Sunderland have approached Aston Villa regarding a potential loan move for Tommy Elphick.The Black Cats have been tracking the experienced defender all summer. The 29-year-old, who signed for Villa last summer after playing a key part in Bournemouth's rise to the Premier League, has been told he is free to leave by Steve Bruce. They would prefer a permanent deal, with Bruce saying last week his departure was merely a matter of a team 'hitting the number'. Birmingham City have also been interested in the centre-back, but on Wednesday completed the signing of Harlee Dean from Brentford. Sunderland are also monitoring the progress of Manchester City youngster Tosin Adarabioyo, according to the Daily Mail. The Black Cats are pursuing loan deals due to financial restrictions, with Grayson also determined to bring in a striker before the window shuts at 11pm on Thursday. EFL rules state that a club can only name 5 loanees in any matchday squad. Sunderland already have three established first team players on loan in Tyias Browning, Brendan Galloway and Lewis Grabban.
I think loaning our way out of the relegation zone would be a more accurate title Tees the way things are at present.
We need numbers regardless, but if the intention is to win promotion from the efforts of loanees I just can't see the point . They go back, and we try to prepare for the prem with no numbers and no quality again.
We have tried this before and it does not work. You improve other teams players for them and do not build a solid foundation which is what we need. Going backwards at a rapid rate is SAFC
Promotion is a pipe dream right now. I would think Short is desperately hoping the club staying this league as if we went down another division, he would never be able to sell. We are heading back to the post McMenemy day right now, I just hope someone sees the potential and buys the club soon.
Steady the ship season, with whatever it takes. Expecting no more, hoping for no less.....bar Short selling up and taking his debt with him.
Tees, sorry mate but there's absolutely no interest from Short in getting promotion. It's pure fantasy mate. Wish folk would let the promotion thing go. Just setting up for a fall. Embrace our limitations and restrictions. Then we can only be pleasantly surprised. Not only that, we can get back to enjoying the little things in football like the heroic tackle and hard work. Used to be enough. It is for me, Really enjoy not humping pressure on them and enjoying the simple things in footy again.
I would rather we promoted from within than develop other clubs investment programmes, the loan system should be abolished imo.
For now I don't mind getting loans in as long as they're good and not a waste. We've got some very promising young players of our own who will benefit from being brought through without huge pressure and who knows in a year or two might be good enough to get us promoted.
If Short manages to flog the club anytime soon then these loans mean none of these players are in any way liabilities to the new owners. Stripping assets completely.
Looking at the players West Brom, Stoke and Swansea are signing is utterly depressing. We are so far from a Premier League side now, its years to get back, without a new owner.
The market has literally gone nuts this summer. Johnny Evans over £20 mill and Drinkwater £40 million. Bog average players that we can now only dream of affording. ****ing scary. .
Insane mate, and Krychowiak to WBA? Jesé and the massively underrated Wimmer to Stoke? The pull of the Premier is incredible.
Wasn't Wimmer at Spurs? Jese was a player I wanted us to go for. We (both of us) are light years behind most PL teams. Sad really
Aye from Spurs, he was rated there but wanted to play, he could have went to big clubs in Germany and chose Stoke. A year out and it's a long way back.
