Sunderland and Alvarez

Maravilla said:
We must be the only club on the planet stupid enough to agree to a clause that we had to buy a player if we avoided relegation regardless of how shit he might turn out to be.

The clowns running the club now are an utter joke but Short and his mob weren't much better.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with the deal. It's basically a transfer with a deferred fee. Fairly sensible when cashflow is an issue. The problem is in the scouting and player selection - but more importantly the boneheaded attempt to get out of it.
 


I think this was just a reflection of how badly the club was run, you have a corporate solicitor as CEO and cannot put together a contract that protected the club, and let’s face it the doctor will have liability insurance so worth a punt, anything to help Donald out the mans skint with all the money he has spent.( tongue in cheek).
 
The Beautiful Game said:
There are plenty of loan contracts that have obligations to but to be fair. The stupidity was not honouring it and thinking there would be no repercussions
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Are they ? Plenty where clubs have agreed fees in place if they want to buy like we did with MVila and still managed to fuck that up
 
The Cabbage said:
No fucker will want to work for the club at this rate. The club need to be 100% sure about what they're doing before going down this route. Time to rely on the peerless judgement of Stewart Donald and Charlie Methven then. Cross whatever you've got, people.
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Tbf not many of them here work.
 
Yep, bad form all round, blaming the doctor for mistakes made by the previous regime.

Anyone who thinks it is anyone but Donald seeing pound signs in this is mad. He thinks he can scrape a couple of mil off this fella and it's f***ing embarrassing that he's doing it.
 
Therokerroar said:
From reading the article why did we even try and not pay Inter Milan?. It was so obvious we would have to pay and we could have saved money on interest and fees.
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Margaret Byrne and Gary the Hair, the irreversible decline all started on their watch.

Absolutely horrendous promotions for them both within the club, no previous experience nor qualifications for running a football club...apart from into the ground.
 
The party/parties at fault are UEFA and/or FIFA. When the 'transfer' didn't happen they should have stepped in and made a ruling immediately, instead they let it drag on for months/years by which time the player had moved on and SAFC lost the opportunity to use 'their' player or resell him. If anything SAFC should have demanded that UEFA paid Inter out of their fiddle funds
 
Maravilla said:
We must be the only club on the planet stupid enough to agree to a clause that we had to buy a player if we avoided relegation regardless of how shit he might turn out to be.

The clowns running the club now are an utter joke but Short and his mob weren't much better.
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It should have come as no surprise bearing in mind the person in office at the time of this deal had, only a year and £600,000 in salary earlier, declared it as “insulting” that a man sporting Mussolini tattoos could possibly be described as holding fascist sympathies.
 

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