Sorba Thomas

Left Midfielder - Stoke City
28 Sep 2026
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Marked for Sorba Thomas

6 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match5 Sep 2026

4 matches without a win for Stoke City

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Stoke City are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Sorba Thomas

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Million Manhoef in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stoke City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Ben Wilmot

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ben Wilmot, and the manager let it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Stoke City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bae Jun-Ho is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match5 Sep 2026

Stoke City and Watford take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Stoke City turn down Sporting Kansas City for Junior Tchamadeu

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Sorba Thomas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sorba Thomas and Stoke City agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Sorba Thomas

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sorba Thomas, and the manager let it.

Market10 Aug 2026

48 months and counting on Junior Tchamadeu

Still no offer on the table, and Junior Tchamadeu’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tomáš Rigo knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stoke City, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

1 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

VfB Stuttgart 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Viktor Johansson wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Stoke City hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Viktor Johansson signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Viktor Johansson and Stoke City agree another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Bosun Lawal in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stoke City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market3 Aug 2026

Triestina watching Nathan Lowe

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Stoke City have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Jesurun Rak-Sakyi 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.

In brief