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Is a survival bonus a thing already? Have never heard of this concept until this month and this transfer

39 years old and has played nine minutes of football this season, I read on RTG. It's a canny gamble like. Totally understand their wish for a feelgood appointment of course, but it feels more than a bit desperate Is Will Grigg no longer on fire? Have to wonder about them having him out on loan at their most obvious block to promotion anyway

Shock and awe tactics, transfer window edition

I'd be able to remember Shearer booting him in the heed every time I think about them

Amazing signing. Can't wait for some no mark shithouse to clatter him for the purpose of Letting Him Know He's In A Game

Mate of mine (mackem at work but 100% class bloke) picked this to take his bairn to his first away game It's the sort of thing that'd put a kid off football for life, or at least off Sunderland for life

Do Sunderland get into the New York Times very often?

Medicals take some doing these days

Thank God for the Digital Legacy

an actual footballer's 'digital legacy' what is this even

inner workings of the place sussed immediately

BlueStar posted a brilliant, if long, video on the Personal Finance thread about this stuff, if people have just over two hours to spare. It's worth a look

I read 200m, don't know how accurate it was though

I guess the argument is that people won't try to stiff Burnley because they're not Filthy Stinking Fucking Rich as well as desperate, so £25m will go further for them than for us

Only issue I have is depleting the FFP (or whatever it's called now) resource with old men but that's a bridge we'll cross if we get to it. Survival above all else for me, no objections to this even with the price tag. Always liked the bloke. Watched the video of all his Burnley goals and he's got a composure in front of goal that I haven't seen here for what feels like years. Puts away rebounds, parries and unexpected balls to feet in the box in a way that I know we can't do at the minute. Obviously haven't seen the video of all those similar chances he's missed, but he's put enough away

tinpot trophy anyhow

lerl

Unrelated to this game but will make a change at least if they get stiffed this time because another team capitalises on their games in hand, rather than getting stiffed by spunking their own games in hand up the waal

Is all this Worrying or not? I'm never sure any more

Were we ever actually linked by anything other than He Needs To Go And Newcastle Have Money To Spend speculation?

I keep thinking that a little looping gif full of split second finest moments is probably the best way to counter the class and self respect argument. A half second of that lad shitting in the stadium, a half second of Adam Johnson being adored by the fans, a half second of their nazi saluting manager, a half second of Ben Alnwick grimly tugging away in the corner of the room. Trafalgar Square fountains. Any more, or is that the extent of their classlessness in visual form?

They're pure fucking raging like, the classy bastards what they are

That video puts me in mind of someone