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Published on Tuesday 26 July 2011 14:17

SUNDERLAND will not look to hijack Aston Villa’s move for Charles N’Zogbia, with Steve Bruce resigned to missing out on the French winger.

Villa yesterday agreed a £9.5million deal with Wigan for N’Zogbia, who is due to discuss personal terms and undergo a medical before the end of the week.

Ex-Newcastle man N’Zogbia is understood to have preferred a return to the North-East, either to the Magpies or Sunderland.

But Wigan’s asking price and specifically the 25-year-old’s wage demands have seen both clubs pull out of the running for his signature.

The Black Cats are not in a position to make a late bid for N’Zogbia and Bruce will be forced to watch as the player he took from Newcastle to Wigan, moves on.

N’Zogbia turned down the chance to work with Villa boss Alex McLeish last summer, when the winger couldn’t agree terms with the then Birmingham boss.

The temperamental player could still reject Villa’s advances and opt to leave Wigan on a Bosman in 12 months time. But with a bumper five-year offer on the table, N’Zogbia looks set to move to Villa Park.

Sunderland have not made a bid for N’Zogbia all summer despite the France international being one of Bruce’s principle targets since becoming Black Cats boss two years ago.

N’Zogbia thought he would be on his way to Wearside at the end of the season, particularly after Sunderland were flush with cash following the sale of Jordan Henderson.

But Sunderland were taken aback when they were informed from N’Zogbia’s camp that the player would require wages of £65,000 a week – rather than the £40,000 they had originally been expecting to pay.

Such a salary would have smash Sunderland’s wage structure and the club were not willing to contemplate it.

After bringing in nine new players over the summer, boss Bruce doesn’t have that sort of money to spend on a transfer fee either.

Bruce has been told he needs to offload the likes of Nyron Nosworthy, Matt Kilgallon, George McCartney and Marcos Angeleri before Sunderland re-enter the transfer market.

 

well i reckon we've got the cash to pay the £9.5m fee, but if those are his demands, then we won't match them, and nor should we, all summer we've brought in players who are willing to graft for reasonable money, so as good as he is, i'd hate to see him come in and upset the balance.

 

"Bruce has been told he needs to offload the likes of Nyron Nosworthy, Matt Kilgallon, George McCartney and Marcos Angeleri before Sunderland re-enter the transfer market."

those 4 hangers on have no proffesional pride at all they would rather not play and hold the club back than move to a club where they can be 1st teamers all simply because of money Nyron, George, Marocs and Matt you all need to have a think about why you play football in the 1st place.

 

Professional pride? Now there's a novel thought. Lol

Joking apart, the problem is they are all Championship players at best and no-one in the Championship can match EPL wages and to be fair to them, would I take a 50% pay cut just to do a job when I can get paid twice as much for doing **** all?

Erm. Non. We will have to subsidise their wages if we are going to move them on and I find that a perverse scenario but strangely more common place in these days of crazy sky high wages for barely average talent.

 

In any walk of life a contract of employment can be ended if an employee fails to do their job.

Surely we can do this with the piles of ****e we have hanging around the club?

 

But they are not 'failing to do their job'. They are not getting picked for the team which is completely different. I am sure if they did get onto the team sheet they would go out and play for the best of their ability.

 

Was fully intended as a joke like, i'll be sure not to mock our sub-standard players who we can't sell because they refuse to take a wage cut to play elsewhere in future.

 

i think for all the good (as far as club identity is concerned) Keano did for for us, hes left us with alot of deadwood on sky high wages in comparison to their ability. As for pride in football it is only in the stands now but as player wages and ticket prices rise but ability of players and standard of football stagnates you wouldnt blame any fans for staying away nowadays. Unless football reconects with fans the money will seriously run out in england at least and clubs will have to embark on more stupid tours to the arse end of nowhere to sell shirts to generate the revenue lost through falling attendances

 

Tough one that, as there must have been certain times during the last season, when this could have applied to the manager.