Stoke City receive clear message after Newcastle transfer link emerges

Stoke City fans have made their feelings clear after Dwight Gayle re-emerged as a transfer target in this summer's window.

The striker has previously been heavily linked with a move to the bet365, but at the time made the switch to The Hawthorns to play for West Bromwich Albion on loan. Now Newcastle boss Eddie Howe is apparently seeking to offload the 32-year-old following a raft of new signings.

Michael O'Neill is keen to bring in more attacking players and increase the side's goals tally ahead of the new season. Gayle, though, is not short of potential suitors by all accounts, with Birmingham City, Middlesbrough, Huddersfield, Preston, Reading and Millwall all said to be keeping tabs on him.

Following the latest transfer news, here is what the Potters faithful had to say on social media...

" He may still be good at this level but, as we've all said, we need a bigger striker to go with what we have.... They mention it's someone to get us excited if they pull it off.... I think we're low enough right now to get excited if they say we're abandoning wing-backs to be honest!"

"Not a chance. Four years ago he would have been a great signing. If he's free and on minimum wage O'Neill might take a punt. Then play him as a wing back."

"We have been missing a big target centre forward for years. One who can put himself about and let the opposition centre backs panic and let the likes of Brown and Campbell feed off. The ideal would be a free scoring centre forward like John Ritchie. I am sure they are about so why aren't our scouts out there looking for them or is it that this manager would prefer to play without one? Gayle not for me, sorry."

"Whoever offers the most money is where he will end up?"

"He knows where the