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Type of situation where he might shine though, he'll certainly be more motivated against us than he usually is playing for them. Personally rather him be on the bench warming up for most of the game, that would have a similar effect on the atmosphere.

Some absolute fannies on here. And others who are arrogant in their willful ignorance, acting as if nothing ever happens. Not arrogance just some fans can't see serious problems or choose not to when it's abundantly clear. This squad will have serious problems stopping up. There's a number of players who are either total s*** or have question marks whether they can cut it in the premier. The manager is obviously bordering on being dillusioned with the current transfer policy and the only reason he is stopping is due to a sense of loyalty to the fans. Think it's quite sad when people come out with 'fannies', 'bed wetters' or 'cry babies' when the problems at this club or so obvious that when people say this they are either so blinkered or just plain clueless. Rafa is not a god and he can only take players with questionable top flight quality so far and that's why his annoyance is increasing daily. It's really not rocket science. Completely disagree with this, our first 11 is much much better than most on here want to give it credit for, I dunno why that is. maybe it's too much listening to mackem lies, read a post on there the other day that said, even in there current state , their current team would easily beat ours. Even beyond the first 11 we have some quality too, in the likes of Murphy, Aarons, the team captain, and Merino. The problem with our squad is that we have limited back up for the likes of Shelvey and Gayle, but if those two stay fit the bulk of the season, we'll be absolutely fine and anyone getting their knickers in a twist about this being a relegation battle, is talking nonsense, the bottom of the PL didn't get so much better in the space of one transfer window, it's still pretty poor on the whole and has nothing, even with our current squad for us to be afraid of.

Hoping to wake up to some positive news, doesn't look like we will have another striker in before the start of the season.

I don't disagree with this, no way we will repeat the result we got in our last PL game, not the best game to start with but hope we can take some positives away.

On the basis of two pre-season games, he's gonna take some shifting once Yedlin is fit again, I know he can play at LB but seems much more natural on the right, shame because would be great to see the back of Dummett from the first choice 11.

Any player who was fit and didn't feature at all in the last two games, clearly has no future here. I'm a little surprise, considering how short we are at LB, that Rafa didn't bring him on at LB and rested Hayden. Good sign though, because he's maybe trying to avoid Colback getting a knock, there must be something a foot you would think.

That was brilliant by Atsu

Another close one, could have had a lot more than 2, here.

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Yedlin will struggle to get back in on this show.

It is for me though dude, perfect stream.

He's no Colback or Catts though dude :0

Nice effort Mitro

Not sure when the Italian league starts but we look a couple of weeks ahead of them in terms of match sharpness

Clearly not starting the season, desperate need now for another striker. My god shelvey is spraying it around beautifully, Mitro nearly made it three.

Lol is that an assist for micro, slipped and fouled the back line

The stream is perfect for me, perhaps they have moved the servers to Canada, they are looking good early doors.

They've missed a couple of sitters. But Sunderland should be happy with that result, Derby were awful but important for the Mackems not to lose, with confidence pretty fragile.

McGeady looks a lot better than he did at SJP last season.

N'Dong is their record signing, lol

That was a booking surely.

Oh my god, how do you miss that by so much.

I know it's been said too many times already but honestly if you are designing a football kit, what on earth goes into your head to think that that abomination will look good. It's horrendous.

Should have been ahead there. Derby are woeful, I don't remember too many champ teams last season looking this bad, maybe Sunderland are a lot better than we all thought, but my god Derby are dreadful.