Roy Keane has vowed Jon Walters will never play for Ipswich again after axing the Tractor Boys skipper for the visit of Burnley.
Walters who has been linked with a move to the Potters all summer was stripped of the captaincy and dropped from the team after a training ground incident on Friday.
Keane said “I don’t think that a player who has a clear desire to leave should be captain. I thought it was a straight forward decision. Jon’s reaction was unbelievably overboard, so he had been disciplined and as long as I’m manger of the club he will never kick a ball for us. We’ve had another offer from a different club – not Stoke – and the owner is negotiating with them at the moment”
This all coming after Keane saying only a week earlier Walters was the second best striker in the championship last season.