Saido Berahino cost Stoke City £12m when they signed him from West Bromwich Albion in January 2017 Former Premier League striker Saido Berahino has retired from football at the age of 33 to concentrate on coaching Burundi. The Midlands-bred Burundi international made his name with boyhood club West Bromwich Albion, where he had one especially prolific season of 20 Premier League and cup goals in 2014-15 before joining Stoke City for £12m in January 2017.
But, having already faltered at Albion in his latter days under Tony Pulis, Berahino flopped badly for Stoke, who went on to suffer relegation from the Premier League in April 2018. After being given a second chance by then Stoke boss Gary Rowett, he scored five times in 2018-19. But he soon fell out of favour again until he was released by mutual consent with still three years remaining on his contract.
Having left Stoke in August 2019 for Belgium, Berahino played at Waregem and Charleroi before being signed by former Baggies boss Darren Moore at Sheffield Wednesday in August 2021. He has since played in Cyprus, India and Slovenia, as well as for his native country, having previously been capped by England at all age levels up to and including under-21.
Berahino was twice called up for England's full squad by then manager Roy Hodgson – but was not picked to play. Saido Berahino scored twice in 23 appearances for Burundi as well as netting 72 goals in European club football Berahino reserved special thanks for his first club, for whom he scored 36 goals in 121 appearances in all competition, including a hat-trick on his first start, as a 20-year-old, against Newport County in the EFL Cup in August 2013.
In a statement, entitled 'A Letter To The Game', posted on Instagram, Berahino