In the summer, Stoke City bought out Bruno Martins Indy, borrowed from Chelsea Kurt Zuma and Hes - from PSG, and also signed Erik-Maxima Chupo-Motinga. On the other hand, the "potters" lost Marco Arnautovic, Jonathan Walters, Phil Bardsley, Glenn Whelan and Mark Munesu.

"We hope to involve all summer beginners. Someone will come out in the base, someone will stay on the bench.

Stoke always hopes to become stronger after the transfer window, and of all the players who left the team, only 1 was unconditionally the main. We have replaced them with those who are potentially able to always come out at the base, "Hughes cites Stoke City official website.

"I believe that we have become much stronger due to the work in the transfer market, but before closing the transfer window we will try to increase even more".

Today (August 19) Stoke will play against Arsenal. The beginning is at 19:30 Kyiv time.