Match Day Thread Sunderland AFC v Saudi FC - Sunday 14th December 2025 - KO 14:00

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It must be really aggravating, for the Mags, to keep seeing all the praise heaped on Sunderland, the owner, the manager and the supporters ...

... so here's a bit more <laugh>

@GRbobkaina​

1 day ago

"Greetings from Lorient.. keeping an eye on your club since he moved to England.. You are a crasy lot.. No wonder your players are flying high with so much love Im sure they can feel on and outside the pitch.. Glad Regis found a club so human.. We obviously know him well in Lorient, he will never leave to a bigger club.. what he loves is building teams from scratch and this what is happening at your club.. Special thought for Kyril.. so discreet but a real football lover loke the rest of his familly."

Taking the time to post to us, in a second language, says a lot about Le Bris imo.
 
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young2077 said:
He is 100% the type of flair player that football fans will love, capable of brilliance and he has had too many to mention them all but still loving the meg at the weekend! But on top of that his work rate is like a midfielder who is in there for their defensive side, he loves a scrap and a tackle!

He is class and is really starting to show his quality!

While allowing fans might love a flair okayer who gets stuck in I doubt he has been roared on and cheered as loudly for tackles before!
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That tackle he put in in the last few minutes of the play off final and celebrated like a goal epitomised the character he is. Flair and skill but also up for the fight.
Same again on Sunday when he celebrated humes tackle, what a signing he has been.
 
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HAPPY ENZING

‘I felt at home’ – Enzo Le Fee admits Sunderland move was ‘crazy’ but better than Rome after Newcastle derby heroics​


The Sun

ENZO LE FEE instantly fell for Sunderland – and was delighted to repay their love and deliver the best early Christmas present possible.

Eyebrows were raised when the 25-year-old French winger left Roma to reunite with his former Lorient boss Regis Le Bris in the Championship last January...

He said: “We already knew it was an important game, not just for us, but for the story of this city. Our target was to win this game in front of our fans, to give this present before Christmas. It feels just unbelievable.

“I was in a bad situation in Rome, and when I came, honestly, I knew everything about this club. I knew it was a big club, because everyone knows, but when I came, I just felt I received a good welcome. After one week, I felt at home.”

“I’m a football player. I don’t want to be on the bench, I want to play.

“I said to my family before I left Rome, I knew the coach and the project he proposed to me was good. So I just want to go there and help the team to be in the Premier League.

“And when I watched the series on Netflix, I said, ‘OK guys, we have to be in the Premier League.’”

Le Fee continued: “I didn’t know it would be intense like this, but to live everything with this club, with this city, is just crazy.

“When I was in Rome, some people said: ‘Oh, you’re going to be in the Championship because you go to Sunderland.’ But what I’m living here is just crazy, and I can’t find a club like this. I’m just happy to help this team and enjoy it with the fans.

“I’ve known the [owners] for a long time. When they called me, I didn’t hesitate.

“Now we’ve got some moments together, we share some moments together, we feel more and more [at home] every week.

“We have just the start, but it’s been crazy until now. But hopefully we’re going to have more big moments.”

While Le Bris remains coy on the prospects of qualifying for Europe, Le Fee is reaching for the stars. And he believes they can overcome anybody at what is turning into a Stadium of Light fortress.

He added: “It’s not a club, it’s a city. We can feel everyone is crazy to see us. Everyone waits for the weekend to see us play, and when we play at home, we feel something different.

“We are stronger, we feel anything can happen for us, and it was the case on Sunday. Even when they pushed a bit, we felt like we were 100,000 people, and it’s crazy.”
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Some player. Some guy.

He's had a terrible time when he was younger, as was posted on here a while back, so it's so heartwarming to see him obviously happy.

You can have all the players in the world, spend all the money there is, and you don't often end up with what's going on here now.

We're coming.
 
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HAPPY ENZING

‘I felt at home’ – Enzo Le Fee admits Sunderland move was ‘crazy’ but better than Rome after Newcastle derby heroics​


The Sun

ENZO LE FEE instantly fell for Sunderland – and was delighted to repay their love and deliver the best early Christmas present possible.

Eyebrows were raised when the 25-year-old French winger left Roma to reunite with his former Lorient boss Regis Le Bris in the Championship last January...

He said: “We already knew it was an important game, not just for us, but for the story of this city. Our target was to win this game in front of our fans, to give this present before Christmas. It feels just unbelievable.

“I was in a bad situation in Rome, and when I came, honestly, I knew everything about this club. I knew it was a big club, because everyone knows, but when I came, I just felt I received a good welcome. After one week, I felt at home.”

“I’m a football player. I don’t want to be on the bench, I want to play.

“I said to my family before I left Rome, I knew the coach and the project he proposed to me was good. So I just want to go there and help the team to be in the Premier League.

“And when I watched the series on Netflix, I said, ‘OK guys, we have to be in the Premier League.’”

Le Fee continued: “I didn’t know it would be intense like this, but to live everything with this club, with this city, is just crazy.

“When I was in Rome, some people said: ‘Oh, you’re going to be in the Championship because you go to Sunderland.’ But what I’m living here is just crazy, and I can’t find a club like this. I’m just happy to help this team and enjoy it with the fans.

“I’ve known the [owners] for a long time. When they called me, I didn’t hesitate.

“Now we’ve got some moments together, we share some moments together, we feel more and more [at home] every week.

“We have just the start, but it’s been crazy until now. But hopefully we’re going to have more big moments.”

While Le Bris remains coy on the prospects of qualifying for Europe, Le Fee is reaching for the stars. And he believes they can overcome anybody at what is turning into a Stadium of Light fortress.

He added: “It’s not a club, it’s a city. We can feel everyone is crazy to see us. Everyone waits for the weekend to see us play, and when we play at home, we feel something different.

“We are stronger, we feel anything can happen for us, and it was the case on Sunday. Even when they pushed a bit, we felt like we were 100,000 people, and it’s crazy.”
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What a player, took a chance on us and is now being rewarded, he deserves all his success, what a bloke.
 
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If you have 90 minutes to spare this is quite amusing

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Smug in Boots said:
How ironic that the Mags were saying their big bad lads would 'destroy' Sunderland and frighten us ...

... one lasted half the game and the other bottled it completely.

No wonder Shearer was fuming <laugh>
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Him and Given were at some fanzone discussing the merits or otherwise of the visitors.

Given is a funny one blowing sunshine up their backside. 10 years at the mags and won nowt - a couple of months with us and he got a medal. :-)
 
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