Mark Cartwright is ace

[bayernoatcake]

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Pisser talk about butt kissing excuse making garbage.

[sheikhmomo]

What a pathetic and sickening piece of club sponsored PR bollocks.

[samba :)]

I never realised he was the leek one town one

[stoneroses]

May 17, 2018 10:36:20 GMT sheikhmomo said:

What a pathetic and sickening piece of club sponsored PR bollocks.

The article keeps referring to his ‘Supporters’ who the fuck are they? Not one single person who has any affiliation with Stoke can say the recruitment have done a good job.

It’s a stomach turning PR stunt taking us all for fucking retards!

The one thing it looks like he does is ‘Tap Up’ players to see if they want to come which we are not allowed to do.

Pathetic from the club, pathetic from The Sentinel as per ...

[sheikhmomo]

They're just laughing at us now aren't they.

[scfcno1fan]

That is one of the most bizarre articles I’ve ever read.

Clearly getting ready for the structure change where he keeps his job, somehow.

If his job is what is described as well, it’s a load of bollocks.

[mrred]

May 17, 2018 10:36:20 GMT sheikhmomo said:

What a pathetic and sickening piece of club sponsored PR bollocks.

Yup. I don't think I've ever read something so blatant and equally demeaning. Are we seriously meant to swallow this as an investigative piece by Spinks? Fucking hell fire.

I look forward to tomorrows article:

"Why Tony Scholes is SO important to Stoke City"
Written by Tony Scholes

[rockthecity]

it was not me...... honest!!

[wakefieldstokie]

Classic he’s a ‘door opener’ with agents.

When ever I hear of a ‘door opener’ role in the business world it can roughly be translated into one of the following:

Blagger
Not qualified to do a particular role, so go under the guise of door opener, people person, gift of the gab, billy bullshitter.
Or the textbook ‘natural sales person’

Door opener, unbelievable, they think we’re as thick as fcuk they really do

[Vestan Pance]

Why can't i see it?

Fucking internet of things....

[scfcno1fan]

May 17, 2018 10:44:53 GMT mrred said:

May 17, 2018 10:36:20 GMT sheikhmomo said:

What a pathetic and sickening piece of club sponsored PR bollocks.

Yup. I don't think I've ever read something so blatant and equally demeaning. Are we seriously meant to swallow this as an investigative piece by Spinks? Fucking hell fire.

I look forward to tomorrows article:

"Why Tony Scholes is SO important to Stoke City"
Written by Tony Scholes

You joke but it is building up to that.

Followed by ‘Paul Lambert. The man, the leader, the hero’. Peter Coates.

[jonparkinsgut]

So its all Leslie's fault. What a contribution Cartwright makes, never realised it was so important. How can we possibly operate without him????

[WorkingclassHero]

ha ha ha, that is not a real article is it?

[GeneralFaye]

Shambles.

[mamathestriker]

Is Spinksy the club's official PR machine?

That article, if it's trying to make me feel better about Cartwright, has had the opposite effect. I'm still unsure what he does. It's clear he needs replacing. Why is he here?

The quote the club put out when he joined was he was effectively here to improve our transfer business. That is, for me, fees, wages, sales, players to buy etc? Being more savvy in the ever changing market, essentially. Since he's been here our transfers have been worse! I find it hard to imagine anyone would disagree with that.

It's a disgrace our local paper is allowed to put pieces like this out.

I'm also annoyed Cartwright seems to want nothing to do with the poor signings but is more than happy to take credit for the good ones. Surely it shouldn't work like that!

[WhyDelilah]

There's nothing wrong with the process.

Cartwright is godlike.

Wimmer
Berahino
Jese
Imbula
Haugard
Choupo

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So where are the changes going to take place in the management structure?

[mamathestriker]

And Mark Hughes IS mainly to blame for our demise.

But so is this clown too. I hate all this "it wasn't my fault it was his fault" malarkey.

[crouchpotato1]

As I keep saying the local media are an absolute disgrace.
Still waiting for Sandoz to get back to me on his thoughts about the lack of serious questioning of our hierarchy🙄

[alster]

May 17, 2018 10:42:00 GMT stoneroses said:

May 17, 2018 10:36:20 GMT sheikhmomo said:

What a pathetic and sickening piece of club sponsored PR bollocks.

The article keeps referring to his ‘Supporters’ who the fuck are they? Not one single person who has any affiliation with Stoke can say the recruitment have done a good job.

It’s a stomach turning PR stunt taking us all for fucking retards!

The one thing it looks like he does is ‘Tap Up’ players to see if they want to come which we are not allowed to do.

Pathetic from the club, pathetic from The Sentinel as per ...

Get fucking real.

[mamathestriker]

This is from his own mouth:

"Basically the biggest part of my job is the identifying and then the buying and selling any of the players that come into Stoke City from age 12 through to the first team." www.congletonhigh.com/253/mark-cartwright-technical-director-stoke-city-fc

And if he isn't involved with the final say, he needs to go too.

When he joined on 10th December 2012, the club said this:

"In an increasingly complex market, it's important that we are as organised, thorough and skilled in this area as possible."

Has he achieved that? Has he bollocks. He has to go.

[sufolkstokie]

Expect the same sycophantic crap on Lambert soon

NO ONE AT THIS BLOODY CLUB will stand up and be counted

Not everything is the previuso managers fault

What a rotting core of a club we have become

[cousindupree]

It's a reasonable confirmation of what he does and I accept that. But as Tech Director he is a real pygmy compared to say the recent acquisition at Everton. His CV is poor and even time spent at Beswicks was pretty much small time players and agents.
It's another example of SCFC making poor decisions on recruiting key senior staff. By all means have him around to work with agents but Tech Director...its a joke.
Anyhow Spinksy who do you think is responsible for recruiting scouts and managing the relationships? The tea lady??
Yes let's heap all the blame on Hughes and nameless scouts while the man responsible at the top dodges the bullets. And this is a business with a 100m turnover...quite laughable.

[Vestan Pance]

Just read it.

So, according to the Sentinel, he employed basically because he knows a few agents?

What a load of unmitigated bollocks. Just clone his fucking sim card.

That's made me angry that has.

[itsmorethanagame]

I don’t understand all the vitriol personally.

Ultimately the buck stops with the manager. Was Cartwright supposed to tell Hughes he couldn’t have Berahinio or Wimmer even though the financials worked and they were Hughes’s top targets? Imagine if they then went on to br top signings for a rival, he would have been slated on here. In that case he’s on a hiding to nothing either way.

I don’t know the ins and outs of the different job roles though seemingly plenty on here do know the finer details. If the club back him and think he’s doing a good job then I’m prepared to accept that as they are likely to be more knowledgeable on the subject than me.

[maxdecarlo]

what a surprise the only 2 recent transfers down to him are bauer and badou- by sheer coincidence most fans would agree they were decent buys! what a load of absolute crap- didnt eddie N say hughes had sorted bauer deal? we deserve to go down and be no surprises if we do a sunderland with these clowns in charge ffs pathetic

[robrigo]

What a load of bollocks this is.

There all going to be here next season aren’t they. And so we will carry on as before- except in a division lower.

Overhaul.....?

[mrred]

Cartwright can usually be seen in the directors’ box at Stoke games, however, and rarely goes and physically watches a particular player himself.

Yeah, I don't think anyone believes he gets up off his fat arse to do any work himself.

His role is to open doors by using his contacts with the agents of players, discovering if they fancy Stoke, what their current contract arrangements are and what sort of contract they would want to join the Potters.

Just as we suspected. A fucking chancer. Probably used the same bullshit speil and buzzwords to get himself a job here.

His role is also to constantly update his database on players so that a certain amount of background information, albeit largely statistical, is to hand if a player appears on Stoke’s radar.

He's got a laptop with Football Manager 2014 on. The club have denied several requests for FM17/18 due to 'budget' reasons.

[andystokey]

Absolutely shocking diatribe that any self respecting Journalist would have put in the bin the minute they received it from the club.
It's so one sided to be ridiculous.

Totally highlights the Coates letter as a piss taking PR platitude. Embarrassing.


Leads the way for the sum total of fuck all to change.