Updates from the bet365 Stadium as Stoke City attempts to expand its January transfer schedule
To assist Stoke City score more goals in the second half of the season, Steven Schumacher plans to try to sign one or two extra attackers.
Keeping Daniel Iversen on loan from Leicester until the rest of the season was Schumacher’s first acquisition as Stoke’s head coach on Friday. Iversen made his debut in the team’s 4-2 FA Cup loss to Brighton on Saturday.
Over the next three and a half weeks, Stoke will also be looking to add a left-back and a striker. Schumacher will collaborate with technical director Ricky Martin and head of recruitment Jared Dublin to find the ideal player for his team’s style of play.
“You have to evaluate the composition of your team and identify the areas that require improvement,” Schumacher stated. There’s no denying that we most likely need a few more attackers. We’ve played really good defense as a unit for the most of the season, in my opinion. We have observed that the defenders have performed admirably in the first four games since we arrived, and we have appeared well-organized, but we haven’t had the cutting edge at the top of the pitch.
It’s no secret that we wish to work on strengthening certain areas. In addition to the athletes our recruitment staff has already identified, I will offer my thoughts on the players we have also been observing. Everyone will win if we can make the correct decisions and add guys to the team who will improve us as a unit.
“Finding a forward is not easy, and forwards are expensive, particularly at this level,” he continued. It is imperative that we do due care and admit the appropriate individuals, rather than merely admitting people for the sake of it.
