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To be fair I'm no happy clapper but I'm no pissy pants either, I listened to the interview (unlike most who will no doubt comment)

1. He is a positive bloke who wants to and is happy to be at Sunderland

2. He wants players who like him want to be here and if they don't they are free to go.

3. He wants players in with the same mentality.

4. Some players will go in the next few days/weeks.

5. We have a competitive budget in this league.

6. We will bring players in with the right a work ethic and desire

We can't judge him until the transfer window has shut and the season is under way. He didn't make this mess, he is here to improve on it. After hearing that am pleased he is. Even if he wasn't my first choice as manager, given what he has walked into, I'll certainly give him a chance.
sounds good apart from point 5 which doesn't ring true
 
sounds good apart from point 5 which doesn't ring true

If we spend what we bring in apart from the Pickford money then it is. We just haven't sold players of value yet as clubs will wait til closer to the close of the window trying to pay less. Common sense really if you are looking to purchase from a relagated club!
 
If we spend what we bring in apart from the Pickford money then it is. We just haven't sold players of value yet as clubs will wait til closer to the close of the window trying to pay less. Common sense really if you are looking to purchase from a relagated club!

I don't understand this logic. Why would we reinvest all monies raised from future potential sales but nothing from the major sale of the summer?
 
Does that make the budget competitive? I'd suggest not. In fact, quite the opposite. If we've invested £2m on a number of players it suggests we have nowt to spend

The window isn't shut. We will sell players, I think that's obvious mate. We will not commit to spending money until we know it's coming / come in
 
The window isn't shut. We will sell players, I think that's obvious mate. We will not commit to spending money until we know it's coming / come in

£32m has come in. We've spent two and the season is upon us. What makes you think any future sales would be reinvested?
 
If we spend what we bring in apart from the Pickford money then it is. We just haven't sold players of value yet as clubs will wait til closer to the close of the window trying to pay less. Common sense really if you are looking to purchase from a relagated club!

can we afford - in a playing sense though - to wait until the end of August before buying? If we get the players we want in early they can be bedded in quicker and results improve - arguably also makes us less desperate to sell at the end.
 
I don't understand this logic. Why would we reinvest all monies raised from future potential sales but nothing from the major sale of the summer?

Because Ellis Short is a business man not a Sunderland supporter and his first choice is to pay a chunk off the debt rather than reinvest in a relagated team
 
can we afford - in a playing sense though - to wait until the end of August before buying? If we get the players we want in early they can be bedded in quicker and results improve - arguably also makes us less desperate to sell at the end.

We are run by a business sense not a football sense and we are already relegated so yes we can bank £30m
 
I don't understand this logic. Why would we reinvest all monies raised from future potential sales but nothing from the major sale of the summer?

Possibly because the wage bill by then had been reduced significantly to an affordable level?

Possibly because we're tied to the high earners at the moment whom we expect to leave (Lens, Kone, Khazri, Djilobodji) and until there's movement there there's no scope to spend more on wages?
 
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