Mark Hughes looks forward to EPL trip to Bournemouth

SOUNDBITE: (English) Stoke coach Mark Hughes (about Bojan Krkic signing a new contract)

"I think it is a message to everybody like I said many times that we have a lot to offer here. We are a side that's trying to progress, we're trying to bring good players here as we demonstrated in the last window and trying to improve what we are capable of. When guys who have done well for me re-contract and commit once again, then that is a message for everybody."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Stoke coach Mark Hughes

"It's always a big ask when you come up with a promoted team. It's a big, sharp learning curve for those teams and players who maybe have not had experience in the Premier League. The majority of that group haven't had great experience in the Premier League. Obviously they've been helped in terms of the financial help they've had. They've gone into the market and spent good money to make themselves stronger. They lost key players through injury, which they had to deal with, and at one point it seemed as though that may well affect them until the end of the season. But they've been able to turn that around. They look really strong again and he (Bournemouth coach Eddie Howe) has done a really good job. It's not easy coming into the Premier League when you've never experienced it before."