After it was once showed Stoke Town can be enjoying Championship soccer subsequent season, Jack Butland wiped away his tears and slammed the membership’s recruitment coverage.

The England world bemoaned the signings of avid gamers who had no longer put sufficient effort into looking to lend a hand save the Potters.

Paul Lambert isn’t the one supervisor to had been let down like that this season.

The avid gamers of Swansea Town, Southampton and West Bromwich Albion all in finding themselves within the mire on the improper time of the season.

Whilst Stoke are already down, West Brom have proven fantastic resilience beneath caretaker boss Darren Moore to position on a spirited revival, no longer too dissimilar to the paintings carried out through Carlos Carvalhal at Swansea.

And, in spite of overdue heartache towards Everton on the weekend, Mark Hughes has instilled a newfound sense of trust on the Saints.

How the ground of the desk these days appears to be like…

However, if the worst must occur and both a kind of aforementioned groups sign up for the Potters within the Championship subsequent season, the Premier League vultures will undoubtedly be circling menacingly over their famous person avid gamers.

So who’s excellent sufficient to get a transfer clear of their present membership in the event that they move down? talkSPORT.com has known 16 avid gamers from the present backside 4 Premier League aspects who will undoubtedly be rescued from the doldrums of the English 2nd tier in the summertime.

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