Thought Davies was going for the £20 000 a week at Burnley? Stoke didnt exactly set the championship alive last season.
Well if he's off let's get it out of the way quickly. He wants a change, more cash and with Stoke he's probably joining a team with more chance of staying at Champ level even if the mood around the Potteries is a bit depressing at the moment.
Apparently Birmingham City are also expressing an interest. Davo could be tempted at the thought of joining up with Roberts again, as he's been told that he's on their retained list.
Let’s be honest we only put on the retained list that we offered him a deal to save face. It’s been evident for months from Davies interviews etc that he was going to move on.
He's still got three years left of a five year contract..... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/football/40467051
Unfortunately contracts don't count for much these days. They seem capable of being terminated all too easily when it seems to suit, although for the richer clubs that doesn't seem to matter, as they come to some arrangement to pay them up. Where I used to work, our nPower National Account Manager,was a Blue nose and when I once spoke to him , he said he had never rated Roberts. When Townsend signed for us, he also predicted that he would struggle to ever be the regular first choice keeper in our team.
I don't know if we can read anything into this, but I was speaking to a Cousin who lives in Poole and her and her husband are Season ticket holders at AFC Bournemouth. Her husband played himself when he was younger and so is very close to some reliable sources of info down at the Vitality Stadium. His contact has hinted that Bournemouth are reputedly preparing to offer Asmir Begovic as makeweight /bridge in the £30 million valuation Stoke City have put on their current keeper Jack Butland. Begovic previously spent five seasons with Stoke and was a supporters favourite, so such a move might suit player and fans alike, if of course it happens. Not reading too much into this claim, but I wonder if that probably means that Stokes rumoured move for Adam Davies is not now going to take place, or do we still feel he's on his way.?
He’s on his way one way or another. His interviews towards the end of the season made it pretty clear to me he was looking to move on.
He went on the trip with the other lads after the promotion celebrations and seemed to be enjoying himself, but I regret to say MT, I agree. I think we will know anytime soon, what his likely intentions are. I suppose with Walton at the Club, if we bring one of the two keepers we are being linked with in, that could tell us that AD is off.
Davies has been excellent for us but his inability to dominate the 6 yard box (never mind the 18 yard one!), makes me think he’s not irreplaceable even at our budget levels.
A club cannot terminate a players contract without a very good reason (i.e. gross misconduct). Not fitting in with the current gaffer's plans isn't a good reason. A player being bought in the 3rd year of a 5 year deal is not the same thing.
I realise that a player can't cancel his own contract Pete. I was thinking more in terms of players like the former West Ham United French International Dimitri Payet, who told the Club he felt he was regressing in the lower reaches of the Premiership and as they were basing their game mainly on defending, that negated the need for having him and his fellow attackers in the team. Unbeknown to the Hammers, his agent had been holding talks with Marseille who wanted him and were hoping to get him for £25 million. With that information in mind, he told West Ham he wanted to leave. The Board flatly refused and when the story of his unrest emerged, the Board put a £100 million price tag on him. Knowing that any Club would baulk at that fee, Payets next move, was to state that he would never ever kick another ball for the Club and declared that he had gone on strike. He received several threats from fans, but never lost the resolve that he wanted away. In late 2016, he met with the Club and without going into details told them that he was experiencing family problems and really needed to go back to France. In January 2017, West Ham met him and his agent and by "mutual agreement " after finally realising that true to his threat , he was never ever going to play for them again and as they needed the money for Bilic to strengthen the team , they duly let him join Marseille for £25 million. Another "ruse" to get of a contract was told to me by an ex-pro I know. Namely cause as much crap and be as disruptive as you can and invariably you will get your wish of getting out of your contract. A journeyman I played alongside he had played for five league Clubs. He said a player he knew was notorious for being appointed as the PFA rep at each of his clubs. If he wanted away, he would start "stirring " and would deliberately cause his Managers trouble. The boss didn't want to admit they were not in control of a player, so kept quiet whilst later advising their Board that ideally, he felt it was time that the player was moved on.
Payet's "family problems" was his wife catching him with his pants down and demanding to move back to France. It wasn't a money-making ploy.
Just spotted this article from 2017 from the Guardian. Like another I've read, it doesn't give the details of his so called "family problems". I've read elsewhere, he has since admitted he was a dic*head ( his exact words) for not giving West Ham any choice but to to let him go. Given his actions, I'm surprised that at the time, Sullivan and Gould didn't go after him for breach of contract when he went on strike and refused to play. It seems they took the easy option and freed him to allow him to return to former Club Marseille. I suppose the only consolation was that they trousered £25 million. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/mar/10/dimitri-payet-west-ham-bored-defensive
