It was Brucies **** up

Sunderland boss Steve Bruce admits he pulled the plug on a January deal for a replacement for Aston Villa striker Darren Bent.

Bruce admits they've since been caught short up front due to an injury crisis.

“We were very unfortunate and incredibly unlucky,” said Bruce. “When we knew in January that we were losing Benty, we had a target in mind but the numbers involved didn’t work for us.

“I thought we weren’t going to get value for money out of the deal so we pulled out.

“We took a calculated gamble, on the basis that Fraizer Campbell was due to return from his knee ligament damage in February.

“Unfortunately it backfired, because Fraizer never returned and now both Danny Welbeck and Asamoah Gyan are injured.

“I hope it is just a one-off, but we can’t take that chance.

“We’ll have to look at things in the summer because we can’t allow ourselves to be left short like that again.”
Now to all the guys with sympathy for him how does this make you feel,

 

well he said the numbers didnt work for US, so you have to put Short and Quinn in that as well i would presume.

again, its not just Bruce who has ****ed up here.

and we dont know who it was it may have been 20mil for ameobi for all we now lol

 

If the numbers didn't work out we should have asked Villa for the full amount and not in instalments like some dodgy catalogue. The club is to blame for that if true and will give SB the benefit on this occasion.

 

You have to admire the man for to be so willing to accept the flack.

 

so it was his **** up that wellbeck and gyan got injured?

it was a calculated guess, and it didn't pay off, one that is not to be repeated....

 

And that WOULD have been a waste of 20mil.

 

I think its fair enough he's owned up to this error. And thats exactly what it is. A terrible error, made by him and the board who rule the purse strings. But if Gyan, Wellbeck and Campbell had either not got injured or returned from injury when expected, it would have been a very well executed gamble, saving us anything up to 20 million. Sadly it has not worked out, but this is life.

 

Well yes SB is an unlucky manager, so lets find a manager who is not unlucky and who does not make so many wrong decisions and who can actually motivate a team. What did SB say to the team at half-time on saturday, it certainly had avery big negative impact. Can you ban a manager from the dressing room at half-time, its what we need to do!

 

Question was how does it make me feel

1. We all knew this, well I thought we did.
2. Getting boring now.

 

well everyones slagging him off for not bringing in a target man but the general atmosphere was that Carew or Fuller would have been a waste of money at the time with afew level headed people saying they would give us another dimension.

 

i didn't, plan ahead, i was ****ting myself we wouldn't get someone in, and we had a full two weeks, we should never have let him go mid season if not replacing.

 

I think most said the same about Carew a decent player but, wouldn't fit in with the way we had been playing with no wingers. As for Fuller I'd say 90% said what I did yes as a short term loan but not as a permanent buy it was his or Stokes greed which decided that one anyway.
Bruce has form for not bringing in players to replace the ones sold at Birmingham and Wigan now with us, we had Collins sold to Stoke no replacement and still no LB at the club after a season and a half. We sold Bent and no sign of a replacement, if the rumours are true it was because of finance we get taken to the cleaners with instalment payments while we lose out on a striker because we didn't have the cash. Those sort of decisions as we all now know could have cost us dear.

 

Quinn up front, Bruce in CD, Milliband LM, that's the problem areas sorted!

 

this

 

Should never have sold KJ17.

Should have let Judas go in the summer and kept KJ.

KJ and Asamoah - Now that would be some strike force.

Lol Bart

 

U can have him for a tenner.

 

you can still keep him, he only ever has blinders against us, so if we bought him he would score an own goal a game.

 

My only arguement with the Bent deal was why did he not make Carew part of the deal or at least get him on loan instead he went to Stoke and left us with no one.

 

The problem was that we already had our maximum permitted loan players from PL teams with Onuoha and Welbeck. Any loan deal for a striker would have had to have come from abroad.

 

you had me laughing there mate missed, your calling should have been a polotician, only they can read a sentence and give a totally different answer