In January Stoke bid £6m for him (Not £9m as Eric Morecambe in a baseball cap was claiming) as he'd had a fallout at Hoffenheim. He agreed terms with them and then flew to Stoke to have his medical. During the course of said medical, they decided the knee injury he suffered in Belgium (At Muscron I think?) was too much of a risk for their money.
They then went on to spend £14m on Crouch and Cameron Jerome (who've scored 2 goals thus far).
Hope you don't have owt against Eric Morecambe though
i really like that 2nd design you put up, i've just altered it slightly, swapping the blue star to the other side of the chest, making it slightly smaller and bringing the city crest in
http://a.imageshack.us/img9/5835/sbr3.jpg
Decent design like
I think we've been hitting about 46K for most games so i'd like to think with the extra 4K Season tickets we should be getting near the 50 thousand mark every week now