Overview
- Junior Tchamadeu has flown back to England for knee scans after an AFCON injury, with the severity yet to be determined.
- Mark Robins says Stoke must add “one or two” players in January, balancing profit-and-sustainability limits and a 25-man squad cap.
- Southampton’s Gavin Bazunu has been reported in talks over a loan to Stoke with a claimed £8m option to buy, a move not yet confirmed.
- Tommy Simkin, recalled from Leyton Orient after Viktor Johansson’s shoulder surgery, has kept three consecutive clean sheets.
- Lamine Cisse’s 88th-minute winner put Stoke into the FA Cup fourth round, bringing £121,500 in prize money and likely shifting the Charlton away game to a midweek slot.