Non - Stoke City

Stoke have gone big on the PL loan market this season with Liam Delap (Man City) up top, Fosu (Brentford) out wide, and Smallbone (Saints) and Killkenny as ball players in midfield, and Harry Clarke (Arsenal) at the back.

These are players the PL clubs would have loaned on the assumption of plenty of game time in a certain style and system. That won't be based on lumping the ball around the pitch and elbowing into every other challenge. And none of these lads will have come free for Stoke.

If Stoke now go Dyche, then they either have to crowbar Dyche and those players together somehow, or they throw away their summer's work and start from scratch.

It suggests an ill functioning club.

We give ourselves much stick on here for a similar disconnect between the recruitment office and the training pitch, but perhaps Stoke can give us some perspective on that.
 
northstandmark said:
Stoke have gone big on the PL loan market this season with Liam Delap (Man City) up top, Fosu (Brentford) out wide, and Smallbone (Saints) and Killkenny as ball players in midfield, and Harry Clarke (Arsenal) at the back.

These are players the PL clubs would have loaned on the assumption of plenty of game time in a certain style and system. That won't be based on lumping the ball around the pitch and elbowing into every other challenge. And none of these lads will have come free for Stoke.

If Stoke now go Dyche, then they either have to crowbar Dyche and those players together somehow, or they throw away their summer's work and start from scratch.

It suggests an ill functioning club.

We give ourselves much stick on here for a similar disconnect between the recruitment office and the training pitch, but perhaps Stoke can give us some perspective on that.
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I too was thinking that.
It looked as though they were trying to do a Notts Forest themselves this season by loaning themselves a decent team. Now whoever comes in is going to have to find a way to win with a group of players almost certainly assembled to play a particular style of football.
Always a tricky situation to sack a manager so early in the season, the next opportunity for the new incumbent to freshen up the squad is a long way off.

Still, it’s Stoke, so not my problem :p
 
Strange that they'd sack him just before the end of the transfer window. Would suggest to me that they won't be going for a Dyche / Pulis type . Mark Robins name is being bandied around by their supporters but that may be just speculation. Anyway as said previously, it's only Stoke.
 
northstandmark said:
Stoke have gone big on the PL loan market this season with Liam Delap (Man City) up top, Fosu (Brentford) out wide, and Smallbone (Saints) and Killkenny as ball players in midfield, and Harry Clarke (Arsenal) at the back.

These are players the PL clubs would have loaned on the assumption of plenty of game time in a certain style and system. That won't be based on lumping the ball around the pitch and elbowing into every other challenge. And none of these lads will have come free for Stoke.

If Stoke now go Dyche, then they either have to crowbar Dyche and those players together somehow, or they throw away their summer's work and start from scratch.

It suggests an ill functioning club.

We give ourselves much stick on here for a similar disconnect between the recruitment office and the training pitch, but perhaps Stoke can give us some perspective on that.
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Was Dyche using this style because a more creative one didn't fit the squad he had/financial limitations?
 
wallmth said:
In fairness to Dyche he did take over a team King Eddie had created and got them promoted so who Knows .
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He also had a run of six seasons in the Premier League with Burnley, one more than Eddie did at AFCB.

So whatever people think of him he must have done something right to keep his team up in this tough league.
 
As much as we don't like Dyche, he probably can get Championship teams in and around the top, challenging for promotion.
 
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