...Stoke City off or Tony Pulis bribed?
Let's have a look at the Pulis signings from Tottenham Hotspur:
Jonathan Woodgate: Prior to joining Stoke City on a free transfer Woodgate has played only 4 games in his last two years spell at White Haart Lane. Is there any PL manager sign a 31-year old player with fitness problems?
Wilson Palacios: Palacios signed for Stoke for an eye-watering fee of £8 million. When he joined Stoke his form was rubbish and he was booed off by Spurs fans at one of his games. That's one of the worst transfers in PL history..
Peter Crouch: Who will pay £10mil for a giraffe? Yes, you guessed it right only Pulis can pull this kind of transfer for a 30-year old, 2m striker.
Prior to buying this giraffe, he had a chance to buy Demba Ba ( now he is banging goals for Chelsea) at lower price.. then he backed off because of a medical problem in his knee.
We can understand no manager buy a player if he failed a medical test for insurance purposes. But, why MR. Pulis was keen to buy all this tosh from Spurs when there were some good players available at the same time for lower transfer fees?
Lads and lasses please discuss!
Has Danny boy mugged ......
posted on 14/4/13
Bale me out
posted on 14/4/13
Unlike renoog here, I openly hate Stoke City. Their manager, players, fans, stadium, style of play, tunnels, I mean EVERYTHING
posted on 14/4/13
Their fans even hassled the bus driver on the way to our game earlier on in the season
Orrible lot
posted on 14/4/13
A sinkhole that swallows their shìthole of a stadium and all their fans would be nice
posted on 14/4/13
It's fair enough playing to your strengths, but in Stoke's case their "strengths" are self-inflicted. If they're not good enough to play a passing game then it's because Pulis intentionally buys players that can't, not because they're a small club that lacks the resources. They've spent the 3rd most in the PL the last 5 years. And no it's not all money that the club has generated itself, a significant proportion of it is cash injections from the chairman who owns a large betting company.
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This x 1000. All this apologetic rubbish about how they're playing to their strengths and punching above their weight is nonsense. If you spend nearly £20m on Kenwyne Jones and Peter Crouch then it's pretty obvious you only know one way to play "football".
That and the fact that they are cynical cheating dirty players to a man, yet hacking the crap out of better players because you can't compete fairly is apparently ok because "that's just the way they play"..
Oh and unlike renoog I do hate them. Genuinely despise them and their horrible little manager. Hope they fúck off back down to the lower leagues where they belong. They are an embarrassment to the top flight of English football.
If Stoke get relegated I'd call this a successful season, no matter where Arsenal finish.
posted on 15/4/13
Peter Crouch: Who will pay £10mil for a giraffe? Yes, you guessed it right only Pulis can pull this kind of transfer for a 30-year old, 2m striker.
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And Redknapp. A few times. And again, if he can.
posted on 15/4/13
Pooops is in his element. An article about spurs on the arsenal board
He loves it
posted on 15/4/13
It turns him on
posted on 6/5/13
After watching Stoke struggle against 10 men today, it looks like they are definitely relegation material for next season. Tony Pulis looks like he has lost his grip on the team and seems to continually resort to touchline hysteria whenever an official's decision/non-decision is not to his liking!
Peter Crouch looked totally out of shape and totally out of touch with what was going on. I would be surprised to see Stoke bring him back next year!
posted on 21/5/13
Bye bye Pulis..
This leaves Desperate Dan to find another sheep to shift his deadwood...