Jones has been the subject of interest from Stoke, Liverpool and Birmingham this window and the speculation has grown so intense at times that Black Cats boss Steve Bruce has felt it necessary to speak out about the way it is unsettling the player. Pulis has now ruled out the prospect of signing the Trinidad & Tobago international before Monday's transfer deadline, however, and has also dismissed speculation linking him with a move for 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' team could line up against Jones just hours after the transfer window closes on Monday night as Stoke travel to the Stadium of Light in the Premier League. One player the manager is still keen to bring in before then is England goalkeeper David James, whose protracted move from Portsmouth is still being negotiated. Pulis denied that a reported calf injury James' sustained in training this week would have any bearing on the deal and reaffirmed his desire for the transfer to be completed as soon as possible. "The washing machine is still spinning and we are going to have to wait until it stops," Pulis said of the James saga. "Luckily Tony (Scholes, Stoke's chief executive) is watching it and dealing with it, not me. "We need another goalkeeper in. Last year we took a chance but I don't think we can afford to do that this year with so many games coming up." James would be Pulis' first recruit of this year's mid-season window, a period which has been in contrast to his activities last campaign when he pulled off something of a coup in January with the double signing of James Beattie and Matthew Etherington. It proved a successful move with the two players going on to have pivotal roles in keeping the Potters up, but Pulis insists he is not a fan of the current transfer system and would prefer to see it scrapped altogether. "We're in the European market where free trade is flagged up as one of the most important things, yet we have restrictions in football," Pulis said. "It's just beyond me to be honest and I think it puts an enormous amount of pressure on people. "I don't think it's right and I think you should bring the old system back. The old system worked and I don't know why they wanted to change it. "The way finances are going and the way football clubs are going, the sooner we get back to that the better. "For me it suits the bigger clubs that have got the bigger squads and the best players. "They are quite happy to sit there and be comfortable - it's the ones that might have smaller squads and doubts about picking up injuries. "They are then trying to compete and get players in that are more expensive than they would be if there wasn't a window." He added: "It's tight this year, there doesn't seem to be as much money about and as many things happening. But it wouldn't surprise me if it all took off in the next couple of days."
