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Interesting little article in the Express?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...in-if-duo-sign

SUNDERLAND WILL BE STADIUM OF DELIGHT AGAIN IF DUO SIGN



Steve Bruce is hoping Sulley Muntari and Stephane Sessegnon can end his winter of discontent
Tuesday January 25,2011

By Niall Hickman Have your say(0)
SUNDERLAND boss Steve Bruce is hoping Sulley Muntari and Stephane Sessegnon can end his winter of discontent by moving to the Stadium of Light to plug the gap left by Darren Bent’s departure.


Both are close to completing a move to the North-east as Bruce is desperate for reinforcements following Bent’s switch to Aston Villa last week.

Midfielder Sessegnon, who can also play up front, is available for £5million from Paris St G ermain, while Muntari, the former Portsmouth playmaker, is also pondering an offer to join Sunderland.

Muntari’s agent Fabien Piveteau claims the player is on the verge of moving and dismissed any suggestion he was set to turn to either Tottenham, Liverpool or Everton instead.

Piveteau said: “We hope to have everything sorted shortly, maybe by Tuesday . He knows Sunderland is a good club, possibly not the biggest, but he wants to be playing football.

“The other Ghana players at Sunderland [Asamoah Gyan and John Mensah] have told him about the club, which has obviously played a part.”

An incoming deal would give Bruce some cheer after facing disappointment – and flak – in the wake of Bent’s transfer. Several media outlets accused Bruce of gross hypocrisy over Bent’s decision to go to Villa Park, saying Bruce himself was a serial switcher whil e cutting his managerial teeth, bolting in and out of five clubs in just three years.

But much of the criticism was unjustified because Bruce did not accuse Bent of disloyalty.

Having been in the game a long time as a player and manager, he is fully aware of the ‘rules’. Bruce believes players have every right to move club whenever they see fit because they have relatively short careers and serious injury is always just one tackle away.

He did not complain about the move itself but showed his bitterness over the timing – and being kept out of the loop.

Bent could have spoken to his manager in the latter months of last year and expressed his desire to seek a new challenge in this January transfer window.

Bear in mind, too, that Bent had received a handsome contract bonus for staying put at the start of this season, after he initially flirted with interest from Turkey’s Fenerbahce.

But Bent, according to Bruce, said nothing . Villa’s £24million bid was offered on the day before the North-east derby on January 16 and Bent put in a transfer request the next day, two hours after the match finished.

Bruce was mortified, after helping to revive Bent’s career at club and international level.

Bent may argue that he was under no obligation to give any such courtesy to Bruce, which is perhaps an indictment of the modern game and indeed the modern player.

A few weeks ago, Bruce admonished his star striker during half-time after a pallid 45 minutes, demanding to know where the real Darren Bent had gone.

The player had shown little appetite for the game.

As is his wont, Bruce peppered the conversation with a few choice expletives, which Bent apparently did not appreciate.
Fast forward to January 18 and Bruce had the answer to his question. The real Darren Bent was off to Villa, to luxuriate in his £70,000-a-week deal.

Bruce is now having to scratch around for replacements. Not an easy matter with the January window soon closing.

So if either Muntari or Sessegnon – or anyone else on the club’s radar – roll up on Wearside between now and deadline day on Monday, it will help apply a soothing balm.

For Sunderland’s Bruce is still feeling mighty sore.

[PatsyMackem]

I'm hating Bent even more!

[RG4safc]

Originally Posted by PatsyMackem

I'm hating Bent even more!

Why is that then??

[ayesane]

Originally Posted by RG4safc

Why is that then??

did you read the article? it offers a rehash of the accepted perpective. That bent is a soft as shite, money grabbing turn-coat.

[PatsyMackem]

Originally Posted by RG4safc

Why is that then??

Because he had already had a pay rise and when confronted by his manager about his dip in form he took the huff, didn't like being sworn at and wasn't the centre of attention any more - and as many other things you can read into that.

Good riddance.

[Eddie Hitler]

Originally Posted by RG4safc

Why is that then??

coz it sounds like bent is a huffy little
girl who cant take a bollocking.

[RG4safc]

Fair enough, I already thought he was a tosser the way he'd conducted himself tbh so will not be that surprised at anything we hear from now on in. Like many people have said...we move on, upwards!!! FTM!

[burchmackem]

What a tosser.

Still waiting for "his side of the story" as some posters have hinted at -- doubt there will be one...

[SafcForeverFTM]

He couldn't even put up with a few expletives? He'd be in tears if Reid was in charge

[Kernowmac]

Originally Posted by RG4safc

Fair enough, I already thought he was a tosser the way he'd conducted himself tbh so will not be that surprised at anything we hear from now on in. Like many people have said...we move on, upwards!!! FTM!

fuck it. Sess and Muntari plus cash is an excellent deal. We will miss bent's goals but nothing else that he brings to the club.

Here's to a great back end to the season FTM