{"id":10674,"date":"2021-08-10T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=135673"},"modified":"2021-08-10T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:01:35","slug":"john-stones-to-stay-at-man-city-until-2026-after-new-contract-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/john-stones-to-stay-at-man-city-until-2026-after-new-contract-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"John Stones to stay at Man City until 2026 after new contract renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The English centre back has officially signed a new five-year deal to commit his future to Manchester City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official. John Stones has signed a new contract with Manchester City until June 2026, club statement confirms. \ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MCFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MCFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next contract renewal in Man City list: \u00c9derson. \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManCity?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ManCity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cNCVbDmxmA\">pic.twitter.com\/cNCVbDmxmA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1425020907739811840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Englishmen\u2019s previous deal was due at the end of the following season. The new agreement keeps him until the summer of 2026 with the footballing giants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">City director of football Txiki Begiristain had earlier satiated by saying <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJohn has been an important part of our recent success and we believe he can continue to help us achieve our goals, so for him to commit his best years to us is a major boost for the club.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"I feel like it's definitely home and I'm absolutely over the moon\" \ud83d\udcac<\/p>\n<p>John Stones discusses his reasons for, and how he feels about, his contract extension \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>Full interview \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd37 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManCity?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ManCity<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/axa0klD5re\">https:\/\/t.co\/axa0klD5re<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1425023283230035968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Stones who joined City five years ago from Everton secured himself a contract renewal to the City Football Academy following his UEFA EURO 2020 run to the final of the tournament with the Three Lions. He was able to maintain his club form and delivered a very solid performance along with his English teammate and club rival Harry Maguire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old was brought to Manchester City under the management of Per Guardiola in his first season in charge of the club. Stones were put straight into the action against Sunderland for his debut. He played 41 games in his first season scoring 2 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Since then Stones has gone on to make 168 appearances winning three Premier Leagues, two League Cups, one FA Cup and two Community Shields.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe success we\u2019ve had in the last four years has been incredible. To be a part of it has been a dream come true and I just want to continue winning,\u201d said John stones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manchester City centre back has officially signed a new five-year deal to commit his future to Manchester City until 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":33151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1001,2510,220,218,938],"class_list":["post-10674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-english-football","tag-john-stones","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}