Stoke to make £3m offer for exciting Wigan ace Thelo Aasgaard after Championship rivals Blackburn failed with summer bid

STOKE are in the queue for Wigan’s exciting star Thelo Aasgaard — but will have to pay £3million.

Potters spy Jon Walters and sidekick Lee Darnbrough watched Norway Under-21 Aasgaard last week.

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Thelo Aasgaard is attracting plenty of interest[/caption]

Blackburn failed in a bid for Aasgaard, 22, in the summer but Stoke are likely to top their offer and get closer to the valuation.

City have been scouting in Ukraine recently and are planning an offer to keep Tom Cannon in January when his loan from Leicester is reviewed.

Narcis Pelach’s side were in Championship action yesterday.

The Potters took on newly-promoted Derby County at Bet365 Stadium.

Cannon got Stoke off to a perfect start, netting from the penalty spot on nine minutes.

Derby went on to level in the 68th minute courtesy of Viktor Johansson’s own goal.

Stoke left it late to grab all three points, with Ben Gibson scoring the winner eight minutes from time.

After his side’s win, Pelach told the BBC: “I was very pleased with the goal. We have worked a lot on set-plays. When I was with Huddersfield, we were the best team in the league.

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“We scored 22 goals from set-plays by keeping it very simple but being very aggressive.

“We wanted to be more aggressive than them. We want to be this strong team that scores with wide free-kicks and set-plays.

“I am really pleased. When you watch the goal back we are nasty. We put the ball into the six-yard box and we get good contact with it.

“I am pleased that our captain has scored it after the mistake for their goal.

“We were the better team. We deserved to win.

“We scored a nice goal with some really good play which resulted in the penalty, but for me the most important thing was coming back mentally from the goal we conceded.”

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Narcis Pelach was delighted with his side’s win against Derby[/caption]