http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6970824,00.html .20110608. Quinn hints at reinvestment Sunderland chairman also pays tribute to departing Henderson Last Updated: June 8, 2011 1:23pm . 0.0..RSS FeedBookmark with del.icio.usSave to iGoogleSave to My Yahoo!Submit to redditShare on StumpleUpon.... Quinn: Sunderland are monitoring transfer targets .Sky BetSky Bet are offering everyone a Free £5 Bet Claim your free bet now ....Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn has implied that money received for Jordan Henderson will be reinvested. The Stadium of Light club have agreed to sell the midfielder to Liverpool in a deal which is reported to be worth £16million plus David Ngog, and the England Under 21 international is on Merseyside to undergo a medical. Sunderland also sold England striker Darren Bent to Aston Villa in January for a fee which could rise to as much as £24m to represent an impressive income which may be made available to boss Steve Bruce. Quinn has indicated as much after paying tribute to Henderson at the same time as reassuring fans that Sunderland's coaching staff and scouts are relentlessly searching for replacement signings. Quinn told Sunderland's official website: "Jordan is a credit to himself, his family and Sunderland's Academy and everyone here wishes him the very best for the future. Attractive benefit "I am pleased that we got the deal to a level that we felt was right for our club. "We know the areas that need strengthening and the type of player we need in order to progress and the job of bringing those players to the club is continuing at a pace." Bruce is believed to be targeting as many as three strikers and the inclusion of 22-year-old Ngog in the Henderson deal will prove an attractive benefit. Allowing Henderson to leave will add another item to the shopping list, but owner Ellis Short remains supportive despite having reined in some of the rather less controlled spending of recent years. The returns of loan signings Danny Welbeck, Nedum Onuoha, John Mensah and Sulley Muntari to their clubs has also left Bruce with a series of gaps to plug in his squad. Looks like SB will get the Bent & Hendo money to spend
If he is after 3 strikers he's going to need £40 million isn't he? He also needs a right winger now, a left back (for 2years now),and probably a centre half. This is going to be expensive!!!
You're a twat. We could sign both of your strikers (Loverkrands and Ranger) and have change from a five bob note. TWATTTTTTTTT.
I know its squeeky bum time with players leaving combined with some of the names we read about but its a long window and I just done see the club allowing a slide back.
Well that's another version. So if we sign N'gog what will the deal be. Henderson £13M N'gog £7M, Henderson £16M N'gog £4M or Henderson £16.5M N'gog £3.5M. It seems to me nobody except SAFC and LFC will know the exact figures and, if as usually happens, they won't be telling.
I'm sick to the stomach....never thought of Sunderland as a small/selling club. Just hope the money is reinvested wisely, not holding much hope tho..... Anyway did I ever tell you lads about my Spanish/Basque heritage!?!????
I expect to see Bruce spend the best part of 60 million this summer. Wait and see, its a long window. Remember last year people were having a panic and then we got Gyan.
as sunderland fans we would all expect the reinvestment from the sales of bent and henderson but for us to move on and upwards you are correct we must have further investment to build what we desparately need that is a strong squad nothing less otherwise we will be standing still
Bruce, Quinn and Ellis knows our squad was too thin, we need not only quality but some good stock squad players too should we suffer an injury plague like last season.
"Quinn hints at reinvestment" Well that's stating the bleeding obvious, seeing as we still need 8 players! It's funny what Lostinvegas posted above about Steve Bruce needing £60m, because I quoted exactly the same figure to a fellow Sunderland fan at work this morning when I heard the news about Jordan Henderson and David Ngog.
Niether can I Vince, it's just my opinion of what he needs to assemble a decent squad. Steve Bruce will be lucky to get half of that, I'm sorry to say
Well it'll be £20m Bent and £16m Hendo so about £35-40m I'd be seriously asking questions if we didn't get. On top of that, you guys are right- we need to spend that £35m to plug the gaps and get replacements- we'll need more for additions and improvements. I don't see us spending £60m unfortunately I reckon the final figure could be more around £45m. Hopefully we do get a few frees as well. To whoever (on numerous threads) is saying we are a 'selling club' - did you expect Jordan to stay here for his whole career, just because he's a local lad? He loves the clubs but probably wants to win trophies, play European football, improve his international selection chances... Regardless of whether or not he was local, he's going to be a quality top-level footballer, so he was always going to move on eventually. We got a good deal (or maybe not, depending on how much was cash and how much was Ngog) and the lad gets the opportunity to further his career. Fair play to him, and the best of luck. Doesn't make us a small club. Smaller than Liverpool? Yes. Yes we are.
This fee involving Henderson & Ngog seems irrelevant, it now seems that it was a total of 20m, add on's etc taken into that equation. So whether it was 13m (Henderson) + 7m (Ngog) who cares, we got 20m in total for a player leaving and got a player in return. Though a lot on here I think would have rather we just had the money. But I think that (Ngog) was the carrot dangled (along with the fee of course) that got the deal done, considering the predicament we are in concerning lack of striker's.
