John Stones

[Paul Dean]

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

Have a word with yourself.

Give me a full list of all of his signings at Bury/Chester/Hull/Newcastle/Chelsea and Leicester so we can decide if his record is good or not

Or are we just going to cherry pick the 5-6 good ones he's stumbled across

 

[naz]

Wish him well. Time to move on.

 

[Darren Higgs]

So its official hes a city player. Lets close this down and move on. Its no like he was a boyhood blue so not going to waste any more time on him now.

 

[windymiller]

No way. Wages maybe? There's no way it's sell to buy no way.

Do you really think we will now go on to spend £140M? No chance. We'll end up with a net spend of £20M or so. Or, to put it another way, 40% of the new TV money. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. I was so optimistic about this season but we've gone from Witsel, Mata, Carvalho and Koulibaly to Gueye, Kone, Williams and Stekelenberg selling Stones (and maybe Galloway) along the way. Only the most deluded supporters can be seeing our activities thus far as "progress". We will end this window with a higher wage bill and a worse squad IMO.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

I think he's got me on ignore

He's a tool.

 

[ijjysmith]

£47.5m apparently.

With about £6.5m going to Barnsley.

What are people's thoughts on the fee? I think it's about right really.

 

[kithnou]

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.

Why are we blaming Moshiri? Is it his job getting the transfers done?

 

[bluelife]

It's a shame but he's from Barnsley and got offered more money and a big chance to win everything with a different club. Not the end of the world

 

[PITA]

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.

Back to doing what you do best. Using big words and not arguing with people. Good to see.

 

[matty1878]

Do you really think we will now go on to spend £140M? No chance. We'll end up with a net spend of £20M or so. Or, to put it another way, 40% of the new TV money. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. I was so optimistic about this season but we've gone from Witsel, Mata, Carvalho and Koulibaly to Gueye, Kone, Williams and Stekelenberg selling Stones (and maybe Galloway) along the way. Only the most deluded supporters can be seeing our activities thus far as "progress". We will end this window with a higher wage bill and a worse squad IMO.

Higher wage bill with a worse squad? Just explain that for me? Mate I'm having my doubts myself and If we haven't spent gazillions by the close of the Window I might just right an open letter of fume....

 

[kithnou]

£47.5m apparently.

With about £6.5 going to Barnsley.

What are people's thoughts on the fee? I think it's about right really.

Good result. Does the whole amount go towards our 'wage issue' or the £40m?

 

[Tubey]

Why are we blaming Moshiri? Is it his job getting the transfers done?

Ultimately yes. He's the club owner.

He hasn't sanctioned any deal of substance before we sold an asset. So he's responsible right now for a sell to buy philosophy, and if that's the case he's basically Kenwright.

Look at it another way - City's owners get the credit for bringing in players, don't they? So conversely, an owner should get the stick when a club fails to. He has the purse strings.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

£47.5m apparently.

With about £6.5 going to Barnsley.

What are people's thoughts on the fee? I think it's about right really.

Yep, would have said £40m was about right.

 

[PITA]

And now the revisionism begins...

Not sure what that means but Stones is actually a bit crap, isn't he?

 

[toffeejack]

£47.6 mill? nice to see we stuck to our guns on the 50 or no deal...

to be fair, maybe we did and our trying to manipulate it to seem less to pay barnsley less. You think they'd catch us out if we did that, but who knows ha

 

[deipnosophist]

Selling future England captain for £40m and people are happy to replace him with a £15m 32 year old from Swansea.

I don't think people are necessarily "happy" with it; but recognition of immediate imperative often-times subordinates happiness to here-and-now commercial reality.