The Stoke City Courier
Market3 Oct 2033
Jeon Jin-Woo 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.
Market3 Oct 2033
Illan Wood is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stoke City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 Oct 2033
Words exchanged at Stoke City
Lorenzo Palmisani 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.
Match1 Oct 2033
Bailey Cadamarteri the difference as Stoke City beat Huddersfield Town
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bailey Cadamarteri. 2‑0 against Huddersfield Town, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Match1 Oct 2033
Stoke City make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad3 Oct 2033
Christ Tapé 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.
Player ratings3 Oct 2033
Timeo Whisker runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout3 Oct 2033
No hiding place for Emmanuel Dzigbah
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emmanuel Dzigbah, and the manager let it.
Squad3 Oct 2033
Stoke City count the cost of losing Peter Mitchell
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Franco González
- The dugout Interim Coach: “That is the standard”
- Market Talks stall between Stoke City and Yegor Prutsev