Stoke's Chairman has just been on SSN saying that Cheatsmuff were trying to get the £1mill owed to Spuds, from them.
If memory serves, the deal originally fell through and Storyteller was quick to slag Stoke off, claiming that they were trying to "rip them off". The deal eventually went ahead on the last afternoon of the transfer window.
As usual, the truth and that particular crooked bar stard were only connected by the use of the same language.