STOKE CITY’S 35 SUMMER TRANSFER DEALS IN FULL CHANGING OF THE GUARD

So that’s that: 35 transfers deals of various descriptions and one managerial change later, the summer window has closed for Stoke City. Alex Neil made his first signing for the club on deadline day when he brought in Dujon Sterling on a season-long loan deal from Chelsea, which turned out to be the 10th new arrival of a busy couple of months.

The recruitment programme started with a coaches’ gathering hosted by Michael O’Neill at the end of last season when it was hoped that Harry Souttar and Nick Powell would be fit for Day One but in the end, injuries – and more injuries to key men – have shaped the plans of both O’Neill and his successor. O’Neill wanted to re-shape the forward line, which has been ticked off with the arrivals of Liam Delap and Dwight Gayle to add to top scorer Jacob Brown and a hopefully rejuvenated Tyrese Campbell.

STOKE CITY SUMMER 2022 TRANSFER BUSINESS

Incoming

Aden Flint (free, Cardiff)

Josh Laurent (free, Reading)

Dwight Gayle (undisclosed, Newcastle)

Liam McCarron (undisclosed, Leeds)

Harry Clarke (loan, Arsenal)

Gavin Kilkenny (loan, Bournemouth)

Will Smallbone (loan, Southampton)

Liam Delap (loan, Manchester City)

Tariqe Fosu (loan, Brentford)

Dujon Sterling (loan, Chelsea)

 

Outgoing

James Chester (released, Derby)

Tommy Smith (released, Middlesbrough)

Joe Allen (released, Swansea)

Steven Fletcher (released, Dundee United)

Tom Ince (released, Reading)

Benik Afobe (undisclosed, Millwall)

Alfie Doughty (undisclosed, Luton)

Adam Porter (released, Salford City)

Christian Norton (released)

Ethon Varian (undisclosed, Bohemian)

Will Forrester (undisclosed, Port Vale)

Mario Vrancic (loan, HNK Rijeka)

Tashan Oakley-Boothe (loan, Lincoln)

Doug Taylor (loan, Walsall)

Will Goodwin (loan, Torquay)

Tommy Simkin (loan, AFC Fylde)

Lewis Macari (loan extended, Dundalk)

Liam McCarron (loan, Port Vale)

Tom Edwards (loan, Barnsley)

Romaine Sawyers, Abdallah Sima, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Jaden Philogene-Bidace, Josh Maja, Liam Moore (loanees returned to parent clubs)