FootyMAD The Boothen Roar Latest News Latest News Cattermole, Bardsley, Gyan to become Potters? By Dan Buxton Updated Thursday, 7th July 2011 Stoke City RSS Feed Could trio keep transfer trend going Well Sunderland have signed yet more players, taking their pre-season total to eight, which surely means there will be players on their way out of the Stadium of Light. This is where the Potters come in, now we've seen a few of our reported targets Gardner, Brown, O'Shea, Kilgallon and Larsson all join the Mackems, with another soon to follow in David Vaughan, so we already 'owe them one' and we do seem to have an annual raid on Sunderland during pre-season. After promotion the Potters decided to re-sign Danny Higginbotham, 12 months later they paid £5m for the services of Sunderland player of the year Dean Whitehead and £3m for twice Sunderland player of the year Danny Collins before signing Kenwyne Jones for a club record £8m last summer. So who could be available, and who could the Potters be interested in this summer? Maybe these - - Lee Cattermole - midfielder - Club captain but may find himself out of the side with Vaughan and Gardner having joined. Would suit the Potters style as a tough tackling all action midfielder. Would probably take a hefty fee though - Phil Bardsley - right back - Last seasons Sunderland Player of the Season, allowing him to follow Whitehead and Collins before him, but with O'Shea and Brown having come in will surely find himself benched next season. Has been heavily linked with Stoke and wouldn't cost anymore than £2-3m - Asamoah Gyan - striker - Would take a massive bid to shift, around double the current club record £8m paid for Jones, but would suit the Potters style and could form a deadly partnership with Jones. Sunderland aren't flush with strikers so may not be a goer but if they need to sell to fund the players that have come in then Gyan could have to go - Craig Gordon - keeper - Probably lost his place in the side to either Stephen Mignolet or new signing Keiran Westwood and is on high wages so the Mackems won't want those wages sitting on the bench or in the stands. If Sorensen leaves in search of first team nogger or Begovic ends up at Chelsea then Gordon would be an ample replacement - Michael Turner - With defenders arriving left, right and centre Turner could be on his way to make way. TP has already stated he wants to bring in a centre back and Turner's stock has fallen recently so he may accept initially biding his time behind Huth and Shawcross knowing the season will be a long one.
Lads I'd be happy for them to sign. Gordon, McCartney, Killgallon, Nosworthy, Angeleri, Ferdinand, Richardson. Any of them, not the reported targets.
What a crock of maw juice. If they want Kilgallon then let the twats have him. When the **** was Whitehead player of the season???? Must of been in prison then still! As dIsco said, I go with that. Tell Pubis to **** off.
This ^^ ....and this They have got to be joking if they think that Gyan, Catts and Bardinio would be achievable targets. I felt just a little smug when they listed the number of players that we beat them to, with the exception of Kilgallon of course Wonder if they would take him now?
do you actuely like Richardson cos i really do hate him, he's just looks and acts like a twat, saying that man u fans seemed to like C Ronaldo so maybe theres a bit of bias involed.
This Not this. Bardsley for £2m/£3m? Gyan for £16m? Cattermole? What ****ing deluded planet do these pottery based ****ers live on? I dont mind them taking our left overs but why would any of our better players lower themselves to go to a pile of ****e like Stoke?
If you go on their forum "The Oatcake" I think its called, the amount of Sunderland threads popping up is staggering. They not only seem 100% -convinced- we are about to go into financial meltdown, but believe any transfer rumour they hear, no matter how crazy it sounds, especially when linked to our players.
Well a nice and jolly thread to read, whilst enjoying a Heini, after nightshift, It was not funny enough to make me laugh, but it did make me smile.
