Aye Sam has contacts, great ones and that's how it works. Adrian, Cresswell, Okocha, Kevin Davies, Ogbonna, Alex Song. He's got some smashing players in and some players far to big for their clubs to sign. Campo & Djorkaeff to Bolton?
He's must have a cracking record financially over years on his spending. He annoys me in some ways, especially when he tries to be a victim despite his physical approach... like when Rooney pushed his player off the ball and banged one in from the half way line, just ****ing own it Sam, admit when you've been hit by a bit of class. Can't knock his record for trading though, it's gonna be vital for you lot. I'd love to see a two team league, one team managed by Pulis and the other by Allardyce, see who gets relegated, I reckon it'd just go on forever with no conclusion.
I like him more all the time mate. I'm forever on about 'buying into the club'. Only Sunderland & Newcastle fans really know the depth of the love for your club up here, it's your world, everything feeds back to it, you live it, breathe it, it's all consuming at times. Sam, he's got it, he knew already but he's bang in it, so is Kone, so are Borini and PVA, now it seems Kaboul and Defoe too. For me this is why we have turned, players are buying in and they are buying in because of the fans and the manager. Sam is as perfect a fit as we could have right now, a god window and a strong start and he will be fully idolised.
So the thread title becomes relevant, the owner has to back him. If he doesn't and Sam ****ed off, then it's square one again, so you have to assume he's gonna get support from the board and you might actually build something that resembles a team to start the season with
This is precisely the point and goes back to what I was saying yesterday. Undoubtedly Allardyce has a good track record with signings but so did Congerton. So, good people have been at the club before but they were undermined from other quarters including poor decision making from those within the executive hierachy.
You've got to look at your priorities: M'Vila should be top of the tree, you should as Bri said, already have a fee agreed for him... most likely to be around £5m although I understand his contract is up mid-season with his parent club, so you could get him for a snip. Cattermole can do this role but not as effectively if you can't sign him. Striker - you have Defoe and Borini and that's just not enough... rumours of Ayew £15m? You need a RB - either way, you could sign Yedlin or somebody else, but you need one... hopefully you won't go back for Gassama because he's garbage, but looking at the budget you had for him, I'd say you're looking in the £4-5m bracket... Hutton might be an option from Villa for cheaper. Creative midfielder - maybe this is where Sam goes for more experience, somebody like Flamini, Arteta or Rosicky... almost certainly all three will leave Arsenal this summer. Cheap deals to be done, Sam is the master at getting a couple of years out of older players. £free You could probably add a few more in there, but that addresses your main issues there. I reckon you'll sign a few more, maybe for lower fees. Off load the likes of Lens, Brown, Rodwell if possible, Larsson. You're looking at a spend of around £25-30m to get your first 11 looking good, then probably another £15m on investment in the squad to thicken it out. You should recoup around £12-15m plus wages and I've got a feeling Allardyce might do away with Borini as well, he's similar but not as good as Ayew from Swansea. So it depends on a few things, whether Short can back Allardyce, when the Alvarez money is due, what you owe on other transfers historically... there's going to have to be a middle ground where Sam comes to meet Short, he's not gonna get a bottomless pit of cash. Long post.
The M'Vila issue, I believe, could be wages. Kazan have been paying 40k of his 79k weekly I heard. He'd probably need to take a drop.
That's a ****ter, but you never know... he might be happy where he is. He's had a ****ty few years before coming over here. Either way, make him captain and put him on £70k a week if necessary, if AJ was on £60k this guy deserves £70k It'll just depend on whether other clubs have been scouting him, other clubs with bigger wage allowances.
I think it's clear he wants to stay. It's not far above Fletchers now free wages so it's not an impossibility either way. I'm desperate for him to stay, think we all are.
I think realistically Ellis, having been bitten on the arse numerous times with SAFC signings, will be difficult to convince we should shell out circa £15m on one signing. It may be that our aproach should be sign the loanees that have proved themselves and shop abroad where we should get better value.
Didn't you try numerous times for Ayew in January? Get Borini sent the other way and that could be an incredible deal.
I know you do t rate Fabio Tel but is be loathe to see him leave. He is a big part of the side his season stats are ruined by not being fit for 2/3 of it, I want him kept. I would love Ayew, but he's left footed so play both, one each side of Defo with Khazri, Yann & Jan in middle. Lively job.
Yes no manager is guaranteed to be successful but BSA's experience knowledge and footballing methodolgy is a massive factor in our favour - onwards..... but with my Mackems innate concern in tow
Nads as you posted the players buy into the club - M'Villa career was resurrected by Sunderland and he really looked up for the Chelsea game - have feeling this & BSA influence will pull this signing off if he's wanted. More importantly players will come here because of BSA imo
It's an option mate, but Khazri further back seems like a square peg in a round hole to me. If Allardyce is intent on keeping Borini, he'd be better off keeping Khazri where he works best (I actually think Khazri was 2nd choice after Ayew so I'm not sure you'll go back for Ayew) because there's no adjustments needed then, I just don't really think Allardyce's style will satisfy Borini and vice versa, but that's just my view. I appreciate Borini's graft mate, I really do, I just don't rate him at all as a consistent goal threat. If Defoe got injured and your only back up striker is Borini and N'Doye, you'd probably have gone down. Ayew offers more in that sense I reckon.
I'd play Khazri as a CAM mate ahead of Jan & Yann linking Defoe, with Borini & Ayew flanking either side. Nice setup, we could maybe get away with it now given the solidity of Super Kone & Mega Younes. We won't retain the wardrobe know as N'Doye, we will be looking for a big lad striker cos Sam loves them.
I think he will stay and we will get it done mate, I just suspect if it fails, it will be salary related. The lad is just a superb footballer.
A top striker is needed, as mentioned above without Defoe over a period the other strikers won't bridge that gap. Ayew would be a great purchase but Swansea already turned us down loads of times so the price would be stupid and money would be better spent on another striker I think.
Strikers are tough to buy, good ones at least. I draw a blank thinking of who we could go for a I really do. I've mentioned my pick woul be Carroll but it's unrealistic. What about Benteke? Is that impossible? How much of the £100million is Ellis prepared to release. Benteke is the type Sam likes and I don't forget that he was an absolute monster for Villa. Probs cost £20million, but he's hardly gonna be beating off the super clubs after failing at Liverpool.
