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Yep i wouldn't be confident either, however, that can change quickly. Hopefully we get someone in early this week so they can play this weekend with Ballard, just so they can get some minutes together.

1 CB for West Ham would be ideal, Hume Ballard new CB and Reinildo would make me feel more confident. We cant have Harrison Jones starting against Bowen. I really like Jones as a player but he's not a LB and Bowen is a top draw winger.
Yeah that would really worry me, he’d be targeted. Fingers crossed for a transfer breakthrough this week
 
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Looked very assured against Betis.

Yeh and you can see from all the highlight videos how good he is at shot stopping. What I wasn't sure about was how calm and composed he is, or how good with ball at feet, how authoritive on crosses etc. And from an admittedly limited sample he passed the eye test with flying colours at the weekend.
 
I agree. I don't like the word desperate. It has connotations that we're at the point that we'll sign anybody just to get a body in. Which isn't the case.

I agree with what I think the underlying sentiment is of the people using the word desperate though - that we really need somebody.
Totally, I'm the same as you where I just don't like saying we are desperate

It's the area we need to strengthen the most but it has to be with quality. Ben Mee was limked end of last week and some mentioned that he would be a good signing, signings like that are exactly what we don't need. CB and CM are the areas where newly promoted teams really struggle to strengthen imo, CM I am buzzinh about and it's our strongest position group by a mile imo. CB most be addressed but the club know that

Last I heard was we had 2 big offers out for 2 CBs, reading between the lines I think they were Lucumi and Diakite - hopefully can get both done, even 1 is a cracking start
 
The club have done really well this summer but I do think if we go into the West Ham game with either Seelt at cb or Jones (and to a lesser extent Huggins) at left back then Speakman/Ghisolfi will have come up short for RLB in that area and I would think the same if we were in the Championship let alone the Prem.

Not saying the window would ultimately be a failure or anything like that (i'm very happy with where we are right now) but centre half really needs to be addressed before West Ham imo and I'd struggle to find many excuses for why at least one centre back wasnt brought in before then.

For what its worth, I cant see us being left in the scenario I mention above, I think we'll have at least one centre back in this week, even if they cant feature at the weekend.
 
I agree. I don't like the word desperate. It has connotations that we're at the point that we'll sign anybody just to get a body in. Which isn't the case.

I agree with what I think the underlying sentiment is of the people using the word desperate though - that we really need somebody.
That is almost literally the definition of 'desperate' mind...
 
My daughter now lives in one of the new build estates in Cramlington, when I visit all I've seen is Mag shirts. I would love to see the the odd Sunderland one.
There will definitely be Sunderland supporters there. It's just that they will not suffer from the personal insecurity which obliges so many Saudi supporters to wear a sweaty, (they're all sweaty!) football top all day long
 
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

Tell Xakha the glorious tale of Lord Cana as CB and inspire him to do it;)
 
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