John Stones transfer saga

The Equaliser · August 25, 2015

Woolly Blue said:
Stones hasn't been sold yet.
I have very little faith in our board, but I'm clinging on to that fact for the moment.

Indeed but Damo seems to have fallen on his sword already. Said his goodbyes and everything.

malfosse · August 25, 2015

The Equaliser said:
In fairness he wrote his own suicide note:

Yes but I delivered the "coup de grace"

Boss_Blue · August 25, 2015

tim cahill said:
The more I think about it the more I think we should let him go

No lad.

MACCA75 · August 25, 2015

LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
I was saying earlier, I wonder if those fans who bought new shirts with Stones on the back will get their cash back if he goes.

Bit of a stupid thing to have done this summer really - getting any players name on a shirt will never end well.

The Equaliser · August 25, 2015

malfosse said:
Yes but I delivered the "coup de grace"

Must have missed that. What page is it on ?

Dithering Dougie · August 25, 2015

tim cahill said:
The more I think about it the more I think we should let him go.

If you look at it in reverse:
If Stones wasn't at the club, we only had one senior CB in Jagielka and we also had a £55m budget to work with. Would we want £35-40m of that to be spent on a 21 year old CB who didn't want to come to everton?

I don't think we would.

Maybe think about it a bit more Tim.

Joey66 · August 25, 2015

Steve Wigan said:
The request was only put in this afternoon. In theory it needs to be discussed by Roberto and the board,before its turned down. Why did you expect us to respond within a few hours, and why is it a disgrace that we didn't. It isn't a disgrace at all, you're just looking for any stick at all with which to beat the board.

If he goes after persistence not for sale statements from our club - it's worse than the Rooney sale!

Carlito · August 25, 2015

Woolly Blue said:
You're spot on, it's been a long day, I thought Lescott but typed Rooney

Even then, Everton went out and bought Portsmouth's starting centre back for £5m, and a regular in the Dutch team for something similar.

Bilyaletdinov I'll always blame on that YouTube video. Russian Lampard indeed.

stevesteve1878 · August 25, 2015

Surely the best thing for us to do now is say ok we'll accept the transfer request and publicly state the price will be £45 million with a decent sell on clause and we wont accept anything less than this valuation which will increase by £1 million every day it gets closer to the transfer window closing. Tell Stones this is his value to us and if other teams don't value him as highly that's his problem not ours and he'll have to continue improving until other teams realise what he's worth

AndyC · August 25, 2015

LinekersLegs said:
lol
@PED7: We should play Stones tomorrow, the Barnsley players won't go near him #15%

Unless a badly defended corner were to see a Stones o.g. as the ensuing fume would be fee nominal.

LouReedwalkonthewildside · August 25, 2015

GoatJR said:
Surely the club have to allow that.

Was thinking they should, but this is Everton.

malfosse · August 25, 2015

The Equaliser said:
Must have missed that. What page is it on ?

836, you liked it haha.

AndyC · August 25, 2015

stevesteve1878 said:
Surely the best thing for us to do now is say ok we'll accept the transfer request and publicly state the price will be £45 million with a decent sell on clause and we wont accept anything less than this valuation which will increase by £1 million every day it gets closer to the transfer window closing. Tell Stones this is his value to us and if other teams don't value him as highly that's his problem not ours and he'll have to continue improving until other teams realise what he's worth

£50 million and not a penny less... that clown Luiz went for that, so why should we accept less for a younger, better English player ??

Joey66 · August 25, 2015

Steve Wigan said:
The request was only put in this afternoon. In theory it needs to be discussed by Roberto and the board,before its turned down. Why did you expect us to respond within a few hours, and why is it a disgrace that we didn't. It isn't a disgrace at all, you're just looking for any stick at all with which to beat the board.

If he goes the board need more than a stick to beat them with, it's criminal not for sale should mean not for sale!

evo1878 · August 25, 2015

jinkyali said:
I personally dont believe the board could survive an agenda driven by them to sell the golden boy again and not reinvest. Not this time.

Yes they can because do you know what, they hold all the cards and no one can hold them accountable. No one.