England international defender John Stones would be forced to stay at Everton for a different season at the least, due to the fact the club are decided to hold on to their prized property.
The Mirror reports that incoming Everton boss Ronald Koeman accepts that the club may just must promote prime player Romelu Lukaku, but the Dutchman is decided to keep each Stones and Ross Barkley on board at Goodison regardless of heavy interest from elsewhere.
Even as speculation over Barkley's future has died down of late, Manchester city, Manchester United, Chelsea and Barcelona have all been linked with a summer time swoop for 22-12 months-historical Stones.
Everton turned down a sequence of presents from Chelsea final summer for the player, and while it had been expected he'd leave this time round, Everton have converted their stance.
Rather, they're hopeful that the brand new funding within the club and change in administration will persuade both gamers to put pen to paper on new contracts, enabling the Toffees to use the 2 as players to construct their workforce round in the long term.
Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola are stated to be focused on bringing Stones to Manchester, however the former is ready to entire a deal to signal Villarreal defender Eric Bailly in the coming days - making United's need for a new centre 1/2 a ways less pressing.
Everton are hopeful Stones will sit down to talk with Koeman once he returns from worldwide duty with England, and suppose they have the means to preserve him on the membership considering of the new investment from Farhad Moshiri.