Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer window

Sorry that attitude is absolute nonsense and a sure fire ticket to a PSR hellhole. There is no world where Sunderland AFC can afford to completely ignore the implications of transfer fees and ability to recoup them. While ability is always key, every single transfer we make needs to be viewed through the lens of PSR impact. And signing a player for £15m this summer who may not actually be an absolute slam dunk, when he’d likely be worth around £5m in a couple of years is storing up trouble. Bear in mind that he’s been floated as a potential pl signing for years now and nobody was all that interested - even when his price was less than a third of what these articles are suggesting.

We cannot - and must not - separate ability from price. Every single overpay is corrosive. And it most certainly will catch up with us eventually if we ignore it. This is what modern football is.

 

It faded cause they’ve bought a different LB

 

I think Browne has been positive, he was certainly a step up in quality of competition for the first team. On a free transfer that is adequately successful.

 

Is it not the same people who just had fabrizio on talking to them about it? or are they making a report based off of that?

 

I think it's because he's done quite well for them so his value has went up, I reckon they might accept less if push comes to shove come the 30th

 

He’s been a good GK for us has Patto. No complaints if he’s replaced, though

 

I'm not sure where you're getting this from, the only ready-made signing we have paid our highest fee for has been Isidor (until Enzo) and he was a great success. The rest of the high fees have been on players for the future (Aleksic and Abdullahi).

Rusyn maybe? - Also the higher you shop, the more quality you find, not as likely to have a dud like we did with Rusyn if we stick to the profile of player RLB wants. Players don't go for high fees and end up like Rusyn. More risk with players like him at 2.5m etc

 

Time for Luton to start losing their better players now they’re back down in L1

 

I thought he was absolutely ****e personally. But opinions and all that

 

I expected more from him but he contributed. The early season injury definitely didn’t help

 

Partly some of those (and the prices we paid at the time means they were for the future - but also expected to contribute immediately). However it was also the concrete links in January. With the exception of ELF (and maybe a nod to Edwards) the rest were clear poor targets that would have represented a financial albatross. That hasn’t built confidence for me.

 

Genuinely he disappointed me from the first preseason friendly. Just constantly underwhelmed.

 

Abdullahi maybe yeah, but injuries plagued him. Aleksic they said from day one is one for the future and would need time to settle.

In regards to targets we have no idea which ones were actually true. I think Frigan was the only proper concrete chase we had. Cannon could have been agent based and even then we didn’t offer more than what we valued him at

 

I'm still of the opinion a lot of those werent actually concrete links at all - but probably will never know totally. Lot of them just didnt make any sense for us at all.

 

Portsmouth away early in the season, he was excellent. Worked out a decent free signing in the end, we’ve been promoted and we’re likely to get a fee for him when he leaves.

 

He was playing well early season got injured set him back then he put in 6/7 out of 10s nothing special jsut did his job with a couple of poor performances, and played out of position

think he did enough as a free

 

Yeah but it reads to me like they’re trying to say player talks are fine we just need club agreements which is exactly what fab said

 

Don't forget that Browne 'came up with the goods' with the goal at the end v Leeds at home. One of my favourite post match interviews last season!

 

Wasn’t it given as an ‘OG’?! Ridiculous

 

Browne had a massive impact this season, maybe didn't show enough on the pitch but attitude off it was a big reason why the squad was so strong

This place is obsessed with transfers as its discussions on a transfer thread, which you post regularly on as well

We haven't had many big money signings since we've been out the PL for so long. Rusyn was a failure, hemir was worth the risk but it's not worked out and the other 2 'big' money signings are young players that only joined last summer so far too early to judge - hardly a disaster

A few of us are 'obsessed' with transfers as we watch a lot of football and often know the players we are linked with and are impressed by some of them

Our recruitment has been class, with only a few mistakes but that's the same for every team. Can't wait to see what we do in this window