Rumoured John Stones

[Jase 43,479]

Exclusive: Everton's John Stones wanted Chelsea move to happen months ago

Sunday Express Sport can reveal that the England player, aware of growing interest from Premier League sides in the top four, informed manager Roberto Martinez that he wanted to further his career elsewhere if the opportunity arose.

*click on link and see it's Daily Express*

[Jase 43,479]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11764394/Chelsea-transfer-news-Jose-Mourinho-prepares-26-million-second-bid-for-Everton-defender-John-Stones.html

Another one of those 'Chelsea prepare to make new bid in next 48 hours' stories...

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

Mail Mirror and telegraph all running it. So either a copy and paste job, or theyve been briefed out in USA

[iseah100 5,612]

Just offer £33m and call it a day. Jeez.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

26 will get rejected. I'd imagine our final bid will be 30-32

[Pizy 17,860]

Wish we would stop with the low ball offers. If it's 26m you know it'll be swiftly rejected and only serve to piss Everton off even more.

If they're then resigned to losing him they'll go to United and City and offer him there just to get back at us.

[Amin Sarmadi 24]

Everton manager Roberto Martinez declined to answer questions about the future of defender John Stones following the club's 3-1 win over Hearts in a pre-season friendly on Sunday.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11671/9925854/roberto-martinez-tight-lipped-on-john-stones-everton-future

[Jase 43,479]

Mail Mirror and telegraph all running it. So either a copy and paste job, or theyve been briefed out in USA

But they reported the same thing last week - 26m bid in next 48 hours or something along those lines.

[LAM09 6,555]

We're going to increase our bid in the next few days according to reports. As expected.

[termninja 5,290]

Damn but I never liked Roberto Martinez, such an annoying twat.

[Fulham Broadway 16,411]

i guessed its English media, the question is who exactly...

If you google John Stones not for sale you'll find many English media outlets running the story. I hope this is satisfactory.

[Unionjack 7,531]

Is there an news media site that its actually worth posting a link for?

[OneMoSalah 8,616]

£24M/£26M bid apparently been made, well thats going round on twitter anyway even BBC is running it in their gossip bit but its all just gossip and rumors. Not sure what I make of that, for that money we could buy Pedro or someone at a certain standard to play in the middle of the park.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

If this is true think we will get him before the end of the window. Meh 34m is a bit overpriced but guess since we are signing no one else and have lot of money spare for some reason might as well do it on Stones this window.

[scargo 75]

We can't buy him. Everton don't release him in this summer.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

We can't buy him. Everton don't release him in this summer.

On the contrary, our financial position means we can sign, arguably, any player on the planet. We're just choosing to be prudent.

[Special Juan 27,104]

The next bid plus peer pressure from Stones, and Everton will be in a corner they don't like being in.

[scargo 75]

On the contrary, our financial position means we can sign, arguably, any player on the planet. We're just choosing to be prudent.

Finance of Everton is stable. Also If Everton releases Stones,They only have 1 CB. But It seems that They not find replacement for Stones.