Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Tony Pulis leaves Stoke City


Manager Tony Pulis has left Stoke City by mutual consent following talks with chairman Peter Coates on Tuesday.

Pulis’s future has been in doubt for some time and he has been told the club feels the time is right for him to leave after seven years in charge.

Probably the right time for Pulis to go if you look at where Stoke finished in the Premier League over the last five seasons, he appears to have taken them as far as they can go.

However I don’t think he’ll be missed, by those who don’t have an allegiance to Stoke City, because of his style of football which was stuck in a time warp.

Also I read something that surprised me when it was first broke that he was leaving, Stoke’s net spend over the last five years was close to £80m, putting them third behind Manchester City and Chelsea during that period.

With that kind of outlay perhaps you could argue Stoke should be in the top 10 or maybe challenging for a European place.    

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