Maja Saga

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FulwellBri

FulwellBri

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So now the lad is saying he wanted to stay but safc would not pay him what he believed he was worth.
IIRC He was sold for 1.5m.
Meanwhile we pay somewhere between 2.5 to 3m rising to 4m ( if we get to premier league ) for grigg.
I recall ross being sick as a chip insinuating it was all out of his hands.
And donald says we should be queuing up to buy richard hill a drink for all the good work he has done
I have major misgivings that hill, coton and Donald are up to their respective jobs going forward
 
FulwellBri said:
So now the lad is saying he wanted to stay but safc would pay him what he believed he was worth.
IIRC He was sold for 1.5m.
Meanwhile we pay somewhere between 2.5 to 3m rising to 4m ( if we get to premier league ) for grigg.
I recall ross being sick as a chip insinuating it was all out of his hands.
And donald says we should be queuing up to buy richard hill a drink for all the good work he has done
I have major misgivings that hill, coton and Donald are up to their respective jobs going forward
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Firstly I don't believe him, where did he say that?

Secondly, should we always simply pay players whatever they think they're worth?

Finally, should we admire someone who touts himself around during a vital season for a club that had looked after him?
 
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Smug in Boots said:
Firstly I don't believe him, where did he say that?

Secondly, should we always simply pay players whatever they think they're worth?

Finally, should we admire someone who touts himself around during a vital season for a club that had looked after him?
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Sunderland echo article today
 
FulwellBri said:
I recall ross being sick as a chip insinuating it was all out of his hands.
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I have a different recollection. I've only watched one of Donald's podcasts, the one right after Maja left. Donald claimed Ross told him that Maja wasn't worth a really large pay packet.

Ross probably felt like some folks on here at the time - that Maja's overall contribution, other than scoring goals, was insufficient. I thought he was a great finisher but more than a bit lazy.

In the end there really was no saga. The french side offerred Maja something like 8x what Donald did. FFP and those lingering Premier League contracts.
 
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Maja leaving was hugely disruptive, those who questioned his worth to Sunderland erred in their judgement, and compounded this ten fold by their choice of replacement. We are still paying the cost of this mistake, and will do so until we find an adequate attacking alternative. The search goes on.
 
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Hefty fullback said:
In the end there really was no saga. The french side offerred Maja something like 8x what Donald did. FFP and those lingering Premier League contracts.
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Plus a million signing on fee, which I seem to remember him saying would set up his family for life.
 
Didn't Donald say they'd offered the agent everything hed asked for?

So someone's fibbing.

And, personally speaking, I'd have been gobsmacked if maja, in his breakthrough season, could have kept up that finishing ratio for much longer.
 
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Nathan Brazil said:
Didn't Donald say they'd offered the agent everything hed asked for?

So someone's fibbing.

And, personally speaking, I'd have been gobsmacked if maja, in his breakthrough season, could have kept up that finishing ratio for much longer.
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You're probably right about that but even if his form did drop off he'd still have scored enough to take us up imo. It was a close thing as it was, don't know how we nearly managed it without any goals from our forwards.
 
I question the word saga

it’s over and a longtime ago at that, he has not played a full 90 mins for Bordeaux, he will be a free transfer in the next couple of seasons

they got money and then spent it on grigg who had a proven record at this level. Not the scouts, owners or manager of the time fault that grigg has failed to deliver. That’s down to grigg
 
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