Paul Lambert: "The club is too big not to bounce back" (1 Viewer)

Grendel

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How many of us remember thinking & hearing that kind of line?

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Unlike us though stoke didn’t have a puppet chairman whose strings were pulled by people wanting their money back so prepared to sell anything and everything to the detriment of the club

They’ll be back
 

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Unlike us though stoke didn’t have a puppet chairman whose strings were pulled by people wanting their money back so prepared to sell anything and everything to the detriment of the club

They’ll be back
While I agree with the first bit, I'll reserve judgement on the last. They could go the way of Bolton, who also had a chairman who was seemingly altruistic while the debt grew and grew. Then he tired of funding them.

Coates is getting on a bit now. Maybe he'll decide to hand the club on to a favoured grandchild...
 

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The problem with promotion from the championship is that the top 10 are probably just as good as the bottom 7/8/9 in the premier league so they have to deal with the new landscape, players wanting to leave and replace them correctly all in one summer.
 

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From what’s been said in the media by Butland the problems at Stoke run deep, the recruitment process seems to be a massive shambles for starters. Then you have Adams saying only a handful of players in the squad give a shit and try (which I found kind of ironic coming from Adams, when we played them in the cup I thought he looked about ten preseasons away from being match fit). Sounds like they have a major rebuilding program to do to me, maybe on and of the pitch before they can mount a serious promotion push. If I was a Stoke fan right now I’d take mid table mediocrity next season myself in the hope that they don’t do a Sunderland.
 
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If they ditch Lambert, I think they have a good chance of getting straight back up
 

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I think they will go straight back up as they will spend a bit from the Butland sale.
 

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I think they will go straight back up as they will spend a bit from the Butland sale.
Yeah...the Vile, Bolton, Blackburn, Wigan, Leeds, Birmingham, Reading & Coventry are all clubs that thought it was a walk in the park too. Splash a bit of cash when relegated via selling a star player or two...enter the relegation battle!

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Yeah...the Vile, Bolton, Blackburn, Wigan, Leeds, Birmingham, Reading & Coventry are all clubs that thought it was a walk in the park too. Splash a bit of cash when relegated via selling a star player or two...enter the relegation battle!

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Nah can’t see it as they will have serious cash to spend and will still have some good players left like berahino;)
 

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Nah can’t see it as they will have serious cash to spend and will still have some good players left like berahino;)
Like we were gonna piss The Championship? Oh...and L1? ...oh and L2?

Play-off don't get classed as pissing it

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Like we were gonna piss The Championship? Oh...and L1? ...oh and L2?

Play-off don't get classed as pissing it

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We should have pissed the championship that was strachans fault
 

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Like we were gonna piss The Championship? Oh...and L1? ...oh and L2?

Play-off don't get classed as pissing it

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The amount of money in the top levels is a lot higher compared to when we were relegated nearly 20 years ago. They will have the cash to rebuild properly and go up.
 

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We should have pissed the championship that was strachans fault
Which is kinda my point really.

The Vile were many people's favourites for auto/pissing it, just like we were back in the day. Stoke might have money - but who are they going to attract? Some reckon they have the quality to not have got relegated in the first place - just like we did!

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Which is kinda my point really.

The Vile were many people's favourites for auto/pissing it, just like we were back in the day. Stoke might have money - but who are they going to attract? Some reckon they have the quality to not have got relegated in the first place - just like we did!

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If they can get the right man in charge somebody like Warnock the rest will be ok when they sell Butland and Shaqiri and spend that £50 million, I can see West Brom being the strugglers as they have no money and nobody of any value to sell
 

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needs to check the size of some of the other clubs in the Championship - Plenty of clubs similar if not bigger than Stoke there for sure
 

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