Chelsea are reportedly ready to make a move for defender John Stones and offer the Manchester City man at shot at redemption at the table of the elite in the Premier League.
The Blues are said to be hopeful of securing Stones' signature in a cut price deal, after the England international fell further down the City pecking order following the recent £41million signing of Nathan Ake.
Chelsea will approach City with an opening gambit of £20m for the out-of-favour Stones, according to the Mirror, which is less than half what City paid for the 26-year-old in 2016.
It is reported that City are willing to take a loss on Stones in order to free up the defence for fresh personnel, though it is unknown how much they are willing to subtract from the £47m they paid to Everton to get their man.
Lampard has made it a priority to overhaul Chelsea's leaking defence this summer, as he looks to make serious investment in the transfer market.
The Chelsea legend turned manager is reported to be keen to get the best out of Stones, who he played alongside during his England days.
Knowing he will not be first choice at the Etihad next season Stones is expected to push for an exit from City, with his ambitions to start in central defence for Gareth Southgate's Three Lions during next year's delayed European Championships.
Chelsea have already secured the high profile signings of Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner for the coming season, though Lampard has showed no signs of slowing up with his spending spree.
The west London club remain heavily linked with a move for Bayer Leverkusen's wonderkid Kai Havertz, while West Ham's defensive midfield Declan Rice is firmly on the radar.
The Blues saw their 2019/20 season officially come to an end on Saturday evening, after having their Champions League exit confirmed at the hands of Bayern Munich.
Chelsea were trailing 3-0 from the first leg against the Bavarian side, though were made to wait to have their fate sealed due to the postponement caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Bayern pulled off a 4-1 victory over Lampard's men, taking a 7-2 aggregate victory and setting up a quarter-final clash against Barcelona, to be played in Portugal.
saacdklnps
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manger lost faith we city fans are with u stones we need to change pep out
neeboruz
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I foresee Chelsea sack Lampard next season
I foresee you blind before next season...!
saebmprz
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with this kind of bad defense that CFC is having now, It would have been good if Chelsea had not even sell David Luiz. Stones and Rice should be bought immediately before preseason so they can get well into the team. Lampard needs alot of defense enforcement or face exit next season
saebmprz
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I foresee Chelsea sack Lampard next season
yatelmrtuz
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Chelsea
Ab_yormight
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Read my message please before you comment Chelsea want to go for stone now while they look like a fool till Man city steal Ake from Bournemouth for 41m Chelsea can resign ake for 20m because of the buyback clause on his contract
At least punctuate your sentence for better understanding
MightyA
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AF is smoking 🚬 weed with Sarri lately 7-1 not 7-2 Aggregate score line are you trying to give Chelsea fans some hope of not thinking too much hun 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Sorry man next season is around the corner 2020/2021 fixtures will be out soon 😂😂
pincdmprt
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gud signing
Hoaclnrz
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u kidding me stone i better continue with zouma than have stone
you not serious zouma is not a defender at all will be trophy less if zouma is our defender
Hoaclnrz
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Stones is a better option than Zouma, but 20m is too cheap. He's 26 not 32yo and English, so 35m sounds like a better price
I believe stones will be better than all defenders at Chelsea he will gain confidence next Terry/Cahill
Rapbilpruy
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Stone is good and will develop further if played regularly as he's better than all our central defenders
Vuscdlo
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I think that R.James could be a great wing defence he is young skillful and fast and could score goal .
Pekadekt
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You didn’t see Ake signed for Man City already?
Read my message please before you comment Chelsea want to go for stone now while they look like a fool till Man city steal Ake from Bournemouth for 41m Chelsea can resign ake for 20m because of the buyback clause on his contract
pibdeopz
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Lampard shoukd buy stone he is tall Chelsea need more of tall defenders too many shot players in the blues team that's y they concede up ball like crazy and too many goals.
vupbdkpz
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I don't favour stones he is not good for Chelsea
Babckpt
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haha..35 for stones...i think u dropped ur brain somewhere my fren..
They paid 35 millions for Danny Drink Water 🤭
Motadilprt
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not 7-2 but 7-1
Chitwambi
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Stones is not the kind of player that can strength our defence. it's better we even work on the crop we have in defence than getting Stones. I feel we need a DM more than a CB coz there is too much space between defence and midfielders. Our focus should be us buying players to break any defence. how many times did we have so many possessions but still lost matches? Lampard needs to look at this issue. Get that boy Said he is good and a cheaper alternative to replace willian. Rice to balance our mid and defence. Havertz and Coutinho for our CAM. if singing becames an issue then we can get loan deals for Coman or Dembele, Jovic or Icardi, Umtiti or Rugani, Reguilon, and Coutinho.
Amalam
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fubmouy
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Period!!!
tueailnoy
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cristensen is better than stones we don't want please
tueailnoy
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crestensen is better than stones we don't want please
fizzymania77
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nice 💯💪
Ab_yormight
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Why Chelsea and Lampard going for stone for 20million when we can resign ake for 20million before man city did I prefer ake than stone. This is Chelsea, not the England squad.
You didn’t see Ake signed for Man City already?
cfc4L
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Defense is still terrible
Denadeopt
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Hidcdlmnos
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AF is smoking 🚬 weed with Sarri lately 7-1 not 7-2 Aggregate score line are you trying to give Chelsea fans some hope of not thinking too much hun 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
now arsenal can make mouth for Chelsea it is because you win FA no worry if I Cash you nest season I will spell your name
Moyairuz
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even city he can not play well how come Chelsea better do Good signing or else we'll stop supporting you
Moyairuz
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I think we need a coach who has technical skills and eyes so that he can bring in good n quality players not stones n and not that your lazy defenders
Toncdikoy
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arsenal don't talk to much just wait for Europa league with your weak team like swasea and Watford you are the same level
Pekadekt
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Ake was 45m not 20m
Chelsea can resign him for £20million because it has buyback in his contract. In case you don't know
TryNuell
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God forbid as long as he's English he's scum we dont want
Bobsin
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Why Chelsea and Lampard going for stone for 20million when we can resign ake for 20million before man city did I prefer ake than stone. This is Chelsea, not the England squad.
Ake was 45m not 20m
tosdeikmrt
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MightyA
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AF is smoking 🚬 weed with Sarri lately 7-1 not 7-2 Aggregate score line are you trying to give Chelsea fans some hope of not thinking too much hun 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Pekadekt
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Why Chelsea and Lampard going for stone for 20million when we can resign ake for 20million before man city did I prefer ake than stone. This is Chelsea, not the England squad.
stanny1
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Not because they’re English but because they’re always overrated and Lampard is pushing so much to sign only English players For instance,Nathan Ake who has just signed for Manchester city was a Chelsea player and we sold him to Bournemouth and we had a buy back clause on him,why didn’t Lampard signed him?or do you think that gourdiola is a stupid coach who does not want stones again in his team? He knows that stones is not performing well and he has to sign a replacement in Nathan Ake and Chelsea are the first club that has upper hand in his transfer but Lampard didn’t see him apart from the 2 new signings Chelsea has made and kai Hertz the rest almost all the players link to us now are all England players
havertz deal was being made before mancity signed ake nobody sef knew it was so quiet ...
Kamsy1993
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besides henderson is doing well rice is doing well stones may not be doing well but can shine in chelsea just like salah wasn't well at chelsea then went to liverpool and became a star i don't know why you guys just love to rate english players down because they are english
Not because they’re English but because they’re always overrated and Lampard is pushing so much to sign only English players For instance,Nathan Ake who has just signed for Manchester city was a Chelsea player and we sold him to Bournemouth and we had a buy back clause on him,why didn’t Lampard signed him?or do you think that gourdiola is a stupid coach who does not want stones again in his team? He knows that stones is not performing well and he has to sign a replacement in Nathan Ake and Chelsea are the first club that has upper hand in his transfer but Lampard didn’t see him apart from the 2 new signings Chelsea has made and kai Hertz the rest almost all the players link to us now are all England players
akakaka7
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oblak transfer can only be in your dreams
are you blind did he say oblak
Votacdno
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It's 7-5 not 7-2 on aggregate. Feel free to correct that mistake.[Sadtolook][Sadtolook]
Misbdeily
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Better sign Alex Telles from Porto
oblak transfer can only be in your dreams
Cathz
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😘
Cathz
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Better sign Alex Telles from Porto
tiebiluy
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Lol this better be a joke, what’s the difference between stones and Christensen. Better we stick with the one we have than go through the stress of getting used to another mediocre player
yeah bro they're the same, they are dull in defending
tiebiluy
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Another Christensen, there is no difference between Stones and Christensen they're too dull in defending
AnkitDhakal
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indians and english lol 🤣
I'm not indian brother....
CollinsJunior
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Lampard and England players Please Chelsea board should not give Lampard the room of wanting only England players Delan Rice,Ben chillwell and now stones Sack Lampard now he’ll destroy this Chelsea more
shut up Werner n Ziyech are English ba
Don-imolite
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Stones is far far better than all our current CB and at £20m it might appears to be a gamble, but believe me it's gonna be a win. We're getting a bargain in him💯
weddelmnoy
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there are far better central defenders in the market valued at less than 20m. Why can't Chelsea look else where?
stanny1
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Lampard had the opportunity to sign Opamecano for £45M from RB prior to his contract extension, but he choose not to, Now David Alaba is available for around £40M with only a year left on his contract but he's not willing to a move because he's not an English footballer the same goes with Ake who we had a £40M buy back clause in his contract but he refuses to exercise the clause. But he wants to sign error prone John Stone, who is way down in Pep picking order with even Eric Garcia and misshift Fernandinho all ahead of him. Where really are we heading to?
go and check about upmaecano lepizig aren't selling him and alaba has already said he isn't willing to come to epl this just shows that you know nothing about transfer news ...then talking about stones not being good at mancity remember that kdb was once not good at chelsea so it isn't a bad idea to get someone 20m and he then turns to vvd ...manu bought maguire for 80m where is he now but we have a chance of stones 20m