Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer window

Fee for Ekwah was about £6m wasn’t it? So we net around another £4m after West Ham’s cut.

 

Did same after covid at 55, best thing i ever did, now I wonder how I had time to go to work

 

Correct. I reckon it’s more of a gentleman’s agreement or something lost in translation if DK can negotiate it isn’t a release clause

 

Dynamo are just a bit mental it seems

 

Agree, think there's a new £200m 5 Year Plan.

Hhhaaa'wwwwaaaaayyyyyy the lads

 

Sunderland on brink of deals for Pierre Ekwah and Milan Aleksic



https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/25251623.sunderland-brink-deals-pierre-ekwah-milan-aleksic/

SUNDERLAND are close to agreeing deals for two of their fringe midfielders, with Pierre Ekwah and Milan Aleksic both set to leave the Stadium of Light this summer.

Ekwah is set to join St Etienne on a permanent basis, having spent last season on loan at the French club, while Aleksic is poised to complete a season-loan switch to Serbian side Partizan Belgrade….

Sunderland received a loan fee of around £1m (for Ekwah) with the French media reporting that a deal was in place for a potential £6m switch this summer.

It is unlikely that St Etienne would be able to afford that as an up-front fee following their relegation to the second tier, but with Regis Le Bris adamant that Ekwah does not have a future at the Stadium of Light, the Black Cats hierarchy are understood to be willing to discuss a possible compromise deal.

An initial round of talks have taken place, with St Etienne boss Eirik Horneland adamant he wants to keep Ekwah within the squad. “I would also like to exercise the option to buy Pierre,” Horneland is reported to have said in the French press.

West Ham United are due a portion of any fee as part of the deal that saw Ekwah join Sunderland from the Hammers’ academy ranks in January 2023, but the Black Cats are still set to bank a considerable profit for a player who last played a league game for them in May 2024.

Aleksic has also struggled to make his mark on Sunderland’s first team since joining from FC Radnicki last August, but the Black Cats are not yet ready to write off the 19-year-old.

Le Bris does not feel Aleksic is ready for Premier League football next season, but while Sunderland have received expressions of interest over a permanent deal for the teenager, they would rather send him out on loan next season to see how he develops.

Partizan Belgrade have offered Aleksic a route back to his homeland, and a loan deal is understood to be on the brink of being agreed. Partizan are hoping to complete the transfer relatively quickly as their season begins with a Europa League qualifying game against AEK Larnaca on July 10.

 

lets move any SAFC releated stuff to the SAFC transfer thread and just keep this for all NON SAFC transfers

 

Makes sense to me.

I may be a a bit blinkered but I've no interest in PSG or Real Madrid tbh.

I only come on for Sunderland stuff.

 

Nah I don't agree myself, this has been how it's been for ages now, the other thread can be updated when the links come through surely?

 

Tell ya what lads, i'll post anything sunderland related to both threads haha (making me job harder u lot)

 

No that’s the place for just the links. Here is for discussion. So I think it’s fine to also post here so long as the link goes in the other aswell

if someone wants to log on and just see updated links they click the other, if they want to discuss they come here.

That’s my interpretation of it anyway

 

Isn't it easier just to have one thread for Sunderland and one for everything else in the world ...

... there only seems to be half a dozen posters interested in what other clubs are doing.

 

Personally I'd prefer not. I think general transfer speculation on transfers will inevitably bleed over to SAFC discussion. There's a compare and contrast element that we miss if we separate them entirely. If the issue was that SAFC links get lost in amongst things then perhaps the other thread ends up just being a running total of links. That being said, I don't have a major problem with the current structure of this thread. I don't think separating the two is particularly good for discussion of either SAFC or wider transfer activity tbh

 

Things starting to move now

haway the signings!

 

That's what I thought too?

 

If you aren't interested in the other stuff just view the Sunderland one as it'll be regularly updated just as much but with whatever sunderland stuff comes through

 

Can we have a new thread on wether to have a transfer thread for every team or just a sunderland transfer thread for ours, That way we can all put our arguments into one thread with all the yeas and naes