{"id":680015,"date":"2026-01-07T13:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680015\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:41:19","slug":"josh-stokes-stockport-county-sign-bristol-city-midfielder-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680015\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Stokes: Stockport County sign Bristol City midfielder on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Stockport have signed Bristol City midfielder Josh Stokes on loan until the end of the season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old spent last season on loan in League One with Cambridge United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stokes, who played twice in the Carabao Cup for the Robins this season, could make his Hatters debut against Huddersfield on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He feels like a player who&#8217;s a really good fit for this football club and I have no doubts that he&#8217;ll show that,&#8221; Stockport boss Dave Challinor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockportcounty.com\/news\/2026\/january\/06\/josh-stokes-joins-county-on-loan\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stokes&#8217; arrival comes after striker Nathan Lowe, 20, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1lzvn72z87o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returned to parent club Stoke City<\/a> after injury cut short his spell at Edgeley Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stockport have signed Bristol City midfielder Josh Stokes on loan until the end of the season. The 21-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-680015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115854107166442557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}