Bluenose Manx

He's a young lad, and a decent lad by all accounts. With all the headlines and the speculations and rumours and tweets and lawyers telling you what you can and cannot say and your agent breathing down your neck to make money and then having a bit of a bad game early on... Yes, I really feel sorry for the guy. Words hurt. Not everyone is Mr. Macho-man inside, and we shouldn't be putting young people through something like this. Your story put a dose of reality on things.
 
I've been irritated by some of the aggressive and/or negative things people post on here, and I'm sure other Everton forums are worse. We're armchair warriors, right? So easy to type and create an image. But for young players, accusations and diatribes are real and hurtful. Just imagine how these guys must feel if they or their families actually browse through forums themselves. Sometimes it must be devastating at a personal level. Just imagine if our own son or brother faced such pressure. Would it be fair? How would they cope? There's no shame in getting upset.

Matt you've been buttering everything up all season mate how we are right to wait until late etc etc well it's all coming down like a house of cards as far as I can see. Yarmalko gone Stones as good as gone, Ogbonna gone can't even be arsed listing all the other disasters.
 
It's been ashambles mate an absolute shambles.

If it is true and he wishes to leave and we do honor his request we still hold a very strong hand regarding the fee so milk them for as much as possible and we move on
 
Again if true I'd have loved him to stay as we are a few additions (looking unlikely atm) from a top young side but our side isn't solely reliant on Stones nor was it Lescott Rooney Arteta and so on we'll just have to hope the money is handed to Martinez and put to good use (wishful thinking)

Myself. Yeah they have it.

Someone posted a few days back that it'd just arrived IIRC.