Danh1

Comes on after 70 minutes at Wolves.

He’s always said, in fairness to him, that he is a journalist first and a fan second.

Wonder how many fans of Sunderland, Leicester, Man City, Arsenal etc would love to swap back to their traditional home. Would be a high percentage imo (of those who experienced both ground anyways)

First two windows were superb. Then from there they have gotten worse imo, as we have focussed more on Premier League based players. Also not addressed the RW issue since the owners arrived (could argue Gordon was signed for RW). Being in a situation where it’s Guehi or no one is shambolic. We have also been buying purples for big prices that we do not want to sell, and if we did, the profit margin wouldn’t be all that big. The pre Ashley players, nobody wants. Bring more data led and shopping abroad makes perfect sense imo.

Can see where he is coming from. Couple of the quotes demonstrate that Howe’s way of working isn’t the way we’ll be working moving forward.

Seen people getting pissy about Mitchell throwing Howe under the bus but I don’t see that. I respect the honesty of the interview and feel more assured about the owner’s ambitions moving forward. Compare it to September 2008. Keegan had just left and the future was very bleak

Well said. I don’t get the clamour for it. People getting a hard on over new walls and shiny floors. “We need it to compete” do we fucking bollocks man. Do what it takes to enhance the size of SJP. Our home for 130 odd years. People want to rip that up for the sake of a shiny new modern bowl. Fuck the NFL and that tatie off True Faith who was buzzing about it inal.

NUFC have tried to sign him in recent seasons but he has chosen to stay at Sunderland. Other clubs have also tried. Understandably he wants to play first team football.

Agree with this. Shame about the Scousers before and after the match. Shite that.

Wonder if we will try Trippier left back at some point. I don’t think he’s as good there but still more than capable of playing of doing a good job there

Hopefully if is true that Eales has stuck the knife in, he’s currently under the microscope by PIF and they’re equally as ruthless with him.

Not sure I believe that. Would have if Elanga wasn’t involved and we were giving them £35m to take Almiron

Club treading carefully due to PSR etc.

Would’ve been one of the most pathetic panic signings we’ve made. Another overpriced Premier League player as well I see. Get some imagination ffs.

Surely he starts Tonali? 1-3

That’s the thing. They could. What has changed? Isak, Botman, Bruno, Tonali. Why the pivot away from that? As I said, complain about PSR but then shop in England. Give Mitchell the keys ffs.

2/10. Kept good players but how long for? And are their hearts in it now? No interest in “being clever in the market” that we hear about when it comes to navigating PSR. Instead we’ve tried to spend £70m on an England based player. It isn’t the lack of signings that’s done it for me. Could’ve quite easily swallowed that but there’s clearly something not right behind the scenes and it needs sorted ASAP. Hope to see some imagination in the market moving forward, whatever needs to happen to get to that point.

This is it for me too. Eales should’ve hammered this home when Mitchell came in.

Shame he isn’t the only shithouse to leave the club this summer. The pathetic excuse of a keeper who looks like dumbo should’ve been peddled.

Forgot about Olise but agree, would’ve been a ridiculous signing. Again though, overpriced and based in the PL. The amount of times we hear how the club have to be clever to mitigate PSR concerns and then they are bidding 70 million Great British Pesetas for a centre half. The rest of them are players I’d expect us to be targeting with the bacon scranner as manager under Ashley

I don’t think he’s innocent in it all. Not saying he is the ultimate problem, but do think he has possibly been stubborn and difficult to work with. That old post from the Bournemouth fan posted yesterday, coupled with Hope’s article last night is where I draw that conclusion from. Also rumours of Ashworth not being impressed with Howe’s influence. We shall see, but if that is the case the club is going nowhere unless something serious happens. Be it scrapping the SD model or getting in a head coach who is aligned to it.

I fucking hope so. James Trafford, Calvert-Lewin, Marc Gheuyi (fuck off), that Fulham player, Anthony Elanga, Lloyd Kelly. One of them is a big improvement on what we have. And £70m wasn’t enough. Whinge about PSR (and rightly so) but do yourselves a fucking favour.

I honestly don’t see the club as having the inability to scout and attract European talent. We have already proven we can do that. From the information available I hold Mr Howe liable for that.

Howe probably didn’t want him

Very accurate. I know we are working off reports in the media and the likes of that post. But it leads me to think that Howe won’t be here by the time the next window opens