John Stones transfer saga

[Lids1978]

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think it's a bit out of order for another club's players and manager talking about signing one of our players in the press when we have apparently said he's not for sale.

No mate your not old fashioned. Its basically tapping up.

 

[Michaelcoyb]

It wont come, cos he is for sale.

I actually don think he is. Stones would have to hand in a transfer request imho

 

[bobafro]

“You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a
professional footballer.

"When a top club comes calling who you know will be firing on all fronts with competitions and medals, that's ultimately what you want to be playing for. It's hard to turn down of course."

I hope he get's the hostile reception that he deserves in September. 90 minutes of abuse being chanted at him.... there's loads of time to be creative between now and then.

EDIT: Just to clarify... that quote is from cahill and that's who my comment was directed at.

 

[Lids1978]

It wont come, cos he is for sale.

Do you know this for a fact mate or are you just assuming this is the case?

 

[Saint Domingo]

I agree. I don't think that Rooney is as good as I thought he would be.

He was even slightly ahead of Ronaldo when they both started at United. Ronaldo went on to be one of the best though whereas Rooney hit a ceiling just under 'best in world' level.

 

[Lids1978]

“You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a
professional footballer.

"When a top club comes calling who you know will be firing on all fronts with competitions and medals, that's ultimately what you want to be playing for. It's hard to turn down of course."

I hope he get's the hostile reception that he deserves in September. 90 minutes of abuse being chanted at him.... there's loads of time to be creative between now and then.

Who said the above?

 

[Michaelcoyb]

He was even slightly ahead of Ronaldo when they both started at United. Ronaldo went on to be one of the best though whereas Rooney hit a ceiling just under 'best in world' level.

I don't even think he was ever top 5 really.

 

[Goat]

Do you know this for a fact mate or are you just assuming this is the case?

Every player is for sale.

Messi is for sale, it would probably take about 150m to buy him, but hes for sale.

 

[tim cahill]

yeah doesnt work like that mate. you'd be betting on 3 new players to come in and all by a rousing success. selling one player for big money and bringing in 3+ players with that money hasn't really worked recently in the prem (Spurs and the RS)

As I said. I'd rather we didn't sell him. But you can't deny that our budget for incoming players would increase if we did.

 

[Gotagotmug]

Who said the above?

Kone, why he's going to Chelsea

 

[Raino85]

Question?

Did you ever here any player from City commenting on Sterling before he signed?
Is it a regular thing? I know most managers mention " i dont like to talk about other clubs players"
But this is a first for me sending the players out to the press to tell them how great it is a chelsea.

 

[Toast]

He was even slightly ahead of Ronaldo when they both started at United. Ronaldo went on to be one of the best though whereas Rooney hit a ceiling just under 'best in world' level.

Hes England captain.
Will be all time top England scorer.
Man Utd captain.
Won CL and Prem.
On £200k a week.

Where did it all go wrong Wayne ?

 

[Gotagotmug]

If Stones handed in a transfer request, and started kicking-off to push through a move, and we reluctantly gave in, I would wish him all the bad luck in the world, and hope he was a huge flop.

I mentioned the other day though, I don't think he is like that, and when the transfer window close IMO he'll still be with us.

Well if he kicked up a fuss publicly I'd maybe be inclined to agree, but he seems sound.

 

[bluebray]

This is lik the lescott transfer all over again...... hopefully with not the same result.

 

[Goat]

Question?

Did you ever here any player from City commenting on Sterling before he signed?
Is it a regular thing? I know most managers mention " i dont like to talk about other clubs players"
But this is a first for me sending the players out to the press to tell them how great it is a chelsea.

Sterling made it clear he wanted out, there was no need for a "charm offensive".