Five loan destinations for Stoke City centre back Robert Huth

Stoke City, 13/8 chances with Coral for a top 10 finish, are reportedly willing to allow giant German central defender Robert Huth leave the Britannia on loan for the rest of the season.

Potters boss Mark Hughes is understood to have held talks with Huth, 30, about a temporary move away as he is yet to start a Premier League game this season after recovering a serious injury sustained in November 2013.

A number of unnamed Premier League and Championship clubs are rumoured to be after him, so that got us thinking where will Huth go? We’ve come up with five potential destinations for the ex-Chelsea player, nicknamed ‘the Berlin Wall’, to go out to on loan.

Aston Villa
Paul Lambert will face a struggle to keep his star players at Villa Park this winter, and chief among those is central defender and club captain Ron Vlaar, who caught the eye in the Netherlands side that finished third in Brazil.

With Villa 11/4 to be relegated, losing the likes of Vlaar, midfielder Fabian Delph and striker Christian Benteke would be disastrous for their survival hopes. Huth has almost 250 games of Premier League experience under his belt, and would be a temporary solution should this gap in Lambert’s defence materialise.

Derby County
Rams head coach Steve McClaren may have lined up Huth’s move to Middlesbrough before leaving the Riverside to become England boss in the summer of 2006. The pair could finally get to work together at Pride Park some eight-and-a-half years on.

Derby remain 2/1 favourites for the Championship title and odds-on 8/13 promotion chances, so Huth would be linking up with a team desperate to avoid the play-off pain they experienced at Wembley last May. His Premier League class alongside County club captain Richard Keogh at the back could help get the East Midlands outfit up.