Only just been selected for England for the first time, never once got picked for any of the youth teams from the U15s up. Which I find a little worrying. Although, it should be said that playing for Bolton won't have helped and the fact that he's won their player of the year and been a mainstay in the team is promising.
I've seen him listed everywere as only 182cm (5'11") but I think he's actually more like 188cm or 6'2". From what I've read about him it seems he's not really an option as a fullback for us. He is rated, by Bolton fans at least, as reasonably quick, good on the ball, a good talker for his age and a good reader of the game. Stones is the guy they say he's a similar kind of defender too, although not quite as cocky. Everton were heavily linked a while back and we're looking at him for around £10m as a replacement!ent for Stones, were he to move on.
