Transfer Rumours The Sunderland Links/Transfer Rumours Thread - Summer 2025

I apologise for calling you a he.

my bad

 

I’ll have to keep an eye out for him!

 

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdy2HJmB/ Saw this on tiktok

 

Haha me too.

 

Get him over the line

 

Sorry haha already got there

 

I got caught out trying to make sure you hadn’t posted refreshed and had to do it again

 

Fake account I believe

13k followers and no online record of a journalist with that name

happy to be proved wrong though

 

I'm expecting a scarf pic on July 1st. Will it be earlier than that?

 

Tbf he’s just reposting what MatteMoretto has already said yesterday and he’s a top top journo

 

Also I’ve found that Sebastian guy, he’s a genuine journo. He’s on LinkedIn. Co-founder of a French football newspaper

 

I wonder why he only got 13k followers then

 

Just not as big, if it helps though MatteMoretto is one of the top journalists when it comes to Italian football and he’s said the same that we are in talks for Lauriente

 

Well, whatever these follower people are, he's got 13k more of them than I have

 

Well I have just watched England U21 dominate the dutch, start to finish. Sign them all.

In all seriousness there is so much talent in that group. Anderson and Scott are such talents and Harvey Elliott needs a real place to shine. Cresswell made a mistake, otherwise he was unreal. These lads are levels above some of our links tbf.

 

the problem is they come with the English tax so will cost lots more as well. And you’ve named 3 players that play for established premier league clubs so it’s no surprise they’re better than our links.

 

Maybe there is a reason they come with an English tax? More likely to succeed.

I do understand the sense of value for money. But some of these links / players speculated on look some way behind or carrying risk.

One argument rattling round my head. We sell English players, cant we buy English players? Just one example is Cresswell who looks elite level and ready. Him or a bit of a risk on a lad from Italy? At some point minimising risk has to come into it...

 

yeh I agree it’s a risk / reward trade off.

 

I think the PSR question hamstrings us. Particularly in the early stages we have to prioritise value for money almost over all. Those two years of basic level champ losses leave us more limited than any other PL team in what we can spend. Getting past that - and reducing the total volume of work we need to do - and homegrown players start to make more sense.