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Post by Caddick988 on Feb 16, 2024 9:55:05 GMT
I thought JPB looked a good player during his time with us and was gutted when he ended up going to Cardiff last year as I would have liked him back. Not surprised to see him putting up some good numbers this year.
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Post by moon on Feb 16, 2024 9:59:35 GMT
He was on loan, he didn’t look great, he was injured quite a bit. You can’t win ‘em all. He looks like he will be a good player at this point but who knows, same with Clarke. They both look decent now but neither warranted another spell at the time There is also no guarantee that Clarke and Philogene would have had the same sort of success had they been at Stoke this season, in all likelihood we’d still be shit and they’d be slated on here every week.
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Post by FullerMagic on Feb 16, 2024 10:23:01 GMT
It'd be interesting to know how close we came to getting him. It looks like we were massively in for him. Whether he was just more into the Hull offer, who knows? www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stoke-hull-transfer-jaden-philogene-8952818There was a time in the summer transfer window when there were short odds on Jaden Philogene returning to Stoke City, where he had shown glimpses of his potential during a loan spell two seasons previously. Alex Neil - who later admitted "heavily pursuing" the forward - was disappointed to miss out. He wasn't the only one who slipped through the net but, three months on, it's already tempting to look on enviously at what might have been. Players rarely look the finished product in their early loans, especially the first, and then it can all come together in their second or third - but there was easily enough to see that he was going to be a really good player. I was less sure with Delap or Jack Clarke, but it's gone the same way with them.
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Post by silsdenstokie on Feb 16, 2024 10:45:12 GMT
He didn't look anything like a £5m player when he was here though. File this under Jack Clarke and proberbly Cundle. Alfie Doughty aswell
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Post by andromeda on Feb 16, 2024 12:46:34 GMT
Looking a real player now but it would have been a big gamble in the summer to pay what Hull did. Knowing our luck with signings we would have signed him and he turned out to be another dud. Either way good luck to him as looks like he is starting to fulfil his potential.
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