Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has agreed a new contract until 2018. He joined Stoke in May 2013, replacing fellow Welshman Tony Pulis who had turned the club into an established Premier League team in his seven years at the helm.

Hughes arrived having won only eight of 34 games at Queens Park Rangers but has led the Potters to their first top-10 Premier League finish and is on course to repeat the feat this season.

“I’m delighted to have signed a new contract. I think it’s exciting times for Stoke City; everyone can see there’s more progress to be made and we want to see how far we can take the club,” he told the club website yesterday.

“I came here 18 or so months ago and it’s gone as well as I could have hoped – we’ve certainly kept progressing which is vitally important from my point of view.”

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