Bad News !!

[Emile]

Problems above the manager level there. Doesn't matter who they hire as the manager 

[Brian Johnson]

Stoke City close to appointing Plymouth’s Steven Schumacher as new manager

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[NarberthVale]

Well thatl be funny I’m sure Plymouth have got more about than Sjoke does he know what he’s doing idiot. Hel be going back to div 1 where he came from 😂😂

[Guppys left peg]

Stoke it’s a classic case of all the gear and no idea. If people didn’t know any better they’d see a 30000 stadium with an alleged (and emphasis on that word) 20000 average. Good training facilities and a chairman with more money than sense. Something is far more underlying as a problem there though than the manager. Their previous ones have had perfectly decent records.

From what could see from a distance with Plymouth their great success was recruitment so be interesting if he can bring the DOF etc with him or if not how he adapts as they’ve spent a load of money on what seems to be garbage this summer.

[philpvfc]

He’s obviously looking for a nice pay off in 18 months when they go down, maybe sooner bar the fact that Rotherham and Sheffield Wednesday are garbage.

[Valient1961]

Pantomime season down the FAT365

[eh up nah]

Haha!!

Nuno! Lol

[Conrad]

10 minutes ago, eh up nah said:

Haha!!

Nuno! Lol

You think that’s funny, I heard one loon mention Pep.

[philpvfc]

I’d love Nuno to go there…..he’d take them down.

[Loggerheads Sage]

2 hours ago, Brian Johnson said:

He will probably double his wages at Stoke 

At least 

[eh up nah]

11 hours ago, philpvfc said:

I’d love Nuno to go there…..he’d take them down.

Yeah, quite possibly.

Just found it amusing they were all creaming over getting a big name and now they've got Steven Schumacher.

As some have alluded to, the problem at Stoke is John Coates I think, not the manager.

He's a buffoon.

[Hitcher]

Stoke still have the legacy of over inflated parachute payment contracts. There just seems to be so much waste and they can never quite get cohesive.

They won't like this but because of all that waste they are a 'selling club'. Anytime a good player emerges they will get sold to take the edge off all that waste. As a consequence they will never build anything and be in a constant cycle of being beige, unlikable and average. All the while their fans are expecting more because of their budget.

As a new manager how do you tackle that sense of pointlessness and drift? 

It's really tricky to do so onward they march, chewing up and spitting out another middle of the road manager in the process.

The only thing that will help them is to get relegated as it will force their hand in stripping out all the lard/fat. We've seen this over the years with teams like Southampton and Ipswich going through a phoenix club style rebirth. Personally I hope they stay up and their fans are in a constant state of frustration and angst. Hilarious

[arthurdog]

41 minutes ago, Hitcher said:

it will force their hand in stripping out all the lard/fat.

That means they'll have no fans at all then?

[darren1810]

2 hours ago, Hitcher said:

Stoke still have the legacy of over inflated parachute payment contracts. There just seems to be so much waste and they can never quite get cohesive.

They won't like this but because of all that waste they are a 'selling club'. Anytime a good player emerges they will get sold to take the edge off all that waste. As a consequence they will never build anything and be in a constant cycle of being beige, unlikable and average. All the while their fans are expecting more because of their budget.

As a new manager how do you tackle that sense of pointlessness and drift? 

It's really tricky to do so onward they march, chewing up and spitting out another middle of the road manager in the process.

The only thing that will help them is to get relegated as it will force their hand in stripping out all the lard/fat. We've seen this over the years with teams like Southampton and Ipswich going through a phoenix club style rebirth. Personally I hope they stay up and their fans are in a constant state of frustration and angst. Hilarious

I think I agree. Lounging around 12th to 20th every season with their false hopes dashed year in year out is quality. They still think 6 years later they have a divine right to be back in The Premier league. 

What with their constant lies about attendances and their false belief about how massive they are I'm more than happy for them to wallow in nothingness throwing money away every 18 months when they pay the latest poor manager his compensation. 

I'll give him 18 months like the rest of the muppets before him. 

[philpvfc]

No bigger club than Plymouth, in fact Plymouth have a more loyal accepting fan base, most the Stoke fans have only supported them since the Premiership years and think Man United are their biggest rivals.