Now that the dust is starting to settle and putting rivalries aside, what have we learned from the Bent and Carroll transfers?
We can all debate and discuss for ever who is to blame; did they put those requests in because they wanted to or because they were forced to? Did they go for the chance of bettering their careers or was it just the cash? Did Quinn and Ashley do right taking silly offers for them, to enhance the long term futures of our clubs or were the did big bucks on offer just too good to turn down.
The truth is we will all have an opinion and speaking from the Sunderland side I could never envisage Quinn doing anything that would not be for the benefit of the club, mind I could never see Bent walking away.
What have I learned, well nothing really, just confirmed what I already knew but had maybe forgotten.
When it comes down to it we love our footballers when they do well for us and rightly so. We thank our chairmen and owners when they bring us better players, and rightly so. We adore our managers when they get us those wins, and rightly so.
But the only people who really care about our club are the daft buggers like me and you who spend time on internet forums talking about them. Who buy over priced shirts and proudly wear them. Ho scan the newspapers and TV programmes to hear news about them and who spend money they often cant afford to stand in the cold and wet to support them.
The next time a Sunderland player kisses his badge I will think, thank you for your affair with us but its me who really loves us.
We can all debate and discuss for ever who is to blame; did they put those requests in because they wanted to or because they were forced to? Did they go for the chance of bettering their careers or was it just the cash? Did Quinn and Ashley do right taking silly offers for them, to enhance the long term futures of our clubs or were the did big bucks on offer just too good to turn down.
The truth is we will all have an opinion and speaking from the Sunderland side I could never envisage Quinn doing anything that would not be for the benefit of the club, mind I could never see Bent walking away.
What have I learned, well nothing really, just confirmed what I already knew but had maybe forgotten.
When it comes down to it we love our footballers when they do well for us and rightly so. We thank our chairmen and owners when they bring us better players, and rightly so. We adore our managers when they get us those wins, and rightly so.
But the only people who really care about our club are the daft buggers like me and you who spend time on internet forums talking about them. Who buy over priced shirts and proudly wear them. Ho scan the newspapers and TV programmes to hear news about them and who spend money they often cant afford to stand in the cold and wet to support them.
The next time a Sunderland player kisses his badge I will think, thank you for your affair with us but its me who really loves us.
Syd
e as I've taken the day off to prepare properly for tonight 
agents are the worst the more their players move the more money they get so have a huge intrest in shifting players on for silly money theres very little loyalty left in football im afraid contracts are more for the player than the club you get a player and he turns out a load of crap you have to pay him till the end like we have with a few lately ,then you get a good player you want to keep and its oh we dont want to keep a unhappy player let him go ,or theres only 18 months on his contract if he dosent sign an extention we will have to sell , till theres a review on agents and players and make them pay some money back to the club if they dont see their contract out supporters will keep getting hump by the loss of thier seemingly loyal players.