John Stones

[deipnosophist]

Really? This is sitting well with you is it?

I foresaw its commercial inevitability.
I have restructured 'compromised' businesses in my professional life; and Everton (for various reasons - Blue Bill, El Coco etc) is presently 'compromised' and in need of restructure.
Sometimes you have have to swallow bitter medicine to recover.
I am 100% confident Moshiri understands this figurative maxim.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

That is what we will get though, A bunch of crap from mid to low level teams, It was the reason Walsh was brought in

Yes, because Walsh definitely has a track record of signing "a bunch of crap"

Have a word with yourself.

 

[Yorkie]

It's a hell of a lot of money, probably a good bit of business but still sad to see him go. I enjoyed watching him play immensely. I genuine hope he goes on to fulfill his potential, barring having a howler against us twice a year.

In a bit John.

 

[Milkman]

The real debate here is our server not flinching.

By all accounts, GOT should be dead and buried.

Nobody refresh more than 3 times a minute ffs.

Was going to mention it, but was worried it would be one comment too many for it to handle and it'd burst into flames.

 

[JonS]

Mason Holgate is going to be a better player than Stones.

Hope so

 

[bitter-no-better]

Chelsea don't sell to buy though. They could spend 100 150m without selling anyone if they wanted.

not with their wage bill they cant. they have to sell like anyone else to replace them with big money players.

 

[ijjysmith]

I foresaw its commercial inevitability.
I have restructured 'compromised' businesses in my professional life; and Everton (for various reasons - Blue Bill, El Coco etc) is presently 'compromised' and in need of restructure.
Sometimes you have have to swallow bitter medicine to recover.
I am 100% confident Moshiri understands this figurative maxim.

Think he's at Middlesbrough now.

 

[stamullenblue]

Can we not just close this thread now and move on ? He's gone !

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Goodbye John Stones. Error prone but has the potential to be a top player.
Compliments to whoever scouted him and a big acknowledgement to Moyes for yet another who turned out to be an incredible budget find.

The funny thing was, Stones was on his way to speak to Martinez at Wigan, then he got the call to say we were interested.

 

[thebluenosebolt]

Yeah yeah, Great player and all that.....
So he got his dream move... he has gone, Maybe we can concentrate on our incomings rather than tearing up over the want outs ?

Let's not hear anymore about it !
Moneymoneymoneyspendspendspend !!!!

 

[GwladysBlue]

Sell to buy. Nothing will be the same.

 

[flibbyflob]

Just glad it is all over. Not wishing him good luck just hope we start signing some good players and spending some money now.

 

[Tubey]

Mate, if we spend £100m from here on the names mentioned in the last day or two it will probably make little difference to where we finish anyway.
Spending huge on players not worth that amount doesn't make you a target club,and, makes no statement.

If we make smart signings and improve our mentality, it's all good.

If we bring in Bolasie and act like beauts, it's not.

It's all up in the air. Only thing for certain right now is that Moshiri hasn't put his money where his mouth is, and can legitimately be labelled a potential fraud at this point.

Over to you Mosh - prove us wrong. But even if you do, you've had an absolute shocker of a pre-season.

 

[Jenks]

LOL @ future England captain quotes , even if he did become that means f all , it's not like England are a world force ! truth is he has been more of a liability than anything else since he has been here .

And now the revisionism begins...

 

[kithnou]

Say we get £40m net after paying Barnsley, and we pay £7.5m Gueye, £17m Kone and £15m Williams, Oh look what that adds up to.

So he's dipped into his pocket then