I understand your argument, but to me he has had long enough.
His physical appearance looks terrible and is his own making. He looks a very different man to the one who signed 4 years ago.
And the biggest worry is the "injury" post covid lock down, despite publicly stating he was in a massive fitness/health drive during the lockdown.
When he reappeared he looked like a tramp and not a professional athlete.
I do worry if he is "injured" if you get my drift.
I agree completely. I nicknamed him 'Homeless John' at the match.
But there are countless instances of players coming through stuff & being legendary captains.
In fact with English international defenders, I think it's all of them isn't it ?
Personally don't think he is a captain in a million years, I remember Dave Watson, Mike Doyle, Tommy Caton all 3 would walk into this team and make a huge difference, but CB like those simply don't exist.
The art of defending is a dying art unfortunately.
When the lockdown ended I really wanted to see John Stones return, head shaved and muscle bound looking fit and more importantly hungry, what I saw was a @@@ed up slob, very sad.
I don't want to sound like an old fart but he looked a clean cut young guy, future England Captain, he now looks like some wannabe white scally gangster with sh1t tattoos.When you compare the fresh-faced youth on that Instagram post to how he looks now...holy fuck.
I understand your argument, but to me he has had long enough.
His physical appearance looks terrible and is his own making. He looks a very different man to the one who signed 4 years ago.
And the biggest worry is the "injury" post covid lock down, despite publicly stating he was in a massive fitness/health drive during the lockdown.
When he reappeared he looked like a tramp and not a professional athlete.
I do worry if he is "injured" if you get my drift.
Not if your hungry and desperate to make an impression.Are you not being a bit harsh there? He looked scruffy, but I swear that's just down to a lack of a haircut, which we can all relate to! Lockdown hair was a thing after all.
When you compare the fresh-faced youth on that Instagram post to how he looks now...holy fuck.
Not if your hungry and desperate to make an impression.
And the most worrying was the black panda eyes to complete the look, or was that Covid as well? :)
I get that but it doesn’t look purely down to that imo. He’s a professional athlete entering the prime years of his life. I hope I’m wrong but he looks as if he has some other issues going on.Well, he was quite literally four years younger. I don't look as young as I did four years ago. People at 26 can suddenly look at old older than they did at 22.
I think after what he's gone through and the way the club has tried to help him it would be a sign the penny has dropped and he means business.
I thought he looked ill when he came back, looked like he had not slept properly for weeks, that's why I said is he "injured" or is it far more.
I also remember our captain coming back shaven headed when he meant business the same with the pikey across at Old trafford.
Not sure that message means anything. Didn't he hit the 4-year mark at the club yesterday? So it was likely just a message acknowledging that.
Sometimes when you have let yourself down and your employee, you need to show a sign of redemption/commitment.Fair enough. Tbh, I just think he looked like he had a scruffy haircut. When my hair gets long people often tell me I look knackered, whereas I feel fine. Maybe its the shadows on the eyes from all the extra hair. Ha. I guess I'm just tired of people who equate tidy hair with professionalism. My hair is naturally curly and pretty long, but I work very fucking hard in everything I do. I just like scruffy hair personally. I find that many have an old-fashioned view of stuff like this and I think it's incredibly lazy tbh. Not saying you're doing that, but you have kinda touched on it.
Sometimes when you have let yourself down and your employee, you need to show a sign of redemption/commitment.
I don't see that, I did not see a player who was bursting to get back to the top of his profession, yet we did see that in Kyle Walker ( and he was a naughty boy) and we did see if from KDB and Foden, both came back like men with something to prove and very hungry.
Maybe it is, but he has the look of a very troubled individual,one that has gone missing when badly required at the club and clearly his manager feels the same.And you're basing this off the fact that he looked scruffy? I'm sorry, I don't think there's any correlation between haircut and professionalism. I think its an old-fashioned view.
Why? He usually let's new players come in slowlyYou really think so? For me it’s no way.
If we buy Koulibaly for 70m we would’ve spend a total of 110m on him and Aké. Pep would look like a complete moron if he started the season playing Laporte and Stones. It’s obvious they’re both joining to cement Stones place at 4th or 5th in the pecking order.