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Giving them a shitload of days off?

As good as Joelinton has been this year, I’d personally have him in your second tier- he shouldn’t be in the top ‘secure’ bracket if we can get an improvement on him (which I think we can).

Yeah, me too- I edited the original comment to say as much

Turned us down last month, didn’t he? I got the impression that he wanted to stay in Germany- probably destined for Bayern/Dortmund I’d say.

Same genetics as Charlie Adam, clearly.

12 month rolling contract.

Far and away the biggest failure given their spend over the last 10 years. A decade of waste, both financially and on the field. Amazed we feature so high up in fairness.

“Jordan Henderson and Jordan Pickford For the sake of our, (and your) beloved football club, could you PLEASE come home, and set up a consortium or team to make this club great again? Enough is enough, and we all deserve more. The two of you are Sunderland heroes, who can become legends, not only by putting our club ‘back in the map’, but by also showing the football world that it’s about heart & passion, not just the money. How the hell has this happened to our, and your club. I know you both look on here! Haway the Lads man!“ fuck me…begging two players to buy the clerb….desperation and craziness at its finest.

Played in Turkey for two years before signing for Villa- not unsurprising he’d go back.

Standard practice so the new employee can’t jump ship and immediately take all their experience/contacts etc with them to the new employers and leave their last ones in the lurch. It theoretically protects the medium/long term strategic interests of the former employer.

Hummels and Nerlinger went from Bayern to Dortmund. And Goetze eventually made his way back via Bayern too. Think he’s missed a trick not moving abroad at this stage, but it’s not the worst move I guess.

Bizarre. Hardly the new challenge that was being touted.

Three months I think I’ve seen mentioned.

Officially dropped by Nike. https://news.sky.com/story/amp/mason-greenwood-dropped-by-nike-after-rape-allegation-12535523

Wonder how long his contractual ‘gardening leave’ is for?

True. But I don’t think Ole was either decisive or had the authority. Haven’t a clue about the Real players under Zidane, but it seems like he fell out with a large number- they can’t all have been bad apples, surely?

I’m no expert on the subject, but hasn’t Xidane fallen out with loads of players? Bale, Rodriguez, Hakimi, Navas, Kovacic etc? Plus I don’t think it was a strength of Solskjaer- he was trying to be that friendly with them all that he had no strength at all to deal with any of the egos, and they ended up playing how they wanted rather than how he wanted.

From media in Aug 2021: “Debbie Byrne, prosecuting, said Mendy was originally arrested and released under investigation on 11 November last year on suspicion of rape. In January, he was further arrested on suspicion of sexual assault, the court was told. Byrne said one of Mendy’s bail conditions was that he should not have house parties. She said police were called to a party attended by up to 21 people at Mendy’s home in the Cheshire village of Mottram St Andrew this week. He was then arrested over a further allegation of rape and for allegedly breaching his bail conditions, the court heard. The prosecutor said Mendy had shown an an unwillingness to comply with his bail conditions, and he should be remanded in custody to prevent him from carrying out further offences. She said: “The defendant has shown total disregard and, the crown will say, an arrogance in ignoring the bail conditions and continuing to conduct his social life as he chooses.” “

Which also involved committing further offences whilst on bail/being investigated by the police. (One of the alleged rapes is said to have taken place at his house in August when he was on police bail for other sexual offences.)

€30m (£25m) from Betis in 2018. Contract til June 2023. edit- stats: 20 goals, 15 assists in 150 appearances since. LOTS of teams supposedly after him this coming summer- Man Utd, Arsenal etc etc. Going to be a real bidding war methinks.

Wonder if he’ll try and ‘poach’ Jones from us, after he appointed him to assist here…?

???

I suspect he was not, given that he doubled down on his idiocy after being sacked. Unless he’s pissed every day, of course…

Greenwood released on bail pending investigation.

How the fuck would Terry know? Been scouting him in Brazil? Clearly just going off his Chelsea days and general attitude (which will be fine if all is well….but means nothing if his legs have gone).