John Stones

[BigDuncis Blue]

He doesn't want to be here - put in a transfer request 5 months ago.
He is indulged by his manager to over play and when castigated acts like a spoilt child.
It appears that he believes all the hype about him.

Clearly he has so wonderful attributes but Everton's first XI is not a development team.
£50 million for a centre half that cant defend- yes please.

Nail On Head

 

[TomDixie]

Defend first.

Horrendous today.

 

[Deggo]

Ultimately though I can live with a 21 year old making mistakes.

That's sound and when his mistakes lead to us going down and he sods off cos he won't play in a lower league can you still live with his mistakes

The boy is a liability he needs to sit out for a nice long stint

 

[Matthew Martinez]

£50mill - sold

 

[MACCA75]

He doesn't want to be here - put in a transfer request 5 months ago.
He is indulged by his manager to over play and when castigated acts like a spoilt child.
It appears that he believes all the hype about him.

Clearly he has so wonderful attributes but Everton's first XI is not a development team.
£50 million for a centre half that cant defend- yes please.

All this is bang on, sadly.

 

[MACCA75]

No idea who is gonna genuinely bid £50 million though. His price has gone down this season tbh.

 

[carolinablue232]

No idea who is gonna genuinely bid £50 million though. His price has gone down this season tbh.

Opening bids would be half of that IMO.

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

Youthful exuberance. Talented beyond his years but experience is coming with a high price tag lately. Hopefully, this will be a bump in the road. He is my biggest worry keeping in the summer after receiving stick from the fans a few weeks ago. He seems a little unsettled by this.

 

[Cultured right foot]

With Besic out for the City game on Wednesday could there be a case for playing Stones further forward in front of Jagielka and Funes Mori?

 

[Fearthainn]

Youthful exuberance. Talented beyond his years but experience is coming with a high price tag lately. Hopefully, this will be a bump in the road. He is my biggest worry keeping in the summer after receiving stick from the fans a few weeks ago. He seems a little unsettled by this.

The same fans who got behind him after he handed in a transfer request? My heart bleeds.

 

[Eggs]

.....having a bad time at the moment, he needs to show character and get his concentration and purpose back.

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

The same fans who got behind him after he handed in a transfer request? My heart bleeds.

Your absolutely right.

 

[Khalekan]

Youthful exuberance. Talented beyond his years but experience is coming with a high price tag lately. Hopefully, this will be a bump in the road. He is my biggest worry keeping in the summer after receiving stick from the fans a few weeks ago. He seems a little unsettled by this.

The thing is, Mike, those fans were quite justified in their criticism at the Spurs game.

He should have listened to them instead of making a sarcastic gesture at them.

If he had have just cleared his lines today there would have been no penalty.

As for keeping him, I would take any ridiculous offer we got for him.

As Funes Mori is demonstrating, there are centre halves as good or better than him out there at a fraction of the price.

 

[Khalekan]

No idea who is gonna genuinely bid £50 million though. His price has gone down this season tbh.

Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

 

[daz4matty]

Just needs managing the right way.
He is a young lad learning his trade at a club who have not got a clue how to defend