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Post by crouchpotato1 on May 22, 2020 11:25:28 GMT
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Post by roylandstoke on May 22, 2020 12:09:00 GMT
I'm surprised he could find the energy to have thoughts.
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Post by Bramolini on May 22, 2020 12:19:51 GMT
I'm surprised he could find the energy to have thoughts. 😁😁😁 |
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Post by Widget123 on May 22, 2020 13:06:20 GMT
He's either been misquoted (given his reluctance to learn English whilst he was here that seems plausible) or has the financial and contractual acumen of Donald Trump.
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Post by lordb on May 22, 2020 14:18:26 GMT
Imbula's thoughts 'I don't want to be here'
'I don't want to put in any effort at any club for any any manager'
'I don't want to give up my huge contract'
'where is Sochi again?'
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Post by cerebralstokie on May 22, 2020 14:27:03 GMT
It seems tome that he did not grasp the meaning of the word "commitment" and all that this entailed.
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Post by Timmypotter on May 22, 2020 14:44:33 GMT
After his first few Nzonzi-esque performances it looked like we'd got a world beater. So frustrating when a player has talent and simply can't be arsed.
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Post by biglad180 on May 22, 2020 14:48:38 GMT
if ever there was a footballer who should have all is money taken off him its got to be imbula,thought after a few games we had dropped on our own Yaya.Toure, but he turned out to be a lazy good for nothing tosser,
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Post by RAF on May 22, 2020 14:59:38 GMT
A shithouse of epic proportions!
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2020 15:10:40 GMT
We can blame him all you want but if you're paying near 20 million for someone you do your due-diligence, we clearly didn't. He's a shitbag but it's not his fault we're careless enough to end up with a turd like him.
As for the idea we couldn't expect it, I struggle to believe they could have sat down in an interview with that man and believed he gave a toss.
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Post by wakeypotter on May 22, 2020 15:16:38 GMT
We can blame him all you want but if you're paying near 20 million for someone you do your due-diligence, we clearly didn't. He's a shitbag but it's not his fault we're careless enough to end up with a turd like him. As for the idea we couldn't expect it, I struggle to believe they could have sat down in an interview with that man and believed he gave a toss. This isn’t the first time You have talked out of your arse is it. Of course it’s his fault he doesn’t put any effort in not the clubs |
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Post by nott1 on May 22, 2020 15:20:19 GMT
How can he call it a career?
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on May 22, 2020 16:19:45 GMT
Gianelli who? I'd almost forgotten about the waster
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Post by LiverpoolStokie on May 22, 2020 16:49:24 GMT
Isn't the title of the thread an oxymoron?
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 22, 2020 16:52:30 GMT
We can blame him all you want but if you're paying near 20 million for someone you do your due-diligence, we clearly didn't. He's a shitbag but it's not his fault we're careless enough to end up with a turd like him. As for the idea we couldn't expect it, I struggle to believe they could have sat down in an interview with that man and believed he gave a toss. This isn’t the first time You have talked out of your arse is it. Of course it’s his fault he doesn’t put any effort in not the clubs It's both surely? The warning signs were there with a club selling him so soon after signing him nevermind anything else. |
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Post by wakeypotter on May 22, 2020 17:05:53 GMT
This isn’t the first time You have talked out of your arse is it. Of course it’s his fault he doesn’t put any effort in not the clubs It's both surely? The warning signs were there with a club selling him so soon after signing him nevermind anything else. I don’t think it is. I mean after the first half a dozen games or so everyone couldn’t believe how good he was. If you as a club had watch him play those games you wouldn’t hesitate to sign him. Whether something happened behind the scenes after those games we don’t know but he’s been a lazy shit. |
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Post by telfordstokie on May 22, 2020 17:14:04 GMT
We can blame him all you want but if you're paying near 20 million for someone you do your due-diligence, we clearly didn't. He's a shitbag but it's not his fault we're careless enough to end up with a turd like him. As for the idea we couldn't expect it, I struggle to believe they could have sat down in an interview with that man and believed he gave a toss. In fairness, he definitely had talent - just an awful attitude. Hughes had made a success of Arnie who came with arguably more baggage than Imbula at the time of his move so presume management and the club thought/hoped he’d be able to repeat the same trick. |
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Post by eddy on May 22, 2020 17:14:30 GMT
I'm living in Russia now and following the RPL by default and hadn't even realised he had moved here. I live in Moscow so I'll definitely go along and see him when he plays my side (Lokomotiv). If he even manages to make their squad. Fucking waste of space. It'll be worth the rubles just to go and call him a lazy wanker.
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Post by somersetstokie on May 22, 2020 18:27:32 GMT
Imbula said “I had many club proposals and I even had the opportunity to go to a large French club"
I would argue that at Stoke in the Premier league he was already at the biggest club of his career, unless you count Porto, where he lasted about 6 months.
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Post by lordb on May 22, 2020 18:32:46 GMT
Imbula said “I had many club proposals and I even had the opportunity to go to a large French club" I would argue that at Stoke in the Premier league he was already at the biggest club of his career, unless you count Porto, where he lasted about 6 months. Marseille and Porto dwarf Stoke however we provided the Premier League stage. |
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Post by redstriper on May 22, 2020 18:37:30 GMT
I've never got the myth of how wonderful he was over the first few games... I saw one good game for us (plus one in cologne playing against us) and several where he kept losing the ball trying to do too much.
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Post by Bullseye on May 22, 2020 18:39:33 GMT
He can go fuck himself.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2020 18:48:09 GMT
Wimmer has also said he's too good for Stoke and feels that he should be at a club like spurs .
Likewise berahino , who also believed he should be at a club like spurs
Of course all 3 of them are deluded .
But so are Stoke for spending millions on players who don't want to be here .
Quite simply, mark Hughes , mark Cartwright and Tony scholes are clueless.
And how scholes is still here, nobody knows .
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2020 18:49:44 GMT
After his first few Nzonzi-esque performances it looked like we'd got a world beater. So frustrating when a player has talent and simply can't be arsed. He was "arsed". Your own description of him prove that. But he was frozen out. Then he reacted by virtually going on strike (as even Walters did). He also didn't help himself in so many ways. |
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Post by lordb on May 22, 2020 18:51:09 GMT
Wimmer has also said he's too good for Stoke and feels that he should be at a club like spurs . Likewise berahino , who also believed he should be at a club like spurs Of course all 3 of them are deluded . But so are Stoke for spending millions on players who don't want to be here . Quite simply, mark Hughes , mark Cartwright and Tony scholes are clueless. And how scholes is still here, nobody knows . None of those were Cartwright's signings. Berahino is Hughes and Hughes only. Imbula looks like his fault too Wimmer...the sky high fee and huge salary you can blame Scholes for. |
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Post by roylandstoke on May 22, 2020 18:59:22 GMT
After his first few Nzonzi-esque performances it looked like we'd got a world beater. So frustrating when a player has talent and simply can't be arsed. He was "arsed". Your own description of him prove that. But he was frozen out. Then he reacted by virtually going on strike (as even Walters did). He also didn't help himself in so many ways. I was never the biggest fan of SJW but I can not accept that he deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as Imbula. |
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Post by mattythestokie on May 22, 2020 19:20:18 GMT
He was some player in them 5/6 games he did turn up.
So frustrating because you can see he could have had it all.
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Post by somersetstokie on May 22, 2020 19:51:31 GMT
Imbula said “I had many club proposals and I even had the opportunity to go to a large French club" I would argue that at Stoke in the Premier league he was already at the biggest club of his career, unless you count Porto, where he lasted about 6 months. Marseille and Porto dwarf Stoke however we provided the Premier League stage. I'm a Stoke fan. It is of course misguided faith but as such I would always regard Stoke as being bigger than most foreign based teams like Marseilles and Porto.  |
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Post by bayernoatcake on May 22, 2020 20:58:12 GMT
It's both surely? The warning signs were there with a club selling him so soon after signing him nevermind anything else. I don’t think it is. I mean after the first half a dozen games or so everyone couldn’t believe how good he was. If you as a club had watch him play those games you wouldn’t hesitate to sign him. Whether something happened behind the scenes after those games we don’t know but he’s been a lazy shit. There were some of us who spotted it early on  And that’s not hindsight, there were DMs flying around 😂 |
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Post by boskampsflaps on May 22, 2020 21:18:10 GMT
Wimmer has also said he's too good for Stoke and feels that he should be at a club like spurs . Likewise berahino , who also believed he should be at a club like spurs Of course all 3 of them are deluded . But so are Stoke for spending millions on players who don't want to be here . Quite simply, mark Hughes , mark Cartwright and Tony scholes are clueless. And how scholes is still here, nobody knows . None of those were Cartwright's signings. Berahino is Hughes and Hughes only. Imbula looks like his fault too Wimmer...the sky high fee and huge salary you can blame Scholes for.That depends on what Huges said re the price and how big a pleyer he thought he would become for us. |
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