Stoke City collapse Supporters have been asking Saido Berahino questions on social media regarding his career.
When Saido Berahino invited his more than 100,000 social media followers to ask him questions, he was prepared with a few responses regarding his time at Stoke City.
When Berahino went up the M6 from West Bromwich Albion for roughly £12 million in January 2017, it was a significant turning point in his career. Before becoming lost at the Hawthorns, he was seen as a great prospect for English football and was being chased by Spurs. After scoring 14 goals in the Premier League in 2014–15, he added four more the next season, and by the time Mark Hughes and the Potters showed more interest, he was hardly making an impact.
He would be given time and encouragement to try to reach his full potential at Stoke, but over the course of the following 18 months, he failed to score as they were demoted from the premier league. Gary Rowett, the new manager, gave him another shot in the Championship, but after being found guilty of driving under the influence in February 2019, he never again represented the team.
Before being released by mutual consent, Berahino trained alone at Clayton Wood for the duration of the season. After making 51 league appearances and scoring three goals, the thirty-year-old had stints with AEL Limassol in Cyprus, Sheffield Wednesday in League One, and Zulte Waregem and Charleroi in Belgium.
He was therefore questioned about what had gone wrong at Stoke.
He replied, “Everything,” to a fan.
Was a **** place to work, he said to someone else.
“Mass of clowns,” he said to someone else.
Saying he would “sign a better back room staff and coach” if he could go back in time to his Stoke days, he was asked what he would do differently.
He continued, saying, “I wasn’t that bad. I could tell that you weren’t giving me any support.”
Stoke supporters who had stood with him and the team over those two and a half years of decline responded to those comments with videos of them shouting his name.
However, his statement about Stoke being a terrible place to work arguably drew the harshest reaction. With a snapshot of Berahino’s CV after leaving West Brom, one fan, Archie, responded, asking, “Is that the same excuse for all these clubs as well?”
In addition, Berahino talked about the notorious incident at Stoke, where he was allegedly caught on camera by teammates Kurt Zouma and Maxim Choupo-Moting showing up to the training field a day early for a match away at Manchester United—the first game following Mark Hughes’ dismissal.
Zouma wrote, “Bro, the game is tomorrow!” in a video that she uploaded to Instagram.
Choupo-Moting went on, “He’s prepared. The match takes place tomorrow, my friend.”
As of just now, Berahino asserted: “Let’s end this. It was untrue. I was dressed in my tracksuit because I was making a player appearance. And yet newspapers chose to publish a petty narrative.”
Since 2021, when he told FourFourTwo, “I believe we were required to wear our match day tracksuits for training,” this account of events has been altered.
