Stuy_O

Do you not see a pattern when Llambias, Kinnear and Charnley ALL seem to find it hard to secure big money transfers?

Unreal signing for Chelsea imo. He'll be quality there.

God Almighty. Really don't see what's so ridiculous. His attacking is better than his defense, therefore play him in a more attacking position? At least give him a run out there on pre-season. Happens all the time in football! What happens all the time on here is people forget the philosophy that made us an established PL contender in the first place and allow themselves to be easily led by Alan Pardew. Defenders on the wing, shithouses like Alsoran on the wing, 2 CMs who're about as dangerous as bubble bath in the final third. Urgh. Get out. You people. He's only saying try it for a few games in friendlies, not exactly adhering to the entire Pardew mindset.

Possibly, i'm just not confident we'll actually sign him and this doesn't really help.

Reminds me of the Debuchy saga somewhat. Fucking around for ages and now at the risk of someone else getting him after a potentially decent world cup.

I'm still not convinced tbh.

Depends on Ribery's fitness I guess.

Going to the world cup. He's an assist away from 'we tried'

So start the season with Ayoze and Cisse? Don't forget Armstrong. Thats 3 strikers as far as Mikes concerned.

I reckon he'll be straight in the side tbh. Excluding possibly Gomis I can't see us bringing any other strikers in, especially if they command a hefty fee.

Him and Dyer had great potential, just never worked out for either of them due to differing circumstances. Jenas just couldn't handle any kind of pressure. Yeah, he was fragile mentally. That was the problem with him. Had bags of ability. They were both brilliant players, they didn't really give a shit though imo.

'yet to lodge an official bid'

Soundbytes

Tiote's a really good player imo just a bit clumsy.

All guns are spoken for on this forum I think for when Colback signs for us.

And he plays for a team that cant even pay their players never mind demand silly money. Exactly.

I'll judge him on how he plays for us. I'm not gonna get hysterical before a ball has been kicked though, but everyones different I suppose.

Wickham was young, highly rated, and you could argue the mackems were fleeced. Ross McCormack isn't worth 8mil , nor should he be valued at that imo.

Perez

Venison? Lee Clark was good for them before the t-shirt incident.

I'm not to bothered about him being ex Sunderland, or the fact he celebrated when he scored. I actually don't think he's the worst player in the world and he'll no doubt try his best for us and work hard. Reflecting on that and the fact he's free well then ok I suppose. You need to give players a chance. More concerned if the club see this as Cabaye's replacement which surely to fuck they do not. We need creativity desperately and Colback offers zilch.

Would rather us go for Jordan Rhodes if we insist on trawling the championship like. Then again he'd cost a fair bit.

5mil max. Think Leeds would accept that.

I'd say it's canny frustrating as although they wouldn't fancy going there i'd say they'd both easily come here if the stewardship wasn't so awful.

Be amazed if either of those two decided Sunderland was the ideal club to continue their career with. Both fairly decent players.