Stoke fans underwhelmed it's Alex Niel


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I reckon it's our owner being too tight or skint to buy the players he wants
Wev'e brought in some good players with little up front outlay costs but if i was a betting man i would bet that a just turned 18 year old kid from the Americas would have been top of neils list .and perhaps we might be losing some of our star players in the next few days to pay the bills.
 
Wev'e brought in some good players with little up front outlay costs but if i was a betting man i would bet that a just turned 18 year old kid from the Americas would have been top of neils list .and perhaps we might be losing some of our star players in the next few days to pay the bills.

Wouldn't be surprised in the slightest. Have to pay for the ticket office being open 5 days a week somehow
 
there will be a sting in the tail here yet. I would not bet against SAFC doing well. for all of the doubt we are a decent outfit now and I think the owner means business.

HTL.
He's certainly committed to running it like a business, until he can make enough profit and sell it. However, there is little evidence that he wants to fund an ongoing successful football team in the way that we, as fans, want to see a successful team built.

The sustainability model might be all the rage for governments, but we want on-field success. Slowly-slowly, live within your means is never going to give us a successful team on the pitch - unfortunately for SAFC, we are most likely to be yo-yoing between the Championship and League 1 with that approach - a watered-down version of Norwich/Watford/Fulham, where the owners make money through promotion, then sell any decent playing assets and don't invest too heavily in the division above so they don't lose anything when the team gets relegated. And repeat.
 
Massively disappointed with this, but Stoke have done what we failed to do under Johnson, by sacking a manager, earmarking and getting his replacement within a day. I should imagine from the club statement, they were not expecting this and as such will have no replacement in place, and again will to use their quote, go through the process, which will take time. Ultimately the same two clowns who stepped in after Johnson left will take the reigns again, but a division higher which doesn’t bode well after their previous debacle.

Sources state he has said his goodbyes to the players and staff, so the club stating they wish to keep him may well be lip service to the fans. Other reasons for his departure are the club have not backed him in the transfer market, with rumblings of this already being quoted.

The timing could not have been worse, and if by some chance he doesn’t take the Stoke job, where does that leave Neil, in respect of the fan base, and the goodwill he nurtured previously ? Potentially everything seemed on track, which perhaps is far from the truth, and where does that leave players signed for and by Neil and the team, and those expected to arrive. If he goes, expect a bid from them for Stewart, or other players he recommends to Stoke.

Only Sunderland could bring defeat from the jaws of victory .
 
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