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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 11:42:33 GMT
Hate twitter sometimes, when idiots get likes for spouting rubbish they know nothing about. Bollocks to any notion that Bojan didn't succeed at Stoke in the first place and it was certainly not because of a lack of hard work. /rantover Haha, not exactly young as well is he? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 11:42:35 GMT
Christ, they're on form today. This is the thin end of the wedge from Hughes. He made a team that played attractive football and this should be one of his last acts in dismantling that team and reverting to what came before. This has to be his last season. The last 18 months have been atrocious to watch and it's just not good enough. Good luck Bojan, you'll be missed. A bit of perspective for you: 28 points at this stage is only a point behind our best-ever season, where we ended up with 54 points. Perspective isn't in his dictionary. Knee jerk and knicker wetting are however.... |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 29, 2017 11:43:11 GMT
Christ, they're on form today. This is the thin end of the wedge from Hughes. He made a team that played attractive football and this should be one of his last acts in dismantling that team and reverting to what came before. This has to be his last season. The last 18 months have been atrocious to watch and it's just not good enough. Good luck Bojan, you'll be missed. It does make you question the sanity in the minds of the management team when they give Crouch an extra year and then ship Bojan out of the door. New contracts for Adam and Walters to follow. It's absolutely crazy what happening. We sign a bloke who thrives on through balls and get rid of the only player we have centrally who can play them. Oh well. |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 29, 2017 11:44:30 GMT
Christ, they're on form today. This is the thin end of the wedge from Hughes. He made a team that played attractive football and this should be one of his last acts in dismantling that team and reverting to what came before. This has to be his last season. The last 18 months have been atrocious to watch and it's just not good enough. Good luck Bojan, you'll be missed. A bit of perspective for you: 28 points at this stage is only a point behind our best-ever season, where we ended up with 54 points. And? The football had been utterly shite to watch. More dull than last season and that was fucking dull. |
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Post by superheroantonius on Jan 29, 2017 11:45:29 GMT
He's no idiot, he knows this is the last chance saloon for his career.
But that is still a chance
Hope he can do well there
Good luck to him :-)
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Post by MilanStokie on Jan 29, 2017 11:45:32 GMT
Disappointed to see him go, I'd have preferred him to stay and earn his way back into the team. I find this loan move really strange, aren't Mainz a mid level German team? Can they afford his wages or are we subbing part? Were there no teams of a "higher calibre" than this lot interested in him? At least I don't have to eat my left nut as he didn't go to Celtic  They're not a bad outfit, could say they are very comparable to stoke. spent some recent time in Europe and we're even pushing champions league spots until late on last season. hope we see him again but it's unlikely. I will never forget his moments of magic vs spurs and arsenal in particular. bit of a sad day to be fair. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 11:45:38 GMT
Christ, they're on form today. This is the thin end of the wedge from Hughes. He made a team that played attractive football and this should be one of his last acts in dismantling that team and reverting to what came before. This has to be his last season. The last 18 months have been atrocious to watch and it's just not good enough. Good luck Bojan, you'll be missed. I would disagree on kicking him out, but it's very much similar to what Pulis did at the end of his reign. Brought in class, style (or relatively so) in people like Adam and Nzonzi. Worked for a while, then as soon as he hit a tiny run of poor form, reverted completely to type and ditched all the skill and craft. Halfway through last season we were playing the best football I've ever seen a Stoke team play, and it genuinely felt like we were contenders for Europe. fast forward 12 months and Hughes has loaned out one of our most creative and stylish players, and effectively replaced him with a midfield battler in Joe Allen. I love Joe but he's we're not going to be playing free flowing football with him as a number 10. My only clinging hope is that Hughes has recognised that Berahino won't be match fit for a long time, he's decided to just get to the end of this season by battling, and he's told Boj 'come back next season, we'll play football again.' |
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Post by enuntio on Jan 29, 2017 11:45:49 GMT
A loan is hopefully good for Bojan and better for Stoke in the long run
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Post by ashleyscfc on Jan 29, 2017 11:46:36 GMT
Very strange
Steven Ireland is the only recognised number 10 in that squad for me now.
Joe Allen, the one man pressing unit it becoming ineffective as he does the work for the stand snouts that play behind him.
The dream of seeing Allen, affellay and bojan in a midfield 3 is over.
Strange decision, should we be losing players of his quality who are fit? Who are we bringing in that's better?
Feels like another in a long list of transfer fuck ups
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 11:48:49 GMT
It does make you question the sanity in the minds of the management team when they give Crouch an extra year and then ship Bojan out of the door. New contracts for Adam and Walters to follow. It's absolutely crazy what happening. We sign a bloke who thrives on through balls and get rid of the only player we have centrally who can play them. Oh well. 100% correct The problem we've always had is getting the service to our strikers Without those channels the strikers, whoever they are, simply don't score many goals |
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Post by parsons75 on Jan 29, 2017 11:49:40 GMT
Excellent end to the weekend |
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Post by sufolkstokie on Jan 29, 2017 11:50:08 GMT
Unless he has worked out that Shaq's best position is number 10 with Sobhi out on the wing?
Oh well, Walters it is
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 29, 2017 11:50:13 GMT
Spinksy doesn't seem to be anticipating a Bojan return in the summer
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Post by pulismaskreplica on Jan 29, 2017 11:51:47 GMT
Points to a change in style and formation by Hughes permanently. I can't see us signing a replacement and Bojan hasn't been playing much anyway. Maybe we will go with 2 strikers and a traditional 4 man midfield after all
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Post by FakeStokeBloke on Jan 29, 2017 11:51:52 GMT
Hate twitter sometimes, when idiots get likes for spouting rubbish they know nothing about. Bollocks to any notion that Bojan didn't succeed at Stoke in the first place and it was certainly not because of a lack of hard work. /rantover Haha, not exactly young as well is he? Precisely! Worst thing about it, it's been 'liked' by TWO 'Stoke fans' I'm in disbelief... |
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Post by juiceandbits on Jan 29, 2017 11:52:16 GMT
A bit of perspective for you: 28 points at this stage is only a point behind our best-ever season, where we ended up with 54 points. And? The football had been utterly shite to watch. More dull than last season and that was fucking dull. You want the manager to leave halfway through the season when we could quite reasonably have an excellent second half, and have our best ever season? How does that make any sense? Large parts of last year were terrible, but it's not like he hasn't demonstrated the capacity to play good football more often than not. And the loaning (not selling I might add) of Bojan hardly means Berahino isn't going to thrive. We have players with his skillset. |
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Post by teskofc on Jan 29, 2017 11:52:20 GMT
My only clinging hope is that Hughes has recognised that Berahino won't be match fit for a long time, he's decided to just get to the end of this season by battling, and he's told Boj 'come back next season, we'll play footballagain.' Genuinely chuffed to know I'm not the only one hanging on to this shred of light. I can't help but think this could actually be a master stroke? |
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Post by parsons75 on Jan 29, 2017 11:52:50 GMT
Christ, they're on form today. This is the thin end of the wedge from Hughes. He made a team that played attractive football and this should be one of his last acts in dismantling that team and reverting to what came before. This has to be his last season. The last 18 months have been atrocious to watch and it's just not good enough. Good luck Bojan, you'll be missed. You're like a broken fucking record..... How do you think he got to 88k posts? |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 29, 2017 11:54:43 GMT
And? The football had been utterly shite to watch. More dull than last season and that was fucking dull. You want the manager to leave halfway through the season when we could quite reasonably have an excellent second half, and have our best ever season? How does that make any sense? Large parts of last year were terrible, but it's not like he hasn't demonstrated the capacity to play good football more often than not. And the releasing (not selling I might add) of Bojan hardly means we Berahino isn't going to thrive. We have players with his skillset. Because it's tedious to watch and I couldn't really care we finish and the season ended when we lost to Wolves? Who? Fat Adam? Runner Allen? Crabby Afellay? Nah. |
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Post by teagles05 on Jan 29, 2017 11:55:30 GMT
Unfortunately for the little fella our best number 10 this year has been asked to press high up and basically be our first defender, Bojan isn't that sort of player so has gone missing during games and been left out the side as a result. Maybe if he was in the false 9 role it may have been a different story..Worth the gamble but sadly the Knee injury has ruined his stoke career...Thanks for everything Bojan lad, all the best!!
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Post by fishlovesoatcakes on Jan 29, 2017 11:55:44 GMT
Great for all parties. He'll hopefully get back to his best and will start more games. If he does, we get him back and will have saved a few grand in the process.
Good luck Bojan, I'll be looking forward to seeing how you progress.
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Post by claytonscrubs on Jan 29, 2017 11:56:38 GMT
If he wasn't such a pretty boy would we be seeing this overreaction ?..Wish the lad the luck , but his cameo performance against Wolves finished it off for me..He didn't look interested !!!
Right, ...time to put the pork chops in the oven..
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Post by pottarius on Jan 29, 2017 11:56:40 GMT
Odd move TBH - can imagine Stoke will be paying a fair percent of his wages too so does not really make much financial sense
I hope he does well, not to rub Hughes' nose in it but to get his confidence back. With Mainz' league position I doubt he'll have European football as an incentive to stay but as others have said I think the only way he'll be back in our shirt will be if Hughes is shown the door in the summer
Wonder if Shaq is next? The BMX may soon be a unicycle
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 29, 2017 11:58:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 12:02:19 GMT
I really hope he can shine, and come back the player we all know he is!
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Post by elystokie on Jan 29, 2017 12:04:00 GMT
Always been fully behind MH, but that's definitely Strike 1 for me.
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Post by gonk on Jan 29, 2017 12:05:14 GMT
You want the manager to leave halfway through the season when we could quite reasonably have an excellent second half, and have our best ever season? How does that make any sense? Large parts of last year were terrible, but it's not like he hasn't demonstrated the capacity to play good football more often than not. And the releasing (not selling I might add) of Bojan hardly means we Berahino isn't going to thrive. We have players with his skillset. Because it's tedious to watch and I couldn't really care we finish and the season ended when we lost to Wolves? Who? Fat Adam? Runner Allen? Crabby Afellay? Nah. I would say those players want to play for Stoke.As what's going on in the game now ,if it's not going for the player they what out. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 12:09:36 GMT
Because it's tedious to watch and I couldn't really care we finish and the season ended when we lost to Wolves? Who? Fat Adam? Runner Allen? Crabby Afellay? Nah. I would say those players want to play for Stoke.As what's going on in the game now ,if it's not going for the player they what out. Bojan wanted to play. He just wasn't, even when the football was turgid shite. He's leaving to play football. No one should begrudge him that. |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jan 29, 2017 12:09:56 GMT
Because it's tedious to watch and I couldn't really care we finish and the season ended when we lost to Wolves? Who? Fat Adam? Runner Allen? Crabby Afellay? Nah. I would say those players want to play for Stoke.As what's going on in the game now ,if it's not going for the player they what out. So does Bojan, he just not been given the chance/same leeway as those. |
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Post by pottersrule on Jan 29, 2017 12:14:44 GMT
You want the manager to leave halfway through the season when we could quite reasonably have an excellent second half, and have our best ever season? How does that make any sense? Large parts of last year were terrible, but it's not like he hasn't demonstrated the capacity to play good football more often than not. And the releasing (not selling I might add) of Bojan hardly means we Berahino isn't going to thrive. We have players with his skillset. Because it's tedious to watch and I couldn't really care we finish and the season ended when we lost to Wolves? Who? Fat Adam? Runner Allen? Crabby Afellay? Nah. You couldn't care where we finish? What a bizarre thing for a fan to say.I personally hope it's not in the bottom 3,but it would suit some of the Contrarians on here. |
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