Howay

The Twitter rumours are that it’s now. So far it looks to be just Brazillian publications.

It does depend though, I think winning the Europa League nets about €20m - fail to reach the final and you’d get just over half that - Kalvin Phillips alone would be over half that between fee and wages all hitting this year. There’d also still be a large chance we missed out with him.

As a fan I want us to sign a player this window, but I can see why they’re so hesitant. We will likely have a good profit this annual period, with the new sponsors, sale of ASM, and CL money - then next year we will have the adidas deal etc. So there’s a risk of throwing good money at a bad situation if we were to dip into the January market. They likely hope we turn our form around, have a strong finish with what we have and an FA cup run. Then we go into next season with at least one decent FFP year in the bank, and a ton of players back.

Aye I think my point was more the ref made as many errors that favored them really.

I think first half we were really good, we absorbed their threat well and sprung the counter really well. Got caught narrowly by their trap a couple of times before timing it well and scoring two brilliant goals. The point London Blue is highlighting about Bruno I disagree with, if they want to highlight that then from our side Dias got away with murder in the first half imo. There were three occasions he made zero attempt to play the ball and simply ran into our player - none of them resulted in a foul and the most blatant one ended with their first goal. Rodri similarly could have saw red if the argument is Bruno should have walked - fwiw I’d rather keep 11 v 11 and play on but I’m not really having the argument from a City perspective tbh. Walker similarly should have been booked for an absurd foul on Gordon. Second half we ran out of steam, they have such high quality players and could turn the screw. Not sure why Howe is coming under so much flak on twitter etc, we have no options really. If we were able to bring Joelinton, Willock, Tonali, Barnes, Murphy etc off the bench to keep our lot going we’d have been closer but in the end our legs tired and their quality shone through. The third goal was just absurdly good imo, the pass from KDB and the control from Bobb.

“Six in a row”

Aye . I’m not a fan of either player but that Guirassy we’ve been linked to seems a far better option for the price, Solanke is likely just in a purple patch this season.

Aye I’d read their original poster as 44 goals in 97 games, which I agree would be impressive (although like they always ignore you have to factor in the level), 44 goals and assists in 97 games is good but I don’t see it as something to start acting like he’s some CL talent , I think that’s why I misread it. For comparison at a similar age Isak has 21 goals and assists in 29 PL starts, albeit most games are central but fucking hell that lot need to learn the levels of the game.

So the same as Hazard had in his first two Premier League seasons, uncanny as Meenz says

Aye their careers are uncanny, by the same point in his career Hazard had won Ligue 1 player of the year twice (the youngest player to do so) on his way to a league and cup double before a £32m transfer to Chelsea (a decade ago so that fee would be far higher), winning a Europa league with Chelsea as he took the PL by storm. In contrast, and their own admission, Clarke has bounced around a bunch of clubs and scored 44 goals in the championship. Are they going to compare Hume to Cafu next?

Aye it was the perfect display to show the absolute chasm between the two clubs, one our side has highlighted while many on their side have denied. Our lot never left second gear and were still completely dominant from kick off to final whistle, there’s a lot of rational mackem posts that have highlighted this and admitted it was a reality check (even on RTG). Of course there’s still nutters on their side saying they gave us a game and there wasn’t much in it etc but that was bound to happen.

Troy Deeney trying the Alan Pardew approach of chucking on a pair of glasses to try and look smart, eyes wide apart is struggling here mind.

Aye I’ve long found their obsession that their squad is all insanely young and will improve massively to be hilarious. Clarke is older than Gordon for example, and there’s a similar age difference between Tonali and Dan Neil, Botman is years younger than Ballard, Livramento and Isak are similar age to many of their lot, Miley is younger than Bellingham. Yes their average squad age is younger since we mix in experience like Wilson, Trippier, Pope etc but the mackems consistently ignore we have players all of a similar age and currently playing at the top end of the PL and in the CL. Just because they’re young and hanging around play off level doesn’t mean they’re going to kick on and make the step up, it’s an absurd assumption.

The media in general were keen for it. I listened to a podcast that was recorded prior to the game after it last night, they talked about the mackem players and none of ours, said we were on an awful run and the mackems would relish playing us. Then when it came time for prediction one said the mackems would win, another said maybe Newcastle have enough, and the third said it would go to a replay . Sorry like but it’s just nonsense, it’s a side that’s played in the CL this season against an upper mid table championship one. Obviously the game proved how little the up their own arse pundits are about football in general.

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/county-durham-mags.1624370/ Mackems of course now raging about “Durham mags” as well as “darlo mags”, “Hartlepool mags”, “Stanley mags”, “shields mags”, Chester-le-street mags” and that’s only page 1 I’m assuming all those places should of course support Sunderland. They’re unhinged.

Love the ones that are still acting like there’s some overall brilliant model that’s working for them, while others basically confirm they’re absolutely shite and need a change of plan.

“shite football club friends”. Tbh there’s a good chance it’s just a mackem as well, the whole “they just want to be liked by the rest of football” is a bit of a give away.

Of course it was Tindalls idea

Honestly why do they think they have multiple £20m+ rated players? That’s the level we sold ASM to Saudi Arabia for ffs, do they not watch Sunderland? As those players I saw today were mid table championship level players.

They were so comprehensively outplayed I don’t get how they could ever even think that. That’s ignoring the fact we will also improve over the next 2-3 years and are going through an awful injury crisis, and there’s not a single guarantee that I can see that they will improve.

Funny coincidence that their worst game happened to come against the best side they’ve played in a decade, just how they always convince themselves that every team randomly performs awful against us - they still won’t learn.