Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer window

[Wayne the Punk]

I don’t think the South Tyneside towns are far from 50/50. There’s not much in it at all.

Agree half our support won’t be Geordies, I’d probably say about 20%. Likewise, folk from areas like Peterlee and Easington are Mackems to me and there’s enough of them support Newcastle.

Interesting debate though, I remember on here people claiming that we (Geordies) aren’t as close to the club or proper supporters as those from Sunderland. You could say the Sunderland people don’t have the same passion for the derby that we do. We live and breathe it every day, every street is half Sunderland and Newcastle, same for the schools we attend and the pubs we drink in.

They’re two different cities miles apart from each other. Same for the people that live in Newcastle and North Tyneside supporting them lot. It must be like a little bubble they live in and don’t have to face their rivals when things go tits up.

Saying that, I live in Durham now and there’s definitely more Newcastle where I live. I wish we could drop the whole Mackem = Sunderland supporter. Geordie = Newcastle supporter. There’s no truth in it. It needs to be separated from football.

Thank you John Hall, plummy mouthed plastic mag

 

[Southern A]

All this Guiu nonsense is just distracting from the fact we still have no new centre backs not even any recent links to them. I know they come out of nowhere with us so they may well do at any moment!! But we're getting close to the worrying stage now.

 

[WorkyTicketFTM]

I don’t think the South Tyneside towns are far from 50/50. There’s not much in it at all.

Agree half our support won’t be Geordies, I’d probably say about 20%. Likewise, folk from areas like Peterlee and Easington are Mackems to me and there’s enough of them support Newcastle.

Interesting debate though, I remember on here people claiming that we (Geordies) aren’t as close to the club or proper supporters as those from Sunderland. You could say the Sunderland people don’t have the same passion for the derby that we do. We live and breathe it every day, every street is half Sunderland and Newcastle, same for the schools we attend and the pubs we drink in.

They’re two different cities miles apart from each other. Same for the people that live in Newcastle and North Tyneside supporting them lot. It must be like a little bubble they live in and don’t have to face their rivals when things go tits up.

Saying that, I live in Durham now and there’s definitely more Newcastle where I live. I wish we could drop the whole Mackem = Sunderland supporter. Geordie = Newcastle supporter. There’s no truth in it. It needs to be separated from football.

I’m in Chester le Street now and my gym must be 80% mags. They’re ****ing everywhere. And most of them haven’t got a clue when you speak to them or listen to them talking in the sauna, exactly what you’d expect from the kind of nugget who only took an interest after the takeover. Ironically the banks of the wear are about 100 yards from the gym anarl

 

[Hannah1989]

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atm I can't see us spending 40m

give it a couple of seasons and we are most established then yes,

 

[CR17]

All this Guiu nonsense is just distracting from the fact we still have no new centre backs not even any recent links to them. I know they come out of nowhere with us so they may well do at any moment!! But we're getting close to the worrying stage now.

Yeah i'm getting a bit twitchy, could all change with a report tonight

 

[Disco down under]

Why are we talking like this is an expensive deal?

It's not about finance at all. It's about the fact there is no long term commitment beyond the end of this season. Given that, I would expect they believe he can have a lot of impact this year, we aren't taking him on as a favour.

 

[ab65]

I think Dubravka is better than Johansson

From the bits and pieces I've seen, I think Dubravka is better than Perp and Ramsdale.

 

[Hannah1989]

CBs seem to be a hard commodity to get in this window, unless you spend 40m plus,

just because there is no new links or anything to that ilk doesnt mean its not happening

club has said that they are targetting that area,

just an annoying waiting game i guess

 

[Scout73]

Feels very different to me.

We were loaning a player from a league above us in the hope of getting out of that black hole of a league, I become much less enthusiastic about loans when they are straight loans from a league rival.

Hopefully he scores goals and doesn't impede Mayenda's development.

Chelsea aren't really a league rival tho, they are title contenders so even though we are in the same we are competing for very different things

Mayenda will still play loads this season imo

Guiu is a very talented footballer, who knows how well he will do for us but this is a low risk potential high impact signing imo

 

[CR17]

CBs seem to be a hard commodity to get in this window, unless you spend 40m plus,

just because there is no new links or anything to that ilk doesnt mean its not happening

club has said that they are targetting that area,

just an annoying waiting game i guess

Yep, still going to get twitchy though until we get one haha

 

[Nads]

I’d be going to Arsenal for Kiwior and just paying me.

We can’t go into the season with no CB

Not my money of course so easily said

 

[Hannah1989]

Yep, still going to get twitchy though until we get one haha

undertable,

I feel like we will do a Porto and just announce a signing that no one knew about until its done

 

[CR17]

The difference is crucial for me, we could have a go at West Ham with some good CBs or we could get twatted due to playing Ballard & Seelt

Ballard is the only one ready realistically imo

 

[alcoauth]

I think it’s more amicable than we all let on apart from when the derby days come around. I’ve seen Sunderland shirts walking through Newcastle and nobody has attacked them. Maybe a bit of banter. Same in Sunderland, I’ve seen the odd person walking about in a toon top. As long as it’s not match day and especially derby day, we are fine with each other.

The night we beat them in the rain at SJP, I had been drinking in a designated pub for Sunderland supporters and walking back to my Nans and bumped into a couple of them and got smacked. We certainly aren’t amicable to each other on derby days and it’s times like that, I wished I lived in Sunderland

I understand the sentiment, but the fact you wished you were in Sunderland just means you wish you were the one doing the smacking instead of being smacked.

People in Sunderland, especially young lads from council estates were very capable of otherising Geordies, they were seen as fair game when I was growing up, might as well of been from another planet, I remember some lad from Boldon drinking with us in the Boroughs saying wor instead of our mid sentence and everything just went quiet, he would have got lamped if he wasn't with one of the lads. I realise how ridiculous that sounds now, but when you're young and daft you don't know what you're doing half the time.

I do think it's all a bit different now mind.

 

[Scout73]

I’d be going to Arsenal for Kiwior and just paying me.

We can’t go into the season with no CB

Not my money of course so easily said

He would be a class signing, ideal 2 would be him and Diakite

 

[Saf]

Thank you John Hall, plummy mouthed plastic mag

Exactly this mate. I’m not old enough to remember because I attended my first game late 80’s and I was just a kid but I’ve been reliably informed there was a time at Roker Park where the Sunderland supporting Mackems and Geordies would banter between each other.

Then Hall (and Sky) started with their Geordie nation bullshit.

 

[Wayne the Punk]

Exactly this mate. I’m not old enough to remember because I attended my first game late 80’s and I was just a kid but I’ve been reliably informed there was a time at Roker Park where the Sunderland supporting Mackems and Geordies would banter between each other.

Then Hall (and Sky) started with their Geordie nation bullshit.

100% correct, he started the whole Geordie nation bullshit

 

[Monkey69]

I understand the sentiment, but the fact you wished you were in Sunderland just means you wish you were the one doing the smacking instead of being smacked.

People in Sunderland, especially young lads from council estates were very capable of otherising Geordies, they were seen as fair game when I was growing up, might as well of been from another planet, I remember some lad from Boldon drinking with us in the Boroughs saying wor instead of our mid sentence and everything just went quiet, he would have got lamped if he wasn't with one of the lads. I realise how ridiculous that sounds now, but when you're young and daft you don't know what you're doing half the time.

I do think it's all a bit different now mind.

I am from Boldon and have drank in Sunderland for years especially in the Borough and have encountered no problems apart from my mate's calling me a Geordie bastard .

 

[Saf]

I’m in Chester le Street now and my gym must be 80% mags. They’re ****ing everywhere. And most of them haven’t got a clue when you speak to them or listen to them talking in the sauna, exactly what you’d expect from the kind of nugget who only took an interest after the takeover. Ironically the banks of the wear are about 100 yards from the gym anarl

Aye I’ve got a brother like that who’s come out of the woodwork now. Barely likes football, he’s all for his cars and bikes. Now he’s never got their tops off his back and talking like he’s the most passionate Toon supporter going. ****ing helmet.

When I was training in Chester it was a proper old school gym. Behind the vets just down from the train station. Don’t even know if that one is still going, it was a while ago.

 

[alcoauth]

I am from Boldon and have drank in Sunderland for years especially in the Borough and have encountered no problems apart from my mate's calling me a Geordie bastard .

If you ever drank in the Boroughs after playing 5-a-side in crowtree leisure centre you might be the lad I'm referring to.