Paul Pogba, John Stones Bids Eyed in £100m Rumours — Chelsea Transfer News

Everton manager Roberto Martinez has rejected claims that defender John Stones has made a request to leave the club.

“There has been no such situation [of Stones handing in a transfer request]”, said Martinez.

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Instead, the Spanish boss emphasised he will have no worries naming Stones in his team for Sunday’s clash with table-topping Manchester City.

Craig Burley said on the ESPN FC Show on BT Sport 1 on Wednesday morning that Everton defender John Stones should join Manchester United instead of Chelsea. Login using you Facebook, Twitter, Google or LinkedIn accounts and have your say!

“Transfer requests is not an area we need to concentrate on”. Martinez described it as an “outstanding” team display, with Everton solid in defence and midfield as Ross Barkley and Arouna Kone provided support for Romelu Lukaku, who looked unstoppable, scoring two goals.

“They have won two games on the bounce but the mood in our camp is very good and we go into the game really confident”, the 24-year-old added. We should be talking about how well we performed against Southampton. “That is so wrong”.

Now Premier League stalwart Keown is shelling out advises to the youngster to not to move to Chelsea.

It is understood the Funes Mori signing could be completed imminently.

Chelsea have not had the best of starts to the new Premier League season in their title defence, but the addition of Pogba would arguably make them hot favourites once again.

Winger Aiden McGeady is also available having recovered from a hamstring complaint.

Everton: Injured – Steven Pienaar, Darron Gibson, Tony Hibbert, Leighton Baines.