Legacy Piece or Setting a Standard?
Manchester City have released a documentary on John Stones, and they've made it free-to-air. The timing, with the defender heading for the exit this summer, feels deliberate.
The club are calling it The John Stones Story, and making it accessible to everyone rather than locking it behind a paywall suggests they want the wider football world to see what he brought to this side.
Stones leaves having redefined what a centre-half looks like at this club. For Enzo Maresca, though, this isn't just a nostalgia exercise — it's a statement of intent about the defensive standards expected going forward.
Whether the next man through the door can live up to it is another matter entirely.