Norwich Fan Here - Bali Mumba


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Will spare you all the 'always had a soft spot for Sunderland' nonsense and I know it always looks a bit weird when fans of other teams sign up to a forum!

But really curious about Bali Mumba and what his situation was at Sunderland?

I vaguely remembering us signing him for a few hundred grand, and a few of our fans said he looked decent at right back in pre-season.

All of a sudden he's come on for the last 25 minutes yesterday against Swansea, who are a bloody good team at the minute, and basically torn them to shreds down the left side, turned them inside out and our plan B for that game when we dominated possession but were struggling to break Swansea down was basically just give it to Mumba!

Started the move from which we scored the only goal of the game.

I don't want to get too excited, and definitely not here to antagonise, but I can honestly say that this was the most impressive debut I've seen from a kid at Norwich in 35 years of following and I've seen Craig Bellamy, James Maddison, Max Aarons, Danny Mills, Todd Cantwell etc... all come into the side over the years.

Our scouting system has obviously identified him as a potential gem, but was he highly thought of at Sunderland? Looks like he's gone from playing for North Shields to looking like he simply has to start for us against Middlesbrough!
 
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Too young for us when he was expected to do more, but looked like he had real potential during any first team appearances. He struggled in reservces due to not nailing donw a position and our management wrongly going with what they knew rather than potential. Then, our shitehawk owners who only want money decided he was a saleable asset. Any Sunderland fan not gutted to lose him is blind as fuck to the asset stripping going on. He should, and could, be a mainstay of our current team but our **** owners and worst manager ever didn't deem him good enough.

You have a player with bags of potential on your hands, treat him well.
 
Made his debut at 16 (came on as captain) at the same time as Donald took over. Donald said he was someone we could build the team around for years to come.

Started the next season, and more than held his own. Was then put into the under 23s and barely featured for the 1st team other than the checkatrade or whatever it is.

Jurassic Parkinson has no intention of playing youngsters, and the chubby chancer Donald saw the £300k fee and his eyes lit up. Disgrace what they’ve done to our club, the damage will last for years. Mumba joined highly rated youngsters like Greenwood, Stephenson, Hugill, Pye and of course Maja in leaving us for pennies
 
He played for us when he was only 16 and looked a fantastic prospect . We had big hopes for the lad but like everything at Sunderland he seemed to stagnate and this wasn’t helped by the fact he was not given a chance at first team level and played out of position in the u21 .
We all still had very high hopes for the lad but like anyone worth any value at our club , he was sold off at the first opportunity by our owners probably to pay for the leccy bill or something.
You definitely have a prospect on your hands and I hope he turns out as good as we thought he would .
 
Not a good time mate.

Fair enough, didn't mean any offence - and I was a bit wary of posting to be honest.

Also, I do remember a young Ryan Jarvis coming on for Norwich and scoring a wondergoal against Liverpool in the Premier League, which led to him becoming an eternal prospect before somebody at the club realised about four years later that we had a fully grown man stealing a living and he later found his level as a League Two squad player... that's why I don't want to get too excited.
 
Feel a bit sorry for you all really.... we signed Sam McCallum for £1.2m rising to £3m from Coventry after he played 25 games in League One for them, and he has been deemed not ready by Farke and sent back out on loan to Coventry.

So Farke must really rate Bali Mumba, who I think we all thought at that price would just go straight back out on loan, but instead been put straight into the first team squad!

Does look like you have people at the club who don't understand / appreciate the value of young talent, it is just a big surprise to us as we thought perhaps McCallum at that price would be brought into the fold rather than Mumba.

Hopefully you've got a sell on percentage though hey? York City got a few million of the Ben Godfrey fee, and Coventry got a couple of million out of the James Maddison fee.

With a bit of luck you'll have more competent people in charge by the time any sell on clauses pay dividends.
 
Will spare you all the 'always had a soft spot for Sunderland' nonsense and I know it always looks a bit weird when fans of other teams sign up to a forum!

But really curious about Bali Mumba and what his situation was at Sunderland?

I vaguely remembering us signing him for a few hundred grand, and a few of our fans said he looked decent at right back in pre-season.

All of a sudden he's come on for the last 25 minutes yesterday against Swansea, who are a bloody good team at the minute, and basically torn them to shreds down the left side, turned them inside out and our plan B for that game when we dominated possession but were struggling to break Swansea down was basically just give it to Mumba!

Started the move from which we scored the only goal of the game.

I don't want to get too excited, and definitely not here to antagonise, but I can honestly say that this was the most impressive debut I've seen from a kid at Norwich in 35 years of following and I've seen Craig Bellamy, James Maddison, Max Aarons, Danny Mills, Todd Cantwell etc... all come into the side over the years.

Our scouting system has obviously identified him as a potential gem, but was he highly thought of at Sunderland? Looks like he's gone from playing for North Shields to looking like he simply has to start for us against Middlesbrough!
Thanks for cheering us up
 
You've got yourself a good prospect on your hands.

Donald managed to cover the wages for a couple of months with the money you paid for him.
 
Will spare you all the 'always had a soft spot for Sunderland' nonsense and I know it always looks a bit weird when fans of other teams sign up to a forum!

But really curious about Bali Mumba and what his situation was at Sunderland?

I vaguely remembering us signing him for a few hundred grand, and a few of our fans said he looked decent at right back in pre-season.

All of a sudden he's come on for the last 25 minutes yesterday against Swansea, who are a bloody good team at the minute, and basically torn them to shreds down the left side, turned them inside out and our plan B for that game when we dominated possession but were struggling to break Swansea down was basically just give it to Mumba!

Started the move from which we scored the only goal of the game.

I don't want to get too excited, and definitely not here to antagonise, but I can honestly say that this was the most impressive debut I've seen from a kid at Norwich in 35 years of following and I've seen Craig Bellamy, James Maddison, Max Aarons, Danny Mills, Todd Cantwell etc... all come into the side over the years.

Our scouting system has obviously identified him as a potential gem, but was he highly thought of at Sunderland? Looks like he's gone from playing for North Shields to looking like he simply has to start for us against Middlesbrough!
Symbolic of the mismanagement of our entire club but particularly our Academy and its prospects and products.

Unfortunately he’s just the tip of the ice berg. I’m sure someone could provide the full breakdown but in the last year or so we’ve lost our best hopes to Liverpool, Man U, Arsenal, Boro, yourselves with little to no resistance. We’re fucked.
 
Someone tell the fuckin OP this is all we want to fuckin hear.

Thanks for cheering us up

Apologies!

I do feel a bit bad now to be honest, was genuinely just curious because to us Norwich fans he's just come out of absolutely nowhere.

When you've just been in the Prem and you see the fee of £350k you sort of assume they are going to be playing U23 football or straight out on loan, so hadn't even bothered to check out his wikipedia or anything, players signed for U23's come and go all the time. So was a massive shock to see him come on and do so well yesterday at that level.
 
I said in the summer he'd be lucky to play 10 league games for you all season. I guess he might just get that run in the team?
 
Mumba's transfer to Norwich is what happens when you have people whose previous experience of overseeing football development is at the glorious surroundings of Whitehawk and Eastleigh. Paul Reid had a modest career in football and when he came to Sunderland, despite all the impressive facilities we have, it showed. Our youth teams had 1 win between them from 2018 up until the curtailment of last season.
 
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