The Stoke City Courier
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Sorba Thomas
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market28 Sep 2026
Viktor Johansson puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stoke City, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Aaron Cresswell
A mark of 7.46, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Lewis Baker dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Squad No hiding place for Tatsuki Seko
- Match Stoke City draw a blank against Queens Park Rangers
- Player ratings The referee tires of Ashley Phillips