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We all hate him

On the podcast they have us as over performing massively in relation to spending. But all their data is from 2025 - presumably way out of date as we were a Championship club then.
 

The bloke is an absolute wanker. One of the worst individuals to ever be invovled with this football club. What he said about the people of Sunderland and people of the North East and now we've got folk saying they don't mind him. Fuck him.

Donald just wanted to flip the club and make a few quid but then pretty obviously got over involved and wanted what was best for the club and cared, just need to see the things he still does now he's not involved to see that. Methven on the other hand... horrible little wanker.
 
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MarcoG said:
The bloke is an absolute wanker. One of the worst individuals to ever be invovled with this football club. What he said about the people of Sunderland and people of the North East and now we've got folk saying they don't mind him. Fuck him.

Donald just wanted to flip the club and make a few quid but then pretty obviously got over involved and wanted what was best for the club and cared, just need to see the things he still does now he's not involved to see that. Methven on the other hand... horrible little wanker.
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I hate the two of them
 
Sam Handwich said:
Maja being the prime example. I may be wrong here, but he had bagged 15 goals when he went in the January window. An astute businessman would have kept him, however, even a half decent business man would have loaned him back for the rest of the season. I honestly think we would have went up with him up front. We played 10 draws between him leaving and the end of the season, If he'd turned 4 of those into wins we would have gone up
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Agree that if Maja had have stayed, we probably would have went up automatically. He wanted to leave as advised by his agent, though.

There was bot all we could do ..other than lose him for nothing when his contract expired, IIRC.
 
It wasn't any fun being part of either his or his mates' mid-life crisis. Donald at least seem to be keeping his head well down but unlike Salmon Pants I think that as he had a lot money tied up in the Club he was more traumatised by the experience - which was a situation entirely of their own making
 
Vore said:
Bellend that he is...
  1. he took us away from a Yank that would have seen us drop to Div 4 without intervention
  2. got people keen again (I struggled to get tickets for the Boxing Day Bradford game)
  3. handed us off to our saviour.
No hate left in me for Mr Salmon.

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People hate tories. No issue with him it was a shit show when he arrived.
 
contrarian said:
To be fair Short had put in an enormous amount of money into the club
We were 8th biggest net spend during his tenure and were never out of bottom six other than the ‘halcyon days ‘ of bruce
Such a pity he was so poorly advised
In relative terms he has spent far more than KLD but the latter knows the sport and has good underlings
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Pretty much sums it up, Short relied on others who he thought knew the business. I can’t help but thinking it was Keane’s fault he wasn’t as hands on.
Keane told him he knew nothing about football when asked why certain players (he had just brought in) were not getting in the squad.
KLD obviously has his advisors but does have a hand in decisions being made at the club.
I’d imagine STID has certainly played a part getting the club back on track, that started under Short’s watch.
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People hate tories. No issue with him it was a shit show when he arrived.
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Kemi is class. Boris was too,
With Starmer, there’s a mess, he hasn’t got a clue.
 
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Tin pot snake oil salesmen who came in with the aim of flipping us for a profit after conning the EFL that they had enough money to bank roll us. Feck em.
 
hawaymadlad said:
Pretty much sums it up, Short relied on others who he thought knew the business. I can’t help but thinking it was Keane’s fault he wasn’t as hands on.
Keane told him he knew nothing about football when asked why certain players (he had just brought in) were not getting in the squad.
KLD obviously has his advisors but does have a hand in decisions being made at the club.
I’d imagine STID has certainly played a part getting the club back on track, that started under Short’s watch.

Kemi is class. Boris was too,
With Starmer, there’s a mess, he hasn’t got a clue.
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Wtf has politics got to do with how much they were a pair of c**ts????????

If you are a c**t, you are a c**t, regardless of what colour rosette you wear at election time.
 
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But this is probably the best sports podcast going at the moment

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It’s a good show.

Whether people like it or not, the bloke is more knowledgable about the ins and outs of the business side of the professional sports world than most people in the podcasting/punditry space. Sunderland gets more of a mention than our share because of his time here as well.
 
Him and his mate are a pair of chancers who thought we were too big to stay down and we're therefore a short term bet to buy and flip. I doubt Salmon Pants had much of his own money in Sunderland, and he didn't do that bad a job here in terms of stopping the rot, at least at first, but Sunderland has costs that League 1 revenues don't cover and they didn't have enough money behind them for a long spell in that division. It was a hard and very public education for the pair of them.

I always find it funny how much hate they get on here though, considering how far up their hoops most posters were at the time. My recollection is that it was The Rat, The Cabbage and Northumberland Rocks that were the first posters that put my feelings into words on here, and they got pelters for it at the time.
 
Vore said:
Bellend that he is...
  1. he took us away from a Yank that would have seen us drop to Div 4 without intervention
  2. got people keen again (I struggled to get tickets for the Boxing Day Bradford game)
  3. handed us off to our saviour.
No hate left in me for Mr Salmon.

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Hi Stewart
 
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