brummie Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 The only major signing from abroad in there is Carew and that only came about due to a swap deal instigated by the other party. To be fair, there was also Brad Guzan, a rookie keeper brought in from the US, and Moustafa Salifou, who MON decided to get in from the Swiss third division for some bizarre reason, give him 10k a week for three years, then forget about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfast Mags Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 I quite liked Guzan in the few times I seen him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 I quite liked Guzan in the few times I seen him. There are many who think he'll be our no 1 keeper by the end of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 I quite liked Guzan in the few times I seen him. There are many who think he'll be our no 1 keeper by the end of the season. What's your view on Given btw? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Curtis Davies (WBA, £10m) Steve Sidwell (Chelsea £5.5m) Brad Friedel (Blackburn, £2.5m) Brad Guzan (Chivas US, £1m) Nicky Shorey (Reading, £4m) Luke Young (Middlesbrough, £5m) Carlos Cuellar (Rangers £7.8m) James Milner (Newcastle, £12m) Arsenio Halfhuid (Excelsior, nominal) Emile Heskey (Wigan £3.5m) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Curtis Davies 10M. That's almost as bad as our Boumsong deal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Curtis Davies (WBA, £10m) Steve Sidwell (Chelsea £5.5m) Brad Friedel (Blackburn, £2.5m) Brad Guzan (Chivas US, £1m) Nicky Shorey (Reading, £4m) Luke Young (Middlesbrough, £5m) Carlos Cuellar (Rangers £7.8m) James Milner (Newcastle, £12m) Arsenio Halfhuid (Excelsior, nominal) Emile Heskey (Wigan £3.5m) £51.5 million spent in 1 summer, on THAT. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiemag Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Curtis Davies (WBA, £10m) Steve Sidwell (Chelsea £5.5m) Brad Friedel (Blackburn, £2.5m) Brad Guzan (Chivas US, £1m) Nicky Shorey (Reading, £4m) Luke Young (Middlesbrough, £5m) Carlos Cuellar (Rangers £7.8m) James Milner (Newcastle, £12m) Arsenio Halfhuid (Excelsior, nominal) Emile Heskey (Wigan £3.5m) £51.5 million spent in 1 summer, on THAT. TBF Milner and Friedel were both good signings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Curtis Davies 10M. That's almost as bad as our Boumsong deal. I've never known a player look so terrified by the proximity of the ball. Like a rabbit in the headlights. I remember one occasion, think it was Man U at home, and he was terrified. At one point, the ball was hoofed up in the air about 50 yards up-field towards our defence. Curtis Davies was in position, and stood for what felt like 3 minutes just watching the ball come towards him, out of the skies. All he had to do was bring the ball under control (there was no other player within at least 20 yards of him) and out of danger - simplest of procedures. So he stands there, watches it come down, and it bounces literally about 15 yards behind him. The best thing, though, was that at that very instant, 40,000 people all *sighed* at exactly the same time. It was poetic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Milner aye, they flogged him for 24 million. Friedle was superb for them but the rest were pure chud. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Curtis Davies (WBA, £10m) Steve Sidwell (Chelsea £5.5m) Brad Friedel (Blackburn, £2.5m) Brad Guzan (Chivas US, £1m) Nicky Shorey (Reading, £4m) Luke Young (Middlesbrough, £5m) Carlos Cuellar (Rangers £7.8m) James Milner (Newcastle, £12m) Arsenio Halfhuid (Excelsior, nominal) Emile Heskey (Wigan £3.5m) £51.5 million spent in 1 summer, on THAT. TBF Milner and Friedel were both good signings. Too right. Milner was fucking brilliant for us. I'd kill to have him back here now. So was Luke Young. But he'd had been a better signing had we had him for 2.5m the year before when he was going begging rather than opting to play ANOTHER season with no proper right backs, then paying double that the year after. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Imagine what we'd do with £51 million to spend this summer... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Curtis Davies 10M. That's almost as bad as our Boumsong deal. I've never known a player look so terrified by the proximity of the ball. Like a rabbit in the headlights. You have obviously never seen Mike Williamson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Milner aye, they flogged him for 24 million. Friedle was superb for them but the rest were pure chud. Except Guzan. He's good. I'd add Richard Dunne, James Collins and Stephen Warnock to that list, too. It's all very well Dunne and Collins having one superb season, but it makes the whole three or four year contract look piss poor if they're not capable of anything more than that and inflict a couple of dreadful season on you afterwards. Warnock in particular has been just atrocious. Oh, and when we needed a striker to have any hope of pushing on from sixth, who did Martin get in (in the summer Darren Bent went to Sunderland for 10m)? Marlon Fucking Harewood for 4m. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Imagine what we'd do with £51 million to spend this summer... We would still be tight with it and rightly so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Speaking of Warnock, supposedly Sunderland want him or so ESPN reckon anyway http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1133315/sunderland-boss-martin-o'neill-eyes-stephen-warnock-reunion?cc=5739 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxfree Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Get him signed Marty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuneaton Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Curtis Davies 10M. That's almost as bad as our Boumsong deal. I've never known a player look so terrified by the proximity of the ball. Like a rabbit in the headlights. You have obviously never seen Mike Williamson hes improved no end since he came here though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_Taylor Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Curtis Davies 10M. That's almost as bad as our Boumsong deal. I've never known a player look so terrified by the proximity of the ball. Like a rabbit in the headlights. You have obviously never seen Mike Williamson hes improved no end since he came here though And he wasn't £10 MILLION GREAT BRITISH POUNDS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 I do enjoy Brummie's posts in this thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 http://tyneandwear.sky.com/sunderland/video/34504 Hahaha. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dave Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Exciting stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 International full back So was Stephen Carr. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Was just about to post that. Sky: Mackems: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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