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He was good at the end of the season Souness got sacked and Roeder took us up the table. Shame he got that hip injury and that we didn't have the squad to look after that injury properly.

Touching on the 2 up top comment, we played 4-3-2 second half on Tuesday and looked good. I would love to see us play 4-3-1-2, with Sissoko-Anita-Cabaye in midfield and Ben Arfa behind the strikers. Tempted to say that Cabaye is the problem with that. Not got the legs to play as one of the 'shuttlers' and doesn't have the discipline to play in front of the back 4.

He was superb in the second half on Tuesday.

Caulkin and Bent are very good friends, so I would concur with that theory.

He'll just be trying to smoke us out. Ins't Aulas renowned as a pain in the arse?

Whatever the motivations for this, it's a big result. Hopefully we can carry the positivity through and add Gomis and Remy. Those 2 plus Gouffran and Cisse is very handy.

A nothing article written by a woman who supports Sunderland. Top journalism as always. Only bit of interest is the Campbell loan which is very promising.

9 signings and they are weaker than last season. Impressive. They still have no full backs and no quality in the middle of the park. They also sold their keeper who was the only top class player they owned. It's ok though, they've replaced him with Arsenal's third choice.

What the fuck is this ref doing? It's a friendly. What an absolute mug.

Who gives a shit what Mark Douglas thinks. He claims to have all these sources but all his did in January was regurgitate the French media. He said flat out we wouldn't sign Ba, knew nothing of Marveaux, nothing of Cisse. He's held up as some sort of oracle but he's no better than Ryder. He just writes his shit in a slightly more eloquent way. At least Ryder is a fan and actually cares.

Everyone yammers on like playing it long is the worst thing in the world. It worked ok with Leon up front! We played plenty of long ball with Shearer and Bellamy upfront as well.

I'd be very happy with Remy-Gomis-Hatem as a front three. Problem is, assuming Cisse is off, only Gouffran is adequate cover so we'd still be short of upgrades on Shola and Obertan: We could also really do with some goals from midfield. If Cabaye went, I'd love to see us buy a box to box midfielder to play with Sissoko in front of Anita.

Decent post except for the key sales bit. That line keeps getting trotted out. Who have we sold again? Carroll? Enrique? Ba? One ridiculous bid, one player who refused to play unless sold and one guy who went as he had a clause in his contract.

Just looked on YouTube and it appears Gignac scored at least 2 headers from corners last year. That'll do me.

This is exactly the same as Bruce's last summer when they bought a load of shite. They set the transfer window alight if I recall. The reality was that the didn't buy one player I would have here and the same can be said for this summer. We can complain all we want about not signing players but its easy to buy shite that no one else wants. Over 15m for Altidore and a 28 year old Italian midfielder (on a 4 year deal and likely huge wages) is criminal.

Didn't JFK say he'd seen a Norwegian keeper he liked?

What's hard to understand? He's experienced in a team with little experience and was also captain of Villa. Captaining, and even playing in, a Premier league side is something not many of our players offer. He will certainly offer something in the dressing room.

The Bent hatred is getting ridiculous now. A proven Premier League scorer at a low price who offers a bit of presence, leadership and has something to prove. I agree him and Cisse won't work but let's wait until we try to play the 2 of them week in week out until we moan our arses off. At 3-4m, I'm delighted.

Very clear from his comments that he still thinks Tiote should be in the side. Idiot.

The local journos are frothing at the gash over them signing a lot of shit. 15m on Altidore and Giaccherini. Looks very average business to me. Has everyone forgot that they've lost two of their 4 best players (rose and mignolet) and sessegnon may be off too.

He must be class though. We didn't sign him so he's automatically awesome.

Any reason why? I agree. Has been looking ominous for weeks. Any reason why? He's obviously seen Darren Bent walking around SJP looking ominous a lot over the last couple of weeks. Read between the lines.

Previous tweet suggests he's either going on holiday or returning from holiday.

This stinks of Ashley being pissed off that he paid 7m for Anita only for Pardew to pick Perch over him.

Fuckin hell. What a self important prick.