Summer '24 transfer window

Like I said last week he was due up here again this week. Not sure as Fishpaste obviously has a decent source. He’s definitely in advanced negations but he could be in that with many other clubs

 

Let’s hope we get him!

 

Just think.

In maybe a couple of years time when they all have a great deal more experience we could have a midfield three of Neil-Rigg-Bellingham.

What a potentially fantastic future.

The defence also could be top class with Hume-Ballard-Cirkin and possibly Alese.

If Clarke stays and Roberts gets his form back we’re only a top CF away from being a very good team.
And then there’s the possibility that some of the others such as Ba do a Clarke and turn into top players.

The future is looking bright.

 

Not having a go @Prehab26 but glad we can agree on something. Hopefully this is just the start of a team full of young lads who's grew up with the club

 

It is but we simply have to be more prepared for the level of robustness that the championship demands. Greater levels of experienced players who have played many games at this level or in this country to compliment the younger lads.

 

Not sure I can handle all this positivity, it's very unsettling but I could get used to it.

 

Definitely. I've always been of the opinion that if we have a solid spine, you let the young uns do their stuff but you always have someone to pull them into place now and again to do the hard yards

 

Rigg said: “I am absolutely buzzing, to be honest. It is a proud moment for myself and my family to be signing my first professional contract at a Club like Sunderland. I have been dying to sign it for almost a year now. I want to develop as a player and improve as a person – and I believe this is the best place for me to do that. All the staff have been unbelievable with me throughout my journey at the Academy of Light, but there are still so many improvements I can make. The hard work starts now, but I am looking forward to making many more memories representing this Club.”

 

Great news. Man United really pushed hard for Riggy and put an offer to him that was 35k per week. The promise of first team football was always the most important thing for him. He’s clearly been promised that by the club/new manager. Delighted that he’s signed.

 

If that's true the lad clearly has a sensible head om his shoulders and his parents have clearly done a good job!

 

My mistake.

New deal next summer then!

 

Where did the medical rumour come from mate?

 

Again, just catching up, and as I said yesterday, Rigg, signing of the summer, maybe the decade

 

@AEP2002 said it not too long ago that he’d heard thayv

 

Absolutely buzzing about the Rigg news!

 

Excellent news with Rigg. Looking forward to seeing him develop here. Plus, our already valuable squad has become even more so. Huge strides forward in the last 2 or 3 years.

 

It’s so good to see he’s obviously got an affection for the club now.

 

That really is great news. He’s such an exciting prospect for us. Well done to everyone at the club for helping to get this over the line

 

There’s a balance to be struck but I genuinely don’t think that we keep Rigg unless we’re as committed to minutes to young’uns as we are. In the winter months when he was getting ignored by Beale (and before that overlooked by Mowbray) in favour of the likes of Pritch, he’d have been well within his rights to think that he’d have been as well served say in a PL academy as he is sat in the SoL stands on match day. Rigg doesn’t stay at safc without our strong commitment to developing youth and an unwavering loyalty to the young players we’ve identified as key (like Jobe) regardless of chatter from outside the club.