The Stoke City Courier
Market17 Aug 2026
Marcus Edwards is a Stoke City player
The fee is $24.9M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Burnley drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Stoke City win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Coventry City will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Stoke City rebuffed over Sam Tickle
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wigan Athletic have kept their man, and Stoke City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Stoke City go back to the board over Willy Boly
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $88.1K — a club that wants Willy Boly enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Stoke City walk away from Willy Boly
$80.0K was the most the club would pay and Nottingham Forest were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Stoke City
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
$24.9M for Marcus Edwards, and Stoke City supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Marcus Edwards from Burnley for $24.9M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
One of their own: Bae Jun-Ho
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Daniel Bailey joins the Stoke City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Bailey is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Stoke City promote John Ross from within
- Market Stoke City promote Anthony Graham from within
- Match Stoke City find a way past Coventry City