January transfer thread

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Fly Me To The Moon said:
I doubt you've seen as much of Konate to know exactly what kind of player he is. Most of us hadn't even heard of him before he was linked.

Was an observation, anyway.
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I’ve seen very little of him other than a few YouTube clips and read several pieces about him that all refer to him as a tricky, skilful attacking midfielder / winger. One Nottingham paper even call him a forward.

So I don’t need to see him to know he’s a different kind of player to shelvey.
 
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RokerStoker said:
Having now come down from yesterday's magnificent performance, I'm more gutted than ever about Ross's injury. Can't stop thinking about what might have been this season as he looked like scoring every game and was still improving all the time. Hope to god we get a decent replacement. It'll likely be Simms, but he's miles off Stewart's standard imho.
On our day we can outclass any team in this division, but we need someone finding the net with all the chances we create.
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If he had stayed fit all season we would likely be sitting comfortably in 3rd. Like I have said before we would have been there if the ref had given the penalties against Blackburn and Swansea.
 
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rowley said:
He's a promising player no doubt. Pretty hard runner, though not electric. Put his hand up when Everton were struggling so fair play to him for that.

But if he's a forward he doesn't score many goals, and if he's a midfielder I haven't noticed. He's nearly 22. I'd have thought about £10m-£15m.
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I was talking to a mate of mine on Friday about him, and my mate made the point that this happens regularly with Everton. Every few years they produce a young player, who gets heavily hyped up, but very rarely do they ever live up to it. Danny Cadamartieri, Francis Jeffers, Wayne Rooney, Jack Rodwell, Ross Barkley, Tyias Browning, Brendan Galloway, Michael Branch, Dan Gosling. All were billed as future stars as young players over the last 25 or so years, and out of all of them only Rooney can be said to be a success, and he played most of his career at Man U. Some might have not hit the heights because of injury, but most of them just never developed and fulfilled their potential. Spunking £45 million on someone on the basis of one "good" season last year who's been poor this and has only played 65 games for Everton after making his league debut 3 years ago doesn't seem well thought out. It's not that he's a prolific goal scorer or putting in eye catching game influencing performances regularly, in fact he looks more like a Rodwell type, potential but a long way from being the finished article and if the stories of him refusing to train are right, a questionable attitude as well.

But f@ck them. Let's hope they continue to waste money paying 2, 3, 4 times over the going rate.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
So you're not actually a Mackem then ...

... or spell it with a capital M.

Interesting.
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Look mate just started an account and want to listen to the crack I guess I’ll just not message mate haven’t said one bad thing and I feel like not even want to speak come on man we’re all sunlun fans at the end of the day ⚽️
 
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Andrew the mackem said:
Look mate just started an account and want to listen to the crack I guess I’ll just not message mate haven’t said one bad thing and I feel like not even want to speak come on man we’re all sunlun fans at the end of the day ⚽️
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Welcome to the board mate, message all you want. The more sunderland fans the merrier in these exciting times
 
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Bizarreknives said:
Went to the Brighton vs Liverpool game today, (great game) I’m a season ticket holder there as I live there. I see a lot of similarities between Brighton and us, as in buy young cheap talented players, improve them and sell them on for a huge profit (which I know we’ve not done yet, but I’m sure it will happen with the players we have).
Problem is though my Brighton mates are worried that they will never get to where they want to be if they keep losing their best players and surely they can’t keep finding unknown gems for peanuts.
I’d be happy if this was us in a few seasons, trouble is though would you accept it or be mightily pissed off that you keep losing your best players.
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With the greatest of respect to your Brighton mates, where do they 'want' to be? The top table is a closed shop unless you are owned by a Country.
 
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DH4 said:
In my opinion is not possible to keep unearthing hidden gems like Stewart. Last time we did similar was Kevin Phillips and that was more than a quarter of a century ago. It's working at the minute because we basically had "bottomed out" and were scratting around for the likes of McFadzean and the only way was up.
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There will be loads of talented young players not getting a sniff at the likes of Chelsea, Spuds, Man City etc who can be picked off and developed.
 
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