Sunderland face fresh competition from Everton for Yann M’Vila . The Black Cats are desperate to bring the French midfielder back to the Stadium of Light on a permanent basis, following last term’s season-long loan. The 26-year-old made 40 appearances for the club, scoring once. He was comfortably Sunderland’s best player during the first half of the campaign, and by its end had expressed a desire to move to Wearside permanently. He has just six months left on his contract at Rubin Kazan, where he has been ordered to train separately from the first-team squad. However, the Russian outfit are holding out for a significant fee for the former Inter Milan man. And though reports in France claim Sunderland have offered M’Vila a four-year deal, Everton are now understood to have enquired about the player’s availability. Should the Wearsiders miss out on M’Vila, they may turn their attention to Lazio midfielder Ogneyi Onazi. The Nigerian international captain was linked with the club over the weekend, along with the Toffees, Southampton, Swansea City, West Ham United, Greek side Panathinaikos and Turkish outfit Besiktas. Though the 23-year-old made only 22 appearances for Lazio last season, he has two years left on his current contract and is rated at around £7 million. And Onazi’s agent Stephen Makinwa said: “There are many clubs interested in Onazi, including from England. “He is the captain of the Nigerian national team so it is natural for there to be interest, and Besiktas are one of those clubs. “They just wanted information for now.”
We have to be in the box seat, but why do we take players on loan deals that never seem to have options to buy?
I agree that we have this drama every transfer window and with every manager this tells me Ellis is reluctant to spend money or we have no one able to negotiate properly.We have a manager who Ellis should trust and give him what he wants ( providing we still have him)
Ellis is a tight man, we've established this. I bet he does his shopping in the whoopsie aisle the ****er. That said he saved us from doom so he's alright by me to a point.
It's really starting to become boring all this ....... no ambition this window, with the TV money, and I'll accept it's going to be another relegation battle.
7 weeks or so to add players. Nothing has changed yet, clock is ticking but maybe players want to see if Allardyce is going to hang around before signing for him. Maybe short won't spend money until Allardyce commits to the club, the next manager might not want SA's targets. Lots of factors I reckon.
This should have been one of the first things that was sorted out on the 1st July, I DO hope that we don’t bollox this up!
He said he wanted to stay, it should have been dusted off so that he never even had to return to Russia.
A lot of clubs drag them out mate, we had De Gea all summer last season will he go or not? It's not good to be left hanging. Fans are put through hell, it's not exciting like it used to be!
A lot of people giving the club stick on this one... in an ideal world we'd have signed him on midnight 1st July but we all know it ain't that easy in reality. Apparently he's on six figures per week in Russia, what if he refused to move for less? He's good for sure but not worth that much imo. Plus we know for a fact Rubin refused to let him go for free, we don't know what kind of money they're asking for. Let's say the deal would have cost us £5m and £150k per week for 5 years, to push it through ASAP... would anyone really be happy if we'd gone ahead with it? I'd have thought we'd been mugged right off.
See your point mate but Kazan made it perfectly clear they didn't want him as they made him train alone. Regardless of his next club he won't be on a six figure salary (unless it's in China!!). I could live with around £60-£80k. That would put him in the similar bracket to Defoe and Borini and he was just about as important last season IMO. He was quoted on record that he wanted to stay (correct me if wrong) and was photo'd at the new 3rd kit launch which was way after the season. Nice to see we're doing a grand job of a summer transfer window, again.
There will be a lot of clubs around Europe and China who will be watching this case and M'villa and agent just have to sit back and wait for the offers to come in. We cannot compete with the big boys financially so the only thing in our favour is the season he had with us. Anybody taking bets on loyalty over finance?
