John Stones transfer saga

Big Fat Sam · July 17, 2015

Seeing as they raped us for 28m for Lukaku when he's clearly worth about 20p, I'd not entertain selling for a penny shy of 650m Euro.

Chimpy Glassman · July 17, 2015

500 million and he's yours, moneybags fc.

cjuk87 · July 17, 2015

Hey..chelsea. LEAVE JOHN STONES ALONE

davek · July 17, 2015

bluestevon said:
sorry mate but just no

I cant underline enough how much I hope we retain Stones. I'd be delighted if Stones came out and said he doesn't want to go.

But are we really at the point where we see the departure of a player like Stones in the same light as the Rooney departure? Not for me. Not even close.

Rook · July 17, 2015

Darth Toffeeman said:
This new TV deal gives these horrible SKY faves absolute mega money. I wouldn't blink until Chelsea start going north of 100mil.
He is potentially the best centre half of this obscene money fuelled generation and we are only just at the start of it.

I personally still would not sell.

How about

toffeeblue9 · July 17, 2015

They need to at the very least double that though

I don't need to tell everyone how highly I rate him. It will only be a year or two before he is at the level of being a starter for Barcelona or someone like that. There's no way we should be letting him go on the cheap, it's between him and Varane as to who is the best young defender in Europe. He's THAT good.

Please give us one more year

EvertonFury19 · July 17, 2015

Screw you Chelsea! Stones not for sell...maybe starting at 40 million minimum.

Big Fat Sam · July 17, 2015

That's pretty much it.

We should be doubling his usual fee because Chelsea largely contributed to football going downhill since Abramovich came to this country.

Then we should be doubling that new fee because they are loaded and don't even need him, while it'd massively weaken our squad.

Then we should half it and add 20m.

30m * 2 * 2 / 2 + 20m = 80m deal or no deal.

Moomin · July 17, 2015

Saint Domingo said:
Clearly not since the Arteta sale. Lescott Fellaini Rodwell all that money hot reinvested in new players meanwhile big bids for Baines have been rejected and no one else has been sold. We clearly don't need to sell to survive. How is what we are doing different to any other club? It's not. Every club in the league bar Chelsea and City (and even they occasionally now to Madrid or Barca) is a selling club. We are no different and in fact have held onto our better players for longer than a lot of our peers. I'd say we're actually one of the least selling club in the league. We sell rarely and very expensively when we do.

I was just pointing out we've had to sell to survive in the past. At the moment that is not the case, but in the future it may be again because we are to dependant on TV deals. Even now, we still take out loans against future TV payments.

While our commercial deals are lacking to say the least and the lack of activity to provide a new stadium to organically grow our revenues we will get sucked back into the sell to buy, then sell to survive.

kenada_blue · July 17, 2015

Everyone has a price. £20mill for Stones isn't that price.

bluestevon · July 17, 2015

davek said:
I cant underline enough how much I hope we retain Stones. I'd be delighted if Stones came out and said he doesn't want to go.

But are we really at the point where we see the departure of a player like Stones in the same light as the Rooney departure? Not for me. Not even close.

its bigger mate, with the amount of money in the current deals with tv, compared to our financial position back then, it would feel ten times worse and would effectively destroy any notion about us building a team for the future

Deleted member 28206 · July 17, 2015

davek said:
Player of the season in 2013/14; would have been again if injury hadn't intervened.

I think some sanity needs to be restored where Stones is concerned. Yes he is VERY VERY good. Yes we all want him to stay. But if the cash is HUGE and we get all of it to strengthen elsewhere then we can cope.

Yes

bluestevon said:
sorry mate but just no

No, yes.

MikeH72 · July 17, 2015

He'll stay for another season. However he'll be off to Chelsea for mega, mega, MEGA money next summer

Tramps_mate · July 17, 2015

Donald Twain said:
Face it girls he's off ! Suck it up and like it!

Unfortunately I agree. He'll go for about 30..

marty mcfly · July 17, 2015

Gotagotmug said:
The board apparently value him at around £35 million - according to an Echo article a few months back - so this bid looks like it's designed to agitate Stones into asking for the move. If he does go, that money -- in theory -- could go on the number 10 position, new keeper and a decent CB.

But it's Stones, he's utterly boss and I'd much prefer for it him to be playing in our shade of Royal Blue

Doesn't he have like 4 years on his current deal?

I don't think he can really do that. If he wants to move it would be better for him to agree a timescale with Martinez. This summer is too early both for us and for him.