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And that wage bill is why they're in serious FFP trouble.Stokes wage bill at the last set of accounts was 50 million. That will probably have come down a touch. But they are probably still paying double to what we are.
They probably have a stronger squad than us. Added to the fact they'd probably be able Neil better wages its easy to see why he could be tempted to go.
Unless it's in his contract that they have to give permission.A lot more going on behind the scenes for the club to give him permission to speak to Stoke. Breakdown between manager and owners for this to happen imo. He’s as good as gone regardless now!
Yep...let's get on with it. Greedy dwarf has goneAye there’s no way of him coming back from this now.
Club need to cut ties and look for a replacement
MK Dons?Can we compete with Bolton?
Unless Stoke can fork out £15m or more, they can fuck right off.It'll be his first signing for Stoke. He's been bigging him up all week.
I reckon he will do the press conference and will confirm he's going nowhere.
Does anyone know where his family are based?
They can't even afford a plane FFS. This is who we are competing withYou must be logged on to see media items
He wants more experience and to spend a few quid.Pissed at our recruitment?? Fuck him…we’ve just been promoted from league 1 and now one shitty result from being in first place in the Championship…I’d say the recruitment has been aces so far!!!
If he's traveling down now then it's to sign for them.Even if it doesn't happen the fact that he's travelling down there now the day before a game leaves a sour taste. We should never have let it get to this stage and it's hard to see a way back.
You’ll be passing AN going other way mateHeading up to Sunderland in 50 minutes, will have to listen to the press conference in the car.
Massively changed the mood around the club.
Didn't hear what happened yesterday. Agreed it's a mess now even if he stays at safcMe neither but over the last five or six days particularly I suspected there was disquiet. There’s a way managers communicate at times and journalists report stuff that just has an ominous ring. James Hunter putting that previous article out yesterday wasn’t a good sign. For all local journos get the ‘they know nowt’ treatment on here, their ears are often close to the ground and they work with managers closely.
Even if Neil isn’t appointed Stoke manager, I see no way back for him here having had talks with them. Regardless of whether or not he’s been short changed by the clubs hierarchy, we’re Sunderland and you can’t talk to Stoke and expect to be welcomed back. England and one of the real big clubs nigh be tolerated, but not many else.
He’s literally driving down for talks. What do you want us to do like?So many people with negativity on here.
Nowt has happened yet.
Blaming AN, KLD etc… anxious time yes. But the bile some are throwing out is crackers.