£7k-a-week Stoke City player set for exit - Clubs queuing up to sign him | OneFootball

The 27-year-old has struggled since making his move to the bet365 Stadium.

Interest in Stoke City's Ryan Mmaee is reported to be building, with one Belgian club being named as a potential destination for the forward.

The £1.5 million deal that brought Mmaee over to England just simply hasn't worked.

He was bought by Alex Neil - Stoke's fourth most recent permanent manager - two summers ago, but has struggled to find form in the Championship.

Even his loan spell with Rapid Wien was a flop: he didn't play once for the Austrian side in the best part of five months after getting injured in his first training session.

Ryan Mmaee receiving interest from a number of clubs

Stoke may be able to get something for the unwanted Morrocan as, according to Fraser Fletcher, a number of clubs are keen to sign the 27-year-old, one of them being Belgian side Standard Liege.

Mmaee, who is estimated to earn £7k-a-week at the Potters, did have a good record before joining Stoke.

For Ferencvaros in the Hungarian first division, he scored 13 goals in 24 appearances in the 2022/23 campaign, and the same number in four fewer turnouts in the campaign before that.

It had been reported by the Stoke Sentinel that the Potters were willing to let Mmaee, Niall Ennis and Andre Vidigal leave the club this summer. They added that a move to Europe was likely for the Morrocan.

In the cases of Ennis and Vidigal, the Englishman has received plenty of League One interest. Football League World exclusively reported that Bolton Wanderers are keen on signing the 26-year-old, amid interest from Wigan Athletic and Blackpool, who he spent the second half of last season on loan with. This news was also broken by FLW.

Vidigal has been made available for a move ever since last summer, but he was reportedly keen to stay put. The Angolan attacker played just shy of 30 times in the league in his first campaign with the Potters. That was reduced down to 10 in his second.

Stoke must try to make a return on Ryan Mmaee while they can

Mmaee's deal with Stoke runs out next summer and, while many supporters will probably be happy to see the back of him, regardless of how he leaves, it would be really poor for the club if they weren't to get anything in return for the 27-year-old, who they spent £1.5 million on.

Despite that fee being a bit of a drop in the ocean compared to the wealth of Stoke's owners, the Coates family, it'd be another representation of them carrying out poor business. At least with a sale, their loss on Mmaee, which you'd expect them to make even if they sell him, to not be quite as bad.