Northern Echo alleges "Prem interest in 4 of our players"


People calling any of our bairns liability after the season, well 2 seasons weve just had. They’ve been brilliant and done us proud. Is this how it’s Going to be?
Market value Shirley.

You’re absolutely right like, he’s class, 15 mill completely fair

Remember some people have and always will give stick to young players, he didn’t rate Henderson either, or patt. (Not saying Neil in hendo league like but he’s still class)
 
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Firstly, I’m not convinced you are actually being serious here

Neil is his 2md year as a footballer, played 45 out of 46 games in the youngest team in the country and we got in playoffs. Evans gets injured and has to be the senior man in midfield and does it brilliantly, big reason we win at places like west brom and Norwich

I just don’t think some people get it, I fear for them in the future if this what they’re like now. It’s just mad.

A liability? Jesus wept man.


You’ve always hated the local lads mind I forgot about that.
What’s the crack with the new username mate, were you banned or just said something daft that required a new account?
 
We have to get used to this. Apart from Roberts I think these lads are on long contracts. For them to go the Premier League clubs will need to stump up big money and the players will need to be keen on moving. We may well lose some players but we must expect that we will get big money for them.
Imagine if Brighton want Patto, and God help us if they offer Steele in part exchange 😲
That sort of posting is just irresponsible.
 
For all these people relaxed about selling players, is there anyone we 100% without fail need to keep?

No, because that would imply we can’t be successful without them.

I never want good players to go but we’ll be ok if they’re replaced correctly.

The hardest to replace would be Clarke, however, purely because of his numbers.
 
There’ll be interest in more than four. Patterson, Hume, Ballard, Cirkin, Alese, Neil, Roberts, Clarke and Ekwah will all have premier league teams keeping an eye on them.
 
I'd be trying our hardest (within the financial structure) to keep all of our best players. Roberts would be probably the most expendable, he's 26 and within his peak years and we could get a canny fee for him but I doubt the fee and package we would be offered for him would be anywhere near enough for him (back to being a bench warmer) or us (£10-12M).

Clarke, Patterson and Neil we'd be mad to accept anything less than £20M for.
 
The northern echo are jumping on nixons story saying we are expecting interest in a few players

Patterson - Wolves/Leicester(want to include iversen in a deal)
Clarke - Brentford
Neil - Wolves/Palace
Roberts - Prem teams


Interesting summer coming up
We don't want Iversen even if Patto did go (God forbid), he's absolutely gash! Just a taller version of Lee Camp!
 
Firstly, I’m not convinced you are actually being serious here

Neil is his 2md year as a footballer, played 45 out of 46 games in the youngest team in the country and we got in playoffs. Evans gets injured and has to be the senior man in midfield and does it brilliantly, big reason we win at places like west brom and Norwich

I just don’t think some people get it, I fear for them in the future if this what they’re like now. It’s just mad.

A liability? Jesus wept man.


You’ve always hated the local lads mind I forgot about that.
I’m sure it’s only a wierd subset on this board that don’t rate Neil. The few times I’ve got to the Sol this season he seems to be adored. My mates in Sunderland all rate him.

I think next year we’ll see the proper benefit of the extra responsibility on his shoulders this season. Expect him to dominate in a way even the simps on here can see his quality
 
It's a sign the club are doing things right with its recruitment. Long may it continue that we have players that clubs would love to have.
 
No mention of Ballard, Cirkin or Hume, they could be three quarters of our defence next season if they can stay fit for most of it.
 

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