Rich

That's a horrific story, no matter how it actually happened. Gutted for the lad.

;D

"Igor, baby, did you have sweetcorn at lunch?"

also he is extremely stupid to go there. £££££££ Sunderland are going nowhere but up, unfortunately, and getting players of the quality of Chimbonda and Malbranque in (even on big wages, which they can afford), can only help them push on. EDIT: Bit of a step up from the likes of Andy Reid and Phil Bardsley, aren't they?

So's Chimbonda, if he puts a bit of heart into it.

Why do we need to buy a player for the position that we are most covered for? Just because we're "most covered" there doesn't mean the players we have are of high enough quality and/or will even be staying at the club. SWP is top-class, we might actually have a chance of getting him, and the thought of him on the right and Gutierrez on the left would be extremely exciting. He's the type of player that could take us to the next level, much like a Bentley would, and those are the types of players we could do with signing. Obviously we need a couple of defenders, a central midfielder and a striker too, but as far as an individual signing goes, SWP would be the one for me (which is what I thought the initial question was about: "who could we bring in that would excite you?")

SWP

Good man, wish him all the best at Fener.

If Keegan genuinely reckons he's up to it, then that's good enough for me.

53 with a gammy keyboard. Smoke my pole.

Ray, when someone asks you if you're a God... YOU SAY YES!

Not yet but I am going to stroll down & buy it NOW!!!!! You will never learn Just been to Nobbys!!! I tell you one thing it doesn't matter who owns that gaff the women workers there love ignoring the customers while they have a chat. Oh aye ,The Sunday Sun..........Dennis & Jeff want us to sign one time Sunderland target Dorin Goian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorin_Goian but Kevin needs to okay it. We are also meant to be after Pascal Chimbonda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Chimbonda as he "thinks" over a move to Sunderland. Fred Shepherd is meant to have offered about £10 million less for the club he wants to buy due to some club taking Jonás Gutiérrez off them for nowt. Good old Nobby's! Haven't been in for ages, but spent most of my childhood milling around there.

"Kevin Keegan issues transfer ultimatum" Insightful!

Not yet but I am going to stroll down & buy it NOW!!!!! You will never learn

It's another one of these that would be disappointing simply because the lad seems a good 'un, he's played out of his skin on his only appearance and he's quite highly rated. That's all surface stuff though. You never know what's going on behind the scenes. He might want back to Holland, he might see that he's got no chance of getting a game here, like you say Forster might be more highly-rated now, we might see his injury proneness as a liability... There'll be reasons either way, but I obviously hope we're not selling him just to get some money in, as it goes against everything we've been told that we're trying to do here.

Can't risk the cost of helicopter fuel with the rumoured wage cut, tbh.

We'll see what happens, I suppose. Would be surprised to see it happen like.

No idea, Keegan said three additional players would miss Hartlepool, one has a bad back, the other two he didn't say. All short term things, but no point putting them out against Hartlepool. Nicky Butt is might be the one who misses out with the back problem. Source is a classic friend of a friend of a friend who works at the Village Hotel where the lads were training the other day, I heard about it before they were up on here. Apparently Butt did his back in and had to sit out the rest of the session.

Might just be trying to turn his head? There'll be some method to the madness. Maybe so. Still, dunno why he'd want to give up his place in the Blackburn starting XI to come here and sit on the bench. Aye, don't know if he'd want to move from the North West either being a Lancashire lad. He's probably better than Enrique, mind, at least at this point in time.

Might just be trying to turn his head? There'll be some method to the madness.

In fairness to Nicko on (part of) this one, the Blackburn chairman himself has confirmed a bid of £2M has been rejected for Warnock: From the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.