Stones nominated for Golden Boy award

Lyndon Lloyd , 28 October, 18comments | Jump to most recent

Everton's John Stones has been nominated for the 2014 European Golden Boy award.

The 20 year-old is joined by nine other candidates from the Premier League and 30 other young stars from the Continent, including former Blues Eric Dier and Gerard Deulofeu, for the title which is decided by a panel of football journalists including representatives from Bild, De Telegraaf, l'Equipe, Marca and The Times.

Past holders of the accolade, the winners of which this year will be announced in December, include Lionel Messi, Wayne Rooney, Sergio Aguero, Cesc Fabregas and Mario Goetze.

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Steve Brown
1 Posted 28/10/2014 at 15:46:57

Future England captain.

Oscar Huglin
2 Posted 28/10/2014 at 15:48:25

No Barkley?

Andrew Ellams
3 Posted 28/10/2014 at 16:22:26

As long as he is still at Everton, that is OK by me.

Liam Reilly
4 Posted 28/10/2014 at 16:28:08

Hopefully when he's still playing for the Blues Steve.

Did Rooney win this playing for us or Man Utd?

Mike Childs
5 Posted 28/10/2014 at 17:34:33

Good luck to him. Hopefully the TV money keeps increasing and we can pay them a decent wage so they do stay together.

Gerry Quinn
6 Posted 28/10/2014 at 18:03:09

Everton in 2004, Liam.

Jamie Barlow
7 Posted 28/10/2014 at 18:17:59

The list of names to have won this is fantastic.

Van der Vaart
Rooney
Messi
Fabregas
Aguero
Pato
Gotze
Isco
Pogba
John Stones would look great with those lot.

I missed out a couple of duds obviously. There's always a couple of shite thrown in. Anderson and Balotelli.

Linda Morrison
8 Posted 28/10/2014 at 19:45:33

You'll see... we will keep all our young players and go on to win the league.

There was a lovely interview with Roberto in the Guardian. He stated that sometimes going to a so-called bigger club isn't the answer and mentioned M Owen leaving Liverpool, and then Liverpool winning the Champions Leagye next season!

Paul Hewitt
9 Posted 28/10/2014 at 19:54:29

Is that a joke, Linda @8?

Sam Hoare
10 Posted 28/10/2014 at 19:54:11

Some good players on that list this year. Wouldn't mind seeing a few coming to Everton. Maybe Rabiot from PSG or Milik from Ajax or Praet from Anderlecht could be affordable ones.

I reckon Marquinhos must be one of the favourites to win. Englands best shot is dare I say it the RS Sterling...though happily their poor start should rule him out.

Darren Hind
11 Posted 28/10/2014 at 20:14:00

Blue tinted glasses off, hand on heart.

I wouldnt swap our boy for any of the other contenders

Kieran Riding
12 Posted 28/10/2014 at 20:18:57

He's shite and injury prone. Nothing to see here, Europe's big guns.

Kieran Riding
13 Posted 28/10/2014 at 20:23:44

So is Ross Barkley to save you scouting him.

Sue Brown
14 Posted 28/10/2014 at 20:18:55

Totally agree with you there, Darren!

Good luck, John, boy!

Mike Childs
15 Posted 28/10/2014 at 20:46:36

I went to another site to see that list. They allowed people to vote and that kid Milik from Ajax was running away with the vote.

James Stewart
16 Posted 28/10/2014 at 20:50:10

Stones is pure class. He will be some player one day.

Pat Finegan
17 Posted 28/10/2014 at 21:44:12

To add to what Kieran said, that Hibbert fella is a world beater. He would be a bargain at 㿅mil.

Phil Walling
18 Posted 30/10/2014 at 09:57:43

Roberto says on SSN this morning, "John is making good progress but we are very comfortable with the centre-half position. Jagielka, Distin, Alcaraz. And Tyias Browning has shown he can play in this position. We shall not be looking to strengthen this in January."

So there you have it.

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