{"id":149275,"date":"2025-06-01T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149275\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:03:08","slug":"transfer-news-live-man-utd-done-deal-as-wirtz-to-liverpool-close-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149275\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer news LIVE: Man Utd done deal as Wirtz to Liverpool close | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everton want to bring John Stones back to Merseyside nine years after he left to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/manchester-city-fc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The injury prone England international, who just turned 31, has barely played in the last two seasons due to fitness problems.<\/p>\n<p>But according to the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/john-stones-everton-transfer-news-35316809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirror<\/a> the Toffees want to make him a regular starter at their new Bramley-Moore Dock home.<\/p>\n<p>Stones is on a \u00a3250,000-a-week contract at City but regular football would help his chances of playing for England in the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>If he was willing to take a pay cut, he&#8217;d be a key player for Everton with Jarrad Branthwaite potentially departing this summer. City are among his admirers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everton want to bring John Stones back to Merseyside nine years after he left to join Manchester City.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[161,6167,748,6274,393,4884,179,763,98,423,101,11947,25281,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-149275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-arsenal-fc","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chelsea-fc","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-liverpool-fc","16":"tag-manchester-united","17":"tag-manchester-united-fc","18":"tag-premier-league","19":"tag-transfer-news-section","20":"tag-transfer-window","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114607777743583627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}