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Post by fullmetaljacket on Jun 26, 2024 12:19:20 GMT
The bocat has landed.
Go orrn Eric.
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Post by apb1 on Jun 26, 2024 12:19:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2024 12:24:49 GMT
Left back issue is now solved for the season then. Excellent. He may/may not be good but at least we now have an actual left back there to play when Stevens cannot. Hopefully, Steven’s starts the season fit and Bocat can be brought in gradually, which may help him to adjust.
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Post by Gary Hackett on Jun 26, 2024 12:25:01 GMT
That is comedy genius, best announcement ever.
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Post by toppercorner on Jun 26, 2024 12:27:50 GMT
if you listen carefully to the french commentary at the beginning, it pronounces his name as bow-car
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Post by lordb on Jun 26, 2024 12:28:15 GMT
That's 60% of the backline sorted before a ball is even kicked in pre-season. That's pretty good going. We know that we have talent in attacking positions in Junho and Million. Building a solid foundation was always going to be a big priority to compliment what we have in offensive areas. An experienced centre half, a top Goalkeeper and a young, athletic, attacking fullback all tick the boxes. Centre forward remains the last big void to fill. The squad will need tinkering elsewhere, but I like the work we've done so far and the areas we've addressed before the team get back into training. Unless Hoever is coming back I don't think we will sign any more defenders > I think we ought to sign another CB but looks like we are going to use the two young defenders we loaned out last season, or at least one of them, as back up
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Jun 26, 2024 12:28:39 GMT
Looks like a midget to me. That's because he's far away... Thanks Ted.
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Post by suck_the_mop. on Jun 26, 2024 12:32:06 GMT
So fixtures day became signing day.. Who's next stoke? C'mon get your fucking fingers out😁😁
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Post by Rick Grimes on Jun 26, 2024 12:44:30 GMT
Whoever is in the media team needs a raise. What a video announcement that is.
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Post by gaznandi on Jun 26, 2024 12:58:14 GMT
Who's the fella with Eric? Agent i presume?
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Post by yellowsnowman on Jun 26, 2024 13:15:35 GMT
Welcome to Stoke.
UTMP.
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Jun 26, 2024 13:20:04 GMT
Beginning to feel like 343 to me with the option to go 4 3 2 1 away
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Post by GeneralFaye on Jun 26, 2024 13:22:10 GMT
We've had Hoever in a back 4 and he was a disaster defensively at times so I don't see why Mr Bocat can't operate there.
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Post by PotterLog on Jun 26, 2024 13:24:36 GMT
Junior on the right and Eric Junior on the left, our first epsilon minus full-back twins since Wilkinson and Dickinson
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Post by thepottypotter on Jun 26, 2024 13:29:27 GMT
Premier League quality Social Media team. Smashing it out the park again! Loved this vid.
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Post by thepottypotter on Jun 26, 2024 13:30:03 GMT
Whoever is in the media team needs a raise. What a video announcement that is. Best media announcement we've ever had.
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Post by Greenhoff is God on Jun 26, 2024 13:51:15 GMT
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Post by etebojan on Jun 26, 2024 14:02:09 GMT
Permission to be excited sir!
Junho Million Burger Junior Bocat Johansson
wonder who else is going to join us..
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Post by Gary Hackett on Jun 26, 2024 14:12:27 GMT
Beginning to feel like 343 to me with the option to go 4 3 2 1 away He's clearly referred to as a left back on all the club's announcements so I doubt we'll be going to 3 at the back on a regular basis. Schumacher likes his attacking fullbacks.
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Jun 26, 2024 14:12:59 GMT
Looks smallish for a LB…. That's why he was cheaper - you pay by the inch for fullbacks.
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Post by questionable on Jun 26, 2024 14:13:49 GMT
Looks smallish for a LB…. That's why he was cheaper - you pay by the inch for fullbacks. Using that logic Cliff Carr came via a free transfer
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Post by questionable on Jun 26, 2024 14:16:25 GMT
Whoever is in the media team needs a raise. What a video announcement that is. I know his brother in law, I’ll pass the message on for you
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Post by thornestein on Jun 26, 2024 14:16:52 GMT
www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/stoke-city-transfer-eric-bocat-9369100 “It was something we explored in January, but the fee would have hindered any of the other work we could do in (that window). We decided that forward players were more important at that stage - we needed some goals - so we signed Million. “But Eric was someone we continued to monitor. We spoke to him over the summer and these kind of things with players from overseas take a bit longer. But he came over last week, I met him, he had a look around the training ground and I explained how I want the team to play and what I see his role being in the team. He speaks really well, he seems like a really good lad, he seems dead bubbly, he cracked a couple of jokes. So a Jared signing like people have been trying to tell the Johnny Walters 'Pulis' force on here... 😉 sssshhhh don’t upset them
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Post by thornestein on Jun 26, 2024 14:19:10 GMT
Not sure about this signing for defence but the idea might be to push him forward and move Bae to a more central position. SS isn’t referring him as a forward player hence why we didn’t sign him in january so definitely for LB of LWB
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Jun 26, 2024 14:41:51 GMT
Beginning to feel like 343 to me with the option to go 4 3 2 1 away He's clearly referred to as a left back on all the club's announcements so I doubt we'll be going to 3 at the back on a regular basis. Schumacher likes his attacking fullbacks. Whichever it looks we are recruiting to a plan which is significant improvement and another brick in the wall
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Jun 26, 2024 14:53:20 GMT
Not sure about this signing for defence but the idea might be to push him forward and move Bae to a more central position. SS isn’t referring him as a forward player hence why we didn’t sign him in january so definitely for LB of LWB Would suit a 343 - Bocat left of the 4, Bae left of the front three. Personally I prefer this to 433 which often ends up with the wide players at the front playing too wide and leaving the central striker isolated. If that's the plan we need at least one more senior CB.
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Post by gingerninja on Jun 26, 2024 14:57:16 GMT
I think Schuey will try and hone inverted full backs during pre season, clearly didn't work, but that was implemented mid seas, with little preparation time.
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Post by clivey05 on Jun 26, 2024 15:00:49 GMT
Fair play, after last years scattergun transfers, there seems to have been a much more methodical approach this summer. Sign a striker and maybe 1 or 2 loans and it would be a superb window.
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Post by mrcoke on Jun 26, 2024 15:02:51 GMT
Did I see a touch of the Matthews there? Jig from foot to foot, get the opponent to put his weight on the "wrong foot", then tap the ball past the defender and sprint and be first to the ball.
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Post by stokiejoe on Jun 26, 2024 15:06:16 GMT
Took a moment to work out "inverted fullback" its what us old blokes used to call , playing out of position.
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