Manchester United defender Ryan Shawcross is winning big praise during his time on-loan at Stoke City.

Shawcross scored his fourth goal of the season in Saturday's 2-1 defeat of Colchester and Stoke boss Tony Pulis said: "Ryan has done smashing for us, we work hard on getting him space at free-kicks and set-pieces.

"We have him until Christmas and we will see what happens then. If we can get two or three other loanees to see us through until then, we can maybe spend some of the chairman's money."