Jacob Brown has been working on his fitness in Dubai as he prepares to get back for pre-season training.
The 25-year-old forward missed Stoke City's last three games of the season after pulling up against Wigan Athletic in mid-April with a hamstring problem. He has been left out of the Scotland squad for upcoming European Championships qualifiers against Norway and Georgia while he gets back up to speed.
Ben Wilmot is also hoping to be back for the first day at Clayton Wood after sitting out the final four games when he sustained a fracture to his back.
Brown is heading into his fourth season at Stoke after a 2020 switch from Barnsley and is level with Tyrese Campbell (both 140) in terms of most appearances for the club in the current squad.
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Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting has continued his incredible win of winning a major league title in every season since leaving Stoke.
The 34-year-old forward has followed up two Ligue 1 wins with Paris Saint-Germain with three at Bayern Munich, the third being sealed in dramatic fashion at the weekend.
Choupo, who was released with a year left on his contract in the summer of 2018 after Gary Rowett brought in James McClean for £5m, had been ruled out with injury since mid-April but came off the bench for the final 20 minutes on Saturday at Cologne as his side chased a crucial three points.
An 89th minute goal from Jamal Musiala earned a 2-1 win while Borussia Dortmund, who had gone into the day with a two-point advantage, could only draw at home to Mainz. Bayern leapfrogged into first place on goal difference.
Choupo and the squad pulled on matching suits for the subsequent beer-drenched celebrations at Marienplatz.
As Choupo leads the line for the biggest club in Germany, noises are gathering in Spain that Joselu is about to join Real Madrid.
Joselu has scored 16 times this season but that hasn't prevented Espanyol from relegation. They are four points short of fourth-bottom Celta Vigo with only one match to play.
He is the top Spanish scorer in La Liga, freshly summoned to the national squad - and he will reportedly have his salary reduced by half unless he finds a new home this summer.
Madrid are looking for competition for Karim Benzema and apparently Joselu, at 33, apparently ticks the boxes so they can leave the door open to try to sign Erling Haaland or Kylian Mbappe at some point in the future.
The Championship play-off final was gripping amid the struggles to separate Luton Town and Coventry.
And at 5-5 on penalties, the power went down in at least a section of ST15. Luton had won promotion by the time televisions were back up and running.
Preparations are underway for Bojan's final game of his career, representing Catalonia against Mali.
The game will be played on June 8 (7pm) at 13,000-capacity Camp d'Esports, Lledia, which is about an hour by train from Barcelona, where the Catalan representative team usually plays. Tickets cost 11 euros.
"I had been visualizing my retirement for months and I wanted it to be with the Catalan shirt," said Bojan, aged 32. "I am very excited to do it with this team."
May 30 - birthday: David Oldfield (55)
May 31 - birthdays: Jackie Marsh (75), Gabriel Zakuani (37)
June 1 - birthdays: Jose Andrade, AKA Zay Angola (53), Gabriel N'Galula Mbuyi, AKA Junior (41)
June 2 - birthday: Mark Walters (59)
June 4 - birthday: Larus Sigurdsson (50)
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