Is it just me, or did John Stones make four back-to-back starts towards the tail end of last season just for the sake it?
I certainly do. The damage to our Premier League campaign was already done after we handed Liverpool the title. But with the English defender finding himself left out for the majority of the campaign in favour of Eric Garcia, even Fernandinho and Rodri were a defensive pairing against Everton during the second half of the season.
Despite having appeared for England on 39 different occasions, this doesn’t seem to have steered Pep Guardiola’s opinion on him.