If he DOESN’T take the presser then I think we all know what happens next
this has to be down to money
Summer transfer thread
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this has to be down to money
Senior players are supposedly telling friends he's gone so must have moved pretty quickly. A real kick in the balls.
They’re owned by Bet365.
They could spend hundreds of millions in a blink if they chose to do so.
There person who has told me has zero interest in football themselves and mentioned a senior players name telling a work colleague. I have zero reason to not believe them, however I still live in hope that they're jumping the gun themselves.
Maybe Alex Neil wanted the one year rolling contract. His family still live in the North West.
Imo he'd be crazy to leave us for Stoke and equally we'd be crazy not to pay enough to keep him. Feels like an agreement will be reached.
And yet they haven't, and they've finished 14th 4 seasons running... Absolutely screams ambition doesn't it
i get the impression AN loves it here, he is building something nice and steady alongside the club owners, there appears to be a good bond between owners, manager and playing staff, he will have had a big say in any targets for the window, the club is finally moving in the right direction...these are all fairly obvious points that would suggest AN would be happy to stay and keep growing with the club.
i also got the impression in recent interviews that AN was far from happy with the transfer situation, whether that was down to not going for the players he wanted, not wanting to pay over the odds for a player or the apparent slow movement in the market when he wanted players in 3 weeks ago...i think with the right guarantess he would not want to leave.
stoke are not looking like a club that is going places right now, they are on the decline and possibly teetering on the verge of FFP rules, fighting to get costs down you would have to wonder how sacking and hiring managers would be a good move for them, far too late in the window for any new manager to change the playing staff to any degree so if the move does happen imho it has to be purely down to money and if that is the case they are welcome to him.
i also got the impression in recent interviews that AN was far from happy with the transfer situation, whether that was down to not going for the players he wanted, not wanting to pay over the odds for a player or the apparent slow movement in the market when he wanted players in 3 weeks ago...i think with the right guarantess he would not want to leave.
stoke are not looking like a club that is going places right now, they are on the decline and possibly teetering on the verge of FFP rules, fighting to get costs down you would have to wonder how sacking and hiring managers would be a good move for them, far too late in the window for any new manager to change the playing staff to any degree so if the move does happen imho it has to be purely down to money and if that is the case they are welcome to him.
The fact they are all on the training pitch as we speak makes that unlikely
If he choses to speak to Stoke that proves his head is easily turned, I can understand if it was a decent premier league club but it doesnt sit right being Stoke. Let him go and get as much compensation as possible then get someone in who actually wants to be here. Mind its a right kick in the balls coz the players look like they really enjoy playing for him.
I reckon AN is doing a Cloughy and playing Stoke so that Speakmann gets him a new deal