With their most recent transfer window, Stoke City demonstrated that they have far superior talent these days
Stoke City was relegated from the Premier League as a result of its previous poor hiring decisions, which included the purchase of Gianelli Imbula.
Now that manager Alex Neil has taken a more calculated approach to transfers, Stoke City is assembling a team of young players who are eager and full of potential.
Stoke City now has a strong foundation to build upon thanks to the recent additions of Junior Tchamadeu, Wouter Burger, Andre Vidigal, and Mehdi Leris. Supporters can anticipate an exciting road ahead.
Stoke City appears to have learned from their previous transfer window missteps as they want to construct a future that will see them re-enter the Premier League.
They were demoted back to the Championship five years ago, and a major contributing factor to that was inadequate hiring.
They made a lot of bad financial decisions, and Gianelli Imbula’s si
gning served as a metaphor for Stoke’s problems.
Naturally, this finally caught up with them, and that concerning tendency continued when they initially fell, but it now seems like Alex Neil is taking a more rational approach.
To what extent was Gianelli Imbula a bad acquisition for Stoke?
On the final day of the winter window in 2016, Mark Hughes—who Bradford City fired this season—signed the DR Congo international for a club-record £18.3 million.
He had a bright beginning to his career at Stoke, but Hughes quickly benched him at the beginning of the following season, and things only got worse for him as he was later sent out on loan in 2017.
Following a season on loan at Toulouse in France, he played for two more seasons in Spain, one with Rayo Vallecano and another with Lecce in Italy.
Following a season on loan at Toulouse in France, he played for two more seasons in Spain, one with Rayo Vallecano and another with Lecce in Italy.
Even though he signed a five-and-a-half-year contract, he only made 28 appearances for the team overall before leaving to play in Russia.
The strongest reminder of why it had all gone wrong was that Imbula was still under contract with the club while they were having trouble in the Championship.
What alterations have occurred at Stoke?
Due to manager Gary Rowett and Nathan Jones’s excessive expenditure on players who performed far too little, it seemed that nothing had changed when they were originally demoted.
That was before Michael O’Neil steadied the ship for a few years, and hope was welcomed this summer with a plethora of fresh additions from many nations.
Despite their erratic beginning, Alex Neil has led them to five straight wins while incorporating new summer additions Andre Vidigal, Wouter Burger, Mehdi Leris, and Junior Tchamadeu into the lineup.
It’s not easy to bring in so many young players from diverse backgrounds, so the idea that Neil will have a hungry group of players to build on after the international break is far more encouraging than throwing money at players who don’t want to play.
Because of this, Stoke has gone a long way. The exciting part for fans is that there is still a long way to go, so the ride should be enjoyable.
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