Stones, who has 87 England caps, was a key figure in City’s successful era, winning the Premier League six times, the FA Cup twice and the Champions League in 2023 between 2016 and 2026. In 2025\/26, however, injuries limited him to only 17 appearances under Pep Guardiola.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A place in central defence at Bayern Munich would also be highly unlikely. With Dayot Upamecano, whose contract was recently extended until 2030, and Jonathan Tah, the record champions already have a well-established first-choice pairing.
\nBehind them, however, squad depth is limited: Min-Jae Kim has long been linked with a move away, but no concrete developments have materialised. Hiroki Ito is frequently sidelined due to his injury-prone nature and is therefore not a reliable option. He too is likely to leave Bayern again should a suitable offer come in. The central defence is complemented by the versatile Josip Stanisic, who, although capable of playing in the centre, established himself particularly as a right- and left-back last season.<\/p>\n
Recent reports, including one from Sport1 on Tuesday evening, claim that Stones’ teammate Josko Gvardiol wants to leave Man City this summer and would welcome a move to FCB. According to the outlet, Gvardiol is a “big fan” of the German record champions and has long been on their radar. Unlike a move for Stones, signing Gvardiol would be extremely costly. However, Gvardiol can also operate at left-back, a position that is no longer set in stone at Bayern: Alphonso Davies has struggled for form and fitness since his cruciate ligament injury, raising questions about his long-term role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stones, who has 87 England caps, was a key figure in City’s successful era, winning the Premier League…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":811389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[217,219,329706,329705,216,220,221,62,18066,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-811388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bayern-munich","tag-bundesliga","tag-j-gvardiol","tag-j-stones","tag-manchester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-transfers","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116610595962645357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}