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


wicketkeeper said:
He doesnt bu he was asked at a fans' forum whether he thought Stewart would stay. His anser was no but he would if we met his demands
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But he doesn't get involved in them according to himself. He also said we had made Stewart a good offer which contradicts his mantra aswell.

He talks as much shite as people on here
 
wicketkeeper said:
I tell you what . Imagine this scenario. Stewart comes back and begins scoring goals and remains fit until January. Do you trust that the club will meet his demands.
I will leave it for you to think about.
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If hes still here in January, and firing goals in his contract wants will change as he will have the chance of being off on a free and pocketing a pretty big lumper in the summer if he has a good season something we’d all consider
 
Disco_Pants93 said:
What if he's demanding £35k per week? Do we just say Okay Ross, there you go?
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I will put it this way. If he comes back and remains fit and is the top scorer in the division do you trust the club to pay him enough to stop him going to other chamionship clubs.
I think if we are honest we both know the answer.
We are penny pinching and most of us can see it.
 
Dredd said:
Just tell them to do one unless it's a very good offer. Milk it for all it's worth
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Agreed, but I think the club might be tempted to take a lower offer to get the deal done quickly so we have a few quid and a bit time to bring players in.
 
Boz33 said:
If hes still here in January, and firing goals in his contract wants will change as he will have the chance of being off on a free and pocketing a pretty big lumper in the summer if he has a good season something we’d all consider
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You have not ansred the question. Would you trust Sunderland to give him the money to fend off competition
 
Nosworthycorner said:
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.
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It is strange how people think Stewart should be sold for £7m - £10m yet think it is outrageous for him to want £20k-£25k per week.
 
The Situation said:
@MurtonMark, you consistently fail to address this question and continue to ignore it:

What if Ross Stewart just does not want to stay at Sunderland?

For all you know, he could have said to the club that no matter what we offer, he wants to go and he's off.
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I haven’t avoided the question at all. I’ve expressly answered it in this thread, within the last 20 minutes.

At no stage whatsoever has there been any suggestion at all that he wanted to leave. On the contrary, the club itself/Speakman/Mowbray are all on record as saying the exact opposite - that he wanted to stay and they were discussing a new contract.

So if you and the other apologists want to scrape an excuse for this off the bottom of your barrel, then it’s not going to be able to be “he wanted to leave”.
 
wicketkeeper said:
You have not ansred the question. Would you trust Sunderland to give him the money to fend off competition
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I think if Stewart comes back and is firing on all cylinders the club couldn’t afford to pay his potential new demands in say January.
it’s a game of brinkmanship all round, club hoping for a decent price if he’s sold now, Stewart taking the gamble that if he doesn’t move, he has to stay fit to get a move in jan or a free in the summer. It’s made worse that we are woefully short up front atm, but a loan striker at the very min is needed in even if Stewart winds down his contract
 
wicketkeeper said:
I will put it this way. If he comes back and remains fit and is the top scorer in the division do you trust the club to pay him enough to stop him going to other chamionship clubs.
I think if we are honest we both know the answer.
We are penny pinching and most of us can see it.
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You're refusing to answer the question. You're essentially saying the club should pay him whatever he wants and the reality is they should absolutely not do that. £20,000 pw has been offered to him and it's been refused, over £1m a year. Our entire wage bill last season was £7m ish.
 
FulwellViaLeeds said:
Didn't you spend about six months of last season moaning and moaning, only to disappear once we got into the playoffs?
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No. I “disappeared” when I was banned for three months, for (politely) calling out a mod on the piss poor tone he was using in exchanges with another poster.

Otherwise I’d have been here, for the play off campaign in which our glaring recruitment failings caught up with us, having crept in with a very low points total relative to most other seasons.
 
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There has been well over 500 posts on here but the whole thing about our club can summed up as follows.

If Ross Stewart comes back and starts scoring loads of goals who on here believes that our club ( who have the biggest attendance in the championship) will pay enough salary to ward off interest from other championship clubs.
I do not believe that they would and that is the nub of the problem with our club.
 
wicketkeeper said:
I tell you what . Imagine this scenario. Stewart comes back and begins scoring goals and remains fit until January. Do you trust that the club will meet his demands.
I will leave it for you to think about.
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I trust the club to stick to their budget, which we have failed to do in the past which ended us in League One in the worst period of our whole existence as a football club, I will leave it for you to think about that.
 
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