Salah Aged 22

[Ohnonotagain]

From Aug 22nd 2014

With less than ten days remaining in this frustrating transfer window, Sunderland will be looking to add to their seven additions with the latest player to be linked being Mohamed Salah from Chelsea.

It was the Metro Paper though. What might have been under Poyet.

 

[jimb]

Villa and Sunderland set for summer fight over £6m Belgian winger

 

[Ohnonotagain]

Villa and Sunderland set for summer fight over £6m Belgian winger

Didn’t know that either. Bruce could pick a player.

 

[MackneyHackem]

Didn’t know that either. Bruce could pick a player.

He picked Connor Wickham, Craig Gardner and David Vaughan to replace Henderson, Malbranque and Asamoah Gyan.

 

[Ohnonotagain]

He picked Connor Wickham, Craig Gardner and David Vaughan to replace Henderson, Malbranque and Asamoah Gyan.

Only because Short only gave him a fraction of the sales fees to use. It was clearly reported at the time.

 

[Raich Carter]

Only because Short only gave him a fraction of the sales fees to use. It was clearly reported at the time.

We spent about 10 mil on Wickham though?

 

[Mowbray Boss Gilet]

We spent about 10 mil on Wickham though?

To be fair Wickham was one of the highest rated young strikers in England at the time. His potential just didn't progress and we managed to get a good fee back for him. I can remember when he went on that good run of form in one of the great escape seasons and he looked very good but doing it for just half a dozen games is no good.

 

[Helmerroids]

Zlatan

 

[chopsfc007]

Only because Short only gave him a fraction of the sales fees to use. It was clearly reported at the time.

Ten million on Wickham says otherwise

 

[Local Lad]

Imagine in a parallel universe sunderland fans got to watch de bruyne, Salah and zlatan wearing red and white.

 

[HorsePills]

To be fair Wickham was one of the highest rated young strikers in England at the time. His potential just didn't progress and we managed to get a good fee back for him. I can remember when he went on that good run of form in one of the great escape seasons and he looked very good but doing it for just half a dozen games is no good.

Everything's clearer in hindsight but you're spot on here. He was about 18/19 when we signed him and he'd been in the Ipswich team for a while at that point. Despite him not really kicking on here Palace pretty much gave us what we'd paid for him four year later.

 

[me is back]

Didn’t know that either. Bruce could pick a player.

Bruce signed decent players some of the time but was awful at squad building. Scattergun. I think he would have worked well with a DoF? Steve Bruce sides are generally good until they get full of Steve Bruce signings

 

[woodlebert]

Rakitic, Ibrahminovic, van Nistelrooy

 

[Coeus]

Im pretty sure we were after Salah prior to Chelsea signing him.

 

[wschmidt]

He picked Connor Wickham, Craig Gardner and David Vaughan to replace Henderson, Malbranque and Asamoah Gyan.

Think it was probably the scout that picked them and Bruce just gave the OK

 

[YES WE GYAN]

Didn’t know that either. Bruce could pick a player.

It was Ian Atkins who ran the overseas scouting at the time.

 

[SuperGerryHarrison]

He picked Connor Wickham, Craig Gardner and David Vaughan to replace Henderson, Malbranque and Asamoah Gyan.

And to think we moan about the transfer windows under the current set-up - that Bruce period saw us dismantle a team that could've pushed for Europe and replace it with year after year of relegation scraps, the core of which took us to L1.

 

[Select coaches]

Remember the front page of the Football echo saying we had a bid in for lineker from Leicester

 

[JL1985]

If we signed Salah when he was 22, he'd currently be playing in the German 5th division.

 

[Hongkongphooey]

If we signed Salah when he was 22, he'd currently be playing in the German 5th division.

We loved to train talent out of players