Transfer Rumours Summer 2026 Transfer Window

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Dunno if posted elsewhere, but dont really care tbh, can never have too much of Luke O'Nien.

His post re. Cirkin....What a bloke man, had me choked.
You just know thats coming from the heart.

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Read this yesterday and Cirks and it shows how deeply the lads at the club connect.

It’s brilliant to see. As I said in the other thread it’s a real shame for Cirks. Had he stayed fit I’ve little doubt he’d have developed to a level.

There are no words for Luke. He’s as red and white as anyone of us he feels it all. Adopted Mackem doesn’t cover it. ‘Morphed Mackem’ maybe.
 
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Dennis Cirkin…

People that tuned into Sunderland this season for the first time in years, didn’t see the best of Cirkin.

11 games missed with injury, 73 in the last 4 seasons… he’s been consistently let down by his body.

But when fit, he was a crucial part of our ascent from League 1.

It’s players like Cirkin that made Europa League football on Wearside possible, and they won’t be forgotten.

If he can stay fit, someone is signing a top player. Good luck to him!
 
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Dennis Cirkin…

People that tuned into Sunderland this season for the first time in years, didn’t see the best of Cirkin.

11 games missed with injury, 73 in the last 4 seasons… he’s been consistently let down by his body.

But when fit, he was a crucial part of our ascent from League 1.

It’s players like Cirkin that made Europa League football on Wearside possible, and they won’t be forgotten.

If he can stay fit, someone is signing a top player. Good luck to him!
Surprised we didn’t do more to keep Dennis but given the quality of our recruitment over the past 12 months we can’t be critical and let’s see what we are bringing in this summer.
 
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Surprised we didn’t do more to keep Dennis but given the quality of our recruitment over the past 12 months we can’t be critical and let’s see what we are bringing in this summer.
Cirkin's a quality player but the club has been commendably good at not giving in to sentiment.

For a decent wage, we would need more reliable minutes than he's able to give unfortunately.
 
Read this yesterday and Cirks and it shows how deeply the lads at the club connect.

It’s brilliant to see. As I said in the other thread it’s a real shame for Cirks. Had he stayed fit I’ve little doubt he’d have developed to a level.

There are no words for Luke. He’s as red and white as anyone of us he feels it all. Adopted Mackem doesn’t cover it. ‘Morphed Mackem’ maybe.
He’s some bloke O Nien. We must keep him as a coach in the future. Imagine him with the academy kids.
 
In the mammoth 2025 "Summer Transfer Thread" I confessed to using "project names" when I open files on some of the more sensitive cases I deal with (to stop the admin teams at various clients from seeing a file that says "Closure of [LOCATION] and Redundancies" as the narrative on any correspondence...). In the past I have had Project "Ballard", "Hume", "Granite", "Brie", etc.

Today, I am pleased to report that, "Project Milan" has been opened...
 
Read this yesterday and Cirks and it shows how deeply the lads at the club connect.

It’s brilliant to see. As I said in the other thread it’s a real shame for Cirks. Had he stayed fit I’ve little doubt he’d have developed to a level.

There are no words for Luke. He’s as red and white as anyone of us he feels it all. Adopted Mackem doesn’t cover it. ‘Morphed Mackem’ maybe.
The Adopted Mackem thing is something you don’t hear. We, as a fanbase, don’t throw it around like them up the road with the Geordie equivalent (lost count of the number of “adopted geordies” both them and The press keep going on about) Isak certainly was spoken about like that!

We just keep supporting our club and occasionally a “Luke” comes along. Said it before and will say it again, my absolute favourite player in my lifetime.
 
Nope, wrong personality for our group, which is why United wanted him out.
Big name signings like Rashford put me in mind of Rodwell. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole!

Rodwell's in a different ball park but his name was considerably more valuable than what he gave us. Same for Harvey Elliott possibly. Elliott is well known to the average PL supporter, and would have some wow factor, but would we get the value for money?