The term expensive flop is used a lot to describe footballers, but few fit the requirements to be one as well as Dave Kitson did at Stoke. The 29 year old striker made the move from Reading to the Potters back in July for a fee of 5.5 million, almost three times as much as we had ever paid for any other player, and then proceeded to James McCann Jersey do absolutely nothing; sixteen games, no goals and barely a notable contribution to our bid for Premier League survival being the sum of his efforts for us. Given this, Im sure I can be forgiven for not shedding too many tears when he made the loan move back to Reading this afternoon, where hell stay at least until the end of the season.Kitson returns to the club he loves, and would never leave for money or Premier League football Speaking after the move back to Reading, who look good for promotion to the Premier League themselves Omar Infante Jersey , sitting in third position in the Championship, Kitson admitted how happy he was to be back with the Royals. This makes we wonder, why did he move in the first place? Its doubtful that it was the allure of Wrights Pies that brought him to the Potteries, with Premier League football and a tidy pay day being a far more likely explanation. I have a lot of time for bad footballers, weve seen enough of them at Stoke over the years, Nick Castellanos Jersey though the thing that really grinds my usuallysmoothly oiledgears about Kitson is his lack of effort on the pitch. After being dropped to the reserves, rightly, after a string of poor performances for the the first team, he was clearly not interested in trying to win his place in the starting eleven at Stoke back, and played in a way to suggest he was merely seeing out time before he could get a move away from the club. Thats not the sort of attitude we need from our players if we are to stave off relegation and establish ourselves as a Premier League club.Kitsons gra s fetish made him a misfit at Stoke Though I have criticised Kitson heavily above, you have to wonder why we signed him in the first place. He is a played who consistently scored Premier League goals for Reading, as part of a side that played a style of football rather different to our own rustic manner. He isnt the first name that springs to mind when you think of a striker in a direct team, and was hardly going to flourish playing in Ryan Carpenter Jersey the Sidibe role in the Stoke attack.Thus, I believe Tony Pulis must take some of the blame for such a dreadful transfer move for Stoke. Kitson joins Denny Mclain Jersey Reading on loan with a view to a permanent move. Pulis claims that at present it is merely a chance for him to re-find his form at first team level, but I feel it is very unlikely we will see him playing for Stoke again, as he clearly doesnt want to be at the club and with James Beattie, Ricardo Fuller, Mamady Sidibe and even Richard Cre swell ahead of him in the pecking order. I only hope we can recoup as much of the original 5.5 million as we can when he leaves on a permanent deal.Kitsons grimace sums up his time at Stoke