Stoke City transfer latest as 11pm deadline looms

Stoke City transfer latest as 11pm deadline looms

Stoke City transfer latest as 11pm deadline looms

City remain on alert for 11th hour opportunities in a transfer deadline day when, for once,

they are not the ones setting the pace.

 

Stoke do not have many quiet final days of a transfer window.

Last summer they finished by completing the £100,000 signing of Tatsuki Seko from

Kawasaki Frontale and winning the race to get Tom Cannon on loan from Leicester while letting

Josh Laurent out to join Burnley.

 

On deadline day of the January window in 2024 they signed Million Manhoef and Niall Ennis,

released Dwight Gayle and sent out Emre Tezgel on loan.

In summer 2023 they signed Junior Tchamadeu, Lynden Gooch and Sead Haksabanovic,

sold Josh Tymon and sent out Matt Baker, Lewis Macari and David Okagbue on loan.

This time two years ago they sold Harry Souttar for £15 million to Leicester in the final couple of

hours of business, let D’Margio Wright-Phillips join Northampton on loan and secured extremely

late deals for Ben Pearson and Axel Tuanzebe. We could go on,

as far back as transfer windows have been a thing.

 

This time around, Stoke would still like to be busy – they’ve been trying to find pace to add to the

final third – but they are hamstrung by Financial Fair Play constraints and have senior players set to

return from the treatment room in the next couple of weeks,

naturally filling out what has been a very tight squad during Mark Robins’ first month as manager.

The most important business of the month was winning the chase for Ali Al-Hamadi from Ipswich after losing Cannon while Nathan Lowe has been brought back after an excellent loan at Walsall.

Robins and sporting director Jon Walters would clearly prefer to develop Stoke’s own players like Lowe and Emre Tezgel rather than a loan signing for signing’s sake because there is real hope that players like Lowe and Tezgel, both 19, can be serious players for the club. Tezgel is out of contract in the summer but is on standby to start next weekend in the FA Cup because Lowe and Al-Hamadi are cup-tied and it seems sure he’ll have a chance to impress under Robins.

Things can always change quickly at this stage and there is plenty of business happening up and down the country which can suddenly make a player on Stoke’s long watching list available. The lights will be on at Clayton Wood until 11pm and we’ll be covering everything as it happens here.

There could be business at under-21s level too. There are League Two loan suitors in 19-year-old midfielder Darius Lipsiuc, who was on the first team bench at Hull on Saturday.

Derby County and Blackburn are still being linked with Hibernian winger Elie Youan, who Stoke have moved away from pursuing. Derby are linked with West Brom striker Karlan Grant too.

Middlesbrough have signed Sam Iling-Junior on loan from Aston Villa, Burnley have brought in Marcus Edwards from Sporting Lisbon, Alex Neil has signed former Port Vale loanee Benicio Baker from Brighton for Millwall, Watford have signed Caleb Wiley from Chelsea, Norwich have got Ruairi McConville from Brighton and Cardiff have landed Will Alves from Leicester.

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