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

Ideal that they've decided to be desperate to sign him at the end of the window - hopefully means they'll spend more than what they'd have been willing to originally.

I was already resigned to the fact that he'd be either injured all season, wouldn't show the effort he's been known for in previous seasons, or isn't the player he was after missing a year of football. Selling him is probably a good thing imo.

We more than lived without him last season and there's no reason why we shouldn't this season. It is slightly worrying that we'd only just seemed to find our feet with two permenent strikers with experience (if/when we sign Rusyn), and now we're back to square one. Hopefully we just don't have the same injury issues as last season.
 

Poor little Sunderland. How can we be expected to compete for our own players, after all?

We’re so lucky that we have KLD and Speakman here to save us from certain overnight insolvency.

What an utter shambles.and hilarious to see the contortions of the apologists with this one, as they try to avoid the reality of our situation.
 
Have to have major concerns about our season if we sell Stewart this week. We’ll need two strikers, and realistically they need to be ready to hit the ground running and bang goals in immediately. If not, where are the goals coming from…
 
MurtonMark said:
Poor little Sunderland. How can we be expected to compete for our own players, after all?

We’re so lucky that we have KLD and Speakman here to save us from certain overnight insolvency.

What an utter shambles.and hilarious to see the contortions of the apologists with this one, as they try to avoid the reality of our situation.
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Mark, what if he just doesnt want to stay at Sunderland?
 
Scotlands number 9 said:
Had to go and piss on next doors too
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Incredible how many people have takes like that mind. They never accept a player leaving, expect us to outspend everyone, no club is bigger than us, 40,000 fans at home etc etc. They go on about others being in denial about the situation without seeing the reality themselves. We absolutely cannot compete with Southampton financially at this moment in time. If Ross thinks he's worth more and Southampton are willing to pay it then he'll go. You can guarantee if he signed a new 5 year deal tomorrow and his achilles went again everyone would be out in force asking why the owners committed to such a big deal for a total unknown regarding Stewart's injury. It's a total lose lose for the owners at the moment.
 
I suppose long term its best for us to cash in rather than lose him for nothing at the end of the season.

Its frustrating though as with a fit RS we suddenly become promotion contenders, theres always the small chance we go up and can offer him what he wants.

Shit situation all round IMO, if we do get a decent fee for him (say 5m+) then we need to be 100% sure the replacement we sign is up to the job, if not then id rather we loan someone and bank the money for a future purchase when we are sure.

Shame this type of thing is happening though, it reeks of the way the club used to do things....id hoped we'd knocked all that on head now.
 
Disco_Pants93 said:
Incredible how many people have takes like that mind. They never accept a player leaving, expect us to outspend everyone, no club is bigger than us, 40,000 fans at home etc etc. They go on about others being in denial about the situation without seeing the reality themselves. We absolutely cannot compete with Southampton financially at this moment in time. If Ross thinks he's worth more and Southampton are willing to pay it then he'll go. You can guarantee if he signed a new 5 year deal tomorrow and his achilles went again everyone would be out in force asking why the owners committed to such a big deal for a total unknown regarding Stewart's injury. It's a total lose lose for the owners at the moment.
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Sounds like the opening monologue Frankie will do on Speakmans next PR podcast.

It’s incredible how far the apologists will go now, to prop up their chosen narrative that we’ve suddenly reinvented the way football works, in the face of reality. It’s getting a bit sad.
 
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