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Ah well, wonder if he'll go to Holland with the reserves?

That's what the Sunday Sun article says. It's irrelevant whether it says we need to "sell to fund", because we don't know how much the cost of the striker and fullback would be. Cheap as cheesy chips as the Mackems would say as the agents cost more than the transfer fees according to Pardew . In the case of free transfers, I think that's pretty obvious.

That's what the Sunday Sun article says. It's irrelevant whether it says we need to "sell to fund", because we don't know how much the cost of the striker and fullback would be. Also, does the Sunday Sun even know? I'm sceptical TBH.

The Goslinator. He doesn't suit the shaved head look like.

Thanks for the reminder, I forgot that everything football managers say about transfers happen exactly as they predict.

Last season we didn't have them, this season we do, therefore we're two players better off. Simple really.

Didn't know that about Perch and his agent, seems strange he would be looking for a move. Surely he knew he was going to be a permanent reserve when he came here. Good news though. I just think we would consider those two decent backup and not try to sell them right now. I hope I'm wrong obviously, as they're both shite.

I doubt we're trying to move Perch or Ryan Taylor. I want them out as well ideally, but I can't see it. And Smith and Xisco nobody will touch.

I think we genuinely have to consider those two new signings. I know it's a cliche etc etc, but we did without them all last season and now we don't have to. As far as I'm concerned we're six players up on the squad that finished last season, and only Nolan gone out.

You ruthless muthafucka.

Yeah I know, fair point, I just think it's a shame we haven't utilised this quite exciting player we've had.

Seems he obviously has no future here, if he did he would be in and around the first team squad now. I don't agree with that, but if that's the view of the management they should be trying to sell him now while he still has a bit of value.

They'll win the reserve league at a canter, surely.

He was alright when he first appeared, sorry to see we're not going to have a decent Sunderland poster after all.

Exactly. Come now Ian, you and I both know the "truth" about those "bids." I'm avoiding that conversation and all related ones. As much as I can anyway!

Exactly.

Wish I shared your optimism that we wouldn't sell Tiote if Chelsea decided they wanted him. A deal for Sturridge when he was out of our price range until now sounds fishy to me. If we want to sell him then we'll sell him, regardless of Sturridge or not. We don't always have to go all doom monger you know. We're not going to sell everybody. Good luck with that argument Jonny, it never works for me.

Aye, Simpson seems a brilliant lad. Fingers crossed he can get Jose to sign!

Don't understand why he's never been given a chance here, always looks lively and dangerous when I've seen him play.

Ashley sympathiser!!! Cheers like, think I need to have the weekend off the forum and take a look again in a few days. Pointless repeating the same old arguments.

I thought he's working for the People? Fuck, now we need to get something on the people. It's obvious Oliver never hacked anyone's phone though, he wouldn't be wide of the mark all the time if he did.

I've almost deleted my account a couple of times, but I couldn't face getting all my football news from the BBC website and the back pages of the papers.

The one who was sacked to make way for Pardew. Ian, noone with any sense takes everything the manager or club officials of any team say as gospel, as there are certain things it is in the best interests of the club to keep under wraps. Some managers don't like deliberately misleading fans and will avoid the issue altogether, others have no problem with implying one thing while keeping the language vague enough to be able to say the situation changed when the opposite of what they implied earlier happens, and in the case of some managers like Kinnear they are living in their own little fantasy world and will just say whatever pops into their head at the time that they think supporters want to hear. The bizarre thing is people like yourself who get all uptight when Pardew or the club say something and people don't automatically believe it without question. Apparently having any cynicism even when justified by experience is being "negative". You obviously realise that Pardew doesn't always tell the whole truth, and in the Tiote thread you accept that the only thing keeping him here is other clubs' lack of interest. So why when people dismiss what Pardew says on matters of buying and selling players as irrelevant do you get upset about it? It almost seems like you want to be comforted by being misled. The only thing that annoys me is people automatically believing the worst about everything to do with the club, while dismissing anything positive. That's it basically, I don't expect people to believe everything that comes out of Pardew's mouth, but as far as I can see he's done well in his spell as manager and deserves a bit of credit. So he said we wouldn't sell Carroll? So fucking what, every manager says that about their big players... he probably didn't even contemplate a £30m bid arriving. The only thing keeping any player at any club is the fact that a more successful club doesn't want to bid mega money for them. That's just life, there's no point shitting our pants about it. My overall view is that we had a great season last season, we've added some decent players to our squad, and there's plenty time to make other signings. I don't really care about the amount of the Carroll money that's being spent on transfers, and I don't really care about this so called "lack of communication". Shouldn't really bother posting during these self-flagellation sessions that break out, but I can't help it.

Where is all the excess money going then?