TP 'kidnapped' Beattie

[cousindupree]

www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/stokecity/4735481/James-Beattie-is-excited-by-life-back-in-the-Premier-League-with-Stoke-City.html

According to the article in the Telegraph. We often criticise SCFC management at taking so long to sign players....the Beattie signature seems to have been a planned and co-ordinated get our man strategy!!

[truckerged]

could be the most important signing by tp ever

[MrMagic]

I like this quote -

"When he signed me, he'd have seen from my time at Southampton that the best way to use me was with two wingers getting crosses in. He said he wanted to do that but it never happened."

It could refer to one of our major signings

[stokie25]

"I get down here and the doctor's there, the physio's there", Beattie says. "Before I knew it they had me stripped down to my underpants doing a medical. The gaffer said, 'Great! I'll see you for training at 10 o'clock tomorrow and you can play against Liverpool on Saturday.' I felt like I'd been kidnapped!"

That quote cracked me up ;D

While the transfer didn't happen quite that quickly in the end, it's easy to understand Pulis's haste, what with Hull and Blackburn also interested in a player very happy at Sheffield United before the board decided to offload their highest wage earner.

...and lo and behold Hull were after him

[stokietillidied]

They mentioned that on SSN lol. funny as fcuk!