Striker Asamoah Gyan insists he has 'no regrets at all' about leaving Sunderland to ply his trade on loan in the United Arab Emirates. The Ghana international penned a temporary deal with big-spending Al-Ain in August, making an acrimonious exit from the Stadium of Light. Manager Steve Bruce was thought to be furious over his departure at the time, blasting the "parasites" that turned his head with the chance of a big-money move. But Gyan says he is enjoying life with his new club and has had no second thoughts over his summer switch. He told The Independent: "I'm really enjoying myself. It's really working out well for me and I'm really happy for now. "I have no regrets at all about leaving Sunderland." http://www.sportinglife.com/footbal...ME=soccer/11/11/09/manual_104551.html&BID=165 Hmmmm.... Why would he say such a thing if money was his only motivation for leaving... Makes you wonder why he found things so bad at Sunderland? Any ideas?
He left for money and an easy life, and there is nothing that he has said that makes me feel any different.
This directly contradicts the clubs official statement, which said it was amicable between all parties. The only "acrimony" was with Steve Bruce, who, it seems, didn't know the deal was being done.
I assume you are looking for someone to point the finger at Bruce here? Better ask Cest or Newtonlee.... Gyan isnt exactly going to come out and say "I moved here for the money, but now I am really miserable cos I have to train in 45c, not ****er ever turns up to watch me play and the bloody local transport keeps spitting in my eye..." is he?
wasnt Bruce's comments about parasites before the loan deal came through? I thought it was to do with all the rumours to do with Spurs etc.
I would be astounded if Bruce new, I remember the thing like it was yesterday, Friday Bruce said we have shaken hands, Gyan is staying and all is fine. Saturday I was sitting in the East Stand, radio in ear and around 2 breaking news, Gyan is gone. All down to one greedy man who needs to shut up now.
He was going to leave at some point anyway so this loan deal could work out well. We have 6m in the bank already even before we sell him. if he does the business at the anc we could get a handsome offer come the summer. I can't see him ever playing for safc again that's for sure
I don't exactly remember when that first came up, Dan. But it didn't hold water. Gyan told the Ghanaian press in March/April that Sunderland seemed a bit disorganised and that he wasn't very happy here, though he didn't go so far as to say he wanted to leave. What we're being asked to believe is that agents couldn't find one of the stars of the 2010 World Cup a new club in five months of trying. Jesus, mate, you or I could have found Asamoah Gyan a new club this summer. He'd come off the World Cup with hero status, had come to the PL and scored eleven goals in about eight months (he didn't come on stream till October, if you remember). And they couldn't find this guy a club?! No, if he'd wanted to leave Sunderland, he could and would have done it. There's something we're not being told here. When Al-Ain first approached SAFC about Gyan, they wanted to buy him. Now given that they offered six million for a years loan, I can't imagine they offered peanuts to buy him, can you? We'd have made money on him, for sure. But SAFC turned it down flat. The fact is we don't want to sell him. But we'd accept a loan deal. Weird. I've never understood it.
Cutebuns, I thought it all a bit strange too but thinking about it, if we had sold Gyan after the transfer window shut there would have been uproar. By putting a lucrative loan deal in place we get some quids, a player who doesn't want to play for us away and most importantly imo-the whole thing has been allowed to pan out and show that Gyan is the agitator for the move and that the club have taken a reasonable and pragmatic middle ground. Don't know for sure but reckon things looking strange is preferable in PR terms than why the **** have we sold him without an adequate replacement! I liked Gyan but he can piss off now for what it's worth. . .
I certainly think the club's come out of it well. The best post I've read on that subject was by Oxford on the other Gyan thread two days ago : you get half a million quid for each place you climb in the league. By loaning out an unhappy player, we got the equivalent of 12 league places in cash terms. That's good by anyone's standards - it's not easy to climb twelve places in this league. Where we disagree is that Gyan has never said that he wants to leave Sunderland, and if he had wanted to, there's no doubt he could have. African Player of the Year with 11 PL goals in eight months - there would have been clubs in for him if he'd wanted to leave. The fact is he didn't want to leave, and the club didn't want to sell him. We need to know what has made him unhappy within seven months of him coming here (August-March). It's important for the club to sort that because it isn't the first time we've alienated a star striker inside a year, is it? There is a problem, and it's not just about Gyan. It's every striker we get.
Using this logic. Why don't we loan out Wes Brown and Connor Wickham aswell. We might pick up another 4 million and climb another 8 places, mind you we might be relegated for finishing bottom of the real league whilst winning the hypothetical financial league. We needs players to compete in the league... The fans would like to pay to see a team capable of winning games... I would agree if we had replaced Gyan before the window closed... Well infact we did replace him, we brought in Bendtner, on loan. Bruce never intended to go with 4 strikers this season because he masterminded the 4-5-1 crap that was served up for the first quarter of the season.
Brown and Wickham aren't the same thing though. Gyan clearly wasn't happy here - just look at the condition he was in at the start of the season. I agree with Oxford - SAFC made the best of a bad situation. It's bought everyone concerned a twelve month cooling down period, and they can consider the situation next summer. If the problem's resolved (whatever it was) we have a class act on our hands. If it's not, we'll sell him and make some more money. The club and Gyan are both winners here. The only loser is Steve Bruce who I don't think was told a thing about it.
