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Tom Cannon bid in - now signed for Sheff U.

I think the problem is not one of us knows what the club is actively working on. Odds are, the club knew about all these decisions WAY before any of us and have presumably pivoted to the next target(s). Again, it's a tough job to judge a transfer window before it ends.
 

Comeback_Kenwyne said:
People are pissing the bed because the players we have been linked to have gone elsewhere or “quiet” whatever that means.

And yet 95% of deals we have made over the past three seasons have come from nowhere, with barely a whisper in the media until the ink is literally drying on the contract and the scarf pic is being uploaded onto SAFC.com

If I was a betting man, I’d say we get a striker tomorrow that hasn’t been mentioned once on this entire forum, yet.
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That’s my thinking. However it’s acceptable if, come the window shutting, we haven’t signed a striker to be annoyed about it. But with the way we’ve gone about signing players under this regime it’s entirely plausible we have one lined up
 
Blyth said:
People still bringing this shite up? Totally irrelevant to our transfer strategy.
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What is our transfer strategy? Pay below market value for every player we have, sell them when we get the chance and just be a glorified showroom for the other clubs?
 
DonaldDownTheWing said:
It’s tedious watching them sell our best players in the name of improving across the board, then not doing it.

Last year they signed mostly shite. This year they’ve just not bothered at all. Three head coaches told them we needed a striker. We still do.


And we should all put total faith in them finding a really good one, given their impeccable record at doing so.
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Some of the shite they signed are starting to look a bit better than
DonaldDownTheWing said:
It’s tedious watching them sell our best players in the name of improving across the board, then not doing it.

Last year they signed mostly shite. This year they’ve just not bothered at all. Three head coaches told them we needed a striker. We still do.


And we should all put total faith in them finding a really good one, given their impeccable record at doing so.
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They've had two great seasons and one bad. This one has started better than any for a century. They get some faith, aye.

This place is obsessed with strikers. It’s become a more important benchmark than the f***ing league table.

And we’ve finally signed a proper DM too. That was unexpected.

They know they need one. But we can’t afford to find a sure fire bet because they cost too much. So, as with last year, where they actually signed about five strikers, we have to try and find a diamond in the rough. We have to find a Ross Stewart.

If being quoted £10m and 47k a week for Tom Cannon can’t show you the “20 goal, experienced, championship striker for £5m is a chimera, I don’t know what will.
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
We didn’t invest the Stewart money well. We did spend but it was spread thinly across numerous players with very little positive track record or experience to speak of.

Again, that’s not what my understand of the model was. My understanding was that we aimed to sell high, and replace with quality rather that quantity to make the squad stronger.
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Aye but if you sell the quality (your best players) you’re not going to get quality for a fraction of that money. It’s going to be a “hope” he comes good at some point…selling your best players doesn’t make the squad stronger)
 
JamesTu said:
What is our transfer strategy? Pay below market value for every player we have, sell them when we get the chance and just be a glorified showroom for the other clubs?
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Its prettt much the strategy for any team trying to shift up the pyramid. Buy cheap. Develop, sell for big dosh. Keep doing it over and over whilst benefitting from the recruitment brought in. Ffp sort of pushes this as being the way forward
 
LukeJH96 said:
If we sign the two midfielders and a proper striker tomorrow then I’ll be satisfied. Add another forward/left back to that and we are cooking.

I’ll be gutted. I won’t defend the indefensible.
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I agree - but feel that the proper striker is now looking very unlikely.
 
nelford_safc said:
This. Easy for happy clappers to laugh at people with concerns because the window isn't closed, but we have £25m from player sales, wages off the books and still seem to be losing out on targets by penny pinching and haggling.
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We're not laughing at people with concerns and we all know where the squad needs strengthening/depth. We're just frustrated with people who have no idea what is actually going on and are simply making stuff up and then spinning and repeating the same stuff ad nauseum.
 
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Comeback_Kenwyne said:
People are pissing the bed because the players we have been linked to have gone elsewhere or “quiet” whatever that means.

And yet 95% of deals we have made over the past three seasons have come from nowhere, with barely a whisper in the media until the ink is literally drying on the contract and the scarf pic is being uploaded onto SAFC.com

If I was a betting man, I’d say we get a striker tomorrow that hasn’t been mentioned once on this entire forum, yet.
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You are probably spot on but fail to see the issue. The players we've been linked to would improve us. If these are links are true and they broken down due to penny pinching then that's worrying.

There's also every chance the 'striker out of nowhere' that we've not been linked to could be completely shite.

I think the main concern is that any slightly ambitious signing seems to fall apart and then right at the last minute we bring in Marcus Bent.
 
Comeback_Kenwyne said:
Some of the shite they signed are starting to look a bit better than

They've had two great seasons and one bad. This one has started better than any for a century. They get some faith, aye.

This place is obsessed with strikers. It’s become a more important benchmark than the f***ing league table.

And we’ve finally signed a proper DM too. That was unexpected.

They know they need one. But we can’t afford to find a sure fire bet because they cost too much. So, as with last year, where they actually signed about five strikers, we have to try and find a diamond in the rough. We have to find a Ross Stewart.

If being quoted £10m and 47k a week for Tom Cannon can’t show you the “20 goal, experienced, championship striker for £5m is a chimera, I don’t know what will.
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I’m sorry like but a season finishing fifth in the third tier with a mid way managerial dismissal due to defeats by 3,4,5 and 6 goal margins does constitute ‘great’ even if the final outcome achieved the most basic outcome it should have achieved for a club like Sunderland in that division
 
Comeback_Kenwyne said:
Some of the shite they signed are starting to look a bit better than

They've had two great seasons and one bad. This one has started better than any for a century. They get some faith, aye.

This place is obsessed with strikers. It’s become a more important benchmark than the f***ing league table.

And we’ve finally signed a proper DM too. That was unexpected.

They know they need one. But we can’t afford to find a sure fire bet because they cost too much. So, as with last year, where they actually signed about five strikers, we have to try and find a diamond in the rough. We have to find a Ross Stewart.

If being quoted £10m and 47k a week for Tom Cannon can’t show you the “20 goal, experienced, championship striker for £5m is a chimera, I don’t know what will.
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Who is this DM you speak of?
 
dave hedgehog said:
Its prettt much the strategy for any team trying to shift up the pyramid. Buy cheap. Develop, sell for big dosh. Keep doing it over and over whilst benefitting from the recruitment brought in. Ffp sort of pushes this as being the way forward
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Normally is accompanied by the ownership group writing off debts and giving funding to the club as well mind.
 
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