why do some people on here laugh off or shoot down the posters who are worried about our paper thin


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There's a bit more to it than that, marra, it takes financial analysis, initial discussions of how much the other team would want for him, proposals for staggered payment plans and clauses, and comparison of alternatives to see if it's even worth buying a specific player for a certain amount or if the money would be better spent on someone else, discussions with the player to find out if they'd even be interested in a move, followed by contract negotiations and possible alterations to the original bid if the player's demands are higher than expected.

It's a very complicated process, not just "hey there, we want to buy this player", "Oh hi, yeah that'll be £11m please", "OK thanks, we'll take him", job done.


For all we know, we could have any number of signings in various stages of this process. Nobody outside the club has any idea how many, and at what stage they are. It's not in the club's best interests to announce every player we've got under consideration to the press just to appease the fans. There could be 5 players packing their bags to come to Sunderland for medicals at this very moment. We just don't know. Panicking at this stage is just putting yourself through stress and worry for the sake of it.

We did indeed finish 4th bottom last least season with a weaker squad than we have now. However our current squad is stronger yet more streamlined than the one that started last season and had us right at the bottom of the table at the turn of the year, so we're not only a better team, we're also in a better financial position to be signing new players than we were at this point last year.

Add to that we've now got a manager that's more accustomed to the English game than the manager we started last season with, with a history of being able to make great signings and achieve continental qualification on a limited budget, who has committed to a long-term deal. I'm very confident that we're heading in the right direction as a club.

Have a nice Sunday, marra.

Get away :lol: Please tell me something I don't know...
 
Well then, so how do you know we're not already heavily in negotiations about possible players? :lol:

Nowt to worry about yet.
I've no doubt we will buy players, however dragging our heels doesn't help when trying to start the season on a high, ie my first post...
 
Why mummy, why?
Tell me or I'll scream and scream until the social workers turn up
Far too much abuse of a personal nature passes as perfectly acceptable on here.

This lad being a case in point.

Just because someone couches their language in old fashioned middle class terms like "piffle" doesn't mean its not personal and not abusive.

People hold opinions. That's not an open invite for abuse.
I dont come on here for this sort of shite.

Its a fine line between this and the level of carry on we all witnessed from Reiver and his mates at the end of last season (and for many years prior).
 
I've no doubt we will buy players, however dragging our heels doesn't help when trying to start the season on a high, ie my first post...

What evidence do you have that we're dragging our heels? Changing manager suddenly put the brakes on any transfer business we were already working on at the time, and Moyes will obviously have to assess the current squad before deciding what players we need to buy. I have no doubt that everyone behind the scenes is working their backsides off to make things happen as quickly as possible.
 
[QUOTE="fyl2u, post: 23472615, member: 7298"]What evidence do you have that we're dragging our heels? Changing manager suddenly put the brakes on any transfer business we were already working on at the time, and Moyes will obviously have to assess the current squad before deciding what players we need to buy. I have no doubt that everyone behind the scenes is working their backsides off to make things happen as quickly as possible.[/QUOTE]

What a stupid question, I'll return it with what evidence do you have that they are not...
 
What a stupid question, I'll return it with what evidence do you have that they are not...

They're a professional football club with dedicated staff whose job it is to sort out transfers. You're accusing them of not doing their job.

As you're the one making the outlandish claim, the onus is on you to provide the evidence, so I ask again... what evidence do you have that this is the case?
 
They're a professional football club with dedicated staff whose job it is to sort out transfers. You're accusing them of not doing their job.

As you're the one making the outlandish claim, the onus is on you to provide the evidence, so I ask again... what evidence do you have that this is the case?

And how long have you worked for the football club then ?
 
Far too much abuse of a personal nature passes as perfectly acceptable on here.

This lad being a case in point.

Just because someone couches their language in old fashioned middle class terms like "piffle" doesn't mean its not personal and not abusive.

People hold opinions. That's not an open invite for abuse.
I dont come on here for this sort of shite.

Its a fine line between this and the level of carry on we all witnessed from Reiver and his mates at the end of last season (and for many years prior).

You can't just come on here and have little sly digs at everything about the club and expect nobody to pull you up on it.

Maybes you should stop talking absolute shite on multiple threads and people will stop giving you some back.
 
We are the only club in the league who haven't bought a signal player, I think that might do it..

Plus you didn't answer my question

That's only evidence of the difficulties we've had to deal with due to changing manager suddenly, not evidence that people at the club aren't doing their job.
 
Mvilla....

M'Vila, who we're apparently still in negotiations with, whose club are apparently asking for an unreasonable amount of money for him when his contract is up in 6 months and we could get him on a free?

And what would happen if we did part with a substantial chunk of our transfer budget and wages to get him, but it turned out he didn't fit the system the new manager wanted to play?

Not exactly a great business decision, rolling the dice like that.
 
You can't just come on here and have little sly digs at everything about the club and expect nobody to pull you up on it.

Maybes you should stop talking absolute shite on multiple threads and people will stop giving you some back.
Show me a sly dig I've made.

I've been blatant with my digs thanks. Nowt sly about any of them.
 
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