Summer window

People complaining "orrrrrrrr so kids shirt are gonna have a different sponsor like????"

well aye. they cant have betting companies on it anyway you dafties.

 

I don’t care what names on the front of the shirt frankly.

Remember folk rattling on for years how it ‘should be Nissan’

Why? Ha.

 

Or, we plan on making them our main sponsors after the current spreadex deal runs out.

 

This makes sense don’t it. Weren’t we trying to get out of the SpreadEx deal?

 

Yeah we were, I wonder if this was a half measure agreeing to let another sponsor be on the junior kits until we can get out altogether.

 

I think the plan was that if we got promoted we'd of had a different sponsor.

 

Another really good youngster by all accounts, only seen him in highlights of the u18's but looks a player

 

I think most of the SAFC supporters are delighted with the progress the club has made since KLD took control of the club and started building a management infrastructure that has probably exceeded all of our expectations . I think we are well ahead of where we expected to be and I have faith that the club and team will continue progressing in the way we would want , the days of mismanagement are behind us and now just seem to have been a bad dream or nightmare . Keep up the good work KLD and his management team !!!

 

Can't remember a time when there wasn't a tension between the optimists and pessimists. If you can't be optimistic about Sunderland now, when can you be?

 

Front of the shirts should always be plain, no logos. I'm not averse to arm patches or around the tail of a shirt or even in the numbering but the front should be kept clear. It is only the need for that precious's lucré that dictates otherwise.

 

Vardy is getting on a bit now and looked a shadow of himself last year, not sure if he can do it in Championship or if he has the heart for it TBH, the league is brutal and it has a pretty unforgiving schedule. As for Ihenacho he has flattered to deceive for years and may well have an outstanding season but could just as easily have a nightmare, not sure if confidence at the club (Leicester) is high and it can be hard to get going again. We on the other hand are confident and seem to be a vibrant attractive club for young talent which is where the optimism comes from. I think consistency will be the key to the season and hopefully we had all our bad luck with injuries last year.

 

Batth was a regular for Stoke in the lead up to us signing him, in fact he won their player of the month in the November.

 

I’ve posted on here before, I’ve had dealings with Batth agent and he says Danny was desperate to sign soon as there was interest, he wasn’t pushed out at Stoke in any way, shape or form.

 

Why was it that they let him join us on a free midway thru the season? Was it purely to get wage budget down for FPP rules?

Seems a more and more bizarre decision.

They'd just signed Phil Jagielka on likely more money than him as well. So can't have saved much, if anything, by releasing him

 

I thought it was to do with their financial fair play circumstances? Either way he's been a ridiculously good signing.

 

They signed Jagielka on a free 2 days before Batth joined us on a free... so its just weird. They must have decided they absolutely needed Jagielka and the only way to afford him was to release Batth's wages. Which just seems the most dumb decision ever. I think most Stoke fans would agree.

 

Didn't Jagielka sign for next to no wage just to keep playing? Sure I remember their manager at the time on about it.

 

didn't know that. I guess that might be the case.

It must be genuinely next to nothing because for batth to be willing to drop down a division to play for us and at a time when we are famously not paying over the odds, he must have not been on too high a wage himself at Stoke.

 

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy Bannan in vain!

Forgive him Father, he knows not what he says!

 

They paid a few million for Batth like and it was in their period of pissing money away so I reckon he might have taken a cut or a payoff to come here.