I not only smell a rat I see it now blatantly on this forum the 'Don' is now making a feeble attempt to deflect his complete and utter incompetence on to a fantastic young player. Don you are so totally transparent and obvious.
"The Don says Stones wanted to go." A completely predictable statement! A weak attempt at avoiding the flak.
If he goes to Everton he doesn't have to play against us next season. He will have to if he signs for Wigan. Maybe Everton will loan him back to us? More likely to get him back on loan if he goes to Everton in stead of Wigan?
If the club agrees a fee then that Everton the right to speak to the player. If the player isn't interested he doesn't have to talk to them. The fact that he's at Everton at this moment would suggest Don is telling the truth. Saying that, if the club wanted to keep him, they could have kept dismissing bids until the end of the day.
"John Stones is not motivated by money" so yet again Don and the manager are saying different things. I think Don is a liar, basically.
Just for clarification, when Barnsley accept a bid from a club for a player, Don does NOT make the decision.
thats a pretty stupid post fella of course the lad wanted to talk to the clubs mentioned. He does have a thing called PARENTS .. and especially a DAD.. OK so he is young and a BFC supporter at heart, but FFS this kid can make a fortune. Not only that he can get to the very very top end if he takes the right route.Wigan is not the way IMHO.Barnsley need to get the best they can from this deal of course, but sadly that ****** Rowing will ruin that. But its like Tommy Taylor he was maybe our best ever product, Butterfield was good ..but this kid is light years beyond Butterfield.No way can we stand in his way... but we owe it to English football to push him in the correct direction..and sorry but WIGAN is the reverse of that.
Of course he doesn't, the White Knight decides everything. Including hanging on to the berk for too long.
Not as simple as that. If the club have accepted the bid he's not hot much choice in a way. You are quite right about telling them to do one in the first place.
Didn't he also say no one had a release clause, shortly before Bolton activated Davies' release clause? He also said we were getting a new scoreboard, bar in the ponty and the tellies would be turned on in the east. He talks ****ing *****. If my club accepted a bid for me then I'd want to go too, as I'd know I wasn't intrinsically valued by them.