I disagree with the following
What price do you think you would be able to buy Sunderland for? How much would you need to get promotion? Would you trust Simon Grayson with that level of funding to get you there?
- Better ground (we'll never agree on this)
- Little doubt you could buy the Championship with too much trouble (Aston Villa spent £75m last season and still failed)
- Fanbase. Your gate revenue (going by recent published figures) would still be significantly lower than ours even if you did sell out
- Sunderland are not primed for a revolution at all, you are bogged down by a number of unsellable assets on long-term contracts and have a manager in place that seems to be woefully underqualified for a promotion push. Newcastle on the other hand are already in the Premier League and have a young squad led by a credible manager.
As for your last statement, 'Fat Mike' has turned a profit a good few times, even when we were relegated. Sunderland on the other hand have made around over £100m in losses in the last 10 years.
There's just so much nonsense in your post, man. And we're supposed to be the deluded ones.
That's up for debate frankly. It's likely that Khazri, Lens, Borini and Djilibodji will clear off this summer. In the squad at the minute, we only really have Rodwell, and his contract is up at the end of next season. I can't really think of anyone in the squad on a long contract who would be unsellable really.
Newcastle have made losses on just about every player they've sold this Summer and most of those were signed within the last three years. And you still have Colback, Mitrovic, Saivet, Haidara and Sels, who are either leaving for nothing or for small fees. That's going to be a lot of players who you're making a loss on. We're shite obviously, but squad is not in good shape either.