Stoke City

**Richard Scott** · 11-01-2010 04:27 PM

Who's their chairman? And is he loaded, or is my mate pulling my chain by saying they've had a £10m bid accepted for Roddalega and an £11m bid for Kenwyne Jones accepted? With them bouncing up and down the bottom of the premier league, how have they got so much money?

**Killiehibbie** · 11-01-2010 05:09 PM

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Who's their chairman? And is he loaded, or is my mate pulling my chain by saying they've had a £10m bid accepted for Roddalega and an £11m bid for Kenwyne Jones accepted? With them bouncing up and down the bottom of the premier league, how have they got so much money?

Peter Coates founder of Bet365 and very wealthy man is their chairman.

***Aldo*** · 11-01-2010 05:11 PM

They have that much money cos they are in the EPL. Would of got about 25 million for the position they finished in then another 30 + million for TV rights.

Loads of dosh...on a par and probably even more than the OF

**CB_NO3** · 11-01-2010 05:17 PM

20 million is pennies these days in the Premiership. Look at Sunderland, they have spent over 70 million in the last couple of years. Its the wages that kill these teams though, they can maybe only afford to give 25-45k a week where Chelsea and Man Utd are forking out 120k to some of their players.

**ancient hibee** · 11-01-2010 05:50 PM

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They have that much money cos they are in the EPL. Would of got about 25 million for the position they finished in then another 30 + million for TV rights.

Loads of dosh...on a par and probably even more than the OF

Don't think they would have got anything like 25million for finishing position.

**~~Ed De Gramo~~** · 11-01-2010 06:18 PM

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Who's their chairman? And is he loaded, or is my mate pulling my chain by saying they've had a £10m bid accepted for Roddalega and an £11m bid for Kenwyne Jones accepted? With them bouncing up and down the bottom of the premier league, how have they got so much money?

Sure Van Nistelrooy's name was mentioned as well

**MWHIBBIES** · 11-01-2010 06:28 PM

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Sure Van Nistelrooy's name was mentioned as well

Tony pulis ruled him out because he is on 100k a week a real.

**~~PISTOL1875~~** · 11-01-2010 06:29 PM

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Who's their chairman? And is he loaded, or is my mate pulling my chain by saying they've had a £10m bid accepted for Roddalega and an £11m bid for Kenwyne Jones accepted? With them bouncing up and down the bottom of the premier league, how have they got so much money?

Isn't it Birmingham thats after JOnes and Sunderland after Roddalega ??

**heretoday** · 11-01-2010 11:04 PM

Stoke City are a tough old act as many teams have found out this year.

I back them to survive for a couple more years and then head south.

**ScottB** · 11-01-2010 11:11 PM

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Stoke City are a tough old act as many teams have found out this year.

I back them to survive for a couple more years and then head south.

I agree, have every chance of sticking it out till the fans / board get impatient at 'only' finishing midtable and they make an ill thought out attempt at challenging for Europe and get dropped...

***Godsahibby*** · 12-01-2010 08:34 AM

Slightly off topic / on topic here but interesting read on the BBC this morning.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...em/8453337.stm

**p=sh** · 12-01-2010 08:52 AM

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Stoke City are a tough old act as many teams have found out this year.

I back them to survive for a couple more years and then head south.

what, like to Reading or Brighton? Or perhaps Italy? spill the beans.

***Leithenhibby*** · 12-01-2010 09:13 AM

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Slightly off topic / on topic here but interesting read on the BBC this morning.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...em/8453337.stm

Was just saying to my older son over Christmas holiday that I felt that the EPL would go into melt down sometime this year...

It just can't keep paying those sort of wages and expect to survive..

IT'S CRAZY, the game down south has gone mad.

and WILL pay for it

The Banks tried the , "speculate to accumulate" idea and we saw what happened to them.

You can't buy yourself out of this sort of mess.

**Killiehibbie** · 12-01-2010 11:17 AM

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Was just saying to my older son over Christmas holiday that I felt that the EPL would go into melt down sometime this year...

It just can't keep paying those sort of wages and expect to survive..

IT'S CRAZY, the game down south has gone mad.

and WILL pay for it

The Banks tried the , "speculate to accumulate" idea and we saw what happened to them.

You can't buy yourself out of this sort of mess.

Correct. When you look at the money being spent it's not sustainable and clubs are going to go out of business. I know a few people who have always refused to pay for Sky because of where the money went and a lot more who have got rid of it as they're fed up paying for the big houses and flash cars these guys have.