Summer '24 transfer window

Both would be nice, Norwood could slot into a 6 behind Neil and Browne

 

Its all taken into considering, errors leading to goals will mark a defender down on it. Theyll look at various stats to score a CB, passing success is one (but most CBs have a pretty high pass rate as most play safe), %defensive duels won (this will be tackles won etc), % Aerial duels won, interceptions per game, no of ball recoveries. his aerial duels won were slightly lower than other CBs but he scored really well in defensive duels won, which is the 1st thing i look for when scouting

O9 will never be everyones cup of tea at CB but he had a good season last yr. Every CB at this level will make multi mistakes over the season leading to goals - thats why they qre playing at this level

The biggest thing he needs to improve on to take his game to the next level is his body shape - its still not natural for him and sometimes he gets caught too square. It isnt bad by any stretch but its the main thing he needs to work on to cut out some of the mistakes you mentioned

I like him in the squad and i dont panic whne he starts but we also need to look to improve all our positions and CB is one

 

What on earth are we going to talk about on here once we have a head coach, no takeover imminent and Luke O'Nien has left / retired.

 

Pretty sure some people will still be slagging O'Nien when he's been retired 30 years and working in his allotment.

 

A bidding war is always a good thing.

3 pretty smart clubs when it comes to transfers them as well.

 

Weren’t Southampton also supposed to be lining up a £40m bid for Clarke and Patto?

 

Wonder how many owners tell their coaches to ensure that their teams don't get relegated and then purely focus on increasing player stats to drive big fees. 100% passing accuracy but utterly pointless passes. Running for the sake of it. Loads of one twos to increase pases ets

 

20+ million with a sell on clause and he should be sold. I like him and think he’ll have a great career but for us right now, it would make sense imo. I think we need a big sale, just not many at the same time. Could improve a lot with that if we’re smart.

 

With that said. It's important for us not to over indulge with our signings. We need quality over quantity, without a doubt. If we change the squad too much we'll get off to a rough start I predict.

 

Really good words mate, I swear that sometimes a player gets an unfounded reputation by people just repeating things that aren’t true:

 

Players, owners, managers, coaches, thread contributors etc., where have we seen that now, I wonder?

 

Appreciate that

Its all about opinions though, i dont mind folk sharing what they think of players tbh, whether i agree with them or not

@WorkyTicketFTM makes some good points about O9 tbf and is totally entitled to share what he thinks of him

Football is all about opinions, i used to take offence on here when folk had an opposite opinion to me but its good to see where others come from now

 

Totally agree its night and day to the shambles of the past

 

Sorry if posted….

what’s a cryptic message amongst Sunderland fans

 

People are speculating Chris Rigg is going to Newcastle but it could just as equally be that his son has signed his first professional contract with us !

 

I think Monday will be the start of something special, I'm really looking forward to this season, I think there will be a significant push to improve the squad, along with the off field improvements underway or announced.

I enjoyed the season before last immensely, our newly promoted team played with freedom and seemingly without pressure, allowing the players to express themselves and develop.

Last season developed a different feel with TM adopting a more defensive, cautious approach. Possibly feeling pressure to succeed, but not feeling he was provided with the tools. For me that stifled the talent somewhat and the free flowing, care free football from the previous year ebbed away. We all know what came next so no point mentioning it here.

I do feel that KLD will push us back on track, the pressure will be on to achieve more but I believe that pressure will be eased with a few quality signings and hopefully with the return of a couple of our injured.

I personally hope Clarke stays for this season and Rigg signs on the dotted line. I know people keep saying we have to sell to improve, I’m not so sure that’s the way KLD sees it, but time will tell. If we can get a couple of quality loans that would help, and give our young players time to develop to step up in the future, whether by game time or probably good loan placements.

The consensus on here seems to be that we need at least one powerful presence up front, possibly two, and an experienced CDM. I would go along with that but I would hope we can keep the current core of key players intact.

Roll on Regis!

 

Apparently it’s nothing related

 

Great post mate.

Bringing in a foreign manager and entourage is expensive ...

... doing that, without backing them, just wouldn't happen.

 

That would be the starting point for me. If we could push it higher I would give it a go