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Pulis is a chequebook manager, go through his managerial history and you'll see that he's always spent plenty of money at the clubs he's been at and often had a parting of the ways when he doesn't get his own way.
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You'd fit in well in North Korea mate. Keep buying the corporate line without questioning anything...
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You just bring him wherever possible. I don't get it.
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A relevant question is whether if they were to go down, whether they'd be financially stable. You can say 'well, under Pulis, they would never go down' but this is untrue. Anyone from outside the 'big 7' (Everton, Spurs + the obvious 5) has a chance, of varying degree, of going down. For us, that chance this season was fairly significant (around 25% give or take). I believe the betting markets were putting Stoke at around 15% in his last couple of seasons. Things can go unexpectedly badly for all sorts of reasons. Let's not forget we were in the battle till fairly late when we strung together five wins. Given we don't have billionaire owners willing to pump multimillions into the club, we would be in big financial trouble upon relegation. Also worth asking is if, given their spending, they were achieving better or worse than they should have been. Given their net spend was around Top 4 levels during his last few years there, it's hard to say he was overachieving. If Stoke could achieve the same as they were under big-spending Pulis with a different manager then his spending/management was inefficient - they did. |
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He is obsessed with him
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Interesting stats on Stoke's spending. Obviously Coates was happy to sanction that. Pulis knew he was never going to get anything like that at Palace, but he must have hoped for a middle path. I guess we'll see if we are able to stay up having spent so little. I hope so as it would be a massive shame to go back now. I'm pretty confident Warnock has steady the ship for this season and just about keep us up.
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The money spent on players and the wages that were being paid was more than they were making. That's why Coates had to continuously put his hand in his pocket, something he was no longer willing to do. You'll notice that since he took over Hughes has spent a fraction of what Pulis did in just his last season. Coates wanted to go in a different direction, Pulis was unwilling to go with him. Sounds familiar, does it not?
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Bollox. Look at Pulis's hstory.
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I think Tony Pulis knows deep down that he'll never find another Stoke situation in his career. Which is possibly why he was so perpetually nostalgic about his time there when he was with us.
I can't see any Premier League club ever giving him as much rope as Coates gave him. He'll certainly be in demand as a short-term, highly-paid firefighter in the immediate future, but if he's genuinely looking to develop a club over a 5-10 year period, I suspect that ship has sailed for him, in any division of English football. But I don't think he is genuinely looking for that. |
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Where as you are obsessed with snidey insinuations that you never back up with facts.
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If you go down, you inevitably lose a couple of your more expensive players, along with the parachute payments, You're not going out of business. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, I'm just saying it's probably sustainable (for a short time) in modern day football.
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You may well be right, but one could also argue that if Pulis had stayed, and was working within the sustainable model Coates has brought in, that he too could've struggled to sustain Stoke's Premier League status.
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Or would've walked away without trying.
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