Chris_R

£20m. I'd be so done with anything to do with this club if he goes for anything less than £50m. That's what it would cost to replace him, that's what it should cost to buy him.

Is will be the £25m offer. We'll have made it after finding out about the £27m one. "We tried." That'll be our new thing. Pay some agent twat £2m to find out who has bid for certain players so we can go in below. And the club'll be absolutely gutted if it's accepted. Nah, we'd just wait until it came to personal terms and offer him the national minimum wage.

If I were to write a parody, I can't say I'd write much different to that.

To be fair though, they've at least managed to sign someone.

I wonder if: A) They vet whether you're a Sunderland fan before you start doing this B) If it's possible to install the seats backwards Just curious....

Did you skip maths entirely, or did you just not pay attention?

Can't screen it until they fathom out whether to stick it under horror or comedy.

Middlesbrough and Teesside is a much better town/city and region than Sunderland and Wearside. Mind it will be a culture shock for the player leaving behind the delights and sounds of Newcastle Upon Tyne for the Boro middlesbrough is fucking wretched man Doesn't change anything about what he said. Both statements can be true.

Loved watching him when he played for us, he was an excellent player, a total rock at the back. Hope he recovers from this.

So basically everyone wants out except this lad, and whilst I don't follow this rabble to any degree I've literally never seen his name until now. Amazing.

Want he bragging just a week or so back about how much due diligence he'd done?

All sounds horribly familiar and short-sighted.

I struggle to get worked up anymore. If the people who own the club can't be bothered with it, I'm not sure why I should.

It's even harder to sign them if you don't put any bids in. Not that anyone here needs convincing.

Oh, they need certified alright.

Seems like they're back to claiming to be more "classy" than us, as it's an unmeasurable metric that can't be argued against, because by all measurable ones they're worse than us.

At least he's acknowledging he's a racist. First step in overcoming a problem is to admit it exists!

Well to be fair he did what Sunderland aspire to and turned Villa into a Championship club.

If Prime goes up, I'm out. Just about clinging on at £79 but as said, prices aren't as good, delivery is getting slower. If they ramp the price up at all I'll pull the plug. I only got it for fast delivery of cheap goods because it's not like the TV content - live or otherwise - isn't available through "other methods".

I've got Prime, but Prime Video gets annoyed by my VPN and won't work unless I turn it off. I can genuinely see that I'll end up just illegally streaming those matches as well because it'll be easier. Honestly the whole situation is ridiculous. The idea that you have to pay lots of different companies to watch the same product is nonsense. Imagine the uproar if Game Of Thrones had episodes 1, 4 and 7 on Sky, but 2 and 5 on Netflix and 3, 6 and 8 on Prime. Nobody would stand for it. Most consumers just want to watch their own team. They should sell the rights per team. I get that Man U etc would get a higher bid than Watford irrespective of league positions, but I'm thinking of what's fair to the consumers and maybe there's other solutions for how to divide the money based on performance, like currently? I also fully understand why the above will never be allowed to happen!

Problem with selling him, even for £50m or whatever, is we know how it'll work out with Ashley's maths. It's happened a hundred times already: The payment will be spread over 5 years, so they'll say that we get £10m to spend now but then they'll conveniently forget to add the other four !0 millions on in the next 4 summers. That money will be listed on the accounts as "Sundries: Other" and put in someone's pocket. Jamaal's wages, which had previously eaten into our transfer budget when he signed a contract, won't be returned now he's sold but yet his replacement will have his wages taken out of our budget. We'll then be told we've got no money and have overspent, and should be grateful to Mike.

I'll be disgusted if this one happens. Not remotely surprised, but still disgusted.

Mackematics rule #2739, iirc.

Relegated to the third division but they've won the NE Debt Free trophy. Absolute melts.