Bae Jun-Ho

Left Midfielder - Stoke City
28 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Bae Jun-Ho

6 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

4 matches without a win for Stoke City

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Stoke City are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sorba Thomas

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Million Manhoef in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stoke City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Ben Wilmot

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ben Wilmot, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Stoke City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bae Jun-Ho is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Stoke City and Watford take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Million Manhoef

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Stoke City say no — this time

The offer from Triestina for Nathan Lowe was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Stoke City

Róbert Boženík was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Stoke City

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

Stoke City come up short against Coventry City

Coventry City left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Stoke City promote George Jackson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. George Jackson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Stoke City promote Christopher Davies from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christopher Davies has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Oliver Morgan joins the Stoke City first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oliver Morgan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Bae Jun-Ho falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

  • Squad The manager has not finished forgetting Lewis Baker's mistake
  • Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Stoke City
  • Squad Tatsuki Seko gets it from the manager