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Abdul Fatawu - continuing news


---Nemo--- said:
Apparently there's an option to extend. BBC site.

Sunderland have confirmed the signing of Bertrand Traore from Ajax. The Burkina Faso international has signed a one-year contract at Stadium of Light, with the option of a further year.
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Think we’ll move on from him.

He’s done well, puts a shift in, but he’s scored once. If your starting wide forward has scored once in half a season, European ambitions seem a little OTT.
 
Comeback_Kenwyne said:
Think we’ll move on from him.

He’s done well, puts a shift in, but he’s scored once. If your starting wide forward has scored once in half a season, European ambitions seem a little OTT.
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His goal record over his career is canny for a wide player.

I think we may well extend his contract, buys time for us to bed Talbi (who I've read can play on the right )and the new lad in and/or look for the right starter.
 
---Nemo--- said:
His goal record over his career is canny for a wide player.

I think we may well extend his contract, buys time for us to bed Talbi (who I've read can play on the right )and the new lad in and/or look for the right starter.
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Nah.

We’ll be in for a splash signing in this position. But not now, in the summer. The question then is whether we retain Traore as a squad player. Given the desire to give minutes to the other, younger wingers, I’d guess not, but idk.

I’d say that and striker will be the targets. Perhaps a young defensive central midfielder who ticks a homegrown box. We need the ability to give Xhaka or Sadiki more rest than we do. I could see that one, of all target positions, happening this window.

I’d say Talbi will be in the first XI next year, but on the left. He looks a lot more comfortable there.
Arfa Sleep said:
He hasn't played half a season.
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We are through half a season, and he’s scored once. Don’t be a pedant. And if you want to be one, be a better one and read what I said. I didn’t say he played all the games.
 
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Comeback_Kenwyne said:
Nah.

We’ll be in for a splash signing in this position. But not now, in the summer. The question then is whether we retain Traore as a squad player. Given the desire to give minutes to the other, younger wingers, I’d guess not, but idk.

I’d say that and striker will be the targets. Perhaps a young defensive central midfielder who ticks a homegrown box. We need the ability to give Xhaka or Sadiki more rest than we do. I could see that one, of all target positions, happening this window.

I’d say Talbi will be in the first XI next year, but on the left. He looks a lot more comfortable there.


We are through half a season, and he’s scored once. Don’t be a pedant. And if you want to be one, be a better one and read what I said. I didn’t say he played all the games.
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'has scored once in half a season' so by your logic if he'd played once you'd still reference being half way through a season, despite it being irrelevant.
 
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