5 | John Stones - 2024/25

[Chak19]

No denying he's a sick note, it's 50/50 if he gets out of bed each morning injured but the level any criticism at him for today's break down is inappropriate when the manager has even admitted to throwing his defenders back in less than 100%


Because peps done it all season long and we've seen all of them, including players not known for having many injuries suffer the same fate. Pep has said we've got 1 defender that he would describe as properly fit, all the rest are playing at far less than 100% it can be no surprise to anybody that playing stones at less than 100% results in an injury. He's done this for 2 months now, it's prolonged and worsened the injury problems and we've got 1 win in 12 to show for it.

Didn't he say Walker didn't train for 20 days before playing him against Bournemouth ?

 

[citytill1die84]

Pep said himself he’d only trained for two days prior to this game.

Pep says we've played well after literally every game we've lost do you believe that as well?

 

[pbueno16]

Didn't he say Walker didn't train for 20 days before playing him against Bournemouth ?

Yep, rushed him back then as well and started him almost every game since.

 

[bert38]

Pep says we've played well after literally every game we've lost do you believe that as well?

Ha, true-but there was no sign of stones in training photos/live training recently; only latter part of this week.

And anybody looking at John can see he isn’t fit. He can hardly move.

 

[citytill1die84]

Ha, true-but there was no sign of stones in training photos/live training recently; only latter part of this week.

And anybody looking at John can see he isn’t fit. He can hardly move.

Think with Stones we could leave him a full month training and he'd still manage to get injured.

Top player but absolutely hampered by injuries, frustrating :-(

 

[bert38]

Think with Stones we could leave him a full month training and he'd still manage to get injured.

Top player but absolutely hampered by injuries, frustrating :-(

Possibly-his body looks done for unfortunately.

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

Is he really injured or suffering from a mental illness that he just can’t cope with the game/pressure anymore

 

[northmr8]

Reckon he's only started out of necessity and to see if he can play through the pain - the answer being no he can't.

 

[willipp]

Ha, true-but there was no sign of stones in training photos/live training recently; only latter part of this week.

And anybody looking at John can see he isn’t fit. He can hardly move.

He seemed to move pretty well when he charged 30 yards out of position to leave a huge hole in our rediculous high line for their first goal.

 

[Macca77macca]

predictable

much like your posts