Dimitar Berbatov has revealed that he held talks with Sunderland

Former Manchester United forward Dimitar Berbatov held talks with Sunderland about a potential return to the Premier League

• Dimitar Berbatov has played for Tottenham, Manchester United and Fulham
• The Bulgarian forward scored 94 goals in 229 games between 2006 and 2014
• The 36-year-old held talks with David Moyes' Sunderland about a potential move
• Berbatov is keen to play in England, but he said 'nothing came' of the talks Sunderland news: Fabio Borini salvages a point for Black Cats against West Ham

By Daniel Matthews

PUBLISHED: 16:22 BST, 16 April 2017 | UPDATED: 10:59 BST, 17 April e-mail


Dimitar Berbatov has revealed that he held talks with Sunderland about a move to the Premier League strugglers.

The former Manchester United and Tottenham forward has been a free agent since he left Greek side PAOK in July 2016.

Berbatov scored 94 goals in 229 Premier League appearances between 2006 and 2014. The 36-year-old said that he is keen on a return to the Premier League, and revealed on Sunday how close he came to a reunion with former Tottenham team-mate Jermain Defoe at Sunderland.


well we had a narrow escape there like

 

Surprised we didn't sign him. He's just the sort of player Moyes likes- slow, lazy, ineffectual.

 

ha ha my thoughts exactly, he is no grafter

 

We have Januzaj to do the "I have talent but won't work to show you" role so what would be the point of signing Berbatov!!

Although my lad used to call him "Burgertop" when he was little so it would've given me something to take the mickey out of him about!!

 

He would certainly have been far from the ideal type of player but he might have been useful. Wasn't he quite decent in the air? Considering we haven't scored a header all season or had anyone to flick it on to Defoe.

 

Yeah zero headers scored - Borini and Jones have both missed open goals with them though!!

On Defoe - I thought he was poor on Saturday against West Ham - his movement was rubbish and he never looked like scoring - but he always seems to be poor against his former sides (He got one at Bournemouth but it was a penalty) He just seems to have a mental block when it comes to former clubs - precisely the opposite to what most other players do! No idea why this happens but I've noticed it against a few of his previous clubs (Since signing for us sure he's only scored once - past Bournemouth despite playing around 7 or 8 games against them, West ham and Spurs

 

Glad we didn't

 

Yeah Defoe's been off the pace a bit lately, I never noticed that about him not scoring against past clubs. I'm surprised he gets any goals at all playing for us to be fair.

One way or another we'll have to be better at defending crosses and scoring from them next season. Most teams CBs can deal with a full match of clearing average quality crosses, ours make a right meal of it more often than not.

 

Reid could have signed Abriahimivic (spelling ! Man u player) about 16 years ago and look what happened, the players that got away decent as well Gardener, Bardsley, Jones, Bentdner, Mvilla, Alonso the list goes on and on that's why we are where we are.

 

Thing is that it's not the players we "could have had" or "should have had" that have cost us - it's the ones we got which simply aren't good enough! or never fit - I thought (along with most) that Rodwell was a great signing for £10m - my favourite thing (hindsight) has taught me very differently.

I reckon, had we not lost Cattermole, Kirchhoff, O'Shea and Watmore early in the season and they'd all been fit all season (I know!!) we'd have been OK - it's not that 4 players make a team, but those 4 players make a big difference to how we play generally

 

Add Ian Rush, Peter Beardsley, Shay Given and KK to that list, I'm sure there are many more. Totally agree, but its the expensive rubbish we have signed over the last 10 years that has finally caught up with us. Such a shame as this time last year I had really thought we had turned a corner and that our luck was changing.

 

Lazy bastard, but technically up there with the best of them.

Would have made no difference to your team.

 

In a nutshell mate.

 

As said Moyes.....seems like most are in agreement with the Messiah