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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jan 17, 2019 15:21:15 GMT
Is it pot luck? They haven’t drawn those names out of a hat have they? Is it not good judgement? Though Pulis is lucky Higgy talked him into signing Ric over Dexter Blackstock... My point being, is that these players where cast as failures at their respective clubs, our managers saw something in them and took the chance that others didn’t. Stein languishing in the reserves at Oxford, he came on loan and wasn’t a instant success but Macari persevered and Stein became a all time hero, Sheron a big money flop, Fuller injury prone rebell, Arnie maverick bad boy all these heroes had the talent but at the point they came to Stoke their respective careers had reached a crossroads. If you don’t believe in luck remember when we beat Cardiff in the playoffs when the ball went in off Soulares arse ! We never saw him again due to illness but he could have gone on to be a record goal scorer, you just don’t know ? He’s still a hero even if I can’t spell his name ! I do believe in luck, I just think generally transfers aren't pot luck. Seeing something in a player another club doesn't and it paying off is shrewd business.
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Post by onefatcopper on Jan 17, 2019 18:50:51 GMT
My point being, is that these players where cast as failures at their respective clubs, our managers saw something in them and took the chance that others didn’t. Stein languishing in the reserves at Oxford, he came on loan and wasn’t a instant success but Macari persevered and Stein became a all time hero, Sheron a big money flop, Fuller injury prone rebell, Arnie maverick bad boy all these heroes had the talent but at the point they came to Stoke their respective careers had reached a crossroads. If you don’t believe in luck remember when we beat Cardiff in the playoffs when the ball went in off Soulares arse ! We never saw him again due to illness but he could have gone on to be a record goal scorer, you just don’t know ? He’s still a hero even if I can’t spell his name ! I do believe in luck, I just think generally transfers aren't pot luck. Seeing something in a player another club doesn't and it paying off is shrewd business. And unfortunately that seems to be Stoke’s Achilles heel, for that one piece of shrewd business we make the multi million pound disaster on a player/players who on paper or media platforms have all the attributes needed ? But football isn’t played on a piece of A4 paper or a PC monitor, it’s played on the green stuff ! But unlike the good old days it’s too much trouble for the Manager or Footballing Technical Director to get off their gluteus maximus and check out a player in the flesh unless it’s somewhere sunny and on the continent.
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