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Akpom

I could see it happening as a loan if his  wages weren’t too problematic.

“Sunderland is reportedly making a serious attempt to acquire English striker Chuba Akpom, as reported by Foot Mercato. Akpom, who is currently with Ajax, might be in his final weeks at the club since he is not a regular starter under coach Francesco Farioli. Although there has been interest from Ligue 1 clubs Lille OSC and RC Lens, they have not pursued any further, which provides Sunderland with an opportunity”.

Given his age I’d imagine there’d be little interest on our part to make it a permanent move unless he really excelled and the price reflected his age.
He'll have been on more at Boro than our players here 2yrs ago, then left for Ajax where you'd have thought they'd at least have doubled his wages.....he'll be on good money over there imo
 

He'll have been on more at Boro than our players here 2yrs ago, then left for Ajax where you'd have thought they'd at least have doubled his wages.....he'll be on good money over there imo
Aye. In many ways it seems an unlikely link. That said I’m sure plenty (me included) saw the Le Fee links and thought …no chance.
 
I could see it happening as a loan if his wages weren’t too problematic.

“Sunderland is reportedly making a serious attempt to acquire English striker Chuba Akpom, as reported by Foot Mercato. Akpom, who is currently with Ajax, might be in his final weeks at the club since he is not a regular starter under coach Francesco Farioli. Although there has been interest from Ligue 1 clubs Lille OSC and RC Lens, they have not pursued any further, which provides Sunderland with an opportunity”.

Given his age I’d imagine there’d be little interest on our part to make it a permanent move unless he really excelled and the price reflected his age.
Weren’t we linked with Farioli for quite a while
 
I could see it happening as a loan if his wages weren’t too problematic.

“Sunderland is reportedly making a serious attempt to acquire English striker Chuba Akpom, as reported by Foot Mercato. Akpom, who is currently with Ajax, might be in his final weeks at the club since he is not a regular starter under coach Francesco Farioli. Although there has been interest from Ligue 1 clubs Lille OSC and RC Lens, they have not pursued any further, which provides Sunderland with an opportunity”.

Given his age I’d imagine there’d be little interest on our part to make it a permanent move unless he really excelled and the price reflected his age.
He's on 22.5k a week at ajax
 
You’ve loaned only one less player than we have.

You cretin.
Well done resorting to personal insults.
People harp on about us being 'Middlesborrow' , yet you freely admit you've actually loaned MORE players than us.

And you have the nerve to call me a 'cretin'.
Oh dear.
 
Be surprised if this happens as Ajax are loaning Brian Brobbey to West Ham, unless they want a new set of strikers
Aye I saw that. Mind Akpom doesn’t seem to have been first choice for a while so the implication is Farioli doesn’t fancy him.
 
Was this lad really any good tho?

I remember him having one outstanding season for Boro and then leaving, but he'd been there a while and didn't seem to do much?...Wasn't he playing as a no.10 at the time of his goals too? but again, I could be talking bollocks 😆
 
What I said exactly is he (and Ian Wright) were pulling up trees as professionals in their early 20's. Jamie Vardy scored 20 odd goals in the conference (Fleetwood finished top) when he was 24 (25 in January) which got him a move to the Championship.

Akpom went back on loan to POAK because he was shit in his first season at Boro at 25. He scored 5 goals in 30 odd games.

He then came back to Boro at 27 and had the season of his life pretty much out of the blue.


😂😂😂😂

Double down, double down, double down.

So just to check the conference is a higher standard than the Greek premier league, and that is your justification?

Also let’s just ignore the other points eh?
 
can’t see this happening if i’m honest be a good signing though and would be great just to
see the reactions from the boro 😂😂
 
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