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Post by stokesaint1 on Jan 29, 2009 0:16:48 GMT
Realistically who have we got that can dictate a game like Modric did last night? I look at our midfield "collection" and I just don't get any inspiration. If ever we were crying out for just one outstanding signing before Monday 5pm, it is for a player who can inspire the rest of the team with sheer class, quality and skill. (Just like Alan Hudson did all those years ago)
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Post by craig1974 on Jan 29, 2009 0:19:11 GMT
I would like to see Koumas here and Ledley if poss . . . but we aint had an decent attacking midfielder since Kav . . .
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 29, 2009 0:19:55 GMT
Shit midfielder? Diao, Faye, Whelan, Seyi-take Your pick!  |
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Post by miffmister on Jan 29, 2009 0:20:44 GMT
Beckham on loan???
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Post by stokesaint1 on Jan 29, 2009 0:21:10 GMT
Sorry Craig, I'd pressed send before I'd finished. Now modified.
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Post by means on Jan 29, 2009 0:21:31 GMT
Shit midfielder? Diao, Faye, Whelan, Seyi-take Your pick! agreed. last night was the only time i've ever seen modric do anything. if you're question is "who can play really well for one game every season" then what answer do i want? |
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Post by stokesaint1 on Jan 29, 2009 0:22:21 GMT
Miff, don't like Beckham but that's exactly the sort of big name inspiration we need.
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Post by MrBigJobby on Jan 29, 2009 0:24:00 GMT
Beckham ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by stokesaint1 on Jan 29, 2009 0:26:59 GMT
Bayern/ Means. So who's our one match centre midfield inspiration? Noone I've seen this season. Just match after match mediocrity. We have a class centre half (maybe even two) and maybe even two class forwards (Cresswell and Pericard, sorry just joking), We just need a midfield general.
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Post by StatesideStokie on Jan 29, 2009 0:27:19 GMT
Realistically who have we got that can dictate a game like Modric did last night? I look at our midfield "collection" and I just don't get any inspiration. If ever we were crying out for just one outstanding signing before Monday 5pm, it is for a player who can inspire the rest of the team with sheer class, quality and skill. (Just like Alan Hudson did all those years ago) The fact is we have NEVER had anyone since Hudson, all those years ago. and nor are we likely to for the forseeable future. As for Modric, I haven't seen him inspire Spurs much with his "sheer class, quality and skill" on any other occaision this season, have you? One decent game does not a great player make. We can all dream of signing a Hudson, a Best, or a Ronaldo, but we fucking Stoke City, not Real Madrid. |
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Post by MrBigJobby on Jan 29, 2009 0:29:10 GMT
How about Beckham ?;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by PottersPride on Jan 29, 2009 0:30:37 GMT
i have too dissagree at the top faye and whelan have a odd off day but they are both key to us
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Post by means on Jan 29, 2009 0:31:24 GMT
Bayern/ Means. So who's our one match centre midfield inspiration? Noone I've seen this season. Just match after match mediocrity. We have a class centre half (maybe even two) and maybe even two class forwards (Cresswell and Pericard, sorry just joking), We just need a midfield general. so who would you suggest? beckham? as the cockney's would say, 'yooo avin a larfff!' we aint gonna get one duck, and if it means spending however many million it was on a light-weight like modric than i'd rather we didn't. our inspiration isn't about one outstanding player, not this season anyway, it's about team effort. |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 29, 2009 0:32:41 GMT
i have too dissagree at the top faye and whelan have a odd off day but they are both key to us I agree, I just wanted to make a point.  |
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Post by stokesaint1 on Jan 29, 2009 0:33:44 GMT
Stateside, if we hadn't peed £15 million (or whatever the figure is for our bench warmers Kitson, Oli, Soares, Tonge, etc. )down the drain on mediocrity, what could we have had????? By the way,from memory, Hudson cost us £240,000 at a time when million pound players were becoming common place.
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Post by means on Jan 29, 2009 0:36:37 GMT
Stateside, if we hadn't peed £15 million (or whatever the figure is for our bench warmers Kitson, Oli, Soares, Tonge, etc. )down the drain on mediocrity, what could we have had????? By the way,from memory, Hudson cost us £240,000 at a time when million pound players were becoming common place. ok i'll admit it i forgot, but i just checked and modric cost spuds £16.5M. who would you rather tp spent his money on? him or a much needed depth?? |
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Post by stokesaint1 on Jan 29, 2009 0:41:37 GMT
Means, Depth is fine if they get a game and they win you games, I don't recall much of our "depth" winning us many games.
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Post by trend....... on Jan 29, 2009 0:44:41 GMT
whelan is the best we have but we need better. |
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Post by stokesaint1 on Jan 29, 2009 0:45:22 GMT
Amdy Faye and Whelan are key??? What to? At best average to good run of the mill Championship players. They aren't going to dictate games and win us desperately needed Premiership points and status.
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Post by stokesaint1 on Jan 29, 2009 0:46:35 GMT
Tttttrend, absolutely spot on.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 29, 2009 0:53:57 GMT
Amdy Faye and Whelan are key??? What to? At best average to good run of the mill Championship players. They aren't going to dictate games and win us desperately needed Premiership points and status. They're the best we have, so they are key! They have to be! |
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Post by StatesideStokie on Jan 29, 2009 1:09:30 GMT
Stateside, if we hadn't peed £15 million (or whatever the figure is for our bench warmers Kitson, Oli, Soares, Tonge, etc. )down the drain on mediocrity, what could we have had????? By the way,from memory, Hudson cost us £240,000 at a time when million pound players were becoming common place. So if Man City are having 100 million bids turned down for world class midfielders, your 240k would equate to about 24 million squid. There is also the slight problem of convincing a "world class" midfield creator that Stoke is the place to be. Half a season in the Premier league and a long, hard relegation scrap are probably not the most appealing of scenarios for a budding young midfield genius. And you are right, we could have pissed the money we did have on one luxury player, but the chances are he would be fucking off back to Brazil at the first mention of championship football, leaving us with a massive wage bill and a squad so thin it would make Victoria Beckham look like a pie eating munter (copyright, RAF, before he pisses down his leg at someone using one of his "inventions") |
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Post by s8to on Jan 29, 2009 8:00:03 GMT
I dont think we have (or will have one) this season!!!
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