How about this

Striker Asamoah Gyan may have to be sold to balance Sunderland's books, says Black Cats chairman Niall Quinn.
BBC Gossip

 

Quoted? If so that is quite funny, but I'll hold comment until summer when I see who we've actually signed

 

I wouldn't mind seeing Gyan at Newcastle, though I'd rather another young English striker like Wickham or Airey to pull through

Imagine seeing Wickham and Airey starting regularly for Newcastle in the next 3 years with a mainly English midfield and backline as well : )

 

^ Could have another local lad in the team as well in Forster in a couple of seasons.

 

From Metro

 

I think its meant more as a scare tactic to get them back to the games, he said they lose about 1.8mil a year from empty seats, if Ellis Short is "mega rich" he wont miss that too much. Quinn sounds desperate to get them back though, maybe the next move is to say he wishes they turned up as often as their handsome neighbours do to their home games

 

Something along the lines of "Newcastle is a much busier city than us has more pubs and clubs yet they get 52,000 every home game

 

Heard this yesterday, if true, I think it would be hilarious.

 

I laughed at him comparing them lot to ManUtd they have a 75000 seater stadium and worldwide support. Muckems 42000 and there support stretch from South Shields to Durham

 

I think that Ellis Short may be putting Quinn under a bit of pressure.

Quinn "sold" the club to Short on the basis that they would fill their ground every week and create an atmosphere that would help the team on the pitch challenge the top 6. Short has kept his part of the deal by investing huge amounts of cash into the club, (last year he had to stump up £28 million to balance the books) and he may be getting pissed off with the fact that even though the team is doing better attendences are falling.

It is strange that he says

'If I don't win them back, the club may have to downsize and cut its cloth differently,'

'It'll be difficult to follow up on the current investment and players may have to be sold."

but then contradicts this by saying

'Our missing 10,000 fans cost us £1.8m over the season so a figure like that won't make the difference in allowing us to compete".

So it sounds to me as if Short has basically said something along the lines of " why should I pump £tens of millions of my cash into the club when the fans won't even fill the stadium?"

It will be interesting to see what happens in the summer and whether they replace their loan signings with other loanees or spend money on permanent signings.

 

i thought the mackems were the new man city




oh that's their take on it

mrs doubtfire will be shopping at netto again

 

Best let them know that Xisco is available. We want 7.5 mil for him

 

The unwashed should sign a couple of Malaysians and a Thai ladyboy, make all the players drive KIA C'EEDs and sell Chinese grub instead of pies to improve their worldwide profile