Andersons another one. He's at the age now where he desperately needs to find a club where he can get first team football, yet here he is still in our squad picking up a big wage for showing up to training every day. More fool us really for signing him, it was a pretty pointless signing to say the least.. At least Matete has contributed in the past for us, but like Anderson if he had anything about him, he should also be desperate to find a club where he can start games every week.
Would I be right in thinking some of these players who failed to get a move in the window, would have received a substantial pay rise the minute we secured promotion. If so, that could be the issue. Wait out your contract on decent money then get a free transfer with all the financial benefits that comes from a free transfer. Might be wrong, but it does make sense
Agree mate. They want to appear like premier league footballers but actually they are contributing nowt. Looks like they are happy just to sit on their backside snd not appealing to any future employer
These players are still young,they've a career ahead still. There may be the odd one,but most will want to play and try to improve their prospects.
You would hope so but Matete, Anderson, Pembeli and Poveda in particular look like they are going to be lazy and difficult to shift. it’s a short career they should have been keen to get away and play for the good of their careers rather than just pick up an easy salary.
You'd expect so,most of them are under 25.....their earnings so far probably wouldn't provide them with financial security for life,even if they didn't fancy it and have lost ambition.
I've noticed on social media, not so much on here, that there's a couple of trends I don't quite understand. The first is how people who've left Sunderland are followed and mocked, such as Dodds. The second is how players who've not succeeded at the club are seen. The club are responsible for everyone they employ and, I'm sure, do their best to manage each situation. What bothers me is how players we failed to move on are disparaged and seen as some kind of parasite. We've no idea how the likes of Ba will be handling things, but I doubt it was their dream to end up shuffling around the AOL. Not every player makes it at a club, as Patrick Roberts found out after a dozen failed attempts ... ... I hope his success at Sunderland gives other players hope that they can sort out their careers.
Roberts has took some dogs abuse during his time here from parts of the supporters. Decent player and one that I'm sad to go. Like you and not so much on here, but I've seen and heard stuff about fringe players. There's a school of thought of "right, we don't want you anymore, so f**k off". Doesn't work like that. People are quick to bring up contacts, these lads have signed contracts and are employed.
Love the lad made it count in the big moments but just doesn’t produce consistently enough for a team that’s gonna have minimal chances to create and score across this season. Still amazes me how he was convinced to sign for us by Lee Johnson along with Clarke.
Kristjaan Speakman has revealed that Sunderland concluded a deal for Bertrand Traoré with just minutes to spare in the summer transfer window. “Bertrand’s availability came fairly late in the window," Speakman said. "In our planning, we had some key positions to make sure we got sorted out first. Once we were comfortable we had those positions in place, with Lutsha [Geertrudia] for example, then that [winger] was going to be our next move. Luckily, we were able to do that within the timeframe. It was really tight with it being the end of the window – there was literally minutes to spare, really. But we feel he’s a really important part of the group moving forward. Letting Patrick go – a wide right, left footer – we felt we needed to replace that type of profile. He’s got experience at the top level, so we felt it was a good one for us to move on considering the quality of the player and the type of deal it was." A defender and a winger had been Sunderland's key priorities heading into the final days of the window, but a new striker emerged as a priority when Chelsea approached the club about recalling Marc Guiu following an injury to Liam Delap. Sunderland felt it was best to agree to the request, but only after lining up a deal for long-term target Brian Brobbey. Speakman says the situation was 'unusual' but feels the club have ended up in a good place. “It was a really unusual situation," Speakman said. "Not one that I can think that I’ve come across personally in the transfer windows over recent years. We have to be really respectful to the parent club of the player that we take on loan because we want to make sure we’ve got healthy relationships. And also most importantly, to the player. Chelsea came to us with a suggestion, Marc as a player would want to go and play for his parent club and have the opportunity that he’s been working for, which is what ultimately he was coming here to try and earn in the future. That meant there was a position where it was on us to make a decision over what we wanted to do. We weren’t going to make a decision that put us in a detrimental position, but Brian is a player who we’ve been tracking all summer. There’s one or two other players that we’ve been tracking too, and always in the transfer window, it’s about timing. For us, the timing of being able to take Brian and the timing of our position with Chelsea and with Marc meant that we could agree to it. We’re really disappointed on one hand because we really liked Marc. But at the same time, we also really like Brian and we’re really pleased that Brian’s here because we think he’s a player for now and a player for the future." Kristjaan Speakman on the transfer business that Sunderland could still do Speakman also confirmed that work was ongoing to secure moves for players whose gametime is likely to be limited this season Sunderland sanctioned a number of departures on deadline day, but have so far been unable to find new clubs for Ian Poveda, Jay Matete, Timothee Pembele and Joe Anderson after they were informed at the start of pre season that they would not be in the main squad this season. It's understood that positive talks have been held regarding loan moves for Nazariy Rusyn and Milan Aleksic, while the club would also ideally like to find a good loan move for Ahmed Abdullahi. “Our transfer window has concluded, but there are some other windows and markets that are still open so we’re going to continue to work in those markets to try to find opportunities for players that aren’t currently in the first-team squad," Speakman said. "Any professional player at Sunderland, whether they’re outside the squad as a senior player or they’re coming through the academy, has to work as hard as they can to try to get into Regis’ squad and team. That opportunity is there for everybody. We have to try to get the right opportunities for the right players. Some players, at the minute, ideally need more regular games because of where they are in their career. We’re trying to facilitate that, and you’ve seen one or two players go out the building in the last week that would be on the edge of our squad, so at the minute, for them and their careers, it’s best for them to play regular games." https://www.sunderlandecho.com/spor...fyETqYFvilJAZ18r8Q_aem_w73hkFTs9C6qVEZFKX-WZw
Hope we can get loans for those that have a chance of developing and playing a part here, the others well it is what it is if no one wants to take them there’s not much we can do unfortunately
‘We want to be respectful to the parent clubs as we want to have healthy relationships’ It is absolutely imperative that clubs like Chelsea want to deal with us as we grow. City gave us glowing praise around Doyle when we had him. We’ve long had a decent relationship with Liverpool and United were delighted with Amad development. This is football. There’s pecking orders. You don’t rise anywhere up that pecking order without an arm out to drag you. Keane knew this and did deals with Spurs etc. The timing of going toe to toe with these clubs can be so crucial and fortunately, it’s clear the people running our clubs respect this.
https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/features/106239/sunderlands-transfer-window-which-sources-were-itk Great bit of analysis about our 168 latest knee players this transfer window. Yes 168!!!
