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Russell Martin has Ross Stewart as his main target **Transfer confirmed **

Mowgli said:
While I wouldn't sell him it's ridiculous to just overlook the vast difference. The £100m in sales alone.

Leicester are bringing people in on 50k a week. These aren't your average championship club
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Whatever a championship club is willing to pay him, is by definition the market rate for him, at this level.

We should be paying that. We’re in the unique position of being able to offer him a wage without having to pay an uk front fee.
 

Mowgli said:
While I wouldn't sell him it's ridiculous to just overlook the vast difference. The £100m in sales alone.

Leicester are bringing people in on 50k a week. These aren't your average championship club
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Just Championship clubs paying Championship wages in the Championship.
 
Arfa Sleep said:
That's weird you've just said if we gave him what he wants it doesn't matter what Southampton offered him.
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No I didn’t. I said we should pay him his worth - and the market we operate in dictates his worth, we should be paying him the market rate - in other words, what it costs to keep him.

If they think they’re going to get a comparable replacement for a paltry fee and a mediocre weekly wage, they’re even more naive and/or arrogant than even I thought they were.
 
gipetto said:
It's been so long since Stewart played, I've forgotten what he was like.
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I know you're being tongue in cheek, but actually in the 2 and a half years he has been here, he has missed as many games as he's played. After a serious injury like this one and given he is now 27, there is no guarantee the next few years won't continue to be blighted by injury.

If he wants 40 or 50K a week and Southampton are willing to stump up a decent fee then let him go.
 
If Southampton are keen we need to screw them for every penny given they are absolutely swimming in cash at the minute.
Should be looking for £15m minimum and given time is of the essence they will need to put up or shut up
 
MurtonMark said:
No I didn’t. I said we should pay him his worth - and the market we operate in dictates his worth, we should be paying him the market rate - in other words, what it costs to keep him.

If they think they’re going to get a comparable replacement for a paltry fee and a mediocre weekly wage, they’re even more naive and/or arrogant than even I thought they were.
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so if southampton offered him 60k a week, you think we should do the same?
 
MurtonMark said:
We’re so lucky that we don’t have to worry about our club competing for proven, established talent anymore. Lucky us. Till in the next pre-scripted Q&A podcast.

Lucky poor little Sunderland.
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Who was the last proven established talent we signed?
 
MurtonMark said:
We’re so lucky that we don’t have to worry about our club competing for proven, established talent anymore. Lucky us. Till in the next pre-scripted Q&A podcast.
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Looking forward to friday/Saturdays posts of, window is closed now we have ti get on with it. Trying to close down debate. I hope we get what we need but as hour tick.by I expect less and less.
 
MurtonMark said:
Whatever the market dictates, at this level.

Which is why if he left for another championship club, on championship wages in the championship, it would be a disgrace.

It would mean that we refused to pay the market rate in wages for a top forward at our own level of the game, despite the fact that we were the only club in this division that was in a position to have him without paying a fee.

It would be an enormous red flag.
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You keep talking about market wages & skipping around the actual figures.

For a long time, Sunderland overpaid wages & got stuck with players we then couldn’t sell & they wouldn’t leave to take a pay cut. Just cos somebody else will pay it doesn’t mean it’s the market level.

You seem very passionate about a subject you don’t know the important facts of.
 
Putting aside the truck load of salt you need with these articles, if they’ve looked elsewhere and come back weeks later we should absolutely screw them to the wall.

Get our players in then keep knocking them back until they get desperate. If they’ve put their eggs in this basket, we will get a fortune and if they don’t there is no downside really. We go into the rest of the season with our forward line, plus Stewart if he’s fit as another option.
 
Longy said:
You keep talking about market wages & skipping around the actual figures.

For a long time, Sunderland overpaid wages & got stuck with players we then couldn’t sell & they wouldn’t leave to take a pay cut. Just cos somebody else will pay it doesn’t mean it’s the market level.

You seem very passionate about a subject you don’t know the important facts of.
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The important fact is that if another club at our level is willing to pay our best player more than us, as well as a transfer fee we wouldn’t need to pay, then it’ll be a disgrace. And a huge worry.

People who are desperate to keep up this apologetic, excuse-making facade might try to say otherwise, but it’s true. It would be a seriously concerning and revealing development.

Get your mortgage on “undisclosed fee” for transfer out and replacement (in the loosest sense of the word) in, too. After all, we wouldn’t us supporters of poor little Sunderland doing the sums, would we?
 
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Sell him but screw them for every penny. He clearly doesn't want to sign and we can't let his contract run down and leave for nothing, selling now will give us the biggest fee we're likey to get for him.
 
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