The newspaper "Daily Mail" stands out this Friday that the defender of the Everton John Stones would have chosen to sign by the Manchester City in place of the FC Barcelona. Thus, they ensure, it would have refused the offer done by the Barcelona team the past week. The Catalans would have offered him an agreement of 5,5 millones of euros by season.
Something that to Stones, according to the quoted half, would not have finish him to like. Besides, the player represented by Paul Martin would be expecting the call of a Manchester City that, instead, is about to to close the signing of the central of the Athletic Club of Bilbao Aymeric Laporte. The British will spend 50 "kilos" in the French defender, what puts in his clause of rescission.
A figure that perhaps could do that the interest of the City in Stones diminish when centring his budget for signings in reinforcing other zones of the field. Besides, andl Barça will not expect to the British and will follow with the two options that has on the table as they are Marquinhos and the one of Samuel Umtiti, that would arrive like defender for the future.
By his part, to Stones remains him an agreement in force with the Everton until 30 June 2019. His signing could happen to the history like one of the most expensive in the history of the football of the islands if there is some willing club in paying the 80 or 90 million euros that the entity of Liverpool asks by his services.