£47.5m plus add ons. I'd take Scott Dann all day long.

How we would be in melt down on here with an error like that one!

Jackson.. Wan Bissaka.... Sansom.. Nicholas.. Cannon.. Guehi.... Zaha... Thomas.. Byrne... Holton.. Rogers.. that should do it..

I think sometimes we forget that Stones is just a "Baby" at a mere 22. He has all the attributes to be a 'Huge'player in the future.

Dele Ali is 2 years younger?

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I see that Smalling has also been s***e today.

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It may not be coached out of him but then big clubs pay this sort of money for a defender that doesn't hoof it into row Z and can launch an attack.

It annoys me that commentators keep going on about 'oooh this new fad with ball playing centre backs, not in my day'.

Rio Ferdinand went for an even absurder amount of money at the time and his thing was he could get it on the deck and play it.

It isn't a new thing, it's fine for clubs outside of Europe to hoof it but if you are in top 4 and know you're likely to come up against Bayern or Barca you can't afford to turnover possession.

It doesn't need to be coached out him. When his confidence is high the passes will work and not cause goals for the opposition. When his confidence is low it will cost his team goals and 99% of the time it won't matter because they'll win 4-1.

It's the benefit of playing for a big club but because City's attack are in a bit of a rut they didn't bail him out yesterday.

That's all fine but Stones makes far, far too many mistakes. Rio Ferdinand was also a really fantastic defender, the best in the world c.2002 I would say. Stones is not a fantastic defender (yet), in fact he's a very poor one.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.