|
|
Post by richardparker on Mar 5, 2021 14:45:34 GMT
Good luck Ryan! Thanks for the memories.
You're an All-time Stoke City Legend!
|
|
|
|
Post by mrteddysalad on Mar 13, 2021 3:32:10 GMT
Was hoping to order a Ryan personalized jersey on the SCFC site while I still can, but all the sizes are gone except for S and XXXXXXL
|
|
4ndr3w
Academy Starlet
Posts: 178
|
Post by 4ndr3w on Mar 14, 2021 17:54:32 GMT
Alongside Fuller, my favourite ever player for us.
Shame he couldn’t end his playing days here but a good move for him. Will keep an eye on there results
|
|
|
|
Post by crouchpotato1 on Mar 16, 2021 12:22:41 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by davejohnno1 on Mar 16, 2021 14:07:34 GMT
Is it illegal to share the article? Heading for retirement? Had he accepted his career was over then? I wonder regularly how far away Ryan must have been from a level of fitness which would mean he could function effectively at our current level? How could he possibly be worse than Chester and Batth? O'Neill seems to believe he needs "good types" in the dressing room, hence Chester and Mikel but if Ryan was even remotely fit, then we certainly don't need Chester. He must have been miles away from the required fitness levels. |
|
|
|
Post by RF10 on Mar 16, 2021 19:06:45 GMT
Can the text be copied at all? |
|
|
|
Post by The man from Utch on Mar 17, 2021 18:31:23 GMT
Football shows and fans over here are making a huge fuss about Miami's recruitment. They've just seen an article or video where Ryan said he was about to retire and go into coaching, then got a call from Phil Neville selling sunny Miami to him before signing. Kieran Gibbs apparently is following him after his contract is up at the end of the season. Can't see what all the fuss is about myself.
|
|
|
|
Post by boweryboy on Mar 20, 2021 9:37:10 GMT
Thanks for the memories Ryan.certainly it's an end of an era for me, don't think we will reach the heights we did with you as captain ever again to be honest,you and Huth were phenomenal together,and thanks for sticking with Stoke City for almost all of your career, good luck to you in the future,and your family 👍👏👏
|
|
|
|
Post by th05 on Mar 20, 2021 9:51:19 GMT
Ever since deciding to make the move from Stoke-on-Trent to Miami, where he will spend the next two years with David Beckham and Phil Neville, Ryan Shawcross has been unable to avoid the inevitable question.
Can he do it on a balmy evening in south Florida?
We will find out next month when Shawcross jets out to begin the final chapter of his playing career with Inter Miami, the ambitious Major League Soccer franchise co-owned by Beckham and now managed by Neville.
It is an unexpected yet exciting opportunity, and Shawcross is itching to get started after waving farewell to Stoke, the club where he played for 14 years in a wonderful carpet ride of indelible memories.
“It came completely out of the blue and now I just want to get over there and get going,” he says over Zoom.
“It was a strange one because my Stoke contract was coming to an end this summer and they weren’t going to extend it, which was absolutely fair enough.
I’ve been fit for a while and not getting in the team for whatever reason, so I was leaning towards retiring and moving into coaching. Then my agent [Chris Lomas] called and said he had a brilliant offer.
“I spoke to Phil, just to make sure it was what I wanted to do. I didn’t want to go out there for a jolly-up, but straight away I was fully on board with what he said.”
Shawcross has signed a two-year deal and his capture is seen as a huge coup for Inter Miami, who are preparing for their second season in MLS.
Neville was appointed as head coach in January, in a clear sign of the club’s determination to make an impact in the Magic City this season.
Beckham has been virtually ever-present at the club’s training base in Fort Lauderdale this year, with the squad reporting for pre-season training last Monday.
“David has sent me a few text messages and I played with him in a few England squads when I was younger,” says Shawcross. “He does everything right and over the next decade or so it’s going to be a huge success.
They are taking it very seriously and they’re going places. If it’s not done properly I’ve always had a problem with things, but the set-up at Miami is first-class.
“It comes from the Manchester United academy, all the players they produce have this DNA where the standards have to be high.
“It all comes from the great man, Sir Alex [Ferguson]. You very rarely come across a bad egg who was in the United academy, they are all solid characters and usually go on to have good careers.”
Not even Shawcross could have envisaged the career he would have at Stoke, after joining as a raw teenager from United.
He was persuaded to sign by Tony Pulis in 2007 with Stoke in the Championship, making the move permanent in January for a fee of just £1 million.m
Promotion to the Premier League soon followed and those early years at the Britannia Stadium were remarkable, a throwback to a golden era when the team, city and supporters united as one.
Shawcross was the emblem of Stoke’s rise, a warrior centre-half who epitomised their unbreakable spirit, making over 450 appearances before making his life-changing decision earlier this year.
Over the last few weeks I’ve looked back at pictures and videos of what we achieved, and you can’t help but be grateful to have been involved with it,” he says.
“There were so many highs, so many great people and to have played such a small part of it is something I’ll never forget.
“We were written off as one of the favourites to get relegated, and that was in the Championship! After we got promoted the bookies paid out on us going down after one game, but what a ride it was.
“We found a way of playing that teams found really difficult. We had so many weapons to win games. Every home game felt like an event because the club had been out of the top-flight for so long.”
After guiding Stoke to an FA Cup Final and the last 32 of the Europa League, Pulis was replaced by Mark Hughes in 2013 and the club then went in a different direction, signing players from Barcelona and reshaping their style of play.
Yet they still relished their reputation as big-game hunters, regularly infuriating the likes of Arsene Wenger.
For us to go again under Hughes, and play some of the best football in the country, was unbelievable. We finished ninth three years running but I look back now and think we should have done better,” says Shawcross.
“He’s the best manager I’ve ever played under. His tactics were unbelievable. We went from being a so-called long-ball team under Tony Pulis to playing with Bojan as a ‘false nine’ with no striker. Everyone had to change their game.”
'We had a squad full of tough men'
Shawcross points to the iron-strong spirit of the dressing room as crucial in those days where Stoke turned putting noses out of joint into an art form.
“We had a squad full of tough men for five to six years. If there was ever a problem it would be sorted there and then.
“We brought in players who had bad reputations but they came in and the core of the dressing room was so good they couldn’t penetrate it.
“We had a spine of Asmir [Begovic], [Robert] Huthy, Rory [Delap], Walts [Jon Walters] and Glenn Whelan. If training or the tactics weren’t very good, they’d say something.”
The camaraderie among those players never wavered, and Shawcross chuckles when he is reminded of the infamous story involving the pig’s head.
With the 2012/13 season winding to a close, mischief was in the air and the bloody remains were left in Kenwyne Jones’s dressing room locker by a prankster, later revealed to be Walters.
“The pig’s head had been building up all year,” says Shawcross, laughing. “It started off with something really silly like tomato ketchup in a washbag, and then near the end came the pig’s head.
“There was a case of mistaken identity and Kenwyne threw a brick through Glenn Whelan’s car window. Great times!”
There was no doubting Stoke’s professionalism, though, and Shawcross’ consistency earned him a call-up to the England squad in November 2012.
It had been a long time coming, but Shawcross endured a difficult evening against a Sweden team inspired by the brilliance of Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Sweden won 4-2 with Ibrahimovic scoring all the goals, and Shawcross’ international career ended before it began after just 16 minutes as a substitute.
It’s not something I look back on too fondly! It was my decision to stay at Stoke, who were probably an unfashionable team, but managers aren’t idiots and if I’d have been playing that well I would have been picked more regularly.
“You can’t look back with regrets or hold any grudges. I got my chance, it wasn’t very long, but you have to perform in those small moments and I didn’t.”
Shawcross, 33, is now fully focused on his future, and is scheduled for a meeting with the US Embassy next week for his visa. His wife Kath and children Freddie, Lexie and Luca will also join him in Miami and the season opener is against LA Galaxy on April 18.
“It’s going to be a new experience for us. If I’d got the offer and my family had said no, I wouldn’t have gone. I’m a family man and it would have been pointless me going out there by myself.
“It’s massive for all of us. I can’t wait to get out there and enjoy it.”
|
|
|
|
Post by Cns on Mar 20, 2021 13:49:19 GMT
I've not seen any pics of him training in Miami yet, is he there yet?
|
|
|
|
Post by bayernoatcake on Mar 21, 2021 1:40:21 GMT
Good interview that.
Odd that he wasn’t given game time though with the comment about being fit and being left “for whatever reason”.
Doesn’t seem like someone who thinks they didn’t have much left to offer.
Massive shame. But what an opportunity for him too.
|
|
|
|
Post by hyaduck on Mar 22, 2021 1:30:36 GMT
Hope they like a HOOF
|
|
|
|
Post by RF10 on Mar 23, 2021 8:37:53 GMT
What a fantastic interview, class runs in his blood doesn't it? Doesn't seem the sort of bloke to say a bad word about anyone just looks back with the attitude it wasn't meant to be.
|
|
|
|
Post by crouchpotato1 on Mar 24, 2021 19:24:58 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by humbersidepotter on Mar 26, 2021 14:13:52 GMT
Good interview that. Odd that he wasn’t given game time though with the comment about being fit and being left “for whatever reason”. Doesn’t seem like someone who thinks they didn’t have much left to offer. Massive shame. But what an opportunity for him too. I've been starting to wonder about the make up of his weekly salary here. Could it potentially be that he was on high performance related bonuses? X amount per game in the starting 11 or after so many appearances? It's the only thing I can possibly think of other than the gaffer simply not rating him |
|
|
|
Post by blackpoolred on Mar 28, 2021 5:53:50 GMT
Good interview that. Odd that he wasn’t given game time though with the comment about being fit and being left “for whatever reason”. Doesn’t seem like someone who thinks they didn’t have much left to offer. Massive shame. But what an opportunity for him too. I've been starting to wonder about the make up of his weekly salary here. Could it potentially be that he was on high performance related bonuses? X amount per game in the starting 11 or after so many appearances? It's the only thing I can possibly think of other than the gaffer simply not rating him I think he was on over 50k a week and was possibly always going to be released at the end of the season no matter how well he played because of his salary. His injuries have not helped his cause but not sure, because of our situation, he was ever in our plans for next season. Think Allen will also possibly be moved on, although our manager might fight that one a bit more |
|
|
|
Post by FullerMagic on Apr 8, 2021 17:46:10 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by a on Apr 8, 2021 20:38:37 GMT
Wonder (I hope he does) if he’ll stay fit to play every game? The big thing that fans here couldn’t accept was that he was too injury prone/unfit to play, which is why he played so little over the past few seasons. Hope he enjoys it out there and good luck to him.
|
|
|
|
Post by Billy the kid on Apr 10, 2021 8:16:49 GMT
It seems weird to see Ryan in another teams colours.
|
|
|
|
Post by xchpotter on Apr 10, 2021 8:55:32 GMT
It seems weird to see Ryan in another teams colours. I know. Wonder if Huth has noticed yet they Ryan appears to be in pink.😂😂 |
|
|
|
Post by barrythe on Jul 17, 2021 6:05:53 GMT
Inter Miami, Just checking on their results now he's playing looks like he's taken Stokes horrendous form with him. Sad because I really wanted to see him get success there. 1 positive atleast he seems to be playing and staying fit. When not getting a red card that is.
|
|
|
|
Post by prestwichpotter on Jul 17, 2021 7:44:41 GMT
Inter Miami, Just checking on their results now he's playing looks like he's taken Stokes horrendous form with him. Sad because I really wanted to see him get success there. 1 positive atleast he seems to be playing and staying fit. When not getting a red card that is. The red card was a joke decision….. |
|
|
|
Post by wherty on Jul 17, 2021 9:33:08 GMT
Inter Miami, Just checking on their results now he's playing looks like he's taken Stokes horrendous form with him. Sad because I really wanted to see him get success there. 1 positive atleast he seems to be playing and staying fit. When not getting a red card that is. More to do with the shit manager they have. |
|
|
|
Post by bertiestan on Jul 17, 2021 13:30:23 GMT
Inter Miami, Just checking on their results now he's playing looks like he's taken Stokes horrendous form with him. Sad because I really wanted to see him get success there. 1 positive atleast he seems to be playing and staying fit. When not getting a red card that is. More to do with the shit manager they have. Phil bloody Neville....what a dogshit appointment |
|
|
|
Post by thedeadlyshart on Jul 17, 2021 14:44:56 GMT
Shawcross’ Inter Miami v Edward’s NY Red Bulls tonight.
Edit: both are starting at cb for their respective clubs.
Edit: game has been postponed due to lightning.
|
|
|
|
Post by barrythe on Jul 17, 2021 16:10:00 GMT
Shawcross’ Inter Miami v Edward’s NY Red Bulls tonight. I'll be backing our captain then at Miami... and Phil has given him a way out of stoke but clearly can't get his coaching right. |
|
|
|
Post by thedeadlyshart on Jul 17, 2021 16:35:26 GMT
Shawcross’ Inter Miami v Edward’s NY Red Bulls tonight. I'll be backing our captain then at Miami... and Phil has given him a way out of stoke but clearly can't get his coaching right. I've never been convinced with Edwards, but having watched him play mostly at CB for NY I really want him to do well and come back to us as a versatile defender or DM option, or at least command a fee from a team that wants to take him on a permanent basis. Ryan is in a different situation, as Inter have just brought in a couple players, and he might lose his starting spot. That being said, I don't care about the result, just always want our players and former players to do well when they are not playing against us. |
|
|
|
Post by GoBoks on Jul 18, 2021 10:54:34 GMT
I'll be backing our captain then at Miami... and Phil has given him a way out of stoke but clearly can't get his coaching right. I've never been convinced with Edwards, but having watched him play mostly at CB for NY I really want him to do well and come back to us as a versatile defender or DM option, or at least command a fee from a team that wants to take him on a permanent basis. Ryan is in a different situation, as Inter have just brought in a couple players, and he might lose his starting spot. That being said, I don't care about the result, just always want our players and former players to do well when they are not playing against us. I see Brek Shea plays for them also. |
|
|
|
Post by thedeadlyshart on Jul 18, 2021 14:02:41 GMT
I've never been convinced with Edwards, but having watched him play mostly at CB for NY I really want him to do well and come back to us as a versatile defender or DM option, or at least command a fee from a team that wants to take him on a permanent basis. Ryan is in a different situation, as Inter have just brought in a couple players, and he might lose his starting spot. That being said, I don't care about the result, just always want our players and former players to do well when they are not playing against us. I see Brek Shea plays for them also. Yeah, there's another reason they are one of the worst teams in the league. |
|
|
|
Post by Gods on Jul 18, 2021 14:47:02 GMT
It seems weird to see Ryan in another teams colours. Yeah, although I suppose red and white together equals pink ! |
|
