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Badou Ndiaye has kickstarted what should be a busy transfer window for Stoke City as he heads back to Turkey.

The 29-year-old has joined Trabzonspor on loan until the end of the season, his second loan spell back in Turkey - he helped Galatasaray win the title last year - since joining Stoke for £14m two years ago.

Peter Etebo is expected to head out too, with a loan at Getafe lined up, as Michael O'Neill makes room in his massive squad.

The manager has recalled Thibaud Verlinden and Josh Tymon from loan spells as he continues to assess the priorities for ins and outs.

Ndiaye is the 14th senior loan exit in the last four years at Stoke and the three most expensive players in the club's history are now currently under contract but dotted around Europe, with Giannelli Imbula at Lecce and Kevin Wimmer at Royal Excel Mouscron.

Stoke knocked out of the FA Cup

There were sweeping changes for Brentford, third in the Championship, and Stoke, fourth from bottom, as they were both distracted from - what is accepted as - the serious business, at least for this season.

You can look back on how everything unfolded at Griffin Park, with the action and reaction. It was another avoidable goal to concede...

But Michael O'Neill is not going to get too angry

"Adam (debutant Adam Davies) will be disappointed," O'Neill acknowledged. "It’s a good delivery, a good free-kick, but he maybe takes a step forward and when he looks back on that he will review that.

"He’s a young goalkeeper brought to the club and he’s not had much opportunity, so it was important to give him that and we’ll not be too hard on him."

(Image: Malcolm Hart)

Martin Spinks's player ratings

Has the Stoke reporter been too generous or too harsh this week?

Julien Ngoy gives nine-minute reminder of potential

It seems a long time ago since Mark Hughes was ushering Julien Ngoy onto the senior scene at Stoke City.

It was 2016/17 when the Belgium youth forward was handed a debut at Arsenal and series of Premier League cameos without ever managing to make a real breakthrough. He was still on the fringes by December when he played in the closing stages of a defeat at Chelsea.

That match proved pretty much the end of Hughes and Ngoy has not been seen for Stoke again until yesterday – with plenty of water under the bridge.

You can read the full story here.

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