Brilliant news about Diarra. only thing is if I’m right I think he misses the mags game due to needing to be with your countries 14 days before tournament starts hope I’m wrong.
Holy ****!! I keep reading this thread and seeing these links but they still don't feel real. How can Sunderland be so close to signing a €35m midfielder who is one of the biggest prospects in Europe? It's safe to say that this would surpass every expectation I have for this summer. Such exciting times!
Here's montage of his efforts v England a few weeks back. Trying not to get over excited as he's young and will be stepping up a level. I think JH will be coming in as an enforcer as he's likely a cheaper option to allow us to invest in other areas.
Couple times we’ve seen ambitious project mentioned by Romano, diarra and the keeper must have had reassurance about what our plans are too agree.
I remember when I kept getting shot down when I mentioned the model. People kept saying all we'd do is keep buying players for 1 to 2 million and selling for a profit. I stated back then the more we progressed and the more money we made the higher the outlay would be and in time we'd sign young players for 20 million plus, I give you one guess what response I got to those comments 3-4 years ago
This is massive. Huge. It will go a long way to attracting additional players. Le Fee and Diarra our first two signings. Sublime.
Also fair play to Alan Nixon. He got the price wrong (I think?) but he was right about this. As I said yesterday it was too specific to be made up.
Was my sons prom last night so we were still up when news broke. I’ll be honest I was expecting it to be a fake account or something tweeting deal agreed. This feels weird and a bit discombobulating but this signing is really just the model on steroids. I expected to go through a 10-15m signing phase first mind.
yeh it feels like we’ve skipped a whole level of signings and have moved on. Habib Diarra and Bulka are signings I’d expect us to make NEXT summer once we’d been established in the league