{"id":45218,"date":"2026-07-31T03:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/john-stones-ex-man-city-defender-joins-inter-milan-on-free-transfer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T03:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:30:24","slug":"john-stones-ex-man-city-defender-joins-inter-milan-on-free-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/john-stones-ex-man-city-defender-joins-inter-milan-on-free-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"John Stones: Ex-Man City defender joins Inter Milan on free transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England defender John Stones has joined Italian champions Inter Milan on a free transfer and signed a two-year contract.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Manchester City<\/a> when his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/clypwjeydnjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">deal expired at the end of June<\/a> after 10 successful years at the Premier League club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stones said he had &#8220;lived all my dreams out&#8221; after helping City win six Premier League titles, the Champions League, two FA Cups, five League Cups, three Community Shields, the Club World Cup and the Uefa Super Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since he became a free agent, the centre-back has attracted interest from clubs across Europe, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a> and Juventus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inter Milan were crowned Serie A champions for the 21st time last season and will start their title defence against newly promoted Monza on Saturday, 22 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Barnsley defender Stones made 295 appearances for City, scoring 19 goals, after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/37020275\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"> joining from Everton for \u00a347.5m<\/a> in 2016. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has won 93 caps and was part of the England squad who finished third at this summer&#8217;s World Cup, starting the quarter-final victory against Norway and 2-1 semi-final defeat by Argentina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp3rklgggn5o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England defender John Stones has joined Italian champions Inter Milan on a free transfer and signed a two-year contract. The 32-year-old left Manchester City when his deal expired at the end of June after 10 successful years at the Premier League club. Stones said he had &#8220;lived all my dreams out&#8221; after helping City win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45220,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45218\/revisions\/45220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}