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Post by tejstokie on Feb 2, 2024 3:51:32 GMT
This is good news. Terrible signing for us.
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Post by Block 26 on Feb 2, 2024 6:21:58 GMT
All the best to him. He always put the effort in wearing a Stoke shirt, just his finishing majorly let him down.
I still think he will end up at one of the championship clubs at the bottom of the table.
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Post by mattythestokie on Feb 2, 2024 6:24:42 GMT
Well worth a gamble on a 1 year deal. But giving him 2 years on good money was ridiculous
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Post by satoshi on Feb 2, 2024 6:30:55 GMT
Very likeable bloke. Massive shame he was finished when we signed him because he used to be prolific.
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Post by Ron on Feb 2, 2024 6:48:28 GMT
His years sat on his arse at Newcastle finished him. Sadly didn’t work for us… when he arrived you could see he had some quality but just couldn’t finish or had lost the half yard or so that gave him that space. Such a shame as he clearly was a good bloke. Best thing for all parties though.
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Post by telfordstokie on Feb 2, 2024 7:10:36 GMT
Might actually just end it all if he pops up somewhere in this division and does numbers He won’t - best days are behind him. These other clubs are just making the same mistake we did and looking at what he was like years ago. |
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Post by Goonie on Feb 2, 2024 7:25:19 GMT
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Post by wakefieldstokie on Feb 2, 2024 7:45:07 GMT
Sods law says he scores regularly for his next side
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Post by idle on Feb 2, 2024 7:48:10 GMT
Might actually just end it all if he pops up somewhere in this division and does numbers One of those clubs seem misplaced in that list... |
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Post by callas12 on Feb 2, 2024 7:57:01 GMT
Might actually just end it all if he pops up somewhere in this division and does numbers One of those clubs seem misplaced in that list... Could you imagine if he rocked up at Portman Road, forms a partnership & scores goals with Moore & we see him getting promoted come May 🤔🫣🙄 |
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Feb 2, 2024 8:08:08 GMT
Might actually just end it all if he pops up somewhere in this division and does numbers I'd put the rope away mate as I don't think that will happen. |
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Post by stokiejoe on Feb 2, 2024 8:13:05 GMT
I wish him well, he tried but was no longer up to the task. Time to retire gracefully. It seemed a panic signing and it didn't work out.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Feb 2, 2024 8:34:17 GMT
Probably not saved anything in financial terms as we must have paid up the remainder of his contract but saves his dignity a bit when not even making the matchday squad. It’s crazy if this is true. If a club terminates a player or managers contract it cost the club their wages to the end of the contract. On the other hand if a player terminates his own contract the club has to pay his wages for the remainder of his contract. It’s fucking nuts. |
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Post by idle on Feb 2, 2024 8:38:01 GMT
Probably not saved anything in financial terms as we must have paid up the remainder of his contract but saves his dignity a bit when not even making the matchday squad. It’s crazy if this is true. If a club terminates a player or managers contract it cost the club their wages to the end of the contract. On the other hand if a player terminates his own contract the club has to pay his wages for the remainder of his contract. It’s fucking nuts. Thanks Bosman (and the EU)! |
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Feb 2, 2024 8:51:38 GMT
Absolutely certainty to end up at Derby
Their fans going apeshit because they’d been promised a striker all January and they didn’t manage to sign one whilst all their promotion rivals did
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Post by mickstupp on Feb 2, 2024 8:55:39 GMT
Washed up now probably, but did we ever use him properly? All too often he was completely isolated up front chasing lost causes.
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Post by Northy on Feb 2, 2024 8:56:38 GMT
Probably paying the wages of our 2 new strikers out of what he was taking from us.
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Post by a on Feb 2, 2024 8:59:39 GMT
His years sat on his arse at Newcastle finished him. Sadly didn’t work for us… when he arrived you could see he had some quality but just couldn’t finish or had lost the half yard or so that gave him that space. Such a shame as he clearly was a good bloke. Best thing for all parties though. Yea I’ve no ill feeling towards him, he didn’t decide his big wage that was between his agent and the club. He just hasn’t got the legs anymore and we are hardly prolific at getting the ball into the 6 yard box where he thrived (once upon a time!) Right signing in probably the wrong side at definitely the wrong time. |
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Feb 2, 2024 9:01:05 GMT
When he had those goals ruled offside in his 1st few games,who knows if they had stood,he could have been on 3 goals in 4/5 games.
But then again,Ifs & Buts.
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Post by mrcoke on Feb 2, 2024 9:20:40 GMT
Best of luck to him.
He was always a trier, unlike some.
It's a long time since his best season at West Brom, where he was used in partnership with Rodrigues, whereas he was always used on his own at Stoke, a role for which he does not have the physical presence. Age catches up with all of us.
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Post by noustie on Feb 2, 2024 9:25:08 GMT
Up there in the pantheon of past-it greats along side Paul Stewart and Marco Gabbiadini
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Post by Scouse on Feb 2, 2024 9:26:15 GMT
Come on you purples .. shows you don’t need pyros , flags or ultras dressed all in black to have a good time …just the right result An expensive mistake , and a right move in our drive to force down our squad salaries. Pity it didn’t work out, as always tried and was decent at pressing , but it was obvious almost from the start that he’d arrived too late in his career if we expected goals from him , saves him from further embarrassment and us from the temptation to ‘ give it one more try ‘ and thereby waste a place in the matchday squad / subs bench that should have at least one space utilised for development |
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Feb 2, 2024 9:26:17 GMT
If Carlsberg did deadline day news . . . .
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Post by prestwichpotter on Feb 2, 2024 9:43:18 GMT
Fair play to to him for agreeing to the settlement, I don't know where he goes from here as it's not just a case of him dropping down a couple of divisions his body seems to have stop functioning as a professional footballer..........
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Feb 2, 2024 9:52:57 GMT
If one of those early disallowed goals went in, it could've been different for him and us. Strikers go through bad patches, and he's had a long one of those. Even the greats have them - Shearer went nearly 2 years without scoring for England before being top scorer in Euro 96.
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Post by thornestein on Feb 2, 2024 10:27:00 GMT
Probably paying the wages of our 2 new strikers out of what he was taking from us. doubt it , we would still have to have paid him off |
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Post by Gob Bluth on Feb 2, 2024 10:40:16 GMT
Up there in the pantheon of past-it greats along side Paul Stewart and Marco Gabbiadini To be fair to Dwight he was fit and I'm not sure it was a lack of focus or desire that led to the performances that he gave. |
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Post by marwood on Feb 2, 2024 10:40:53 GMT
Best of luck to Dwight
A new club is the right thing for him
Hopefully it will revistalise his career in the way that Wycombe did for Sam Vokes.
Sam looked shot here but has scored 28 goals and seems settled at Wycombe since he dropped down a level
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Post by lawrieleslie on Feb 2, 2024 10:42:54 GMT
It’s crazy if this is true. If a club terminates a player or managers contract it cost the club their wages to the end of the contract. On the other hand if a player terminates his own contract the club has to pay his wages for the remainder of his contract. It’s fucking nuts. Thanks Bosman (and the EU)! I don’t believe it is Bosman ruling. All that states is that a player can leave at the end of his contract on free transfer and can sign a pre-contract agreement with another club up to 6 months before his contract expires. Says nothing about paying up contracts as far as I can see. |
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Post by tommycarlsberg on Feb 2, 2024 10:43:23 GMT
He couldn't even finish his chances is here, so not sure what dropping down leagues is going to do for him. Maybe more time and space to score them but I really do think he's finished. Good luck to him though, seems a decent pro.
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