John Stones will leave Manchester City as a free agent this summer, with Juventus in advanced talks over a two-year contract, Transfermarkt reported on Monday.T2 - Transfermarkt
The 31-year-old England centre-back’s deal at the Etihad expires on 30 June and will not be renewed, ending a ten-year stay that began with a £47.5m move from Everton in 2016. Juventus’s offer is structured as a two-year contract with an option for a third, with no fee owed to City.T2 - Transfermarkt Personal terms are not yet finalised, and wage figures have not been reported.
Transfermarkt led the story on Monday morning, citing multiple sources on both the player’s confirmed departure and the Juventus approach. No Tier-1 corroboration from Fabrizio Romano or David Ornstein has followed at the time of writing. Sky Italia and Gazzetta dello Sport had previously linked Juventus with a centre-back addition for the summer window, with sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli targeting a free or low-cost senior option to partner Federico Gatti.
Stones leaves City having won six Premier League titles, the 2022/23 Champions League, an FA Cup and four League Cups, a haul matched by only a handful of players in the Pep Guardiola era. His role evolved from orthodox centre-back to the inverted defender-midfielder hybrid that defined City’s 2022/23 treble season.
Persistent muscular and hamstring problems since the autumn of 2024 have limited his appearances, and he has started only a fraction of City’s Premier League fixtures in the current campaign. Guardiola has publicly acknowledged that Stones’s personal terms have been settled in principle with another club, without naming the destination.T2 - Transfermarkt
City have not issued a statement on the departure. The club are expected to confirm Stones’s exit as part of their end-of-season retained list, due in the week after the Premier League season concludes.
Open threads: Tier-1 confirmation of the Juventus link from Romano or Gianluca Di Marzio; medical scheduling; whether Bayern Munich, previously credited with interest, re-enter the conversation before personal terms are signed in Turin.
