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Stoke looking to make most of January window to keep themselves in the hunt for promotion

- Peter Smith

STOKE City are heading into the final fortnight of the transfer window looking for as many as three new additions following an avalanche of injuries.

Assessment of a serious injury to Divin Mubama will dictate what happens next with the England under-21s striker, who is on loan from Manchester City.

Stoke, Man City and the 21-year-old himself will have to decide where he is best receiving treatment depending on how long he is expected to be ruled out.

He has been a regular starter for Stoke this term but was stretchered off early in the second-half of a 0-0 draw with QPR and taken to hospital to see if he had suffered a fracture of his lower leg or ankle or if he had sustained ligament damage.

In an unbelievable run of bad luck, he was the fifth Stoke striker to suffer a major injury inside a month - with even Nathan Lowe and Emre Tezgel, who had been out on loan, going down with a leg and ankle problem respectively.