Stoke City transfer latest as wing-back target ticks all the FFP boxes for Potters
Reports in Sweden are linking Stoke City with a move for 22-year-old right wing-back Alex Timossi Andersson. The IF Brommapojkarna player, who has also operated as a winger, scored four times in 29 league appearances for the Swedish team last season. And Expressen are now claiming the Potters “want to sign him” this month.
It remains unclear whether Stoke have gone as far as making an offer for Andersson, who is valued at around €500k by the website Transfermarkt, but Expressen claim he is ‘on his way out’ of Brommapojkarna.
According to the website Sport Witness, the versatile Andersson joined Bayern Munich’s reserve team in 2020. After going out on loan twice, he left the German club for Heerenveen in the Netherlands in the summer of 2022. A year later, he returned to Sweden to join Stockholm outfit Brommapojkarna, who finished 10th in the Swedish top-flight last season under former Aston Villa star Olof Mellberg.
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Andersson certainly fits the profile of the sort of player Stoke are likely to be looking at this month as they wrestle with player spending concerns.
Stoke boss Mark Robins made clear his transfer approach in a recent interview, saying: “You’ve got to recruit well, develop well and then try to retain as well when you can. I always use the word incremental. It’s an incremental change each year and trying to get better incrementally on that basis because most clubs haven’t got the money to say we’re going to try to buy the title – and I don’t think that’s necessarily a good thing to do either.”
