Mick

I wouldn't class you as 'most'.

That Dutch forward and Debuchy didn't sign in the Summer because we were sticking to a budget, at the same time Ashley had his bank balance improved by £11 million.

Especially with the possibility of so many other players being out.

It confirmed that they were prepared to spend to stay up, in the Summer they weren't prepared to spend to kick on.

Let’s see what they do in the Summer, in January they spent because we were once again in danger of going down. Let’s see how well they do when the pressure is off.

Hopefully they'll learn from it.

Tiote hasn't been too good, I'd still prefer him to Perch.

Financially, we're doing well and I appreciate what they've done and they don't need to spin it. I don't support the balance sheet, I support the team which they failed to strengthen.

Making a profit is fantastic, it's also meaningless while we fail on the pitch.

A half full glass is also half empty, no matter how you dress it up.

It's probably beans on toast, you believe anything.

I would guess they are trying to focus on something to take peoples minds off Ashley taking £11 million at a time when we spent nothing while the club went backwards, they are creating headlines.

We won't have paid wages up front which he's clearly factored in, my point is that we didn't spend £31 million in January like he's claimed.

Llambias is talking bollocks when he claims "I think we were a net £31m spend in January, which is, quite honestly, an achievement for the quality we bought." I didn't spend almost £200k the day I bought my house and the club didn't have a net spend of £31million in January.

Crikey. The book value of that loan was around £50-60m at the time of the takeover, the break fees on the loan must have been horrific. That's why you do due diligence, boys! Also, last time I checked a 'cash advance' is a loan. I don't mind the board running the club as they see fit, but their obfuscation around financial issues drives me up the wall. What they are say here is "Mike doesn't want his loan back, apart from the bit he did. Which we've paid him". Some of the initial debt was what we still owed clubs for transfers.

I'd be over the moon to see them go down, even more so if we help them go down.

Level 7 cost the club £10 million more than Michael Owen cost the club.

As if a Sunderland fan would be embarassed by anything.

The worst thing for me isn't how much I pay towards keeping him, it's the thought of having to watch him for even longer.

He's having a gastric band fitted on Monday.

A new contract for Shola

What do you know that he's done wrong?