The Stoke City Courier
Squad17 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Viktor Johansson
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Viktor Johansson has said yes to Everton
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Stoke City have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Stoke City bid $5.7M for Othmane Maamma
The offer went to Watford 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Stoke City walk away from Trey Nyoni
$7.3M was the most the club would pay and Liverpool 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Stoke City rebuffed over Nestory Irankunda
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Watford have kept their man, and Stoke City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Lamine Cissé moves on
Tranmere Rovers pay $4.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market17 Aug 2026
Smorgon come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Stoke City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Stoke City go back to the board over Trey Nyoni
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $7.8M — a club that wants Trey Nyoni enough to be asked twice.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Stoke City
3 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Benjamin Harris joins the Stoke City first team
- Match Coventry City take the points off Stoke City
- Squad Tempers go at Stoke City