The Potters travel to Sunderland on Monday hoping Black Cats striker Darren Bent will not be adding to his impressive tally of 15 goals for the season so far. That is three times the amount netted by their own top-scorer Ricardo Fuller, yet it is Pulis' side that go into the match in far better shape with four successive wins in all competitions, while Sunderland are now without a victory in nine league matches. It means that despite their lack of a regular finisher, 12th-placed Stoke are currently one position and two points better off than Sunderland in the Premier League. And Pulis says experience has taught him that as long as the goals come from somewhere, the source is not important. Asked whether he would like to have a striker like Bent, Pulis said: "I think every manager would love to have two goalscorers in their team that score regularly. "But I've got away from that, and in the teams I have managed over the years those goals have been shared. "Centre-halves, midfield players, wide players - as long as they are all putting a shift in and all scoring some goals, that's what counts." As if to underline the point, Pulis has dismissed reports linking him with a move for two strikers, one of which is Bent's strike partner Kenwyne Jones, who the Potters boss believes is out of his price range. Jones has been the subject of continued transfer speculation throughout the January window, to the extent that Black Cats boss Steve Bruce has felt it necessary to speak out about the way it is unsettling the player. Along with Liverpool and Birmingham, Stoke were rumoured to be one of the interested parties, but Pulis has ruled himself out of the running for both the Trinidad & Tobago international - who was on loan at the Britannia Stadium in 2005 - and Crystal Palace's Victor Moses. "The Kenwyne Jones one, that is not going to happen, and Victor Moses, that was never going to happen anyway," Pulis said. "We had Kenwyne here when we first started, quite a while back. I know there has been interest from Liverpool and other clubs and rightly so, he's a good player. "But he's on a lot of money at Sunderland and they want a lot of money for him, it's been well documented. So we won't be in that market." Pulis has a fully fit squad to choose from ahead of Monday night's match after captain Abdoulaye Faye returned to training last week. The defender missed Sunday's 3-1 win over Arsenal in the FA Cup with a calf injury that he had sustained the previous week against Liverpool, but should feature at the Stadium of Light having made his recovery.
