Stoke City: Coates rules out any window shopping for Stoke
STOKE chairman Peter Coates says he's not expecting the club to bring in any players before Tuesday's transfer deadline.
City have been linked with Wigan hit-man Hugo Rodallega and Queens Park Rangers forward DJ Campbell.
-
But Stoke already have options up front with Peter Crouch, Jon Walters, Kenwyne Jones, Cameron Jerome and Ricardo Fuller competing for places.
Coates says he's not anticipating reinforcements elsewhere in the squad after the club invested heavily in the summer to bolster their domestic and European campaigns.
Business Cards From Only £10.95 Delivered www.myprint-247.co.uk
View detailsOur heavyweight cards have FREE UV silk coating, FREE next day delivery & VAT included. Choose from 1000's of pre-designed templates or upload your own artwork. Orders dispatched within 24hrs.
Terms: Visit our site for more products: Business Cards, Compliment Slips, Letterheads, Leaflets, Postcards, Posters & much more. All items are free next day delivery. www.myprint-247.co.uk
Contact: 01858 468192
Valid until: Friday, May 31 2013
He said: "We are not expecting anything, unless something falls that we like the look of.
"We have a quite a large squad, and feel we are well served with cover."
The Coates family's backing helped City bring in Crouch, Jerome and Wilson Palacios for combined transfer fees of around £20m at the start of the season.
England defenders Matthew Upson and Jonathan Woodgate were also added to the wage bill when they arrived on free transfers.
City are more likely to get players out of the squad as they try to loan out midfielders Diego Arismendi, Florent Cuvelier and Matthew Lund.
Tom Soares and Michael Tonge have already departed this week, joining Hibernian and Barnsley respectively.
Winger Ben Marshall's future remains unresolved as he has yet to sign the three-year contract offered by City.
Leicester City have been linked with a £500,000 move for the 20-year-old, who is out of contract at the end of the season. Stoke haven't received a bid from the Foxes, and Coates says they are keen to hang on to the youngster.
Marshall has impressed on loan with League One promotion-chasers Sheffield Wednesday this season, and Coates added: "We are still in talks, but these things take time. Ben has done very well at Sheffield Wednesday.
"We want to keep anyone who has come through our system and who we think can play in our first team."
Marshall is back in training with Stoke after his five-month loan at Hillsborough. He scored twice last week in City Reserves' 7-0 win over Walsall.
More Stoke City articles:
Robbie Earle: Reserve team plan has rightly been filed under 'B'
Lou Macari: FA Cup has special place in heart for Stoke
Comments
by neilingdown
Saturday, January 28 2012, 8:51AM
“Ok not buying new players, well spend a few bob sorting the ground out. Fill the open ends in,
Freezin me conker's off.”
by Stokiekarl44
Saturday, January 28 2012, 8:44AM
“The divvies are even going so far as taking names out to parody Soccerfoot (soccerfool). How imbecilic is that. Wheatear and the rest you had better get more multiple names because the Sentinel is limiting your divvy comments to a few at a time. Even the administrator has recognised how your lot are ruining this page for us all.”
by soccerfool11
Saturday, January 28 2012, 8:28AM
“you are the most boring person on here matty forlorn”
by mattyformore
Saturday, January 28 2012, 8:19AM
“Hey negatives have opened up the Crewe page for you. Soccerfoot, Miss Scarlet Potterspeil Johnson etc. You can bicker to your hearts content and you have plenty of room and no audience. What is keeping you?”
by soccerfool11
Saturday, January 28 2012, 6:46AM
“Hey is this the palce to come and have a moan about the lame Stoke City FC? Is there a match today or something? where is everyone?
Is that John Barnes doing an autograph session somewhere, who is that guy anyway? ...
Wow, It's as if Stoke sold all their away tickets or something and no one cares what i have to say”
by markyboy2010
Saturday, January 28 2012, 2:43AM
“Oh maybe not the worst, Kamara was pretty bad and Alan Ball. Alan Durban was non to flash either.Mind you I wasn't a big fan of Macari's brand of football either.In fact Pulis is just one of a long line of ***** managers post Tony Waddington.So maybe I'm wrong with my first comment.”
by markyboy2010
Saturday, January 28 2012, 2:34AM
“I don't think that any new players brought in would be beneficial to this club. Pulis will always destroy any ball playing skills they may have to fit into his one dimensional rigid hoof and hope policy.
Heaven forbid if they try and play using initiative. A long period of being left on the bench until they can be sold on at a loss awaits them.
Pulis is now also showing arrogant contempt toward supporters ,with some of his comments.HE'S THE WORST MANAGER WE'VE EVER HAD BY A COUNTRY MILE.”
by Potterspeil
Friday, January 27 2012, 10:09PM
“by mattyformore
Friday, January 27 2012, 8:13PM
."Here we go again bicker bicker bicker. And soccerfoot says this and Speil says that and Johnson says the other. The Crewe page is empty go on there and bicker between yourselves and leave others to debate. The audience does not want to read your negativities
The audience also doesn't want you to introduce us to your Anty Shotty thingy either, nor your logon 'friend' stokiekarl. Why have you checked the Crewe page? why have you stopped posting on the Vale page?
Answer is, Kevin Raftery, you get more of a response on here!”
by Davejjohnson
Friday, January 27 2012, 9:15PM
“Yes Matty, No Matty, Spot on Matty. You'd do anything to be accepted wouldn't you Soccerknob. It may be disgusting but I doubt there is a big queue of people who want to disagree. I'm bored now so it's all your's. Moan away to your hearts content.”
by wheatear
Friday, January 27 2012, 8:57PM
“Thought you were ignoring me sf? its a feeding frenzy you just cannot ignore and yes, I would rather listen to Land of Hope and Glory than the funeral march any day!”