John Stones

[FanchesterCity]

I'll have you know that Jordan Ibe is the next great dipper hope and the reason they don't care about Sterling since Ibe is a much better player anyway. It must be true, I remember all the dippers saying so when Sterling left.

They did, and in large numbers!
Now most would snatch your hand off for 15m.

Mind you, I think I'd take 30m right now for Sterling.

 

[FanchesterCity]

We're not going to announce all signings immediately when players need to be offloaded. It affects our selling fee negotiations.

You can't keep a signing secret.
The selling club will announce it, even if we don't, and there's too many people at PL / UEFA who'd leak it etc.

 

[waspish]

Are we in for him?

 

[MillionDollarDream]

Stones is probably on holiday, I've seen that a few of the other England players are at the moment.

Everton certainly aren't issuing a hands-off warning like last summer.

I would like to preface this by saying I know everyone is different but Zinchenko was in Spain taking pics of Camp Nou and Bernabeu before the very next pic said " welcome to Manchester". There was several players in the copa libertadores game yesterday who have flown to Europe, taking pics with their new club's shirt and signed their contracts before flying back to play. I also think that as a character trait you would want to handle business before going off on holiday.

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

lol!!! are you sure about that? :)

Haha fair point!

 

[kaz7]

 

[NorthamptonBlue]

I know what you mean, but on the other hand maybe City want to ensure they have the right players in before letting others go. So we are not in a position where we have to buy players for the sake of it. EG If Bony is to go I would expect a replacement to arrive before he is sold, otherwise we are a player light in that position.

The club cat?

 

[richards30]

Aren't sport extremely close to pep?

 

[oakiecokie]

If thats the case then Everton must have given us permission to talk to him surely.

 

[kaz7]

Aren't sport extremely close to pep?

I don't know lovely

 

[pudge]

How imminent is it now?

 

[TRUE BLUE NO1]

Sorry all, dont mean to sound negative but just dont get why we havent made an official bid....we've rumoured to have agreed personal terms a while ago...why keep the lad hanging? Just seems we trying to be too clever with this one.....

City Watch ‏@City_Watch 53m53 minutes ago
City have a full personal agreement with John Stones and only have to agree a fee with Everton before signing him. [SPORT]

 

[domalino]

Sorry all, dont mean to sound negative but just dont get why we havent made an official bid....we've rumoured to have agreed personal terms a while ago...why keep the lad hanging? Just seems we trying to be too clever with this one.....

City Watch ‏@City_Watch 53m53 minutes ago
City have a full personal agreement with John Stones and only have to agree a fee with Everton before signing him. [SPORT]

Why assume we are holding it up?

 

[kaz7]

Sorry all, dont mean to sound negative but just dont get why we havent made an official bid....we've rumoured to have agreed personal terms a while ago...why keep the lad hanging? Just seems we trying to be too clever with this one.....

City Watch ‏@City_Watch 53m53 minutes ago
City have a full personal agreement with John Stones and only have to agree a fee with Everton before signing him. [SPORT]

You keep saying this,we will be negotiating behind the scenes,they are not the easiest club to deal with

 

[Goatmeal]

Just because the press ain't reporting it does not mean we ain't negotiating with Everton.
The lad is probably having a holiday first

 

[Joe Hart's Dandruff]

The sums mentioned for this guy are rediculous. I would suggest this is probably the hold up.

 

[southamptonblue]

Sorry all, dont mean to sound negative but just dont get why we havent made an official bid....we've rumoured to have agreed personal terms a while ago...why keep the lad hanging? Just seems we trying to be too clever with this one.....

City Watch ‏@City_Watch 53m53 minutes ago
City have a full personal agreement with John Stones and only have to agree a fee with Everton before signing him. [SPORT]

Why assume any of that is correct?

 

[Sky Blue]

Sorry all, dont mean to sound negative but just dont get why we havent made an official bid....we've rumoured to have agreed personal terms a while ago...why keep the lad hanging? Just seems we trying to be too clever with this one.....

City Watch ‏@City_Watch 53m53 minutes ago
City have a full personal agreement with John Stones and only have to agree a fee with Everton before signing him. [SPORT]

The NO1 Flapper.

 

[Goatmeal]

Also. We are probably trying to up the fee to the point where they will take bony off us.

 

[TRUE BLUE NO1]

Why assume we are holding it up?

Hi mate....like pretty much every other deal we've done or tried to do this summer, official bids/rejected bids always seem to leak somehow...We've rumoured to have agreed terms and also rumoured to be ready to make a "imminent" bid....and it seems to have been that way for a while.....When you look at the way Txiki does his business (like with Sterling) he tries to "time" his 1st, 2nd and in some cases 3rd bids, often waiting before that final bid goes in.....just like he's doing with Peres.....Just my opinion but for me it looks like its us playing the waiting game on that bid for Stones.....