January transfer thread

In midfield? No thanks.

 

And the Cardiff game with Neil and Ba went horribly wrong.

 

True, but I think it would be foolish and naive to leave Matete out on loan and find ourselves short. It'd be very Sunderlandy

As it stands our squad options are:

GK: Patterson, Bass, Carney
RB: Hume, Gooch, Hugins
CB: Batth, Ballard, Wright, O'Nien
LB: Alese, Cirkin
CM: Michut, Neil, Ba, Ekwah
RW: Roberts, Diallo
AM: Pritchard
LW: Clarke, Dajaku
CF: Stewart

Very, very light in some areas. Pritchard, Huggins, Alese, Gooch and Cirkin are all very injury prone. We've already lost Embo and Evans for the season. It just makes sense to bring Matete back

 

Fishpaste teasing positive midfield news, has he suddenly become in the know?

 

Broken Clock

 

Full of them on Twitter at the minute

 

I'd like to think so. We tend to do the right thing by our players. Out of contract, injured last thing he needs to worry about getting another job so to speak.

 

Dan neil contract talks have started according to fishpaste

 

Apparently we are opening talks with Neil on a new contract

**** off FP man

 

Hmm. Depends how long he's out for. If he's back for pre season then fine, but if this is another Jordan Willis situation then I hope it's a coaching contract so as to not impact on our playing budget. Harsh I know, but it is what it is

 

Sunderland keen to tie down youngster Dan Neil with Premier League sides Crystal Palace and Brighton starting to circle.

 

"EXCLUSIVE"

 

That’s just football though, you can’t win every game. We’ve been beaten with Evans in the team.

 

The days of O’Nien featuring in a midfield have to be over, surely?

 

You'd hope so , he offers absolutely nowt in midfield but offers everything in defense

 

We have options, if it was any position you’d want to lose a player you’d probably say CM because we’re stacked - just rather it wasn’t Evans! I’m sure we’ll manage fine, what Ekwah will clearly lack in experience he’ll make up in physicality over Evans. Could end up seeing more of a 3 in the middle if we’re getting overwhelmed and just playing without a proper 10 in certain situations with Diallo and Roberts/Clarke wide of Stewart. Ekwah/Ba, Michut and Neil in the middle.

 

Good to see the board are seemingly pushing hard on getting Neil tied down, I’m still anxious about the Stewart contract though.

 

If I had to guess, I think we will try and get Lewis Travis from Blackburn. Is their club captain but has been dropped recently and hasn’t started since mid December. Started all but one game for Mowbray last season