Stoke City: Glenn Whelan could be sold to finance Charlie Adam purchase
STOKE City could sell Glenn Whelan to Wolves today to help finance the purchase of Liverpool midfielder Charlie Adam, The Sentinel understands.
Irishman Whelan, aged 28, could fetch upwards of £2m as Tony Pulis seeks ways of accommodating Adam's arrival for around £5m.
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Stoke City could sell Glenn Whelan to help finance the purchase of Charlie Adam.
Pulis is also trying to juggle other members of his squad as the club's hierarchy bid to complete between up to six transactions ahead of tonight's 11pm transfer deadline.
Whelan, who has played 165 times for Stoke since a £500,000 move from Sheffield Wednesday in January 2008, was omitted from Capital One Cup defeat by Swindon this week.
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Adam, meanwhile, is seen by Pulis as the man to add a touch of class and craft to a Stoke midfield branded as competitive but pedestrian by critics.
The Scotland international re-built his career at Blackpool before being signed by Kenny Dalglish 12 months ago, but the arrival of Brendan Rodgers as Liverpool manager this summer soon left him looking like a potential departure to raise transfer revenue at Anfield.
Accommodating the talented 26-year-old into what has traditionally been a more workmanlike line-up will represent one of Pulis's biggest tactical challenges.
The Coates family have long insisted that Pulis will have to largely generate his own transfer kitty by reducing his playing squad.
But the deal for Adam, which was still making progress going into today's final hours of business, is proof that they are still willing to partially finance their manager's search for greater quality.
News of Stoke's interest in Adam has switched attention from their pursuit of Tom Huddlestone, but no-one at the Britannia is completely ruling it out as a fall-back option should Tottenham have a change of heart over the loan terms.
Others floating across Stoke's radar have included Manchester City's out-of-favour forward Roque Santa Cruz in a loan deal.
The name of Nicklas Bendtner has drifted out of contention, however.
Stoke have to submit their 25-man squad list to the Premier League by 5pm on Tuesday.
They can still add free agents, like striker Michael Owen, to the list after that date, but only if there is less than 25 names on it and they haven't deliberately left out senior players to accommodate any future signings.
Former Rangers midfielder Maurice Edu has completed his first full training session with his new Stoke team-mates, but is not expected to feature at Wigan Athletic tomorrow (3pm).
Winger Matthew Etherington remains Stoke's biggest injury worry ahead of tomorrow's trip north.
He has missed Stoke's last two outings with hamstring problems and will undergo a late fitness test.
Comments
by LiamOSullivan
Saturday, September 01 2012, 12:35AM
“Looks like it's Palacios rather than Whelan who's leaving, for Fulham.”
by johnarc
Friday, August 31 2012, 8:00PM
“During the summer, I saw an interview with Peter Coates, when he said that players would have to be sold to fund in-coming transfers.
The message seems to have escaped the Manager, who has achieved virtually no income from sales, and continues to behave like the greedy little boy with a rich dad.
Time for Peter Coates to get a grip, I think.
It will be interesting to see who the manager removes from the current squad to accommodate the new faces. Bet I know one who will still be in there !”
by FrankK
Friday, August 31 2012, 6:12PM
“DJofTNE,
Sorry you'll have to do better than that. So Adam couldn't get in L'pool's team? He made 37 appearances since signing July 2011 & didn't get even more partly for getting himself suspended for red cards.
As for those 10 players you example, just shows how deluded you are. Either they're well over age 30 so have seen their best years, or they'd be unaffordable for most clubs in Stoke's position, unless backed by rich overseas owners.
We're all fans here & I too am disappointed by some of this season's performances, but some of us are at least realistic about merits of what we've achieved & the kind of players we'll need to attract to improve us in future (eg. Kightly, Adam) whilst not getting club into ridiculous debt as has happened to many others.”
by johnarc
Friday, August 31 2012, 6:00PM
“Stripes is absolutely right. There are several midfield players in the squad who should be moved on before the talented, hard-working Whelan. Trouble is, I suppose, No-one would want to buy them.”
by Davehaze
Friday, August 31 2012, 5:25PM
“If he does go to Wolves, get as much as cash as you can. 14m for Fletcher and 10m for Jarvis - Moxey should pay through the nose if Wolves really want him.”
by DJofTNE
Friday, August 31 2012, 4:01PM
“Frank, Adam one of the best passers in the Prem, honestly? Really? Oh my dear, you are either deluded or puddled, ha ha ha ha, that comment has made my day, i will name just 10 players better at passing than Adam and i can name over 50 if you want me to, no meither......1. Leon Britton, Joe Allen, David Silva, Tom Cleverley, Stevie G, Carrick, Scholes, Whelan, Wilshere, Sinclair, Dyer...i could easily go on with bigger better players than the ones named but to make my point i chose them ! Adam had one good season in the prem with Blackpool, now everyone thinks hes a world beater, he couldnt get in Liverpools team and thats with them playing henderson, downing, spearing and co. Wake up and smell the roses, hes useless, wrong attitude and plays a totally different game to stoke.”
by DJofTNE
Friday, August 31 2012, 3:43PM
“Stoke wont be changing their tactics in the near future, whelan was the only player in the team that could play 'football' on the ground, its pretty obvious now that adam was bought for set pieces only, lovely football stoke, lovely. we scored the least last season in the league, thats not going to change this season with the same old kick and rush tactics.”
by SCFC4EVA
Friday, August 31 2012, 3:38PM
“Geoff Casmeron showed more signs of skill and creativity in one game against Arsenal than Glenn Whelan has shown in the last, well since he ever came to Stoke !”
by LiamOSullivan
Friday, August 31 2012, 3:12PM
“I'm siding with stripes. With Adam on our books we need someone to complement him, some who speaks the same footballing language. And Glenn's the only mf who fits that bill. If he does stay, his role will have to change, as he will be the ballplaying ballwinner or/and anchor, whereas Adam will be the playmaker,although he will be required tobreak a leg too.”
by hasod
Friday, August 31 2012, 1:58PM
“Charlie Adam signed for Stoke at 11-00 today (friday) 14-00 now and not a word . Do they have electric at this site ?”