10 Boyhood Man Utd Fans The Club Should Have Signed
4. John Stones
“If he goes to Man United, he plays every week so that’s the right club for him. He’s at that stage of his development where he wants to play every week. If you say to any young footballer to leave a club to sit on the bench, you’ve got to be a lunatic. You have to be.” - Rio Ferdinand, August 2015.
John Stones may have become the most expensive British defender of all time by inking a six-year-deal at Eastlands following a £47.5 million move from Everton, but if reports are true, he will have gone to bed as a boy dreaming about pulling on the red of Manchester.
The 22-year-old Barnsley native is said to be a boyhood Manchester United fan, but this surely won’t stop him from joining Pep Guardiola’s revolution at the Eastlands. However, had United stolen in to pinch the highly-rated youngster from Barnsley three years ago, then they would have acquired one of the most exciting defensive talents this country has produced in the last decade.
Instead, Everton will reap the rewards for their scouting system, with City ready to drop an eye-watering fee on a player who has yet to make 100 top-flight appearances.