Remember the geese
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I went to our away game at Burnley and there is this lovely little Indian restaurant just down the road from their ground. For that reason, I'm a bit disappointed they went down.
The takeover happened, it was a leveraged buy out, similar to what the Glazers have done with us....I thought they were a financially well managed club and supposed they would bounce straight back up if went down. What happened?
To be honest with Pulis, you could see they were slowly edging towards the drop.Stoke and Pulis?
they still get over £90m plus parachute payments for relegation. It wont be impossible to pay that £65m off but Mcneil and Pope will be going and they will be losing the out of contract guys as well as having an ageing squad and little to invest in team. Cant see them coming backThe takeover happened, it was a leveraged buy out, similar to what the Glazers have done with us....
Check out the links I posted earlier on.
IIRC, Pulis actually showed some signs of evolving and improving Stoke's style of play, especially during the 2010/2011 season when they had Etherington and Pennant tearing down the wings and reached the FA Cup final (they also had some of their best league performances around that period). But then that style of play regressed again, especially during his final season in charge there, and more and more Stoke fans were becoming increasingly dissatisfied. A large number of them thought that he'd reached the end of the road wanted a managerial change before the end of 2012/2013. A Pulis special was zero shots on target in away games. While I don't think there was any serious danger of them going down not least because there were going to be 3-4 teams worse than them, during his final season there I think they were only a couple of points above the relegation zone with a few games left, before a couple of big wins moved them to safety.To be honest with Pulis, you could see they were slowly edging towards the drop.
Didnt do too bad under Mark Hughes but when they decided to try to push out of their comfort zone with the Shaqiri, Bojan and Afellay transfers is where they started to well and truly go into real danger. Add in that waste from PSG, Jese, then they didnt really have guys who would fight till the end.