer with Yakubu who has fallen out of favour.

Yakubu wasn't with the Blues as they rounded off their tour of the USA with a 3-1 win yesterday against DC United but he could still have a role to play at a club desperately short of experienced striking options.

The seeds of Moyes’s frustration with Yakubu were sown during a harrowing home defeat by West Bromwich Albion last November.

The Nigerian was hauled off after 54 minutes of a match in which he singularly failed to break into anything more testing than a light jog.

Everton lost 4-1 – and the Yak didn’t start a match for the rest of the season. He was handed two brief substitute run-outs, then packed off on loan to Leicester City.