The New Stoke City Manager

I hope your tongue was placed firmly in cheek when you wrote that!

 

Cheer up you lot - at least its not Dean Saunders

 

Who?

 

Another out of work Welsh bloke

 

B.O.B.
I think personally IF Martinez leaves Wigan he knows the Everton job is his if he wants it. Can not see him coming to Stoke myself. That said, it would not surprise me if Martinez decided to stay at Wigan and have a shot (1 season) at bringing them back up!

 

Loads on Twitter about Everton about to appoint Victor Periera from Porto

 

Hope we hear sooner than later would be good to get a name on the managers door so we can settle down a bit.

 

Martinez and Benitez current favourites to be new manager

 

Like buses this!!

 

Pulis in

 

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to keep up to date with the odds click here http://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/stoke/next-permanent-manager (mark hughes is favourite)

 

Waddo, that's a funny name for a tip!!

 

I know it doesnt read great and I dont for one minute think we are bigger or better than Everton. My point was we have no debt and Coates could throw 100 million at a new manager if he wanted to - Everton are not in that position and will probably lose 2 or 3 of their best players to Man United. It was purely meant to mean that as the clubs stand financially we may be more attractive rather than our brand.

 

Spot on mate

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...eplacement-for-sacked-manager-Tony-Pulis.html

Peter Coates, the Stoke City chairman, was locked in talks with his son, John, and technical director Mark Cartwright on Wednesday to discuss potential contenders and are hopeful of agreeing a list over the weekend.
Roberto Di Matteo, Roberto Martínez, Gus Poyet and Mark Hughes are all under consideration, but Stoke are not expecting to start making official approaches until next week.
Di Matteo, the former Chelsea manager, could emerge as an attractive option, with Chelsea’s first-team coach Steve Holland, who used to work in Stoke’s academy, being mentioned as a likely assistant. Poyet is also a possible candidate as he has links with Cartwright, though any move will be complicated by the fact he is still employed by Brighton, albeit he is under suspension.
Stoke are also planning to revamp their entire first-team management structure after Pulis’s seven-year reign was brought to an end, with assistant David Kemp and coaches Mark O’Connor, Adrian Pennock and Gerry Francis set to depart.
That raises the prospect of Phil Neville launching his coaching career at the Britannia Stadium, after the former Everton defender was recently approached for a position.

Coates would ideally like to find a successor for Pulis by the end of the month but he admitted the next appointment was crucial.
He said: “We are fully aware that this is a huge decision and we are determined to make the right one in the interests of the football club. It was obviously a big decision [to dismiss Pulis], and never one you take lightly. It has to be one of the biggest I have ever taken as chairman.
“We have clearly enjoyed some great times together during a magnificent period for this football club. Tony has done wonderfully well and I certainly regard him as a good friend still. He goes with our very best wishes for the future – and I am sure he would wish us all the best, too.”
Pulis released a statement through the League Managers’ Association on Wednesday and insisted he was proud of his legacy at the Britannia Stadium. He said: “Although I am disappointed, I do understand what he [Coates] means when he says the board feels a need to take the club in a different direction.
“In leaving I am very proud of what we have all achieved. I have enjoyed some wonderful times at Stoke City and nobody was prouder than me when, after 23 years of exile from top-flight football we gained Premier League status.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/next-stoke-manager-gus-poyet-1905238?

Outgoing Stoke manager Tony Pulis has backed chairman Peter Coates’ decision to take the club in a “different direction.”

Pulis also admitted his disappointment at being shown the door after seven years in charge at the Britannia Stadium, and thanked the Potters' fans for being part of a “wonderful adventure.”

Stoke want to put a new managerial structure in place, which will involve a head coach working alongside their technical director, Mark Cartwright.

We understand Cartwright is championing Brighton manager Gus Poyet to replace Pulis, but moves have been held up because the Uruguayan is currently suspended by the Championship club, leaving his future in limbo.

Stoke would also like to speak to Wigan manager Roberto Martinez, whose future is in doubt following Latics' relegation to the Championship.

 

I've put £10 on Rafa becoming the next Stoke Manager. For all you praying to me to let it be him over Martinez, I'm afraid it would be unethical for me to get involved now I have put the bet on.

Sorry.

 

I know this isnt a TP thread but a little bird who new a man who had a sheep dog..... you know the gist..... Apparently they weren't going to sack him. There were obvious concerns and there had been heated debates leading upto the end of season - one being the transfer policy and comitment from the club. It has been suggested by the pigeon carrier that TP wnet into the end of season meeting with significant demands on the financial investment and deceelopment of teh accademy and also wanted to restructure and take full control of the recruitment and buying policy - effectively making the position of Director of Football null and void. ]

It is alledged that it was these lofty and unrealistic demands (based on his historical in these areas) and refusal to compromise and just operate in his coaching role that left the board (and dare I say Coates) with no alternative but to dismiss him. The truth will probably never come out but it could have been a ploy by TP to force the boards hand, to prevent a Director of Football taking control or just the fact that he viewed his skillset and position within the club as being higher than it was. Either way I just thought it was interesting from all points and given the rumblings of transfers and accademy leading up to the dismissal and him reeling off his CV at every opportunity there may be some truth in it.

 

Jesus Christ
If we do appoint Rafa I'll pay to watch you walk on water( across the Mersey) Amen to that!

 

Potts,

Shouldn't be that hard with the amount of shopping trolleys in it.