January Transfer Window 25/26

Same with Nwaneri. They have Saka as their undoubted main man plus Madueke as an excellent alternative. With Dowman waiting in the wings he’d be one I’d be asking for - probably more than MLS.

 

Would it be possible for Dowman to leave on loan? Still at school, only 15

 

I meant getting nwaneri. Hopefully we’re staying away from child trafficking

 

Saka, Madueke, Nwaneri and Dowman. Canny options for one spot, mind

 

Dowman more of a 10 really, suffering from the young player thing of getting safer minutes out wide like Riggy did.

 

Could we, and more to the fat should we even consider trying to get Mainoo?

Would he displace anyone and would we want him to as a loan player?

Looks like United going for Gallagher (who would displace someone) to free up Mainoo for a loan and he’s being touted abroad, but surely playing more games in England is better for him.

He doesn’t get ahead of Xhaka or Noah, so he’d be fighting Enzo, who’s currently a far more rounded player and club record Diarra who will likely come back determined to blow up.

Interested in folks views (unlikely as the deal is, but they seen what we did with Amad)

 

Regis Le Bris reveals two attributes signings had to have

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/s...s-reveals-two-attributes-sunderland-signings/

REGIS LE BRIS has revealed that a player’s running stats and previous injury record were two of the key factors that were forensically assessed when Sunderland’s recruitment team were deciding who to sign this summer. The Black Cats’ success in the transfer market is one of the key factors behind the club’s superb start to the season, which sees them sitting in fourth position in the Premier League table after the opening 11 games of the campaign.

Sunderland made 14 signings in the aftermath of winning promotion via the Championship play-offs, and the vast majority of their additions have already been a major success...

“Robustness is key in this league,” said Le Bris. “You have to have a specific profile and we can now use data to profile the players. If you don't have ability to run in your previous league, it will be tough to do so in the Premier League. If in your career previously you had many injuries, it means that it might be difficult to play in this league.

“So, with these two topics, I think we avoided big mistakes and then after that, the players have to experience the Premier League. So far, so good. I hope it can continue like this.”

 

I am confident that we will not be relegated? But that feels weird to put that out there it's almost like admitting it will curse us or something!
The truth is we are a very good team who has competed in every game this season (even the ones where we lost). Pundits and bloggers pointed out our weak opposition (please check that as most teams we have played improved their for after our games, so they were either not as bad and we played well and made them look bad or they miraculously got better straight after playing us) which I don't agree with. If this were any other team we would be focusing on all the positives of that team, but because we are Sunderland fans we tend to be wary and waiting for the edge of the cliff.
Hats off to you @Smug in Boots for being positive and putting it out there, we should be confident, strong and proud, just like our team

 

This puts things into perspective ....

From a Leeds fan who clearly thinks Farke is next for the chop.

"We’ve played 20th, 19th, 18th, 17th, 15th, 14th, 13th, 11th, 9th.

We haven’t played 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th.

We’re fiicked."

 

much better than the pricetag going around in the summer, would be well happy with this myself

(for people who don't use twitter, €25-30m)

 

Federico Chiesa loan from Liverpool with an option to buy in the summer.

 

Just for the barnet I’d be hoying a bid in.

 

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/spor...-afc/sunderland-news-florent-ghisolfi-5399297

Why Florent Ghisolfi chose Sunderland as his next job
Ghisolfi says, with more than a dash of understatement, that the call from Kyril Louis-Dreyfus came at not the best moment. His first year at AS Roma had been turbulent but by the end of the campaign, the return of Claudio Ranieri sparked a dramatic turnaround. Ghisolfi describes these months as some of the best of his career.

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“We played a lot of games without losing, big energy in the club, big energy in the stadium, so it was fantastic,” Ghisolfi says.



“At the end we finished with European qualification. The start of the season was difficult but I built a lot of things in the club, so what I want to say is at the end I think I was in a good situation in Rome. A fantastic journey. In the end I think we made a good job and even after just one year, you feel that this club is in your blood.”

After years of wondering how Ranieri had won the Premier League with Leicester City, Ghisolfi says he now had the answer. “Someone very different, very special,” he gushes.

Ghisolfi had played his part in the appointment of Gian Piero Gasperini from Atalanta, a significant coup after years of overachievement with the Bergamo club. He and Roma would soon part ways, however.

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“First of all it was about the people at Sunderland, because people are the most important thing in this kind of choice,” he says. “I knew a bit about Kyril, I know his personality, his stability, he's young but he's brilliant and he's emotionally stable, involved in the club and that’s not always the case for the ownership. He has a very good partnership with Juan [Sartori] also, something important, so first Kyril, the ownership. Kristjaan [Speakman] I didn't know but it was important for me to understand if we can work together and my feedback was very positive.

“I knew Régis before, we worked a bit together, so I knew the person. I tried to hire him for Nice [at the end of first campaign in charge of Lorient], I fought for him but it was not possible, so in the end I came to him! The people were the most important thing because in my position, the people with whom you are working, the alignment is something difficult to find, so this is the most important.

“Of course also there is the potential of the club,” he adds.

“The potential in Sunderland is massive and it's perfect for me because I'm someone who likes to build. My journey in Lens was exactly that one, starting from the second division to the Champions League and I like to build, so the potential here is massive and after that, it's the identity of the club, I think I like to feel that I have, I guess, alignment with the identity because I'm someone very discreet, confidential but a hard worker, resilient and I think this is the identity of Sunderland. After it's the Premier League in England, something I wanted to experience.”

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His arrival was, he admits, the ‘first stone’ in Sunderland’s remarkable summer window. As he explains, his own decision allowed him to speak to prospective new signings with conviction. That he was sat there showed the club really meant business.

Walking away from the Stadium of Light on Saturday, the noise of the celebrations that greeted Brian Brobbey’s volley still ringing in his ears, Ghisolfi felt his choice of next club was the right one. “I feel a lot of things in this moment and yeah when I'm leaving the stadium I'm thinking it was the right choice, I'm happy to be here,” he says.

“It's a feeling I have in the stadium and in the club but also in the city. I was in Rome, I was in Nice, in Côte d'Azur and I'm from Corsica but I feel very well in this city… I cannot explain why exactly. I'm going running on the beach and I have this very good feeling in some way.”

 

Better price but no longer the right profile imo. Would demand too many minutes and impact the players we already have. A similar type of player but younger would be what I’d look for.

 

we have gone from Wil Grigg, Scowen and Dobson

to Xhaka and now Guendouzi

this is madness

 

Sure it was him that was praising Le Bris, saying a year under is was like 3 years under any other manager because of the level of detail he goes in to.

 

Yeah I think i'd personally look for slightly younger for someone who won't expect to go straight into the XI but we do need to make sure we bring in quality. The current drop off from Xhaka and Sadiki to Neil and Rigg is massive imo

 

Yes it was him. He was also linked in the summer aswell

 

I feel like we are going to get in trouble with the football authorities soon for doing too well. Beautiful times.