http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2525857/SUNDERLAND-TRANSFER-WINDOW.html As Premier League chiefs prepare to fling open the January transfer window, Sportsmail takes a look at each top-flight club and assesses the business they are each likely to do in the post-Christmas sales. Manager Gus Poyet replaced Paolo Di Canio earlier in the season, and with 14 summer signings you'd expect Sunderland to have strength in depth. But with the club struggling down the bottom, something is needed. What do they need? Apart from a miracle? After signing 14 players in the summer, none of whom have really delivered, the last thing Sunderland need are new faces. But try telling that to Gus Poyet. Inevitably the new manager believes new recruits are the answer to Sunderlandâs problems and he has given director of football Roberto de Fanti a list of targets. But then Paolo Di Canio claimed he did the same and that the former agent failed to deliver. How much is in the chest? Owner Ellis Short must be fed up funding his managersâ spending, but he is responsible for hiring and firing them. Funds will be limited, and like his predecessors, Poyet will be expected to generate some money if he wants to spend. You do wonder if Steven Fletcherâs absence from the team has something to do with the fact he is one of the few saleable assets in the squad. It has helped that he has been poor this season. But a good offer for the Scot, who cost £10million, could see him leave Wearside. Who do they like the look of? Poyet would love to sign Liam Bridcutt from Brighton, but may have to wait for the summer for that one. He has also been linked with Lorient defender Lamine Kone. Although will he be any better or more experienced than the four defenders they signed in the summer? A return to the Stadium of Light is possible for Brightonâs Wayne Bridge. And Sunderland are believed to have looked at QPR keeper Julio Cesar, although they can do no more loan deals. The best call Poyet could make would be to re-sign Stephane Sessegnon from West Brom. Of all the deals Di Canio arranged, that was the most ridiculous. Whoâs heading for the exit? DID YOU KNOW? Just as January has proved a miserable time for Sunderland with their in-comings, it has hardly proved a good month for out-goings. And possibly the worst winter window was 2011 when Darren Bent pushed for his £18million move to Aston Villa, ruining Steve Bruceâs chances of a serious push for European places. Ji-dong Won should have gone to Borussia Dortmund for £5million in the summer but Ellis Short turned it down on the basis that the South Korea striker must be a player if the Champions League finalists fancied him. But he is not suited to the Barclays Premier League. Now Dortmund will get him for considerably less. There are nine players out of contract this summer but only Jack Colback, Keiren Westwood and Phil Bardsley warrant the offer of new deals. Carlos Cuellar, Andreas Dossena, Craig Gardner, Seb Larsson, David Vaughan, and Ji-dong Won could all leave now, if any club made an offer. Summer signings like Cabral, Charis Mavrias, Valentin Roberge, El Hadji Ba, David Moberg-Karlsson are nowhere near the first team and loan deals cannot be ruled out for any of them. Best ever January buy Carlos Edwards. January 2007. I kid you not. January has never been a good time for Sunderland and you have to go back to the Mick McCarthy reign to find a player who has made an impact quite like the £1.5million buy from Luton Town. Now reunited with McCarthy at Ipswich, the Trinidad midfielder scored one of the best goals the Stadium of Light has ever seen on the way to promotion from the Championship. He was a recommendation of the much-missed former chief scout Dave Bowman, who is also back with McCarthy at Portman Road. Take your pick from a pretty depressing list â Rade Prica, Sulley Muntari, Benjari Mwaruwari, Kader Mangane â Sunderland have had their fair share of winter disappointments. And who could forget the most recent? Danny Graham, a £5million signing from Swansea. He was a last-gasp gamble by Martin OâNeill, but he failed to score and was one of the factors in OâNeill prematurely losing his job. So Fletcher for sale...Sess back on his way here and Bridcutt to be signed... The Bridcutt one is basically common knowledge... Can anyone see the reporters mistake about Carlos Edwards? Really do wonder how these are even allowed to publish a paper, let alone keep their jobs
Sulley muntari has played in the champions league since he left us. I will wait till Bayern munich come in for Danny ! Swienstieger and 20 m !. Joking apart sess would jump at the chance to come back knowing we could get to the Capitol one cup final, but will he bugger off in the summer ?. What about the Defoe rumours?, we need 4 top quality players in and Wellbeck may be one (Fergie would not sell him to us but he is not in charge now).
Don't even know where to start with that ****e. If the Infinite monkey theorem is correct we might just get a credible article off them one day. I'd wager not in my lifetime.
When - WHEN we stay up I want all those journalistic tossers to be force fed their insipid, glory -hunting random guesswork prose. lazy bastards. They should all be burnt at the stake. x
To be fair I would have Sess back. But not at the expense of Fletch. You do wonder what we will do, with no more loans available were ****ed really because no one is going to want to come to us if we look like were going down. We need a really good run over xmas to get out of the bottom 4 and look like were going places, then we need to sign 1 or 2 real quality players. We don't need any more numbers.
