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One winner and one loser as Tom Ince looks set for Stoke City move
Huddersfield Town winger Tom Ince is seemingly set to 🥃swap the Premier League for the Championship and pen terms with Stoke City, who were relegated to the second tier last season, according to
The son🌼 of former Manchester United legend, ꦺPaul, played 33 games in the top flight for the Terriers last season but only found the net twice in a campaign where he struggled to find his prolific best.
It was current City boss Gary Rowett who was forced to offload the flying winger from Derby Counཧty last summer and Ince’s arrival at the Bet 365 Stadium𓂃 sees the pair link-up once again.
The 26-year-old is clearly rated very highl꧙y by Rowett and he represents a pretty solid replacement for the recently departed Xherdan Shaqiri who has recently joined Liverpool for a fee in the region of .
With Stoke looking to challenge for automatic promot꧟ion and an instant return to the Premier League, boss Rowett is very keen to ensure that he has the very best squad at his disposal and Ince will surely be a hit in a league that he has previously been a sensation in.
Here at The Boot Room we took ꦫa look at one winner an🐓d one loser in Tom Ince’s pending switch to Stoke City.
Winner – Gary Rowett
This deal offers a firm indication that the Stoke City boss didn’t really want to sell Ince last summer when he🗹 was in charge of Derby County and it shows that he is a big fan of the winger’s qualities.
After failing in the play-offs with the Rams last season, the highly-rated young boss will be desperately keen to st🌠art proving his worth as a manager and given the tools at his disposal at the Potters, promotion simply has to be the aim from 2018/19 for Rowett.
Having sold such an influenti🧜al player in Shaqiri it was vital that the Stoke boss went and found a solid replacement. As far as Championship wingers go, they don’t come much better than Tom Ince.
Loser – Tom Ince
It has to be said that the playeꦛr himself will be mightily disappointed to be dropping o🍌ut of the Premier League following just one season at Huddersfield Town.
The 26-year-old will💧 feel that his performances warranted a prolonged stay in West Yorkshire but boss David Wagner clearly shares a different tact and is happy to cash in on the player.
Ince must now get his head down ♓and concentrate on playing football.
His ultima🎀te motivation will be to show Wagner what he is missing out on and hope to return to the top flight by helping his new club to promotion from the Championship.