{"id":433151,"date":"2011-05-31T07:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T07:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/31\/stoke-deny-bid-for-striker-cole\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T07:44:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T07:44:51","slug":"stoke-deny-bid-for-striker-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/31\/stoke-deny-bid-for-striker-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke deny bid for striker Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/53051000\/jpg\/_53051727_111930075.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"West Ham United striker Carlton Cole\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cole has won seven caps for England<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Stoke City chairman Peter Coates has dismissed newspaper reports that the FA Cup finalists have made a bid for West Ham United striker Carlton Cole.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was claimed that the Potters had made a club record \u00a39m offer for the 27-year-old England international.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those reports are unfounded and it is not the case whatsoever,&#8221; Coates told BBC Radio Stoke. &#8220;We&#8217;ve not made a single bid in any way, shape or form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is the second consecutive summer that Stoke have been linked with Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in August 2010, after reportedly making an offer for the striker, manager Tony Pulis told BBC Radio Stoke: &#8220;There&#8217;s no truth in it at all. They&#8217;ve got to fill their papers and fill their television programmes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Chelsea trainee Cole is one of a number of players expected to leave Upton Park in the summer, following the Hammers&#8217; relegation from the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Coates has also said Stoke will not be making an offer for Blackpool&#8217;s sought-after captain Charlie Adam.<\/p>\n<p>The Scotland international midfielder is set to leave Bloomfield Road after a stand-out season in the Premier League with the Seasiders, in which he scored 13 goals in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think the manager is interested in him,&#8221; said the Stoke chairman. &#8220;He&#8217;s not mentioned him to me so I assume he&#8217;s not interested in him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Visit link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/teams\/s\/stoke_city\/9499876.stm\" title=\"Stoke deny bid for striker Cole\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoke deny bid for striker Cole<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Cole has won seven caps for England Stoke City chairman Peter Coates has dismissed newspaper reports that the FA Cup finalists have made a bid for West Ham United striker Carlton Cole. It was claimed that the Potters had made a club record \u00a39m offer for the 27-year-old England international. &#8220;Those reports are unfounded and it is not the case whatsoever,&#8221; Coates told BBC Radio Stoke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stoke deny bid for striker Cole - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/31\/stoke-deny-bid-for-striker-cole\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Stoke deny bid for striker Cole - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Cole has won seven caps for England Stoke City chairman Peter Coates has dismissed newspaper reports that the FA Cup finalists have made a bid for West Ham United striker Carlton Cole. 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