What about loaning Bony with an option to buy after? That £8m owed would cover his wages and any fee for the season. Just a thought
So we could have signed Joe then? If it meant we could use the money to buy a decent back up striker etc then the loan with a view to buy would be the better financial option.
So no longer a rumour... BREAKING NEWS Stoke sign Liverpool midfielder Joe Allen on five-year deal. BREAKING | Stoke City are delighted to announce the signing of Joe Allen from @LFCon a 5-year deal #SCFCpic.twitter.com/3XqQ8EFyyk — Stoke City FC (@stokecity) July 25, 2016
I agree completely, as if the board didn't have enough of a scare under Monk and his stupidity, they now want to have a go again under their own stupidity, you really do wonder what the hell is going on these last 18 months, but nothing surprises me any more. you are correct on the Strikers bedding in, matter of fact Bony didn't have a pre-season and took a tad longer to adjust to the Prem, still I'm sure they'll get Shechter back on loan if everything else fails................
From Sky Transfer page Stoke City have confirmed the signing of Wales midfielder Joe Allen from Liverpool. The Reds last week accepted Stoke's bid for their midfielder, whose performances helped Wales reach the semi-finals at Euro 2016 this summer. And the 26-year-old has signed a five-year contract for a fee understood to be £13m, ending a four-year spell at Anfield to become Stoke's second signing of the summer following Ramadan Sobhi's move on Monday. Allen followed Brendan Rodgers from Swansea to Liverpool in 2012 but found his first-team chances limited after Rodgers was replaced by Jurgen Klopp in October. Injuries contributed to a total of just eight Premier League starts last season, and Allen had just one year to run on his deal.
Done Deal: Stoke sign Liverpool midfielder Joe Allen for £13m JOE ALLEN has completed a £13m move to Stoke Stoke agreed a fee with Liverpool last week but the midfielder took his time before deciding the Potters was the right move for him. Allen was believed to have preferred a move to Swansea, but his former club did not match Liverpool’s asking price. The Wales international – who starred at Euro 2016 – underwent a medical today and will now jet out to Orlando to meet up with his new team-mates on their pre-season tour. Allen said: “It’s been a whirlwind 48 hours for me but I am delighted to have finally been able to put pen to paper.
You can't sign players that don't want to come and you can't keep players that don't want to stay ....no matter how much you stomp your feet and whine . We are waiting to see who's going before we make serious bids . The last time we didn't , we signed Gomis thinking Bony was leaving and Bony didn't leave ... How did that work out out in the long run . The meltdown over Joe Allen going to Stoke is kinda funny . He had no loyalty when he left for Liverpool , good luck to him at Stoke but we can do better with the money wanted for him .
In fairness all players are over priced but Joe is the probably the best zero risk signing we could ever have made.
I think everyone is annoyed about the Allen deal because the club made a bid for him for 8m but then refused to cough up the extra couple at time to secure it, and that has now made it look as if we've missed out. I think If the club never declared their interest in the first place then no one would be overly fussed, but it's made us look cheap. People will look at this and think who else are we missing out on because the club are refusing to pay that little bit more.
They bid what they thought what he was worth to us, I think he was worth maybe another million and that is it. Stoke going in at £15m inc of extras is a stupid price, but it's up to them! Also they came to us with £7m for Ki which we rejected, does that make Stoke cheap? Getting players cheap is what's it about, you chance your arm and sometimes you get it sometimes you don't. People are getting over emotional about this player, honestly it's over the top, looking on social media you could swear someone has died! Allen is a good player and deserves to be at a premier league club, but he's made his choice and it's the end of the matter.
I'm not that bothered that we didn't sign Joe Allen. We must have a budget for new players and perhaps the fee asked was too big a slice of it. I would rather the money be spent on positions that we have more need to strengthen.
The most important thing to Joe Allen .....is Joe Allen . If he wanted to be at the only Welsh club in the Premier , he would be here . All he had to do is make contact and things would have happened . Everyone wants to blame everyone about Joe Allen not being at Swansea ...except Joe Allen . Couldn't care less ......we have better already
1. Wrong - -Joe couldn't come here because Liverpool never accepted our bid. 2. Wrong again - Fer, Ki and maybe even Leon himself this season, are not better than Joe. Anyway, time to move on.
We threw £8 Million away on Go-miss signing on fee? We threw £5 million on Eder We threw £8 Million away on Poloschi We threw £ 3.5 Million on Tabanau Clearly Jinx has lost the plot, that's £25 Million wasted, how can little old Swansea afford to wast so much money? That's £25 Million that could have gone to securing Joe Allen and Bony, but because of the massive incompetence we are unable to get the quality we need to improve the team, nothing we have already signed this summer is worth talking about.......
Come now, you should know that it's player power here, he could run down his contract and leave for virtually nothing in six months, if Allen wanted to come here that desperately he would have told Liverpool that and they would have accepted a bid of under £10m
I'm looking forward to playing Stoke this season , watching Allen getting muscled off the ball by Fer ,watching Allen jumping up and down trying to make an impact on corners and free kicks with his head . Like I say , he walked first chance , and he can keep walking .We were lucky to sell him for 15 million and lucky not to bring him back for 13 million .....good business .
