John Stones transfer saga

[toffeestillidie]

Ladies and Gentleman, the Shed End John Stones thread;





On GOT

no point. Mods on other football forums are just as bad as their posters. Worse in merseyside as they are just the loudest, whiniest of the bunch who like to think they have real power.

You're welcome, babes.

@GrandOldTeam is right, pipe down you whiner!

 

[Brendan Janus]

you were there and overheard this?

Stones was also heard to say to Naismith, "I bet I get heartburn from this effing pasty" !!

 

[Hellerad]

 

[ToffeeDevil]

Chelsea fans:

and us:

 

[Khalekan]

Apologies if this was already posted somewhere but if the player is sold after him saying this about the club then surely his position would be untenable:

"We have a chairman who will do the right thing for the club and for the team and, as a true Evertonian, we are clear he will not be easily influenced in taking the money and accepting things which will clearly make our team weaker," he said.

He sounds like he is putting his job on the line there.

Yip.

Although I don't believe for one second be spoke last night without knowing the board were standing right behind him.

And not a stiletto or a dagger in sight

 

[blueblue]

Stones is not going to be sold for two reasons (i) Martinez does appear to be committed to building a team including his young core of Stones, Barkley and Lukaku as the key components and (ii) perhaps more importantly it fits the Board's narrative. "Money does not buy you everything" could have been penned by Bill himself, after all we've lived/survived on this philosophy since 1999. With the signing of a new financing loan against 2016/17 revenues the club will bring in some new players before the deadline, will keep the existing squad intact and Bill and the Board will face off the BU and Kenwright Out crowd with these two points.

I said earlier today - it is a master stroke, a wonderful defense against the claims that we need investment to move forward. I still believe we need that investment because my ambitions for the team are higher than the Board's and we need funding for the stadium and commercial activities.

It really is a win/win for the board. They stand strong against the Russian rubles and next summer or the summer after if it suits the club or if Browning, Holgate, Mori or somebody else pushes through his loss won't be felt and the club will still rake in the money.
It may be that in twelve months there won't be the same demand for Stones and he may stay at Everton.

 

[HuddersfieldToffee]

Forget John Stones, ITS ON IN FM SAVE (although Stonesy has been excellent).

 

[blueblue]

Everything RM says about this matter is with the approval of Bill Kenwright imo.

 

[Coffee and TV]

He wasn't abused last night in the service station

ok someone shouted don't sign for chelsea john don't be a s'house

Then someone asked him a simple question

'whats the situation, have you handed a request in yourself or is it down to the board he just started crying.

Naismith said you can't put a kid under pressure like that, to which someone said we know it's all down to the board.

Make what you want of it but that's the conversation.

If he ends up staying though it's clearly him and I think that also fits in with that conversation pretty well. Up until now Stones could do nothing wrong in the eyes of the fans, now a group are questioning him still clearly believing that he couldn't possibly have asked to leave and there must be something else to it. Do you think he wanted to turn to them and say "no it was me, I put one in because I want to leave"? I think that's the sort of situation where a young guy under a lot of pressure would burst out crying.

 

[toffeejack]

Peter McPartland from Toffee TV is going to be on talkSport Sports Bar tonight around 23.45.

what time's he going to sleep? ffs

 

[Khalekan]

Everything RM says about this matter is with the approval of Bill Kenwright imo.

Without a shadow of a doubt.

 

[bobafro]

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"whataboutery" is the correct term.

Coined by the late, great Irish broadcaster David Dunseith

It's called many things but the the technical term is the "Fallacy of Relative Privation" as far as I'm aware.
People have been using this type of argument well before David Dunseith was a twinkle is fathers eye.

 

[Ihaters]

Could be he really wants to go and is crying because he can't, could be he's upset that he handed one in and it went public, could be that he's had enough drama over the season, could be he felt guilty at the time, who knows?.. any result of peoples analysis will ultimately be a guess on this one.

 

[obc]

Glad I wasnt the only one to notice that.

It was probably posted and reposted a dozen times in the match thread.

 

[micknick]

It was probably posted and reposted a dozen times in the match thread.

Sorry