Salah Aged 22

[TheWaterMargin]

I think we were linked to Maradona back in the day????

 

[CEF]

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

Connor Wickham was a massive coup at the time.

He also brought Gyan here, at the time one of the best players in the world. We might never see that again.

 

[ferryhill mackem]

We spent about 10 mil on Wickham though?

And 6m on Gardner

 

[JaFlan86]

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.

Knowing us, we would have stiffled his playing career

 

[Ohnonotagain]

We spent about 10 mil on Wickham though?

£8m

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.

Good player, bad attitude.

 

[Ted Lassos Tache]

£8m

Good player, bad attitude.

And 60k a week salary wasn’t it?

 

[Ohnonotagain]

And 6m on Gardner

Is that the same one that Bellingham says was the biggest inspiration on his career?

 

[James]

Connor Wickham was a massive coup at the time.

He also brought Gyan here, at the time one of the best players in the world. We might never see that again.

Gyan was never one of the best players in the world ffs.

 

[ferryhill mackem]

Is that the same one that Bellingham says was the biggest inspiration on his career?

You mean he was one of his childhood heroes because he was part of the Birmingham side that won the league cup?

 

[CEF]

Gyan was never one of the best players in the world ffs.

He was up for the Ballon d'Or when we signed him. Was one of the players of the tournament at the world cup.

 

[hank williams]

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.

He’d be at Hartlepool reserves now had we got him

 

[Lagger]

Gyan was never one of the best players in the world ffs.

This

He had a good World Cup just before signing here, that’s about it.

 

[The Situation]

Poyet also had a hissy fit and demanded we sign Coates instead of Alderweireld who was all but done at the time too.

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

Aye, he ended up at Villa, Everton and Wolves after us.

 

[bomber]

I think we were linked to Maradona back in the day????

And Sabella

 

[Marco]

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.

I always say this. We went from Mensah, Gyan, Welbeck, Bent and so on to Gardner, Bendtner and all that shite

 

[James]

He was up for the Ballon d'Or when we signed him. Was one of the players of the tournament at the world cup.

He was a good standard PL footballer and joining off the back of a solid World Cup, but was in no way one of the best players in the world.

Enjoyable player though. Shame he pissed off to take the cash.

 

[Perryqhill]

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

It was his choice to sell Bent and sign another two centre halves after already signing about 4. Selling Bent for what we did also meant we had to cough up more to Spurs at that point - we didn't just get him for 10.5m.

Wickham was up to 12m as well.
Garner 6m.

We invested most of what came in after doing so the previous season as well. Our fees for paying agents went up to over 5m quid at that time for a season too.

As with everywhere he goes funds get invested, then he takes a gamble, then he sells, then another gamble - it always leaves unbalanced squads and less and less quality.

 

[ChrisAshley]

It was his choice to sell Bent and sign another two centre halves after already signing about 4.

Wickham was up to 12m as well.
Garner 6m.

We invested most ofnwhat came in after doong so the previous season as well.

As with everywhere he goes funds get invested, then he takes a gamble, then he sells, then another gamble - it always leaves unbalanced squads and less and less quality.

Kilgallon said on the Under the Cosh podcast he was signed and before he'd even played a game Bruce told him he wasn't in his plans and to find another club, think that sums up the Bruce era.

 

[SKP130]

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

Aye it was Wayne though.

 

[Ohnonotagain]

Kilgallon said on the Under the Cosh podcast he was signed and before he'd even played a game Bruce told him he wasn't in his plans and to find another club, think that sums up the Bruce era.

He went on to massive things did Kilgallon.

It was his choice to sell Bent and sign another two centre halves after already signing about 4. Selling Bent for what we did also meant we had to cough up more to Spurs at that point - we didn't just get him for 10.5m.

Wickham was up to 12m as well.
Garner 6m.

We invested most of what came in after doing so the previous season as well. Our fees for paying agents went up to over 5m quid at that time for a season too.

As with everywhere he goes funds get invested, then he takes a gamble, then he sells, then another gamble - it always leaves unbalanced squads and less and less quality.

That is rubbish. Bent made the decision to leave.