Bet365 Stadium Transfer News After Stoke City’s intensely busy summer break
Stoke City are set to enter the free agency market to complete their summer transfer business after running out of time.
space to fill their stable defensive center.
Alex Neil signed 18 new contracts in a frantic transfer window, including three on the last day, but the pursuit of a centre-back has failed to cross the finish line.
There was interest in youngster Bashir Humphreys from Chelsea and Ben Davies from Rangers, but the player went to Swansea and the latter stayed.
But there are still a number of attractive options out of contract and it is understandable that Stoke are close to acquiring an experienced defender.
Stoke attempted to secure deals for Lynden Gooch, Celtic winger Sead Haksabanovic and Colchester Junior defender Tchamadeu before 11pm on Friday and Gooch made his debut on the bench in the defeat.
disappointing at home to Preston on Saturday.
Bae Junho also made his debut as a substitute while Nikola Jojic had his opening minutes of the tournament and Wouter Burger and Mehdi Leris had their first league games.
The starting line-up and squad will start to settle as Stoke have endured a frantic first month of the season with seven games and steady transfer activity.
Neil, who is currently preparing to take a two-week international break, said:
“It was a baptism of fire, wasn’t it?
I think when we have (Andre) Vidigal and (Ryan) Mmaee, we have a bit of continuity with the players that have played so far, but when they drop out, there will be a lot of disturbance.
“What’s going to happen over the next couple of games is that we’re going to find out where everyone is and who we think will be the team that will play regularly and the others that will fight to get into the team.
This will become more apparent over the course of several weeks.
Vidigal and Mmaee are still in doubt about the opening goal after breaking away at another of Neil’s former clubs, Norwich.
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