\n The 22-year-old striker has impressed in his full first season with National League side York City – having already scored 13 goals and provided five assists in the league in 31 appearances.\n<\/p>\n
\n Stones bagged a brace last week to help secure York the top spot of the National League table with a 3-0 victory at fellow promotion hopefuls Scunthorpe.\n<\/p>\n
\n Alan Nixon reported on Sunday that Reading, Stockport and Oxford all checked on Stones at Morecambe on Saturday – with Luton and Wycombe Wanderers also monitoring the striker after sending scouts to watch him against Scunthorpe.\n<\/p>\n
\n The striker joined York from Wigan Athletic in January 2025 having just returned to the Tics following a loan at Oldham Athletic, in which he scored four goals in six games.\n<\/p>\n
\n He moved to then-Championship side Wigan Athletic in summer 2022, and made his professional debut in the EFL Trophy against Fleetwood Town.\n<\/p>\n
\n He joined the club under the stewardship of Leam Richardson, with Stones playing a single minute under the manager against Fleetwood Town.\n<\/p>\n
\n Stones spent time on loan in Scotland in the second half of the 2022\/23 campaign, gaining more experience at Ross County, before enduring another loan spell at the back end of the year, this time with Oldham.\n<\/p>\n
\n His phase there was cut short due to injury, but in the four games played, he proved his worth with three goals and as many assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 22-year-old striker has impressed in his full first season with National League side York City – having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-126879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}