Stoke City are not ruling out bringing in a free agent as they navigate an avalanche of injuries.
Alex Neil could be heading to promotion favourites Leicester without 10 players this weekend, including five defenders, although the manager has been typically coy at his pre-match press conference. Ben Wilmot and Ki-Jana Hoever limped out of Stoke’s mid-week clash with Southampton, joining Lynden Gooch, Michael Rose and Enda Stevens in the treatment room.
Gooch and Rose have been nursing minor hamstring and groin injuries respectively and it remains to be seen if this match is too soon while left-back Stevens has been out since picking up a calf injury on Republic of Ireland duty in the last international break.
Under-21s defenders Luke Badley-Morgan and Ian Kamga are also injured, as are centre-back prospects Matty Baker and David Okagbue, who are out on loan at Newport County and Walsall respectively and cannot be recalled outside transfer windows anyway.
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