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Russell Martin has Ross Stewart as his main target **Transfer confirmed **

Nelson! said:
This particular journo seems to get a lot of stories about players moving on or being “disgruntled” with no actual quotes from anyone. I’d say it’s likely he’s become the go-to blogger for agents working their ticket.
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Said the exact same last week.

They know he will post owt they give him, as interactions on Twitter and elsewhere is the most important thing to him.

He was clearly being used last week with the Forshaw stuff. He posts an article about our interest in him and about 12 hours later he signs with Norwich.

The agent was clearly having a bit of difficult with Norwich, sends a story to the one person he knows will post anything about our interest, and suddenly the deal with Norwich gets done.
 

Boz33 said:
Be absolute scenes if they sell Stewart with no back up plan/ players to land
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People will still defend ‘the model’. Tell you what though, it’s not looking good, Hemir overweight and unfit as our only striker probably in a worse position than this time last year.
 
I’ve not seen Saints linked with this player on any of our forums or transfer pages. We sold Liveremento to Newc who himself had only just returned from a serious injury. We have brought in a shed load of money by selling most of the decent players we had left, but most of that has been swallowed up by the owners to repay their own losses. Our manager promised we would end up in a stronger position by the end of the transfer window, but with 1 day to go we are significantly weaker, and may still lose a couple more.
 
deodrant2 said:
People will still defend ‘the model’. Tell you what though, it’s not looking good, Hemir overweight and unfit as our only striker probably in a worse position than this time last year.
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If we get z5 million for Stewart this window before he kicks a ball, I'll be impressed with a great bit of business.
 
Southampton, or Martin in particular may well be long term admirers of Stewart but even for a club as cash rich as them spending big money on a player with an injury record like Ross Stewart’s represents quite a risk.

Any fee would reflect this, irrespective of the wages they might tempt the player with.

At this stage in the window it would be a hell of a risk to sell him unless we had a very decent player lined up……. the chances of that are ?
 
LondonSaint said:
I’ve not seen Saints linked with this player on any of our forums or transfer pages. We sold Liveremento to Newc who himself had only just returned from a serious injury. We have brought in a shed load of money by selling most of the decent players we had left, but most of that has been swallowed up by the owners to repay their own losses. Our manager promised we would end up in a stronger position by the end of the transfer window, but with 1 day to go we are significantly weaker, and may still lose a couple more.
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Downplaying how much money you have got. Smart
 
It would be an excellent bit of business taking into account what we bought him for, his age, his contract situation & his injury status (I'd be hoping for between 7 and 10 million to make it worthwhile).

The team have got on with him missing since January.

The issue now isn't selling Ross Stewart. I've accepted he's gone as he's been out that long.

The issue is replacements.
 
Upthere said:
There’s not a chance Ross Stewart will be a Sunderland player this time next week
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I'm not convinced he'll leave but it has reached the stage where it would probably in our best interest if he did. Have we a realistic return to fitness date yet?
 
LondonSaint said:
I’ve not seen Saints linked with this player on any of our forums or transfer pages. We sold Liveremento to Newc who himself had only just returned from a serious injury. We have brought in a shed load of money by selling most of the decent players we had left, but most of that has been swallowed up by the owners to repay their own losses. Our manager promised we would end up in a stronger position by the end of the transfer window, but with 1 day to go we are significantly weaker, and may still lose a couple more.
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I find it baffling that anyone would pay a huge fee for a player that will return to fitness after 7 months out with a big injury. We don’t even know if he’ll be the same player or if the injury will reoccur. That type of injury will be on his mind and he’ll be wary about pushing himself as much Incase it goes again.
 
MurtonMark said:
The important fact is that if another club at our level is willing to pay our best player more than us, as well as a transfer fee we wouldn’t need to pay, then it’ll be a disgrace. And a huge worry.

People who are desperate to keep up this apologetic, excuse-making facade might try to say otherwise, but it’s true. It would be a seriously concerning and revealing development.

Get your mortgage on “undisclosed fee” for transfer out and replacement (in the loosest sense of the word) in, too. After all, we wouldn’t us supporters of poor little Sunderland doing the sums, would we?
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It’s called ‘parachute payments’ not a ‘disgrace’
 
There's way too much sentimentality on here at times with players. Stewart did a great job for us when we needed it most. If the financials make sense, move on. There is huge doubt that he'll ever be the same player again and he himself is running his contract down.
Time to replace.
 
Is league one the only season has never had a pretty lengthy injury?

I totally get him filling his pockets with as much as he can and moving on. Not much we can do tbh.
 
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