Stoke City Needs To Sign Players With Big Characters- Jack Butland

Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland has urged the club to make some moves in the January transfer window.

“I think it would help,” he is quoted as saying by the Stoke Sentinel. “We need some big characters. We need to get some ability, some more talent in and get a lot better at playing as a team, because we’ve not been doing that.”

Stoke’s defeat at the Ricoh Arena led to the dismissal of manager Mark Hughes.

Butland, speaking shortly before Hughes was sacked, added: “We can’t get much lower at the minute, it’s been a tough time of late and everyone can see that. We’re not happy with the way we’re playing. Everyone is pretty low and it does feel like the only way we can go from here is upwards.



“There’s only us that can change it and we have to make sure we do.”

Jack Butland admits he’s been fuming about the regularity he’s been picking the ball out of the net.

“Yes, I am,” he said. “Like the result at Coventry it’s embarrassing and difficult to swallow. It’s only ourselves to blame as a team, we’ve given up too many chances, we’ve not defended well as a team, too many individual errors.

“It’s been well below bar from our standards so a lot of things have got to change and being able to keep the ball out of our own net is one of the most important ones.