STOKE INTERESTED IN WARNOCK

Stoke city are apparently interested in signing Aston Villa defender Stephen Warnock in the summer. Pulis will make his offer for the player, who had a bitter fall-out with Villa boss Gerard Houllier, if he can keep Stoke in the Premier League.

Warnock hasn’t played for Villa’s team since their defeat at Manchester City in December, and many punters have placed free football bets on him leaving.

Stoke city are apparently interested in signing Aston Villa defender Stephen Warnock in the summer. Pulis will make his offer for the player, who had a bitter fall-out with Villa boss Gerard Houllier, if he can keep Stoke in the Premier League.

Warnock hasn’t played for Villa’s team since their defeat at Manchester City in December, and many punters have placed free football bets on him leaving.

And Pulis is prepared to fight it out with Liverpool, where Warnock played as a youngster, and Wigan for the 29-year-old’s services.

Pulis has warned his squad that he will shake up the squad this summer.

‘If we stay up this year, there will be lots of changes,’ he said. ‘They won’t be massive, but certainly changes within the club and the group which will enable to push on again.