Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[RinkyDinker]

Not a chance Moyes goes in first Stones. He’s been clear that he wants players who are resilient, always available more often than not. For the wage cost & injury record alone, there is not a chance he ends up here. Some romantic nonsense rumour about his return, cos it’s silly season and the window has opened temporarily. More chance of Jon Jones signing on a bosman from the UFC so he doesn’t have to fight Tom Aspinall.

 

[gixerk6]

Some of us can satisfy a woman and update our spreadsheets with XG and XA. Sorry you are a sub standard lover.

At the same time? Pics or it didn’t happen.
Anyways a woman would call that bs as apparently we can’t multitask

 

[dockroad]

We did very well out of John Stones . Let's leave it at that .

 

[Mr Happy]

Whereas IGG is good, obviously depending on price but if you can get IGG to rub off on him I think he will become a very good player.

We're not signing Mainoo. Deluded if you genuinely believe we could.

 

[gixerk6]

That’s a technicality. It’s clear we were happy to pay £30m had he agreed to join us

Plus if we hadn’t triggered it we wouldn’t have been able to have talks with him. You have to bid in order to have talks with the player unless they are out of contract

 

[Clarky cat]

100% strike rate. Sniff it grifters. Anyone any good at setting up a podcast and a patreon account?

 

[bullybeef]

Rumours that we are selling Branthwaite and signing stones!

That seems absolutely crazy to me.
Just no Everton, just no!

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Stones managed more than 25 Premier League appearances just once since joining Man City. And that was his debut season, 27 appearances.

That alone dictates no chance he'd be a replacement for Branthwaite if we sold him. We aren't that stupid.

If the links are true, he'd be a cover for CB/DM.

We'll go for an Esteve type for Branthwaite replacement if he goes.

 

[Amokachi1995]

No way we finally get a sensible wage structure in place for the first time in years only to break it immediately on Stones and/or Grealish.

Only way I can see either is towards the end of the window with City covering a chunk of the wages.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Stones managed more than 25 Premier League appearances just once since joining Man City. And that was his debut season, 27 appearances.

That alone dictates no chance he'd be a replacement for Branthwaite if we sold him. We aren't that stupid.

If the links are true, he'd be a cover for CB/DM.

We'll go for an Esteve type for Branthwaite replacement if he goes.

I’d like to see us move for Esteve regardless tbh, he’s a good player.

However it’s not impossible to predict some sort of scenario that sees City take Branthwaite off us and send Stones our way, we plough the cash into Burnley for Esteve, Keane finds his way back to Burnley.

 

[Eggs]

I’d more worry that if they’re true then Branthwaite is leaving.

Stones wouldn’t join us to sit on the bench, he’s absolutely top class, he’d want guaranteed first team football prior to the World Cup.

…no player expects ‘guaranteed first team football’, it’s a nonsense.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

I’d like to see us move for Esteve regardless tbh, he’s a good player.

However it’s not impossible to predict some sort of scenario that sees City take Branthwaite off us and send Stones our way, we plough the cash into Burnley for Esteve, Keane finds his way back to Burnley.

Mate, they'd try suing us again if they went down.

 

[Zatara]

I’d more worry that if they’re true then Branthwaite is leaving.

Stones wouldn’t join us to sit on the bench, he’s absolutely top class, he’d want guaranteed first team football prior to the World Cup.

Depends on fitness of course. The only advantage i can see would be for him to bring on Stones and Obrien in a different way to Tarkowski.

Simply because hes goijg to add long term value that way.

Whereas IGG is good, obviously depending on price but if you can get IGG to rub off on him I think he will become a very good player.

Hes never been one for positional sense, Gana. Used to run around like a headless chicken.

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100% strike rate. Sniff it grifters. Anyone any good at setting up a podcast and a patreon account?

Come again? What tomfoolery is this ?

Stones managed more than 25 Premier League appearances just once since joining Man City. And that was his debut season, 27 appearances.

That alone dictates no chance he'd be a replacement for Branthwaite if we sold him. We aren't that stupid.

If the links are true, he'd be a cover for CB/DM.

We'll go for an Esteve type for Branthwaite replacement if he goes.

Premier league but lets not forget Champions league and cups.

For me, Stones would be an ace signing IF and only if he adds value to Branthwaite and OBrien's development.

If he could play 25 games its probably worth it as a rotation option. Doesnt need to play every game. Also could play DM while Armstrong is developing.

 

[MikeH72]

Stones can have guaranteed first team football once he can string three games together.

 

[Zatara]

https://www.whoscored.com/players/101374/history/john-stones

Can he play 25 games for us and would he improve O'Brien & Branthwaite by training together?