Alex Roda

Central Defender - Stoke City
14 Aug 2029
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157 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets30 Jul 2029

Stoke City make their move for Andy Irving

$2.5M on the table at Wolverhampton. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Boardroom30 Jul 2029

Stoke City go back to the board over Keanan Bennetts

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $411.7K — a club that wants Keanan Bennetts enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets30 Jul 2029

The paperwork begins on Enock Agyei

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Stoke City have done the hard part with Burnley, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad30 Jul 2029

A falling-out at Stoke City

Jorrel Hato and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets30 Jul 2029

Stoke City bid $390.0K for Keanan Bennetts

The offer went to Chesterfield this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad30 Jul 2029

Nathan Lowe 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.

Transfer targets30 Jul 2029

Plymouth Argyle tell Stoke City: Kornel Miściur is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market30 Jul 2029

Zyan Blake attracts admirers

The name of Zyan Blake has come up in conversations Stoke City were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market30 Jul 2029

No place for Luca Bombino in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Luca Bombino has his answer from Stoke City; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

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113 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad25 Sep 2028

The knee: Simon Moore out for 55 days

55 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Stoke City lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market25 Sep 2028

Sorba Thomas asks to leave Stoke City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market25 Sep 2028

Rhys Healey has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stoke City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market25 Sep 2028

Nathan Lowe wants more than Stoke City are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad25 Sep 2028

A row about effort at Stoke City

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorrel Hato was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout25 Sep 2028

Marcus Edwards gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match23 Sep 2028

Stoke City come up short against Norwich City

Norwich City left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Nathan Lowe makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Words exchanged at Stoke City

Jeriel Dorsett and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief