I say get him gone. Top player but not committed and too mardy for me! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...spite-arrival-of-new-manager-Mark-Hughes.html Steven Nzonzi looks set to leave Stoke City despite arrival of new manager Mark Hughes Mark Hughes is facing a losing battle to persuade Steven Nzonzi to stay at Stoke after a row over a new contract. please log in to view this image Nzonzi will meet with new manager Hughes this month and reiterate his desire to leave the Britannia Stadium, after his transfer request was rejected last week. The £3 million midfielder claims he was promised a improved contract if he played a certain amount of games last season but has not been rewarded and is keen to quit, regardless of Hughes's appointment. West Ham and Norwich are considering bids for the 24 year-old but Stoke are determined to demand a significant fee if Hughes cannot convince him to stay. Hughes said: "It's difficult at the moment because people are away and on international duty but there are things to look at in the coming weeks. "Once I get a take on that, I can have conversations. But my aim is to keep the group. It will not be all change."
This bit is a bit worrying though "But my aim is to keep the group. It will not be all change." I was hoping for a mass clearout starting with Shotton!
If he does want to go then so be it, but has to be worth 8 million to us. I would hope he would see sense in that Hughes is likely to bring in a couple of decent players and play the better players in their natural positions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...spite-arrival-of-new-manager-Mark-Hughes.html Nzonzi will meet with new manager Hughes this month and reiterate his desire to leave the Britannia Stadium, after his transfer request was rejected last week. The £3 million midfielder claims he was promised a improved contract if he played a certain amount of games last season but has not been rewarded and is keen to quit, regardless of Hughes's appointment. West Ham and Norwich are considering bids for the 24 year-old but Stoke are determined to demand a significant fee if Hughes cannot convince him to stay. Hughes said: "It's difficult at the moment because people are away and on international duty but there are things to look at in the coming weeks. "Once I get a take on that, I can have conversations. But my aim is to keep the group. It will not be all change."
Not be all change still means some of the players could be leaving, anyone coming in would want to keep Nzonzi but depends what he means by improved contract i supose.
It will not be all change could mean some of the players could be leaving, anyone coming in would want to keep Nzonzi as long as improved contract isn't by a stupid amount.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/317991/? - Just won't go away this story. Successive days this story is being run in different papers. I agree he's entitled to be annoyed at not getting his improved contract but he won't even talk about it with the new manager shows what a sulky, money grabbing coward he is. In other words a typical Frenchman. The clues were there last season so I guess I'm not too surprised. Typical modern footballer. STEVEN NZONZI will press ahead with his bid to quit Stoke City this summer – despite the appointment of Mark Hughes. Hughes has stated that one of his first tasks in his new role is to do all he can to persuade Nzonzi, 24 to withdraw the transfer request he submitted last month and be part of his long-term plans at the Britannia Stadium. Nzonzi has a meeting planned with Hughes this week but the midfielder remains intent on leaving the club he joined from Blackburn Rovers for £3million less than a year ago. A source close to Nzonzi said: “The appointment of Mark Hughes as manager does not change anything and Steven wants to leave Stoke.” Two unnamed Premier League sides have already contacted Nzonzi’s representatives. offering the midfielder an escape route, but Stoke insist they have not received any formal offers and chairman Peter Coates wants the player to remain with the club. Nzonzi’s determination to leave is understood to be over what he believes are broken promises concerning a new contract. He maintains he was given a verbal promise of a wage increase, scheduled for January, but it failed to materialise. His initial salary at Stoke was way down the club’s wage structure and he was asked to prove himself over the first half of the season with the plan to increase his wages should he perform well. Nzonzi made an impressive start to his career at Stoke, but fell away dramatically after New Year when the pay rise he believed he had earned was not awarded to him. It is understood he held meetings with former manager Tony Pulis during the club’s battle against relegation towards the end of last season and privately informed him of his decision to hand in a written transfer request. Nzonzi agreed to maintain his silence during the relegation battle, but handed in his request within days of Pulis being relieved of his duties as manager by Coates. Stoke will now be forced to listen to offers with Hughes unwilling to keep an unhappy player at the club as he looks to introduce his own style and stamp his authority on the squad.
Looks like he will have to go then, he won't trust the club now and won't perform at his best for them.
If Hughes can't persuade him to stay then he should be sold preferably for more than we paid for him in order to realise a profit on re-selling. How many others bought by TP for large amounts were then sold on at quite a loss? It's a shame N'Zonzi wants to leave as he is a class act when he wants to be. Unfortunately since Xmas he hasn't wanted to be. Whatever happened to loyalty?
exactly what I was saying, he handed in his transfer request in December and since then he hasnt been the same player, a very bad attitude in my eyes and like everyone else has said let him go and buy someone else
Snap their arms off then. He controls the midfield but not creative enough in front of goal and liable to a rash tackle or incident!
With £12Million for him and the money from Begovic, if he goes, Hughes could get some good players in.
That would give us a combined 25 million (with Begovic) and if we can offload some of the other dross and shift Walters on to Cardiff for the 4 million suggested then Hughes could have a good 30-35 million to rebuild!
I'd be sad to see him go. Depending how much he was promised/ demanding, we should give it him if it's not a massive jump, or offer him a small pay rise as a gesture of good will, and then give him the contract he was promised if he continues to play well. If he still moans, **** him off.
