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Spargel said:
Burnley and Leeds are doing well too. Happy enough for them. I don't understand any bitterness.
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I’d prefer both to stay up, it’s good for the championship and the premier league. There’s a few teams down there that need to go down like we did, they’ve been making the numbers up and surviving just because of weaker sides coming up. Looks like at least one might fall threw the door.
 

The Leeds forum is in the main very complimentary about us, these are some of the posts from last night:

‘ Oh to be a Sunderland fan ‘

‘ No fear of Sunderland getting dragged into a relegation discussion. ‘

‘ They are brave and don't constantly use the "ah newly promoted team" talking down message we get. Imagine it gives the players confidence rather than our negative cowardly message. Their owner was on tele saying they are targeting top 10, our manager was saying he expected to be in the relegation zone. ‘

‘ Le Bris must be at the top of the managerial shopping list for a lot of clubs. ‘

‘ Well done Sunderland. Good for the soul that game. ‘

‘ Congratulations Sunderland. Well played. They will run us ragged ‘

‘ Absolute balls on Sunderland Last change was a striker for a cb. Fair play to them. Transfers, Players available etc, whatever, they have a totally different attitude to us. ‘

‘ Probably just about second best tonight but not by very much. Not seen them before tonight. Would be a nailed on top 10 side based on that. ‘

‘ Get shouted at for saying this but Farke has a negative woaah is me mindset. It must rub off on the players. Le Bris is totally different and could see that in the changes he made. Fair play to him and the ambitious brave Sunderland owners. ‘

‘ I was just impressed by Sunderland. A very well drilled team. And even at the end Xhaka trying to take a quick throw in to go on and win it. ‘

‘ They went about their work with flair in the summer, that excited the fans, boosted the club and they've played with confidence since... We had a really unispiring summer basically adding championship quality depth. ‘
 
Mackemansj1 said:
I’d prefer both to stay up, it’s good for the championship and the premier league. There’s a few teams down there that need to go down like we did, they’ve been making the numbers up and surviving just because of weaker sides coming up. Looks like at least one might fall threw the door.
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Who is the other Premier League team that goes down then? If we beat Fulham, they are really going to be in ****. I think West Ham will stay up.
 
cmmackem said:
Who is the other Premier League team that goes down then? If we beat Fulham, they are really going to be in ****. I think West Ham will stay up.
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I’m not sure still feels like someone could be dragged in. West Ham still have a self imploding in them all so imho.
 
DonaldDownTheWing said:
Funny as fuck how they’re still going on about last season when our team has completely changed.

We made up the 24 point gap in the transfer window.
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I remember Dave Basset talking about that when he got relegated with Forest (?)

He admitted he'd spent most of the summer pouring over videos of the previous seasons matches identifying individual errors and match changing and season changing moments and thinking about how different things could have been.

Then he said "of course it was entirely pointless and totally wasted my time and energy. I should have been concentrating on the season ahead and what was required to get us promoted."

The thing is more than any team in the league they "need" us to be worse than them, because we were their "banker" for 20th spot - they'll struggle the moment their thoughts turn to "who are we actually better than?"

The few on there who can't let go need to get with the rest of them and concentrate upon their team for the rest of the season. Personally I'd like them to stay up (not at our expense!) to shake the Premier League up a bit.
 
The Situation said:
Yep, they spent approx €140m this summer and ended up with a net spend of €100m after the Trafford sale and a couple of other small ones.

By contrast we spent approx €178m and ended up with a net spend of €127m after the Jobe, Watson and Ekwah sales.

So approx €27m more spent by us but when you look at the difference in the quality of player brought in you'd think it was €227m more!

They've also spent poorly, for example Broja who they spent €23m on can't get a start for them and has only played 70 odd minutes off the bench for them all season so far. Bashir Humphreys who they spent €15m on hasn't even been in their squad for the last 3 games and has literally played 2 minutes all season.

That's close to €40m up in smoke!
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Aye and we got Nordi for under £10m
 
One of the quotes that sums up modern football, well I don’t think there’s a word for it so I’ll make one, excisism

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Sun Nov 09, 2025 8:03 am
If they’d have started against all the big boys and earned the same amount of points everyone would be saying “Played them before they got going, got lucky
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It’s funny that people thought last season would be at all indicative of this season. It’s a different league - finding a way to pick up points in the Championship is not the same as picking up points in the Premier League, so last season is irrelevant.

I remember when we won the league under McCarthy ahead of Wigan and West Ham, and the following season they were miles better than us, because they were better equipped for premier league football.
 
It’s funny because I’ve seen a lot on social media (not just from Burnley fans) that our last minute goals are indicative of us being lucky and almost like they don’t reflect our teams quality. Last minute goals aren’t a coincidence, it shows the drive within the team to do well and not give up. As well as showing that our players are clearly well conditioned and trained that they still can keep up the tempo for that long. I noticed Burnley fans talking about Ugochukwu and he sounds like he’s been good for them but seems to get subbed around the hour mark because he’s knackered - he’s 21! Something is seriously up with your training or the players own lifestyle if he as a professional athlete is fucked after an hour. Look at Sadiki, he’s everywhere and at 90 minutes you could imagine he could just keep going and going.

It does seem like most are starting to come round to us actually being a decent team now
 
The whole the fixture list has been kind to us is getting tiresome..in our 11 games we've played 5 of the top 10, with us being 1 of those top 10 teams.

Can't quite understand the logic.
 
McGregor said:
The whole the fixture list has been kind to us is getting tiresome..in our 11 games we've played 5 of the top 10, with us being 1 of those top 10 teams.

Can't quite understand the logic.
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Agreed, also quite funny when it’s pointed out that where we have played the same teams our points return is usually better than theirs
 
chuckyroll said:
This kid understands exactly how

They've recruited brilliantly, probably the best set of signings we'll ever see from a newly promoted team. They play like an established PL team.
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I was taking to a Leeds fan and Mag at daughters footy training early sept. I said "Sunderland had won the transfer window, even against Liverpool " they spouted the usual "you've played no one" i stand by my statement. We totally overhauled the squad into this group in 1 and a bit Windows( including Le Fee) they've changed their tune now too.

Well they're very quiet.

The mag did say on sat " who are you playing today" (as if he didn't know)and pulled a face when I said arsenal, as if we'd get smashed. I said we'll be okay. But def hardest game.
 
chuckyroll said:
This kid understands exactly how

They've recruited brilliantly, probably the best set of signings we'll ever see from a newly promoted team. They play like an established PL team.
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That’s what I m starting to feel like. We look established. Almost like we’ve been it as long as we’ve been away from it.
 
blackcat said:
It’s funny because I’ve seen a lot on social media (not just from Burnley fans) that our last minute goals are indicative of us being lucky and almost like they don’t reflect our teams quality. Last minute goals aren’t a coincidence, it shows the drive within the team to do well and not give up. As well as showing that our players are clearly well conditioned and trained that they still can keep up the tempo for that long. I noticed Burnley fans talking about Ugochukwu and he sounds like he’s been good for them but seems to get subbed around the hour mark because he’s knackered - he’s 21! Something is seriously up with your training or the players own lifestyle if he as a professional athlete is fucked after an hour. Look at Sadiki, he’s everywhere and at 90 minutes you could imagine he could just keep going and going.

It does seem like most are starting to come round to us actually being a decent team now
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To be fair Sadiki is like having Forrest Gump in CM. The lad never seems to jog. If it is it’s a fast jog. Mental that Xhaka covers more ground considering he can walk about bossing the game.
 
Tbf I’ve said from start of the season Burnley will struggle but recruited relatively well. The team doomed to failure for me was Leeds got a very lucky win to start which gave them momentum but they were lumbered with players on big wages who were championship level and a manager who is the same top tier championship but not premier league. Their recruitment other than maybe Koch and the gk was appalling
 
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