Stoke deny making Doyle bid

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Stoke deny making Doyle bid


Stoke City director of football John Rudge has criticised Cork City’s claim that his club matched Reading’s £80,000 offer for Kevin Doyle last week – insisting that the Potters never tabled any offer for the striker.

Doyle completed his move to the Madejski Stadium last Tuesday, ending speculation that Burnley and Stoke could put the skids under Reading’s long pursuit of the Irish under-21 star.


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[kevincronin2000]

i'd say that was only mentioned by city to get reading to up there price for doyle. A sourse told me that reading were the only team who asked for permission to speak to doyle. ;)

[Dodge]

i'd say that was only mentioned by city to get reading to up there price for doyle.
A bit pointless when everyone knew about the €117k clause.

[kevincronin2000]

ya but if two clubs start bidding for his signature they are going to accept the larger one.

[shedite]

They had to accept any 117,000. Doesn't matter if Real Madrid offered 20mill and Reading offered 117,000 , both would have been accepted and Doyle would have gone to wherever he wanted.

It might have meant more money to Doyler though, as Reading might have offered him more money to try to persuade him to go to Reading if they thought there was another team looking for him

[tiktok]

A bit pointless when everyone knew about the €117k clause.

Maybe stalling to get an improved deal re: first options shoul dhe want out and sell-on clauses

[patsh]

The report says they were interested but "had not agreed a fee".

Well the fee was €117,000, there didn't have to be any agreement. Stoke say they knew about the clause, admitted they were interested in Doyler, so they must have made some enquiries about him...6 of one, half dozen of another.....

[pete]

Doesn't really matter what happened... maybe Stoke saying this for their own PR purposes i.e. don't like to have players rejecting them.

[kingcolers]

Wonder how much Reading would have paid if that clause didn't exist. When you convert it to sterling, £80,000 just seems ridiculous. But maybe they wouldn't have bid for him at all...?

[pete]

Being realistic i think city would have got €200k but would have had option to add clauses.