08-05-2019, 12:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-05-2019, 01:01 AM by Dreamkiller.)
I honestly think that would have been too much of a stretch. At no point did we look even remotely like a top 6 team.
Considering how shit both our teams were when we got relegated, I looked at how you performed last season with total envy. I’m sensing I’m going to be doing the same again this season, irrespective of whether you actually manage to get promoted.
It’s really difficult to describe the mess Stoke are in to anyone outside of our own supporters because even we find it absurd. I’ve never known a situation like it, but basically, we have a bomb squad of players that will carry on dragging the club’s finances down until we’re rid of them. Many of them were signed for ridiculously high fees, on ridiculously high wages, and who now look only marginally better than League 1 standard, so no one can or will buy them.
Only when we’re rid of them will any manager really be able to rebuild the team in any meaningful way. That may well take two to three years, by which time we’ll well and truly be a mid table Championship side for whom our Premier League days are just a distant memory.
Considering how shit both our teams were when we got relegated, I looked at how you performed last season with total envy. I’m sensing I’m going to be doing the same again this season, irrespective of whether you actually manage to get promoted.
It’s really difficult to describe the mess Stoke are in to anyone outside of our own supporters because even we find it absurd. I’ve never known a situation like it, but basically, we have a bomb squad of players that will carry on dragging the club’s finances down until we’re rid of them. Many of them were signed for ridiculously high fees, on ridiculously high wages, and who now look only marginally better than League 1 standard, so no one can or will buy them.
Only when we’re rid of them will any manager really be able to rebuild the team in any meaningful way. That may well take two to three years, by which time we’ll well and truly be a mid table Championship side for whom our Premier League days are just a distant memory.