Sorba Thomas

Left Midfielder - Stoke City
23 Jan 2027
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Marked for Sorba Thomas

25 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

An offer of $23.0M for Nathan Collins

Stoke City have gone to Brentford with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market18 Jan 2027

Stoke City say no — this time

The offer from Köln for George Hirst was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market18 Jan 2027

Junior Tchamadeu 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 The request is on a desk at Stoke City, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market18 Jan 2027

Tatsuki Seko moves on

Crewe Alexandra pay $1.9M, 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.

Boardroom18 Jan 2027

Favour Fawunmi has agreed to leave Stoke City for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Market18 Jan 2027

Tommy Simkin moves on

Oxford United pay $920.0K, 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.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

A goal and an assist for Bae Jun-Ho — 7.74

Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.74 beside his name.

Squad18 Jan 2027

A falling-out at Stoke City

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

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Stoke City rebuffed over George Long

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Norwich City have kept their man, and Stoke City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market11 Jan 2027

Terms done: Justin Devenny is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Oldham Athletic waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Stoke City is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match9 Jan 2027

Stoke City leave it late against Bristol City

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 88th, and Bristol City spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Crystal Palace tell Stoke City: Tyrick Mitchell 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.

Market11 Jan 2027

Ben Wilmot hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stoke City can pretend not to have heard.

Market11 Jan 2027

Barrow AFC 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.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

The paperwork begins on Rodrigo Bentancur

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

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Daichi Kamada will not be coming to Stoke City

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Crystal Palace is saying, and nobody at Stoke City is enjoying the guessing.

Match9 Jan 2027

Stoke City get the job done against Bristol City

A 1‑0 win over Bristol City, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad11 Jan 2027

A falling-out at Stoke City

Bae Jun-Ho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

16 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Stoke City

Junior Tchamadeu 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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

A promise honoured for Michael Svoboda

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Stoke City told Michael Svoboda something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Million Manhoef 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.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Sorba Thomas asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

A door opens for Tomáš Rigo

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad16 Nov 2026

A wage question at Stoke City

Milan Smit has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

Market16 Nov 2026

Stoke City put Tatsuki Seko up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Tatsuki Seko may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Squad16 Nov 2026

The penny has dropped for Joe Buršík

He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Stoke City the difference is visible from the back of the stand.

Looking ahead16 Nov 2026

Looking ahead: West Bromwich Albion at home

A side in position 15 visits next. The result will not make anybody’s season and it could quietly break the shape of one, which is why the manager has been watching the video since Sunday.

In brief