5 | John Stones - 2023/24

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Williecaballerno said:
Stones has also kicked on massively from the player he was when Dias arrived. To the point now where he’s much more important to our team than Dias. When Stones doesn’t play we massively miss him. When Dias doesn’t play it’s not such a big loss to the team. In fact it’s now at the point where Dias needs Stones as opposed to vice versa
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Last season we were a mess defensively, until Dias came back from injury. Stones is just visually more appealing. People overrate Stones too much, it seems as he was as important as Rodri, when they are not even in the same tier.

As soon as Dias plays, we are way more organized and solid defensively. I would even argue he is the second most important player after Rodri (with a significant difference though). Stones would come with KDB, Haaland and maybe Ederson, Bernardo.
 
city warrior said:
Last season we were a mess defensively, until Dias came back from injury. Stones is just visually more appealing. People overrate Stones too much, it seems as he was as important as Rodri, when they are not even in the same tier.

As soon as Dias plays, we are way more organized and solid defensively. I would even argue he is the second most important player after Rodri (with a significant difference though). Stones would come with KDB, Haaland and maybe Ederson, Bernardo.
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Both quality but BM has a rule it seems where to praise one player has to be followed by criticism of another.
Strange place sometimes.
 
Any ideas or info on Johns injury? Pep didn’t really say today..hope he is hiding him and he turns up in starting XI.
 
Will he stay the course of the season when he comes back though as he seems to be made of blancmange and we desperately need him?
 
Gabriel said:
Good to see him back. However, I fail to understand how he was suddenly fit enough to play the whole match tonight but wasn’t fit enough to play out even just the end of the game on Sunday, which would have arguably given us the anchor to win the match. Yet another strange decision.
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Love Stonesy but he was shit tonight. Gave the ball away, overran it and tackled noone
 
Stones is a brilliant ball playing centre half, he's comfortable bringing the ball out and rock solid in defence.
What he isn't is a midfielder, he can pop in and help out, but it's not his position, another square peg in a round hole.
 
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