{"id":22066,"date":"2026-07-27T18:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=22066"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:59:54","slug":"john-stones-transfer-news-england-international-verbally-agrees-deal-to-join-inter-milan-amid-interest-from-arsenal-and-chelsea-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=22066","title":{"rendered":"John Stones transfer news: England international verbally agrees deal to join Inter Milan amid interest from Arsenal and Chelsea | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>John Stones has verbally agreed to join Inter on a free transfer, according to Sky in Italy. <\/p>\n<p>The England defender&#8217;s representatives are now set to finalise terms with Inter over a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Juventus made contacts with the England defender&#8217;s camp over the weekend. He also has interest from Arsenal and Chelsea in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Inter were aware of the significant interest and worked to close a deal for the 32-year-old.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-site-video sdc-article-widget callfn\" data-account-id=\"6057984924001\" data-amp-iframe-embed=\"\" data-asset-id=\"73330bdc-af82-46d3-b718-54767b6e2877\" data-asset-path=\"\" data-asset-version=\"\" data-autoplay=\"false\" data-auth-config=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/api.condatis.sky\\\/auth\\\/video\\\/token&quot;,&quot;tokenRequired&quot;:true,&quot;fetchMethod&quot;:&quot;url&quot;,&quot;fetchOptions&quot;:{&quot;encoded&quot;:true},&quot;headers&quot;:{&quot;X-SkyGDP-Proposition&quot;:&quot;sportweb&quot;,&quot;X-SkyGDP-Territory&quot;:&quot;GB&quot;,&quot;Authorization&quot;:&quot;OGY5ZDgxZjRhNzYwNGQ3MTljMjFhMDJlOGVmODRhYzA=&quot;}}\" data-caption=\"Watch some of John Stones' best bits in a Manchester City shirt as the defender moves closer to a switch to Italy\" data-clip-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-video\" data-component-name-alias=\"ui-sitewide-video\" data-competition=\"\" data-copy-url-text=\"URL copied to clipboard\" data-fn=\"sdc-site-video\" data-id=\"id_73330bdc-af82-46d3-b718-54767b6e2877\" data-is-live-stream=\"false\" data-lite=\"true\" data-options=\"\" data-originator-id=\"49\" data-originator-handle=\"brightcove-sport-gb\" data-package-name=\"\" data-provider=\"brightcove\" data-player-id=\"DESF5xFjJ\" data-playsinline=\"\" data-sensitive=\"\" data-sdc-id=\"7305021\" data-sdc-video-id=\"73330bdc-af82-46d3-b718-54767b6e2877\" data-sport-category=\"\" data-state=\"loading\" data-token-state=\"none\" data-video-ad-unit=\"videoplayer\" data-video-blacklisted-originator-ids=\"\" data-video-id=\"ref:73330bdc-af82-46d3-b718-54767b6e2877\" data-video-type=\"\" data-auto-pause-on-not-visible=\"\" data-defer-source=\"\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-closed-captions-position=\"\" data-show-closed-captions=\"true\" data-show-pip=\"\" data-show-live-stream-scrubber=\"\" data-autoload=\"\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-video__inner\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-video__content\" data-role=\"bridge-controller\" style=\"padding-bottom: calc(100% \/ ());\">\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>          <span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-role=\"poster\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster\"><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/07\/768x432\/skysports-stones-man-city_7305032.jpg?20260723140544\" alt=\"Stones\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/07\/768x432\/skysports-stones-man-city_7305032.jpg?20260723140544 600w,https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/07\/1600x900\/skysports-stones-man-city_7305032.jpg?20260723140544\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"\/><br \/>\n          <span class=\"sdc-site-video__loader\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-loader\"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <video id=\"id_73330bdc-af82-46d3-b718-54767b6e2877\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" class=\"video-js sdc-site-video__tag\" controls=\"\" playsinline=\"\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-video\"\/>\n        <\/div><figcaption class=\"sdc-site-video__caption ui-media-caption\">\n<p>          <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-role=\"caption-text\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-caption\">Watch some of John Stones&#8217; best bits in a Manchester City shirt as the defender moves closer to a switch to Italy<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Interest remains in Spurs captain Cristian Romero, who is head coach Christian Chivu&#8217;s top defensive target.<\/p>\n<p>However, the cost of a potential deal for Romero is expected to be significant.<\/p>\n<p>There is a potential for Inter to sign Romero and Stones if Benjamin Pavard leaves, but as things stand, it is Stones that the Italian champions are pushing for.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Stones has verbally agreed to join Inter on a free transfer, according to Sky&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}