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Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Stoke forward Tezgel agrees new deal
Emre Tezgel has two goals in 23 appearances for the Potters since making his debut aged 16 [Getty Images] Stoke City forward Emre Tezgel has signed a new two-year deal with the Championship club. The 19-year-old became Stoke's youngest first-team player when he made his debut in a 2-0 FA Cup win over Leyton Orient in January 2022 at the age of 16. Advertisement He scored twice in 17 appearances for the Potters last season, both in EFL Cup games, and last played for the first team in the 2-0 Championship defeat by Bristol City in February before spending the rest of the campaign in the club's under-21 side. "I've been here my whole life, I feel like it's my club," Tezgel told BBC Radio Stoke. "I've sat down and spoken with staff here and they've made a plan for me and I think it's clear I just need to play football, whether that's here or elsewhere (on loan). "I need to get the experience and grow as a player and this is the right place." Advertisement Following his senior debut against Orient in 2022, he also came on as a substitute in Stoke's fourth-round tie that season and then played four times in the 2022-23 campaign, all off the bench. Tezgel spent the second half of the following season in League Two on loan at MK Dons where he found the net three times in 17 appearances. The Potters academy graduate now wants to improve his physicality and speed and adapt to the demands of the Championship so he can nail down a regular place. "I've not had a great three years if I'm honest," he added. "I've had three long-term injuries and I've always wanted to do better. Advertisement "I don't think people have seen enough of me yet so I need to show what I can do, and hopefully do it soon."


BBC News
17-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Stoke forward Tezgel agrees new deal
Stoke City forward Emre Tezgel has signed a new two-year deal with the Championship 19-year-old became Stoke's youngest first-team player when he made his debut in a 2-0 FA Cup win over Leyton Orient in January 2022 at the age of scored twice in 17 appearances for the Potters last season, both in EFL Cup games, and last played for the first team in the 2-0 Championship defeat by Bristol City in February before spending the rest of the campaign in the club's under-21 side."I've been here my whole life, I feel like it's my club," Tezgel told BBC Radio Stoke."I've sat down and spoken with staff here and they've made a plan for me and I think it's clear I just need to play football, whether that's here or elsewhere (on loan)."I need to get the experience and grow as a player and this is the right place." Following his senior debut against Orient in 2022, he also came on as a substitute in Stoke's fourth-round tie that season and then played four times in the 2022-23 campaign, all off the spent the second half of the following season in League Two on loan at MK Dons where he found the net three times in 17 Potters academy graduate now wants to improve his physicality and speed and adapt to the demands of the Championship so he can nail down a regular place."I've not had a great three years if I'm honest," he added."I've had three long-term injuries and I've always wanted to do better. "I don't think people have seen enough of me yet so I need to show what I can do, and hopefully do it soon."

The 42
08-06-2025
- Sport
- The 42
Stoke star links up with Ireland squad ahead of Luxembourg trip
STOKE CITY midfielder Bosun Lawal has been added to the Ireland squad ahead of Tuesday's game away to Luxembourg. The 22-year-old joined the Potters from Celtic last summer in a reported £2 million (€2.4 million) deal. Advertisement But Lawal missed most of the season due to a medical stress fracture in his lower back. The setback reduced the midfielder to just seven Championship appearances for a Stoke side that finished just two points above the relegation zone. Lawal's full debut came on the final day of the season in the 0-0 draw with Derby County. The former Ireland U21 international previously impressed on loan at League One side Fleetwood Town, scoring six goals in 42 appearances during the 2023-24 campaign. The player's versatility could prove useful for manager Heimir Hallgrímsson, as he has been deployed at centre-back, central midfield and right-back during his young career. Lawal is part of a 24-player squad that trained this morning before heading to Luxembourg later today. He has yet to be capped at senior level, but was a late call-up for the squad ahead of the friendly with Hungary last summer.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Morton soccer player voted Journal Star athlete of the week for May 5-10.
Claire Ceresa of the Morton girls soccer team was voted the Journal Star high school athletes of the week for May 5-10. Ceresa scored four goals last week, helping the Potters go 2-0-0. The sophomore put two in the back of the net in last Tuesday's 8-1 win over Dunlap. She then tallied another pair of goals as Morton beat Normal West, 10-2. The Potters are 17-2-0 overall and 6-0-0 in Mid-Illini Conference play, wrapping league play Tuesday against Washington. Advertisement If you have a nominee for the honor, email us at sports@ or tag us on Twitter @pjstarsports. Last week, Weston Lange and Jack Hessing of the Metamora boys tennis team was named JS athlete of the week. Griffin Meeker, Tremont baseball Meeker hit for the cycle last week. The junior shortstop went 4-for-4 from the lead-off spot in last Monday's 13-3, five-inning win over Fisher. He doubled in the first, hit a two-run, inside the park home run during a four-run second, added a triple in the fourth and completed the four-hit day with one-out single in the fifth. Kaidance Till, Metamora softball Till went perfect over three games last week. She was 8-for-8 with two doubles, three home runs and five RBIs. The Ole Miss signee added seven runs, three walks, a stolen base along with a sacrifice fly. She homered in each of the three contests, highlighted by a 4-for-4 outing with two doubles and a solo home to beat Canton, 14-0 five-inning win on Thursday. Till is batting .696 on 48 hits with 15 doubles, 12 homers, 32 RBIs and 28 walks in 26 games. Trae Brickner, Peoria Christian boys track and field Brickner earned three victories at the Tremont Invite on Friday. The junior swept the hurdles, winning the 110-meter (15.42 seconds) and 300-meter (42.91 seconds) races. He also set a personal-best in the pole vault, clearing the 12-foot mark for the victory. PCS (76 points) finished third behind runner-up Deer Creek-Mackinaw (94 points) and champion Illini Bluffs (116 points). Peoria Christian track and field athlete Trae Brickner of Dunlap, Illinois, won the Boys 15-16 Decathlon at the 2024 AAU Junior Olympics on July 28 in Greenville, North Carolina. Jordyn Manbeck, Dunlap girls track and field The senior won three events at the Mid-Illini Conference Girls Championship last Wednesday. On the Metamora track, Manbeck won the 100-meter dash (12.49 seconds) to go with victories in the 4x100-meter (49.57 seconds) and 4x200-meter (1:44.62) relays. Her other event was a runner-up finish in the 200-meter dash (26.41 seconds). Those points from Manbeck helped Dunlap win the team title with 150 points. Dunlap's Jordyn Manbeck, far left, sprints to victory in the 100-meter dash during the Mid-Illini Girls Track and Field Championships on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at Metamora High School. Pekin's Zoe Liedtke, middle, finished fourth and Dunlap's Olivia Jacobson, far right, finished fifth. Manbeck recorded a time of 12.49. Ethan McRaven, Dunlap boys tennis McRaven won his pair of matches as Dunlap beat Metamora, 5-4, in a four-hour marathon match on Tuesday. He posted a 6-1, 6-4 singles victory. The senior then teamed with Alex Fei in the No. 1 doubles match, winning 6-2, 6-2. The Eagles win handed Metamora, which started 2025 at 19-0, its first dual-meet loss of the season. Adam Duvall is a Journal Star sports reporter. Email him at aduvall@ Follow him on Twitter @AdamDuvall. This article originally appeared on Journal Star: Results of poll for high school athlete of the week for Peoria Journal Star


Powys County Times
09-05-2025
- Business
- Powys County Times
Powys' Potters win legal battle with multi-national firm
Powys Firm Potters have been awarded over £800,000 in a high court case after witnesses for a multi-national company tried to mislead the court. There was a record payout of £801,041.20 plus substantial costs in favour of Potters Waste Management over a contract for the treatment of refuse derived fuel (RDF) against multi-national company Geminor. A spokesperson for Llanidloes based firm said the case heard by Judge Hodge KC had been 'extremely stressful', calling the case 'completely unnecessary'. 'A sense of justice, fairness and balance has been delivered, and it strikes right at the heart of community businesses refusing to be bullied by global operators,' the statement added. The dispute involved domestic waste transported to Immingham in Lincolnshire from the Isle of Anglesey via a processing and baling plant in Liverpool run by Potter's nominated supplier Gaskells. Gaskells were to process the loose waste, recovering dry recyclables and wrapping the RDF bales produced. The bales were then to be collected by Geminor who would transfer the bales by road to the port in Immingham, from where they would be loaded onto transit cassettes by DFDS Shipping and taken to Gothenburg in Sweden to a plant generating energy from waste. Potters said both they and Gaskells 'detected an obvious bad smell early in our relationship with Geminor even before a large consignment of bales was rejected' – which Geminor claimed was the responsibility of DFDS. A spokesperson for Potters added: 'It is known in the industry that if DFDS decide to reject a load, it would make out a case report. That was not done in relation to nine rejected loads in question.' Potters asserted that by refusing to accept these or collect any further bales of RDF, Geminor was in breach of contract. Despite the claims by Geminor, the court acknowledged that between 2014 and 2018, Gaskells had sent out 3,000 loads of baled waste with a different agent and there had only been two loads rejected. Judge Hodge ruled that the evidence showed that it was not DFDS that had made the decision to reject the final nine lorry loads of waste – and that it must have been Geminor's decision. Judge Hodge also found that Geminor's witnesses had deliberately tried to mislead the court by claiming DFDS alone had decided to reject the loads. He said one witness was 'most unsatisfactory', labelling him 'evasive, with a tendency to ramble, and prone to speculation'. Judge Hodge found Geminor liable for the full amount of the loss of profit and losses Potters incurred by the contract breach. He said: 'Potters is entitled to recover damages on its primary, and hybrid, basis in the total sum of £801,041.20. 'I find that there was a binding agreement between Potters and Geminor. "There was also no repudiatory breach of contract on the part of Potters, and that, by refusing to collect further waste after 28 September 2017, Geminor was itself in repudiatory breach of that contract.'